welcome to arts and culture i m david leavitt s and you are here just in time to see hollywood roll out that famous red carpet for the most glamorous evening of the year yes we ll be talking about this weekend s oscars. also on the show acclaimed artist and set designer philip through the whole folk will be here to shed some light on his illuminated paintings. and where architecture meets fashion the bauhaus inspired clothing of the berlin brand of hamas. this sunday it s the ninety first academy awards and the pressure is not just on the nominees last year s oscar ceremony got the worst t.v. ratings in the prizes history and it s been drama ever since leaving this year s show without a host now the big hollywood studios are also on pins and needles because if the
illuminated paintings. and where architecture meets fashion the bow house inspired clothing of the berlin brand of mine. this sunday it s the ninety first academy awards and the pressure is not just on the nominees last year s oscar ceremony got the worst t.v. ratings in the prizes history and it s been drama ever since leaving this year s show without a host now the big hollywood studios are also on pins and needles because if the netflix film roma cleans up the prizes that could shake up the whole industry here s our look at this year s top contenders. on the red carpet is rolled out for the ninety first oscar awards seventy two films with ten nominations each face off against each other mexican director alfonso clone is perhaps in pole position with
thursday night and friday. the analysts said maybe 130, 140. now this afternoon they re saying 150. universal is the maker of the movie. they re being cautious. they re saying 149.5 million. but no matter what it ends up being, it s going to be a record. so this is almost like a summer you know blockbuster movie season already. that s what s striking. what i m about to say is ridiculous fredricka. it feels like spring barely in most of the country but in l.a. summer. this is the unofficial start of the summer movie season and that s what universal was hoping for. this is the kind of movie people would typically see in may or june or july or august. so by having it come out in april, hollywood is hoping this is the start of a very good summer box office season. last year was not so hot. earnings were down for a lot of the big hollywood studios. people started to wonder are people going to go to the movies in the age of netflix and amazon. i remember that conversation. something
and finally, shannon, you mentioned the pope is just back from the trip, mexico and to cuba. we saw him on the way to that trip use a cane for the first time. he is 84. he is going to be 85 the week after easter. this week will be a good test to see how his health is holding up. shannon? shannon: greg burke with the latest on palm sunday. thank you so much. we are just hours away from the academy of country music awards. while many of the stars are hoping to take home the big ones, one of them is actually without a date. taylor swift was supposed to take 18-year-old kevin mcguire but his bock tores say recent cancer treatments left him too sick to go. she asked him to go to the show after his sister launched a facebook petition to get swift to take her brother to the prom. after getting the news this week swift tweetd that she will make it up to kevin. a key republican weighs in on the gop race. later the story of a family friendly movie objectioned by big hollywood studios now doi
this is about money. a few years ago, the big hollywood studios figured out this was a very effective way to create lucrative buzz for their movies. they come to the convention, like say yesterday, they have panel for their movie tron coming in december. which you re personally stoked about. i m personally a big tron fan. then the fan boys start tweeting about it. fan boys? i m more of a fan man. so if you want a movie out there, you want to get these guys on your side? exactly. there was a movie based on a comic book that they tried to create buzz at comi-con. it didn t go over too well. look what happened a year later? it comes out, flops at the box office. directly related? probably. i like the way you guys did that, too. explaining it. but it s also about dressing