The 2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards evidently put Argo in front-running position to take home The Oscar’s coveted Best Picture . After being Oscar snubbed as a director , Affleck and his film have since cleaned up on awards culminating in SAG’s top-honor ensemble award . Daniel Day Lewis’ Oscar chances went from 95% to 99% with a SAG win , while Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway are also now a “shoe-in” as well or so they say .
Disney purchased 3 TV spots for tonight’s BIG GAME (Superbowl XLVII ) at about 4 mill a pop while Warner Bros. opted to sit out for it’s third year in a row . Industry insider info indicates that Warner Bros. is strongly hinging on the commercial success of Man of Steel , before “moving forward” with it’s top-priority project: Justice League . The studio has every right to be nervous , banking it’s flag-ship character hopes on a director like Zack Snyder . Snyder had early success with 300 (60% ), and arguably Watchmen (64% ), but his most recent film Sucker Punch (23% ), was literally god awful . Which explains why WB execs are hesitant .
AND SO while Warner Bros’ ensemble team-up film remains in limbo , Disney’s ensemble team-up film is well into it’s phase two , with Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World coming this year . Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige says that the studio is going to “keep taking risks” creatively in phase two and beyond . One of such risks was casting Robert Downey Jr . as billionaire inventor Tony Stark . But that seemed to work out for everybody:
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