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And coming up, the Oscar nominations are out.
We'll also be hearing about the film with multiple nominations that still lost tens of millions of dollars at the box office.
I love one battle after another and I think that we should talk about it with nothing but praise so we can encourage films like that to continue to be made.
I don't think that we should be collapsing business and industry articles and criticism.
I think there are two separate things.
One battle after another has 13 nominations and there's a film that's topped that this year.
Find out which in 15 minutes.
And there's something of a cinematic double bill today on NewsHour.
There's a new documentary about the 99 year old filmmaker and comedian Mel Brooks.
We'll hear what his son Max thinks about it.
But we are going to begin once again in the Swiss resort of Davos,