It’s never to early to campaign for Oscar, and this year some massive developments in Hollywood could open up Academy possibilities for New Moon. Ten contenders for Best Picture will be allowed, and heavy weather acting fare like Viggo Mortenson in “the Road” and Meryl Streep rom-com seem to be the only other quakes on the Hollywood buzz-meter.
Sure, Michael Bay’s Transformers 2 raided the piggy banks, but Bay has irked more than a few oldtime Oscar voters from his always-there hubris and past deeds If this is the year when gleeful embrace of teen culture or sci-fi fantasy happens at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, let it be New Moon.
The twilight may have come for serious-only Academy film trophies. The fangs are out for everyone’s favorite vampire flick saga, and yet statuette love for the Twilight film series has yet to show its teeth.
Oscar campaigns for any other blockbuster franchise would have been well underway according to a Hollywood insider. But with heavy thespian hitters like Michael Sheen and Bryce Dallas Howard (her father works somewhere in the industry) joining New Moon, the Tinsel Town radar blip of the Twilight films has gone up a few notches.
Can the originating studio reach the “Summit’? Financing for future Twilight films would sure go through the roof.
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