LOS ANGELES (AP) - “The
Cider House Rules” doubled its
money. “American Beauty” climbed
past $100 million. “The Sixth Sense”
is creeping toward the all-time top
10.
Just what are the Qscars wqrty?
Tens of millions of dollars at the box
office for some top nominees.
Many moviegoers are in their
annual Oscar mode, scrambling to
see.best-picture contenders and other
films with big nominations before
they watch the Academy Awards this
Sunday.
“Mainstream audiences across
the country look for reasons to see a
movie that maybe they haven’t felt
compelled to see yet,” said Paul
Dergarabedian, president of
Exhibitor Relations Co., which
tracks movie admissions.
“Oscar nominations are de facto
word of mouth from a source they
trust.
“Rather than a friend saying
you’ve got to go see this movie, it’s
the Academy saying, ‘Go see it.”’
DreamWorks pulled “American
Beauty” from all but a few theaters
the weekend before Oscar nomina
tions came out in mid-February, with
plans to re-release it right after.
The movie received a leading
eight nominations, and is now in its
widest release yet, 1,650 theaters. It
has added $28 million to its gross,
hitting $103 million last weekend.
“American Beauty” was a record
20th movie released last year to top
$100 million, a figure it probably
would not have approached without
its best-picture and other nomina
tions.
“I would love to tell you I knew
this was going to happen, but when
the movie came out, it would have
been difficult for me to think it would
do more than $35 million to $50 mil
lion,” said Jim Tharp, DreamWorks’
head of distribution.
Smaller movies also benefit from
the Oscars. With acting nominations
for Hilary Swank and Chloe Sevigny,
arthouse favorite “Boys Don’t Cry”
has risen from $3.7 million before
the nominations to $6.8 million as of
last weekend.
With seven nominations, includ
ing one for best picture, “The Cider
House Rules” quickly cashed in.
In fairly narrow release, “Cider
House” had grossed just $22.7 mil
lion before the nominations, but dis
tributor Miramax has more than dou
bled the theater count to 1,738 since
then.
Like Miramax’ best-picture con
tenders last year, “Shakespeare in
Love” and “Life Is Beautiful,” the
Oscar nominations have helped dou
ble the take for “Cider House” to
$45.8 million.
Last year’s surprise blockbuster
“The Sixth Sense” is on the verge of
moving into 10th place all-time at the
box office.
Disney quadrupled the ghost
story’s theater count, to about 800,
the weekend before the nominations.
Since grabbing six nominations,
” Mainstream
audiences across
the country look
for reasons to see
a movie that
maybe they
haven't felt
compelled to see
yet.”
Paul Dergarabedian
president of Exhibitor Relations Co.
including best picture, “The Sixth
Sense” has rung up an additional
$6.5 million, for a total of $288.5
million. That is just $1.8 million shy
of “The Empire Strikes Back.”
Artists call for Oscar animation category
I
■ Full-length animated
films rarely win when
nominated for the award.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Beloved by
all ages and praised by critics, cartoons
such as “Pinocchio” and “The Iron
Giant” have proven a perennial sure bet
during Oscar season: They never win,
and are rarely nominated.
The dearth has led some artists to
call for a new Academy Award honoring
feature-length animation, despite objec
tions from others who say it would
diminish cartoon’s standing against
live-action fare.
“There is a lot of interest in animat
ed films. They’re very popular, and
there’s a large selection out there. Why
not give them their own division or cat
egory?” asked Tom Sito, president of
the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists
Guild, Local 839.
A longtime advocate for an animat
ed feature Oscar, Sito has worked on
such films as “The Little Mermaid,”
“Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast,”
the only feature-length cartoon ever
nominated for Best Picture.
The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences periodically consid
ers forming an animated feature catego
ry, but has declined because of a short
age of nominees.
Studios in the United States have
released an average of only seven fully
animated features each year since 1989,
according to Exhibitor Relations Co.,
which tracks box office statistics.
“You have to have more than that to
play the game,” Academy spokesman
John Pavlik said. “Otherwise, we’d be
giving nominations to almost every ani
mated feature that comes out.”
One way to add more films to the
proposed category would be easing
qualifications to include movies that are
only partially animated, such as sci-fi or
action thrillers which use animation in
virtually every scene.
With the advent of computer-gener
ated images, visual effects films and
purely animated movies now use
“essentially the same techniques,”
according to Sito, who helped blend ani
mated characters with real actors in
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit.”
By that rationale, Buzz Lightyear
and Woody the cowboy from ‘Toy Story
2” could be considered cousins to Jar
Jar Binks in “The Phantom Menace”
and the dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park.”
However, the Oscars already offer a
category for visual effects, and some
filmmakers may balk at the animation
label.
“There are hybrids of live-action
and animation, but it would be hard to
create a category that includes both,”
Pavlik said. “I don’t see how that could
be done in a way that would satisfy
everyone.”
Opposition to an animated feature
award also comes from artists who
would consider it a symbol that their
work is inferior to live-action produc
tions.
“Animation has never gotten the
respect it deserves, but this would just
further ghettoize it.
“You’d essentially lock yourself out
of the Best Picture category,” said Steve
Hulett, an animator on such films as
“The Fox and the Hound” and “The
Great Mouse Detective.”
Sito said the idea of competing with
live-action films, however romantic to
animators, remains a longshot.
“It’s a nice idea but a tough sell,” he
said.
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Fox
'
president
resigning
Programming year
plagued by low ratings
NEW YORK (AP) - Fourteen
months after he left Comedy
Central to take over programming
for the struggling Fox network,
Doug Herzog is calling it quits.
Herzog has been trying to
leave since one of his predeces
sors, Sandy Grushow, was
installed last November to super
vise the network and Fox’s televi
sion studio.
His year in the hot seat was a
nightmare of falling ratings, fail
ing shows and fallout from the
“Who Wants to Marry a
Multimillionaire” fiasco.
“I would imagine that the
worst is behind us,” Herzog said
Wednesday. “I’m sorry I had to
live through it. That’s timing. At
the same time I’m walking out of
here with two comedy successes to
look back on.”
His slate of new programs for
last fall, including the critically
praised comedy “Action” and the
drama “Harsh Realm,” all failed in
the ratings. Fox’s average prime
time viewership has slumped from
11.2 million last year to 9.3 mil
lion this season.
The promising performance of
midseason replacement comedies
“Malcolm in the Middle” and
“Titus” has given Fox hope recent
ly. Yet two stalwarts of its schedule,
“Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Party
of Five,” are in their last season
and Fox still isn’t sure that “The X
Files” is coming back for another
year.
Herzog, 40, was Fox’s fifth
entertainment president in eight
years.
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