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Enough with the gimmickry, price gouging and 2D conversions
The success of movies like ‘Avatar’ has producers rushing out bad conversions
A spy scripted for Tom Cruise is sex-changed into Angelina Jolie’s latest avatar
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How one woman crashed the boys’ club and made Hollywood history
Brian D. Johnson on the highs and lows of the night
Brian D. Johnson predicts the Academy Award winners—and liveblogs tonight’s show
Scott Macaulay tries to explain the new Oscar voting system and how it works, with quotes from economist Justin Wolfers. Wolfers also provides some follow-explanation here. The use of ranked voting, familiar to those who follow sports MVP voting, means that a movie has the potential to win even if it doesn’t get the most first-place votes.