The Dark Knight

• Animation is not a genre.
• As one of the most acclaimed modern auteurs – and one who has announced his intention to stick with animation as his preferred medium – his acceptance speech reads like a plea directly to the academy.

Animated films at the Oscars

• By including animated films as a standalone category, the Oscars ended up segregating them: animation was treated as its own thing.
• Beauty and the Beast broke ground as the first-ever animated nominee for the Best Picture Oscar in 1992, but only two films have achieved such a feat since.
• If animated films have had difficulty breaking into the Oscars’ vision of a Best Picture, then voice talent has been outright bypassed for consideration in acting categories.
• Yet without the physical body to observe, the Oscars have ignored voice work in animated films.

Are things changing?

• This then hopefully attracts more audience eyeballs to an Oscars telecast where they are likely to have actually seen some of the nominees.
• Thematically, it reflects on the artistic value of the superhero genre, unpacking the Spider-Man lore across its many iterations.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the kind of popular cinema that the academy is currently primed to take more seriously.
• But it is still well-positioned to break through the confines of the Best Animated Feature category.

• On nights and weekends, I've been slipping into my secret identity as the Marketing Batman of COVID-19 for small businesses in San Francisco.
• According to Barbara Corcoran of The Corcoran Group, one in five small businesses have shut down over the past year due to the pandemic.
• There are over 30 million small businesses in the US, employing nearly 60 million peoplenearly half of all US employees.
• I knew that I needed to do my part in helping these small businesses keep the lights on and adapt during these challenging times.

• Warner Bros. Games and DC today announced Gotham Knights, a brand-new open-world, third-person action RPG videogame in development from Warner Bros. Games Montral.
• To view and share the Gotham Knights - World Premiere Trailer, visit: https://go.wbgames.com/GothamKnights-AnnounceTrailer
  To view and share the Gotham Knights - Official Gameplay Walkthrough, visit: https://go.wbgames.com/GothamKnights-GameplayReveal
  To download official Gotham Knights assets, visit: [4K trailer] , [4K Gameplay] , [1080p trailers] , [additional assets]
  With Gotham Knights, the team at Warner Bros. Games Montral is bringing the Batman Family of characters to life in a unique way to delight both fans and new players, said David Haddad, President, Warner Bros. Games.
• The team is thrilled to announce Gotham Knights and share our work in bringing a different story of the DC Super Heroes to the forefront, said Patrick Redding, Creative Director, Warner Bros. Games Montral.
• Established in 2010, Warner Bros. Games Montral, a Warner Bros. Games development studio, designs AAA videogame experiences for players globally.

• Gosier has spent the past decade or so juggling the dual role of entrepreneur and investor.
• Although Southbox Entertainment is based in Atlanta, Georgia, the movies it finances will not be exclusive to Georgia or even the South.
• "On the finance side, when we make money off a film, we keep it.
• The Uslans are the producers behind the Batman film franchise among many other films.