THE DISTRIBUTORS 2018: AMAZON STUDIOS
Amazon had Oscar nominee/winner Manchester by the Sea play in 2016.
Wonderstruck in 2017.
This year could see multiple entrants from Amazon Studios including Mike Leigh's Peterloo, Ritesh Batra's Photograph, Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War. All of these directors have some TFF history, especially Leigh. In addition, we have to consider Felix Van Groeningen's Beautiful Boy and Dan Fogelman's Life Itself.
Chances in order of likelihood for TFF #45:
Peterloo- 75%
Cold War- 50%
Beautiful Boy 40%
Photograph- 30%
Life Itself- 20%
As a matter of fact, Peterloo will almost certainly be on the opening Top Ten List coming out in a week or two. Cold War could make that list as well.
I'll look at Netflix tomorrow.
THE FRONT RUNNER LOOKS AT AWARD SEASON
Sony has dated Jason Reitman's The Front Runner with a Nov. 7th limited release date putting it smack in the middle of the awards season. A wider release will occur the following week on Nov. 14th.
The Front Runner re-visits the real story of Gary Hart's ill-fated 1988 presidential run. Hugh Jackman stars as Hart.
Deadline reported the story on Wednesday. Also reporting the dates was Clayton Davis's Awards Circuit. Both sources suggest that Telluride is a real possibility for Reitman's film despite the fact that Sony/Columbia have a meager TFF profile.
WELCOME TO MARWEN TRAILER ARRIVES
We passed along Trailer Track's Anton Volkov's news earlier this week that a trailer would be released for Robert Zemeckis's Welcome to Marwen and that trailer dropped yesterday. Here it is via YouTube:
Further reporting on the film and its trailer release can be found at:
FirstShowing
SlashFilm
The Playlist
Trailer Track
AND MAYBE THE DON IS BACK ON
Reporting from the Czech Republic suggests that Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will play at the Karlovy Vary Film Fest. The news was reported by both The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.
That comes after the news reported here Monday that Gilliam had suffered a legal set back with a French court finding in favor of producer Paolo Blanco.
I wondered if that decision might nix the chances of Quixote playing T-ride.
Now, with this latest news that TMWKDQ will screen at Karlovy Vary despite the court ruling, I am again considering that the Gilliam passion project might still have a shot at the San Juans in a couple of months.
That's all for today. More tomorrow.
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