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Peter Bart: Could Awards-Season Galas Help Cure Hollywood’s Movie Malaise?

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The curtain is being raised Thursday night on what looks to be an idiosyncratic festival awards season, as organizers of the Palm Springs Gala to kick off the Palm Springs Film Festival with a hope that audiences somewhere, somehow, will start talking about movies.

Attendees are aware that their kids are lining up for the Avatar sequel but they themselves likely have not paid to see a movie this year — any movie.

The customary excuse: There aren’t any new “grown up” movies around. In fact, two heralded, big-budget ($80 million each), non-franchise movies aimed at grown-ups, Babylon and White Noise, are box office fizzles at year end.

Both shared a demanding theme for the holiday season. The characters in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise are obsessed about death.

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