12 Years Rolls Out/All is Lost Sets Sail/Latest Oscar Picks from Feinberg

Good Monday All,

12 YEARS ROLL OUT BEGINS

This weekend brought the release, in limited fashion, of Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave".  The P.R. onslaught continued through the end of the week and is represented below with posts/articles covering a wide number of topics related to the film.

Box Office prospects from IndieWire:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/can-12-years-a-slave-follow-the-financial-footsteps-of-django-unchained-and-the-butler

Ann Hornadays' essay from The Washington Post about the spate of films this year about race:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/12-years-a-slave-mother-of-george-and-the-aesthetic-politics-of-filming-black-skin/2013/10/17/282af868-35cd-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html

McQueen talks to Elvis Mitchell for Interview Magazine online:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/steve-mcqueen-1#_

McQueen also talked to NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/17/235486707/12-years-a-slave-160-years-later-a-memoir-becomes-a-movie

McQueen's discussion of "12 Years" covered here by Kristopher Tapley of HitFix/InContention:
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/steve-mcqueen-on-the-right-to-pursue-happiness-and-12-years-a-slave

McQueen talking to Tavis Smiley via a link from Anne Thompson/Thompson on Hollywood:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/steve-mcqueen-talks-12-years-a-slave

Anne Thompson also linked this exclusive clip from the film:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/12-years-a-slave-exclusive-clip-michael-fassbender-lupita-nyongo-chiwetel-ejiofor

TOH also has the "12 Years" crew on Charlie Rose:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/michael-fassbender-fast-loose-and-out-of-control


ALL IS LOST SETS SAIL

Also hosting its jib this weekend was J.C. Chandor's "All is Lost" which is certainly creating a lot of buzz about Robert Redford's performance.  Chandor and Redford both were highlighted over the last few days as the film opened Friday.

Chandor from The Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/all-is-lost-director-jc-649440

Also from IndieWire:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/jc-chandor-on-why-all-is-lost-didnt-compete-at-cannes-and-making-a-film-that-needs-to-be-seen-in-the-theater

Redford from The Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/robert-redford-jc-chandor-joy-649411



LATEST OSCAR PICKS FROM SCOTT FEINBERG

Here's the link to the latest Feinberg Forecast from THR's Scott Feinberg:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/feinberg-forecast-updated-projections-19-648297

That's all til Thursday...