THB #302: The Week With No Ads

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences now votes electronically… in other words, the nomination results will already be in at 6p Pacific tonight. We will be waiting another week to hear what they are. But unless they don’t know how to program the data, the answers are all but instant.

Not that long ago, accountants from Funk & Wagnall’s (a Carson joke for those over 50) literally put votes in piles to come up with the answers, round by round. Now all that can be done with a formula.

Into the hammock between tonight and next Tuesday at 5:25 am or whatever the exact timing that has always been about making the last half hour of the morning shows on the east coast, which all now seem to linger into early afternoon, we have opening and first full weekend of Sundance, the Netflix quarterly, and the opening of the super-gimmicky Missing, a non-sequel sequel to 2018’s Searching, which was the first studio release that looked like it took place in an iPhone - not shot by… in - and gros…