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Gilles & Poirier come second in the free dance, but keep it close enough with Chock & Bates to remain first overall, in a very unexpected title defence. I wouldn't expect this to be repeated in Boston, but it certainly makes things interesting going in. Given that next year is an Olympic season, this was probably Piper & Paul and Madison & Evan's final 4CC. Between them 5 event titles, and counting former partnerships 22 appearances and 15 medals. Paul and Evan both made their debut at the 2009 Olympic test event edition, finishing fourth and third, respectively.

The first day of Four Continents is over (mostly overnight, of course). Biggest surprise is Piper & Paul finishing ahead of Madison & Evan in the RD with no visible errors by the latter.

We have this series' second rich family that somehow didn't make sure their vacation rental included enough rooms for all members.

After a somewhat underwhelming start to awards season at the Golden Globes, Anora emerges with the steel chair to batter its opponents and become the award season frontrunner, winning DGA, PGA, and the Critics Choice Award for Best Picture (though weirdly, nothing else at that ceremony) in one weekend.

Wonderful moment at the European Championships for Niina Petrokina, winning her country's first-ever women's Euros medal (a gold, at that) on home soil. Unrelatedly, for those who don't follow Canadian junior nationals (the nerve!), 12-year-old winner Lia Cho's free skate has now accrued over 101,000 views on CBC's YouTube, which is a gigantic number for a non-Olympic performance.

Rule of thumb is generally at least 2.5 times the budget, counting marketing costs.

Relative to its budget, it wasn't a success, unfortunately. Now, who knows what PVOD, streaming, etc. have added to revenues, but its theatrical returns alone weren't enough to make it a hit.

I know Chalamet and Barbaro were really playing (they had years to prepare due to production delays).

Robert Eggers fulfills his childhood wish of doing his own version of F.W. Murnau's seminal German Expressionist film Nosferatu (and thus, by extension his own version of Bram Stoker's Dracula). This was originally supposed to be his second film, and a reunion with The Witch leading lady Anya Taylor-Joy, but due to a half-decade's worth of production delays, it is his fourth film and starring Lily-Rose Depp. Overall, pretty good. The only real argument I could make against it is that it never really surprises, but then, it's a remake of an earlier film/adaptation of one of the most widely-known novels ever written, so I'm not sure it ever could have. That it was less of a novelty than Eggers' first three films was baked in. There was a lot of skepticism when Depp was cast, but I figured Eggers warranted the benefit of the doubt, and indeed she was quite good here. Also liked seeing him bring Ralph Ineson back for a significant role -- I'm not sure any actor that he has cast has ever fit his period aesthetic approach better, not even Anya.

That's a very common version of the Clark Kent workplace persona.

It's clearly supposed to look goofy (totally comics-accurate).

With stage pacing (i.e., lack of transitional content between setpieces, a lot of stuff more told than shown).

Short-ish overview of the filming of "Popular". Mainly fun to hear Chu discussing how the production crew had to operate all the props in the room, such as the suitcases and the chandelier. A much longer feature on the set design. They spent months growing all the flowers that we see briefly in the opening sequence.

I wouldn't say there's padding, there's things to make the sequences more cinematic. Stage and screen having different rhythms. Based on this film, even if you were to make some cuts, I don't see how you could do the whole musical as one movie without it approaching four hours.

She’s also an Academy Award nominee.