Twitter: New Hollywood Kingmaker?
Over at All Things Digital, Media Matters columnist Peter Kafka wonders if there’s something to the meme that microblogging service Twitter fueled the big box-office weekend for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.”
The Nazi revenge flick starring Brad Pitt pulled in $37 million over the weekend, exceeding Tinseltown predictions by at least $10 million.
Says Kafka:
In the old days, you’d simply chalk up the difference to the fact that the Hollywood prognostication machine sometimes gets things wrong. But now when that happens, the impulse is to blame or praise Twitter.
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