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Joe Russo Says Harvey Weinstein’s Campaign Playbook “Vilified Mainstream Movies To Champion The Art Films” He Pushed For Academy Recognition
Joe Russo posited that today's blockbuster versus indie discourse is in large part to Harvey Weinstein's Oscars campaign playbook.
In a new interview with the U.K.’s The Sunday Times, Russo lamented that popular films’ success at the box office and disproportional losses at the Academy Awards is due to a trend started by the disgraced mogul. The top-grossing films of the ’90s, such as Titanic and Jurassic Park, had budgets that would cower in the face of the $300 million+ figures now seen from such fares as the Russo Brothers’ The Electric State, now streaming on Netflix. According to a 2022 Wall Street Journal poll, more than half of all people surveyed hadn’t seen any of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture, while 40% said they didn’t believe Oscar winners reflected public opinion.
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