BYRON ALLEN GETS FRIENDLY WITH HOSTILES
After having premiered at Telluride and playing Toronto and being announced as the opening film for the Rome Film Fest, Scott Cooper's Hostiles has finally gained distribution.
The news was revealed Tuesday that Byron Allen's fledgling Entertainment Studios. Reports suggested that plans for the film will include an Oscar qualifying release before the end of the year and a wider release in January.
Those plans mean that Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike are probably both part of the awards conversation for acting honors and that the film could be a player in the Best Picture, Direction and Screenplay categories as well.
The film was received in a generally positive way at both Telluride and Toronto especially Bale for his portrayal of a 19th century U.S. Army Captain charged with escorting a Native American Chief (Wes Studi) to Montana from New Mexico. The film currently has a 67 on Rotten Tomatoes and a 63 from Metacritic.
Further coverage is here from:
Variety
Indiewire
THE STANTON OSCAR EXPRESS MAKING HEADWAY?
FOr those that have been following along, the Harry Dean Stanton for Best Actor Oscar campaign may have gotten a boost this week as Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporters chief awards writer, included Stanton in his latest Feinberg Forecast,
Feinberg, doing an update of FF at the halfway mark of the New York Film Festival lists HDS as a "New" entrant on the race as a part pf a group he labels as "Major Threats". That puts the late Stanton in Feinberg's top 12 for Oscar Best Actor.
The complete and updated version of The Feinberg Forecast is here
.NEW POSTER FOR FILM STARS
Paul McGuigan's Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool starring Annette Bening as film star Gloria Grahame and Jamie Bell has a new poster as it moves towards its Dec. 29th limited release date in the U.S.. The film is under the umbrella of Sony Pictures Classics. and in addition to having premiered at Telluride played Toronto and will play London, Mill Valley and Middleburg.
Check the new poster:
Also take a look at the story from The Express (UK).
FIRST REFORMED ADDED TO NYFF
A24 announced earlier this week that Paul Schrader's First Reformed has been added to the lineup of the on-going New York Film Festival. The film played Telluride, Venice and Toronto. The film stars Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried.
It is scheduled to screen tomorrow evening at 6:00pm in Alice Tully Hall. A release date has not yet been set.
Here's the rundown from NYFF.
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