It's Spring Break at the Patterson house which means that as soon as this is posted this morning, I am out the door with the Boss and we are headed to a quick run through Santa Fe and Colorado. I'm looking forward to it.
MORE FROM THE CANNES SPECULATION FRONT
Cate Blanchett in "Carol"
The staff of The Playlist posted their Cannes wish/guess list this week and it has, not surprisingly, a number of titles that could make the Cannes/Telluride double play. Among them:
Todd Haynes' "Carol"
Justin Kurzel's "Macbeth"
Jacques Audiard's "Erran" or "Dheepan"
Matteo Garrone's "The Tale of Tales"
Gus Van Sant's "The Sea of Trees"
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/20-films-we-hope-to-see-at-the-2015-cannes-film-festival-20150316
"SUFFRAGETTE" GETS FOCUS
The cast of "Suffragette"
Sarah Gavron's "Suffragette" has been on my Telluride possibility radar for a long, long time and continues to be. I had it on the watch list last year for TFF #41 and have returned to it again this year. Now comes word that the film has a U.S. distributor and it is Focus Features. That actually may diminish its T-ride profile. Focus has had a limited presence at Telluride over the last decade plus as you can see here:
2003: Lost in Translation
2004: The Motorcycle Diaries
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: Catch a Fire
2012: Hyde Park on Hudson
Last year. Focus focused its Oscar hopes on "The Theory of Everything" which very specifically went to Toronto. Focus also has the next Eddie Redmayne project as their other Oscar pony for 2015, "The Danish Girl".
Working in the film's T-ride favor is that fact that Sarah Gavron has a Telluride history with the presentation of her 2007 film "Brick Lane" as a part of the 34th Festival.
Additionally, both Jeff Wells/Hollywood Elsewhere and Greg Ellwood/HitFix suggest Telluride as a real possibility for the film. Check the links below for full coverage of the acquisition announcement:
http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2015/03/street-fighting-women/
http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/meryl-streep-and-carey-mulligan-will-fight-on-in-suffragette-this-awards-season
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/03/focus-features-acquires-suffragette/
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/focus-features-adds-suffragette-to-2015-potential-awards-slate-20150317
http://www.indiewire.com/article/focus-features-acquires-suffragette-with-carey-mulligan-meryl-streep-20150317
"TRUMBO" SET FOR NOVEMBER RELEASE
Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo
Jay Roach's "Trumbo" starring Bryan Cranston has a release date smack in the middle of awards season according to the mid-week announcement from Bleeker Street, its distributor. I have this film on my T-ride watch list mostly because I want it to be at Telluride. I'm fascinated by Dalton Trumbo's story and I think Bryan Cranston is a genius. So the news that it's set for release in the U.S. on Nov. 6th positions it for some kind of fall film play.
Check the announcement form Variety here:
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/bryan-cranstons-trumbo-set-for-nov-6-release-1201454480/
That's all for now. More on Sunday...at the end of Spring Break!
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