By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com

Oscar Weekend Long-Reads

Ronnie Chasen: Oscar’s Missing Guest

John Sloss Sees A Youth Movement In Academy vid

Kids Are All Right Only One Of 10 Best Pic Nominees Shot Entirely In Los Angeles

Lisa Cholodenko Resists Label Of Lesbian “It-Couple”

Partying With Mr. Brainwash

Is Black Swan “Ballet-ploitation,” Asks Toni Bentley

Cieply Churns A Thumbsucker On New Yorkers Who Head West At Oscar Time And Visits With Peter Guber, Who Has Stories To Sell

Timothy Egan On Class Issues In Social Network And King’s Speech

Costume Design Tougher In Contemporary Films

H’wd Memoir “Haywire” Gets A Second Life After Dennis Hopper’s Passing

An Optimistic Piece On The Possibility Of Smaller Films Making It

Christopher Kelly On The Stealth Sundance Success Of Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter

Gore Verbinski, At Home On The Rango

Barnes Wonders If Nolfi Knows His Dick (Philip K., That Is)

Filmmaker Jeff Lipsky Returns To His “Lucky” Movie Theater

Josh Radnor’s Latter-Day Lower East Side In Happythankyoumoreplease

Renee Zellweger Thinks It’s Time For A Trim Bridget Jones

Forbes Blogger Thinks There Might Be A Surfeit Of Sequels

Is Loren Stein A Worthy Editor And Partygoer To Bear The Late George Plimpton’s Martini Glass As Paris Review Editor?

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Leonard Klady's Friday Estimates
Friday Screens % Chg Cume
Title Gross Thtr % Chgn Cume
Venom 33 4250 NEW 33
A Star is Born 15.7 3686 NEW 15.7
Smallfoot 3.5 4131 -46% 31.3
Night School 3.5 3019 -63% 37.9
The House Wirh a Clock in its Walls 1.8 3463 -43% 49.5
A Simple Favor 1 2408 -50% 46.6
The Nun 0.75 2264 -52% 111.5
Hell Fest 0.6 2297 -70% 7.4
Crazy Rich Asians 0.6 1466 -51% 167.6
The Predator 0.25 1643 -77% 49.3
Also Debuting
The Hate U Give 0.17 36
Shine 85,600 609
Exes Baggage 75,900 62
NOTA 71,300 138
96 61,600 62
Andhadhun 55,000 54
Afsar 45,400 33
Project Gutenberg 36,000 17
Love Yatri 22,300 41
Hello, Mrs. Money 22,200 37
Studio 54 5,300 1
Loving Pablo 4,200 15
3-Day Estimates Weekend % Chg Cume
No Good Dead 24.4 (11,230) NEW 24.4
Dolphin Tale 2 16.6 (4,540) NEW 16.6
Guardians of the Galaxy 7.9 (2,550) -23% 305.8
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4.8 (1,630) -26% 181.1
The Drop 4.4 (5,480) NEW 4.4
Let's Be Cops 4.3 (1,570) -22% 73
If I Stay 4.0 (1,320) -28% 44.9
The November Man 2.8 (1,030) -36% 22.5
The Giver 2.5 (1,120) -26% 41.2
The Hundred-Foot Journey 2.5 (1,270) -21% 49.4