Rich Get Richer: Hollywood Elites Treat Themselves to Oscars Gift Bags Worth $350,000 in Luxury Swag
The 98th Academy Awards on Sunday night will be the usual explosion of a champagne-fueled, self-obsessed celebrity glory orgy -- that comes, every year, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in free luxury gifts thrown in. This year's swag bag price tag re...
>$350,000 swag bag
>Picture of stuff you can get on temu for $2
The luggage has a child in it...
i figure they probably have to go as condition of terms in the film production contracts they sign on to. Basically you get paid $x million dollars to star in this movie but then must attend film award ceremonies in promotion of the film and do xx number of interviews and get whored out by this jew PR agent over here.
Independent film is where it's at and where you find real creativity. PedoWood is just satanists and pedophiles and prostitution.
20 years ago The Sopranos had the episode where they went to the luxury lounge with Ben Kingsley. Then Christopher punched Lauren Bacall in the face and grabbed her $30k gift basket outside an awards show.
That's a really awkward cast photo for 'One Battle After Another' if you have seen a plot synopsis. Just imagining those three banging is hard enough, can not imagine actually watching this film.
It's a third-party marketing firm trying to use the Oscars to raise the profile of their customers. Also, Sean Penn didn't attend so it's not contingent on attendance.
I read that, but why did a third-party marketing firm step in? Why did the Oscar organization stop with that practice back in the day? Probably some financial or fiscal issue.
It's kind of funny. The whole gift bag thing started in 2001 and spiraled out of control in terms of contents. In 2006 they stopped because the IRS declared it was taxable income and the academy thought giving someone an unsolicited gift that included thousands of dollars of tax burden was more trouble than it's worth.
So these wankers stepped up to fill the "gap" and get free advertising by hijacking media coverage of "this year's Oscars gift bags." In 2016 the Academy actually sued these guys due to trademark infringement. That settlement is why they have that no-affiliation statement at the top of everything. But if the press wants to call them "Oscar's gift bags," then they can't control that, wink wink.