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...Documentary Feature until My Architect quietly reaped enough attention to bestow it front-runner status. The Return of the King will likely sweep up most of the technical awards as Best Picture forerunners are prone to do, but the vivid restoration of 19th century Japan in The Last Samurai will give it a run for its money in Art Direction and Costume...
...could have predicted the staggering impact that the move would have on this year’s slate of Oscar nominees. In the days before this year’s nominations, network pundits were predicting big things for high-profile December openers like Cold Mountain and The Last Samurai. But when the nominees were revealed on January 27, both movies fared poorly, leaving the likes of Pat O’Brien sputtering over the snubs of Samurai’s Tom Cruise and Cold Mountain’s Nicole Kidman...
Other December releases fared just as poorly: besides The Last Samurai, holiday big shots like Big Fish, Something’s Gotta Give, and Girl with a Pearl Earring were largely ignored when the Oscar nominations were released. And this year’s Best Picture category is a reverse image of its recent self, with four out of this year’s five nominees in theaters by November. Only the endlessly hyped The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, whose Best Picture nomination had been a given for months, premiered during the holidays...
...Warner Bros. has traced thousands of online Samurai copies and 25 bootlegs from 12 countries to one screener and two camcorder copies. That is not a lot of leaks. But it takes only one. As downloading speeds increase and camcorder technology continues to improve, studios will be forced to put down the night-vision goggles and invent a new business model for a new world. "Nobody believes you're going to dissuade people from downloading," says Garland of BigChampagne. "It's all about co-opting that content and building businesses around...
Fittingly, The Last Samurai is a movie about men fighting to protect their archaic way of life. Their customs stand no chance of surviving. But the samurai fight on anyway, barreling into battle with their swords drawn against the cannons and artillery guns that boom into the future. At press time, Samurai had earned $98 million in theaters; and according to BigChampagne, about 49,000 copies are bouncing around on the Internet, for free. With reporting by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles, Matthew Forney/Shanghai, Robert Horn/Bangkok, Joyce Huang/Taipei, Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow, Sara Rajan/New Delhi and Grant Rosenberg/Paris