THE DISTRIBUTORS: FOCUS FEATURES
To say that there has been only a slight relationship over the past few years between Focus Features and the Telluride Film Festival would be accurate. Since 2006 Focus has been repped at Telluride all of three times:
2006- Catch a Fire
2012- Hyde Park on Hudson
2015- Suffragette
In all three cases the directors involved had appeared with a film at TFF before. Phil Noyce who directed Catch a Fire had Rabbit Proof Fence there in 2002. Roger Michell who was the director of Hyde Park on Hudson had Venus in 2006 and Persuasion in 1995 and Suffragette was directed by Sarah Gavron who had been represented at Telluride in 2007 with Brick Lane, Losing Touch in 2000 and This Little Life in 2003. So, if you're looking to see if Focus might be back with a film in 2017, that could be a factor to look at and Focus has some films that might be on anyone's wish list.
Starting with the latest from Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis, who suggests that he will retire from acting after this film. The film is currently called Phantom Thread and is scheduled for release on Dec. 25th.
PTA and DDL were in Telluride in 2007 for a tribute to Day Lewis but I fully expect that the film won't be finished in time for Labor Day. Chances: 0%.
Darkest Hour with what is said to be a star turn and Oscar play for Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill. Darkest Hour is directed by Jow Wright of Atonement fame. Wright has no T-ride connection that I can track down so despite a Nov. 22nd release date...Chances: 10%.
Victoria and Abdul starring Judi Dench as the British monarch and directed by Stephen Frears probably has the best shot as Frears has been at Telluride in the past with a tribute to him in 1987 that included Sammy and Rosie Get Laid as well as Walter and June and in 2010 with Tamara Drewe. Victoria and Abdul opens on Sept. 22nd. Chances: 35%.
FIRST PORTRAIT (TRAILER) FOR FIRST PORTRAIT
Outside contender for Telluride inclusion, Stanley Tucci's Final Portrait dropped a trailer yesterday. Here it is from YouTube:
Final Portrait stars Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer. It played Berlin back in February and is in Sony Pictures Classics stable. It currently has no U.S. release date.
I have also linked coverage of the trailer's release here from The Playlist.
That's all for July 4. More on Thursday.
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