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UPDATED, Monday PM: Neon is still counting exactly how wide Parasite will go following its historic Oscar Best Picture win Sunday, but the forecast is around 2,300 theaters. Industry estimates factor, despite the pic being available on DVD now, that it will go to $45 million, becoming the fourth highest-grossing…

“Cinema won tonight,” NEON head Tom Quinn said as he escorted his father to his waiting limo in the parking garage of the Soho House, where a long line of partygoers was still waiting well past 11 p.m. just to get inside to the wild and very packed celebration Quinn’s company had planned for its Oscar nominees, Parasit…

Newly minted four-time Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho is being hailed in his native South Korea and elsewhere today for Parasite's history-making achievement in becoming the first foreign-language film to win the Best Picture Academy Award. From social media salutes to an official message from President Moon Jae-in, the…

Parasite and Pixar’s Toy Story 4 were expected to be respectable also-rans when it was time to hand out the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Animated Feature Film, respectively, but instead but they ran off with the trophies in surprise upsets. Parasite‘s Best Picture win was a stunner that puts the 92nd Academy…

The 92nd Oscars featured a mix of the expected and the unexpected Sunday, with Neon’s South Korean film Parasite capping the evening by winning Best Picture, making history as the first foreign-language film ever to take the marquee prize. Parasite director and co-writer Bong Joon Ho made four trips to the Dolby…

Tonight’s 92nd Oscars went hostless for a second consecutive year, but that didn’t stop some wildly entertaining (and memorable) moments. The ceremony on ABC certainly had social media celebrating, showing love for their favorite celebs and movies all night. Take a look at the telecast’s most-talked about social media…

The Oscars kicked off with an immediate political dig, not at not President Donald Trump but at the Iowa Caucuses. A few mild smacks at the Senate impeachment trial and health care followed, but the night was decidedly apolitical, even with U.S. politics stormier than ever. Maybe everyone's had it. Maybe Parasite won…

Coming away from tonight’s history making wins for Parasite, director Bong Joon Ho’s hope for the future is that one day, there will be more foreign language films that break through, to the point where we don’t even categorize them by their subtitles, but just simply universally relate to them. “I don’t think it’s…

In a truly stunning win that caps off an equally stunning awards season run, Bong Joon-ho's Parasite scooped the Oscar for Best Picture tonight. Since it debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last May, Bong's black comedy thriller has been making history, and has now become the only foreign-language film to ever take…

Renée Zellweger appreciates this Judy Oscar win in a whole new way, compared to her 2004 award for Cold Mountain, she told press backstage at the Academy Awards on Sunday. Asked how much she’d changed since she won that first Oscar back in 2004, Zellweger exclaimed, “Oh my goodness. How much time do you have?” She…

The 92nd Academy Awards spread the wealth tonight, with Neon’s Parasite leading all films with four Oscars, followed by Universal’s 1917 with three and three pics tied with two apiece: Disney’s Ford v Ferrari, Warner Bros’ Joker and Sony’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As for most studio wins, it was a three-way tie…

Early on in the Oscars telecast, Steve Martin and Chris Rock took the stage at the hostless ceremony and started riffing on a melange of topics. After spending a bit of time taking some playful jabs at Amazon’s Jeff Bezos who was in the audience, they pivoted towards the topic of diversity this year. “Chris, I thought…