I don’t particularly care if we observers and spectators take it seriously. But for the people who work in the industry, and their various capacities? Yes, take it seriously. The games which are being awarded (and those that aren’t) don’t come about without a great deal of hard work (and in many cases overwork), so…

1. What somebody wears has a clear effect on how they think and how they feel, and much of decorum is based around how you present yourself. It’s the reason why uniforms and clear sartorial requirements exist, least of all the numerous psychological and cultural studies that focus squarely on types of dress and the…

I think the statement “It’s an awards ceremony.” doesn’t have as much gravity or respect with many people as you might think. It’s just not something that people take so seriously anymore.

No one’s saying that they expect the developers to be draped in haute couture (and it’s disingenuous to imply that they are), but at the end of the day, this is an awards show for your industry, and you would think that members of that industry (including those who might be getting awarded) would care just a little…

I took her “ethical” comment to be a reference to, in a way, setting a ceiling for how much professional artists who are contracted with Epic could reasonably ask for.

In industries where people/entities bid on jobs, putting in a seriously low offer is often seen as unethical, especially if everyone involved knows that…

The thing is that the average person with a 9-5 is, in most cases, going to have that job continuously unless something seriously unexpected happens. The artist, in contrast, is an independent contractor that is entirely dependent on not just getting work, but getting enough lucrative work to financially support…

I think the only way that he’d be ineligible is if they removed him fully from the Academy, which they didn’t do.

Given some of the members who are still in the Academy, regardless of their misdeeds (here’s looking at you, Roman Polanski), their thought process is that if they start outright removing members because of…

Ehh, not really.

Activision is still the strongest earner in the company, by roughly $1bn in revenues over King (this is from looking at AB’s latest annual report). It would be silly for Microsoft to do a $70bn purchase and all of the regulatory hurdles that entails solely for a portion of a company that only takes in…

You’re talking about the due diligence before actual paperwork is signed, and any money changes hands. That’s absolutely true, which is why what we see on TV are merely handshake deals.

However, the producers know full well the products and the entrepreneurs who are gonna be on the show. It’s their job to find…

This is all for television and ratings.

Anybody by this point in time should know that the producers on Shark Tank vet every single pitch before they start filming, because the last thing they want is either obvious scams, the founders of the companies being unable to comport themselves appropriately (which is a waste…

I can think of two reasons that don’t necessitate a significantly long-lived career and spotlight.

1. Person has a debilitating illness or life circumstance that will likely see them not reach retirement age.
2. Person accomplished an amazing feat at a young age that is unlikely to be replicated or surpassed.

Franchise movies have always run on the character being the star.

You’re being too generous here, and your timeline is a bit muddled.

Keanu was already cast in Dracula before Point Break was released (and Coppola himself said that he casted Keanu because of his looks, not because of Point Break or anything else; and, again, Keanu wasn’t the first choice; Christian Slater turned down…

They aren’t just doing better, they’ve basically doubled their worldwide box office with each release, which is something you tend to not see with movies that are new IPs. That success has led to the development of a TV spin-off, so that’ll be another test to see if the success of the franchise is due to the presence…

Pitt, for what its worth, doesn’t really take a lot of those prototypical roles that I believe you’re thinking about. Outside of his big tentpole movies, he’s taking roles which are either adaptations of an existing work, or are being written by a writer/director known for great shit (Moneyball, The Curious Case of…

He was certainly a movie star, but even after The Matrix trilogy, he wasn’t nearly at the level of Will Smith or Tom Cruise (or, down a tier in terms of box office, DiCaprio’s, Pitt’s, Washington’s, or Clooney’s). You also have to remember that The Matrix becoming the cultural and cinematic phenomenon it became wasn’t…

Look at the James Bond franchise. Are people going because it’s Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig? No, they’re going because it’s James Bond.

I’d say the closest MCU actor that comes close to breaking the mold (outside recent additions like Angelina Jolie or Charlize) is ScarJo. But even with her I’m struggling to think of her last big non-MCU film/role.

Tom Hiddleston was decidedly not a star (at least in the US) before he played Loki, and while he can’t open a solo, non-prior IP movie, he certainly wasn’t a big name before he got the role.

Hell, his most famous US-based role was playing F. Scott Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris, and that was released the same year as…

Agreed.

The reality is that none of the major Marvel stars, save for perhaps Scarlett (and even that’s tenuous, since her biggest non-Marvel roles have come from Ghost in the Shell, which is a prior IP, and Lucy, which has the ingrained Luc Besson fanbase) have really opened a solo movie to movie-star level success.

Gran…