WONDERSTRUCK WILL STRIKE IN OCTOBER
The case for Todd Haynes being a Telluride contender got another supportive piece of evidence yesterday as the peeps at Amazon and Roadside Attractions, who have paired to distribute the film, have announced a limited release date of October 20th. The film will then proceed to be opened wider in November.
It wasn't long yesterday before journos pointed out that that time frame has served as the launchpad for four of the last five Oscar BP winners: Argo 10/12/12, 12 Years a Slave 10/18/13, Birdman 10/17/14, and Moonlight 10/21/16. Only Spotlight has broken that pattern opening on 11/6/15. Of course, all of those films played Telluride on their way to the Best Picture prize.
Honestly, when I get serious about posting a rough first guess at what will make the T-ride 2017 lineup, Wonderstruck might be the film on the top of that list.
Linked below is coverage of the release announcement from:
Variety
Indiewire
Awards Watch
The Playlist
The Wrap
FIRST LOOK AT HANEKE'S HAPPY END
Another film that will be in the hunt for the Cannes' Palme d'Or in a couple of weeks (and it could be an unprecedented third for its director...lots of predictors think that's a very real possibility) is Michael Haneke's Happy End. Haneke hasn't made a film since his last Palme winner in 2012. Amour also won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
We got our first photo from the secretive film yesterday as you see above. The still shows, among others Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Toby Jones. Further coverage of the image and the film is here from Indiwire and here from The Playlist.
REDOUBTABLE TEASER GETS META
This week we got a new glimpse of Michel Hazanavicius' newest film, Redoubtable, which is set to debut at Cannes this month in the Palme d'Or competition. The teaser includes some references to the festival that should elicit a chuckle or two. Check the teaser below (from YouTube):
Redoubtable is based on the life of film pioneer Jean-Luc Godard.
More on the teaser release for Redoubtable is here from Entertainment Weekly as well as here from The Playlist.
THE FUTURE FOR PAST TELLURIDERS
I've mentioned with some frequency the next project for Moonlight's Barry Jenkins which is the multi-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead's National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning
Underground Railroad for Amazon Studios.
In the last few days we have seen the plans of two other notable and recent past Telluriders come into focus.
Indiewire reports that Oscar winning director Damien Chazelle is lining up another musically oriented project. The story was originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Titled The Eddy, the story centers around a Paris music club. As with Jenkins, the project is being set up as an episodic project and is being shopped around to streaming services and networks. Reports suggest that Chazelle would direct his next feature film project, First Man starring Ryan Reynolds as Neil Armstrong, and then get to work on The Eddy.
The other news of note regarding a new project involving a recent Tellurider and Oscar winner was news yesterday that Laszlo Nemes is set to begin filming Sunset. Nemes made a huge splash in 2015 with his debut film Son of Saul which played Cannes (winning Nemes the Grand Prix award) and then Telluride. Son of Saul went on to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
The Playlist reports that Sunset will begin filming next month and that the plan is that it would play Cannes which would make it a prime TFF #45 possibility.
Stay tuned.
AMAZON REWARDS MANCHESTER
How do you say thank you to a community that serves as the backdrop and title of your Oscar award winning film (and TFF #43 selection)?
Amazon Studios has gifted the citizens of Manchester, Massachusetts a year's worth of free Amazon Prime memberships. They even threw in the popcorn.
Amazon announced the gift this week according to The Hollywood Reporter.
And that will do it for this Thursday. Have a good weekend and come back here Monday for more...
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