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Oscar Ceremony 2012 According to common wisdom, the Oscar ceremony attracts the most viewers only if there’s at least one major box-office blockbuster in the running for Best Picture. The source for that assumption is the 1998 Oscar ceremony, when James Cameron’s Titanic won the Best Picture Oscar — in addition to Academy Awards in ten other categories — and Oscarcast television ratings soared: 57.25 [...]

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, MI4 – Ghost Protocol This New Year’s weekend is either a promising or a foreboding gateway to the North American box office in 2012. Looking at various news reports — some rosy, some gloomy — it all depends on what color glasses the writers had on, or what sort of spin they wanted to give to the Dec. 30, 2011-Jan. [...]

James Cameron’s Avatar Avatar is the most pirated movie of all time according to the website TorrentFreak. Citing statistics "gathered from public BitTorrent trackers, dating back to early 2006," Avatar was downloaded an estimated 21 million times. James Cameron’s environmentally conscious sci-fier, which went on to gross $2.78 billion at the worldwide box office, was followed by two other major worldwide blockbusters: Christopher Nolan’s The [...]

Taylor Kitsch as John Carter, Mars hero Andrew Stanton’s 3D sci-fier John Carter "will have to earn about $700 million to justify a sequel," according to a New Yorker profile on Stanton. Why so much dough? That’s because Stanton’s first live-action movie cost a reported $250 million — not including the marketing/distribution expenses to be incurred by distributor Disney. For comparison’s sake: Stanton’s Finding Nemo [...]