Media War & Peace

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Oscar Pace

A Business Breakdown Of he Best Pics

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Evan Shapiro
Mar 28, 2022
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Happy Oscar Hangover War & Peaceniks!

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I am not here to slap you like Chris Rock with an Oscars post-mortem. Today’s post is a motion picture business case study, using the ten Oscar nominees for Best Picture, with the goal of ascertaining a long-term business model for a business in search of a model: Movie Distribution.

Comparing any ten movies is a hard task. But, comparing the box office totals for these very different films, which vary not just in genre and budget size, but also represent a huge range of release strategies, is near impossible. Which is precisely why I chose to do it.

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