WEINSTEIN'S AT TELLURIDE
Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob have had a fairly common presence at the Telluride Film Festival over the years. Their current incarnation is as The Weinstein Company. Previously they were Miramax. Tracking both companies as distributors at Telluride for the past decade shows us that they've been a part of The SHOW for a good long while. Here's their Telluride slate as Miramax or The Weinstein Company since 2005:
2003: The Barbarian Invasions, Best of Youth, I'm Not Scared
2004:
2005:
2006: Venus
2007: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, My Enemy's Enemy, I'm Not There
2008: Happy-Go-Lucky
2009: The Road
2010: The King's Speech
2011: The Artist, Butter
2012: The Sapphires (also was represented during the Marion Cotillard tribute by James Gray and 5 min. of The Immigrant)
So over 10 years...13 films. 1.3 per year and TWC has been repped at TFF consistently each year since 2006. So expect one or two TWC films on the TFF #40 slate. What's possible?
According to IMDb this is what TWC has in its wheelhouse for the fall (that, as usual, hasn't already appeared in the U.S. or won't open here until after The SHOW):
You can probably discount "Leo the Lion" "The Trick or Treaters" and "Man of Tai Chi".
"The Immigrant"
"August: Osage County"
"Snowpiercer"
"Salinger"
"The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet"
"One Chance"
"Philomena"
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
"Grace of Monaco"
So there are probably these 9 that are legit possibles. If you've read the blog, you already know that I'm high on "The Immigrant" being at T-ride in its full form. If that's true and TWC's past performance (particularly the last 7 years) we might see one other film from the TWC shingle, two at most.
So...which?
I think your best shots are: "Salinger", "One Chance" and "Philomena" with "Spivet" as an outside shot.
"August", "Mandela" and "Grace" are probably off the table. I'd not be surprised that "August" doesn't do ANY festival in the fall. Maybe New York.
My guess is that "Grace" and "Mandela" will do some combination of Toronto and NY and that "Snowpiercer" is Toronto all he way.
Chances:
"Immigrant" 80%
"Salinger" 45%
"Philomena" 40%
"One Chance" 35%
"Spivet" 25%
"Mandela" 20%
"Grace" 10%
"August" 10%
"Snowpiercer" 5%
MORE "COUNSELING"
Yesterday was the trailer for Ridley Scott's "The Counselor". Today, from The Playlist, a look at some stills from the film. The post also includes a segment of the screenplay by Cormac McCarthy.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/first-offical-images-from-the-counselor-plus-read-an-excerpt-of-cormac-mccarthys-unique-script-20130626
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