Peter Jackson's Acclaimed Sci-Fi Sensation Moves to Free Streaming

When Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight was seemingly snubbed at the Oscars, especially in the Best Picture and Best Director categories, the Academy made sweeping changes to its nominations process. It increased the nomination pool for the Best Picture category to a maximum of 10, opening the door for mainstream hits such as The Dark Knight. The very next year, James Cameron’s Avatarbenefited from this rule change, scoring a Best Picture nod as the representative for blockbuster cinema. It faced off in a memorable David-versus-Goliath showdown against Kathryn Bigelow’s small-budget dramatic war thriller The Hurt Locker. But there was another mainstream genre hit that scored a Best Picture nomination in the same year, and now it’s on its way to a free streaming platform amid rumblings of a sequel.