Hugo Unleashed/On the Road/Descendants Date Change/Errol Talks Tabloid

Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams are in Walter Salles "On the Road"...will that road lead them to Telluride?

Good Morning All.  I didn't go to Harry Potter's conclusion at midnight last night...does that make me a bad muggle?

HUGO-NOT CABRET ANYMORE-UNLEASHED

Martin Scorsese's much anticipated 3D children's story adaptation has been all over the internet the past 2-3 days.  There's the poster above and now, at iTunes, the first trailer.  As you might expect, the trailer is very impressive.

I have said on a number of occasions in this space that I feel like there's almost zero chance that this film is at Telluride.  But, Scorsese was represented there last year with his collaboration on "A Letter from Elia" so you can't completely close the door on the chance that it could be there.

Here's a link to Incontention.com's story about the trailer.  It includes the link to the iTunes trailer.
http://incontention.com/2011/07/14/hugo-trailer/

The "Hugo" IMDb page is here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/

ON THE ROAD

Kristen Stewart in a scene from "On the Road" via daemonmovies.com

One motion picture that I haven't spent much time on in this space that will be rolling around this fall season and that could be a Telluride possibility is the Walter Salles directed adaptation of the classic book by Jack Kerouac.  It stars Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund and features a stunning list of actors in support including: Viggo Mortensen (2009 TFF Tributee), Kristen (Twilight) Stewart, Kirsten (Melancholia/Best Actress Cannes 2011) Dunst, Steve Buscemi, Amy Adams, and Terrence Howard.  Francis Ford Coppola is an Executive Producer. 

Film4 is one of four production companies listed as having a hand in the project.  Film4 has been involved with Telluride presentations of: "Never Let Me Go and "Another Year" (both TFF #37), "Slumdog Millionaire," "Hunger" and "Happy-Go-Lucky" (TFF #35).

In addition to "On the Road" Film4 has some connection to three other films that are Telluride possibilities:
"The Iron Lady," "Wuthering Heights" and "Shame."

Anne Thompson from Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood has a story about Salles and his quest for authenticity for the picture and the form that the quest took.

You can read that story here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/07/14/on_the_road_director_walter_salles_quest_for_authenticity_road_trip_with_st/#.Th91f8PkEaU.email


NEW DESCENDANTS DATE

 I reported here in March that Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" had a December release date.  Now comes news that the roll out for the George Clooney starrer has had a change of strategy and will instead open earlier in limited release on Nov. 23 and then be "platformed."  A "platformed" release means that additional theaters will be added from week to week through December and perhaps into January 2012 as opposed to a mass release like you're seeing this weekend with the final Harry Potter movie in thousands of theaters simultaneously.

Brad Brevet at Rope of Silicon has the details here:
http://t.co/NT8Ewk8

"The Descendants" still remains as the #1 most likely film we'll see on the Telluride bill of fare this year.

ERROL TALKS TABLOID

All week long we've seen and heard about Errol Morris' new doc "Tabloid" which appeared at Telluride last year and was generally well received.  I liked it quite a lot.  Maybe the biggest laugh of last year's festival came during Tabloid's screening. 

The Playlist at Indiewire has an interview up with Morris as the film is set for release in selected cities today.  You can find that interview here:
http://t.co/jWiZRLN