Oscar Updates and Lincoln/Argo Sails/Foreign Submissions/The Jogger

Good Thursday everyone...It's Regional One Act Week in Oklahoma...

OSCAR UPDATES AND LINCOLN

Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" was a "surprise" screening as a part of the New York Film Festival this week and the Oscar specialists seem to be taken by the film with many recalibrating their view of awards season prospects as a result.  Here's a sampling:

Awards Daily Podcast:  http://www.awardsdaily.com/podcasts/oscarpodcast/episode2.mp3

Feinberg Forecast: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/feinberg-forecast-updated-projections-20-375666

A Few Minutes with Feinberg: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/scott-feinberg-academy-awards-2013-lincoln-377354

Gold Derby: http://www.goldderby.com/films/news/3472/why-oscars-prophets-are-going-crazy-old-rules-don't-apply.html

Rope of Silicon: http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/2013-oscar-predictions-spielbergs-lincoln-premieres-and-prompts-immediate-updates/


ARGO SAILS

Ben Affleck's TFF ##9 hit and current Oscar favorite is set to open tomorrow nationally and "premiered" in NYC this week.  Consequently a large number of stories/posts up this last few days about the thriller:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscar-fav-argo-attracts-massive-377729

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ben-affleck-says-he-pulled-from-kevin-smiths-red-state-talent-pool-3-more-things-learned-from-argo-20121009

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/07/ben-affleck-argo_n_1946884.html

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2012/10/11/new-character-featurette-for-ben-afflecks-argo/

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/interview-alan-arkin-on-teaming-with-ben-affleck-and-john-goodman-in-argo

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121008/PEOPLE/121009975

FOREIGN SUBMISSIONS

The deadline for entries for the Foreign Language Oscar has come and gone and a record 71 nations have entered a film for consideration.  Anne Thompson, HitFix and the LA Times have coverage here:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2012-foreign-oscar-submissions-break-record-71-will-vie-for-academy-award

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/final-foreign-language-oscar-longlist-numbers-a-record-71-titles

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oscars-2013-foreign-language-race-20121008,0,5582289.story
 

THE JOGGER AND KICKSTARTER

Screenwriter and soon to be director (and friend of the blog) Casey Twenter and his writing/directing partner Jeff Robison are on the brink of shooting their first feature in Oklahoma City.  Production is set to begin on Oct. 13th.  They have the film budgeted and cast.

The two budding filmmakers have established a Kickstarter account for additional funding that will primarily be used for upgrading post-production items.

I am very pleased to include the link to that account here and encourage any and all to take a look and get involved.  These are good guys and I am thrilled to support a "made in Oklahoma" film project.

Here's the link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1277883372/the-jogger

I'll continue to update as the film goes into production (they say they plan a 15 day shooting schedule).

More on Monday...have a good weekend!

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