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Vulture buddy Nikki Finke reports the happy news that Disney and Pixar plan to campaign heavily for a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Wall-E, a campaign that we're already fully onboard with. Finke sniffs out some controversy in claiming that one roadblock to a Wall-E nomination is Andrew Stanton's claims to the New York Times last weekend: “I never think about the audience,” he said. “If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.” Finke gets an outraged response to this from, hilariously, a "bigwig Hollywood marketer," who sniffs, "Nobody can say, 'I don't care what the audience thinks', especially when making a mainstream movie for families. Nobody can live outside the envelope like that. His disdain for the audience was really obvious."
Hey, you know what, bigwig Hollywood marketer? Andrew Stanton wasn't expressing disdain for the audience. He was expressing disdain for you. And you know who can say "I don't care what the audience thinks"? A guy whose company's eight amazing movies have made over four billion dollars, that's who. So we're not too worried about this particular controversy.
'Wall-E' Orbiting Best Picture Oscar Nod? [Deadline Hollywood Daily]
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