THE DISTRIBUTORS: SONY PLUS
...And by "Sony Plus" I mean their affiliated companies Columbia and TriStar
The Sony Pictures group also includes Sony Pictures Classics, but as it is Sony's indie branch, I have dealt with it separately in an earlier post (June 11th).
Columbia has the U.S. distribution for Greta Gerwig's Little Women and though Columbia has a thin resume with Telluride, it's not invisible having just screened Jason Reitman's The Front Runner and Yann Damange's White Boy Rick last year at TFF #45. In both cases, the director had previous work at Telluride. Reitman a lot.
So the Gerwig connection could prove as potent this year after her success at Telluride with Lady Bird (2017- five Oscar nominations including Best Picture). TFF also loved her as a guest as the star of Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha in 2012.
Meanwhile, the other Sony affiliate that has a film in the discussion for Telluride is Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood starring Tom Hanks as children's television icon Fred Rogers. Despite zero history between TriStar and TFF, Heller's presence (and perhaps Hanks') makes me think that it could be a consideration. Last year Heller had a nifty run with Can You Ever Forgive Me? with that film debuting at Telluride and earning three Oscar nominations including one for Melissa McCarthy for Best Actress.
I'm currently putting their chances as:
Little Women 50%
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 40%
Tomorrow, I'll take a look at a bunch of smaller specialty houses that have films in play.
THE IRISHMAN PING PONG
I'd pretty much reached the conclusion and reported that Martin Scorsese's The Irishman was off the books as far as Telluride was concerned and that hasn't changed. The last couple of days, however, have been a funny back and forth as to whether it has a release date and an Indiewire story that flat says no fall film fests.
First the release date hoody-hoo. A number of outlets reported on Tuesday that one of the film's producers, Irwin Winkler, was on record as saying that the film would have a Thanksgiving release. That gave rise to some speculation that the film's visual effects might be done in time for Scorsese to screen it at the New York Film Fest (which has seemed like the natural landing place all along).
But Netflix and Scorsese reps strongly stated that there are still no firm release plans.
I have linked the updated stories about the release date ping pong here from The Playlist and for The Film Stage.
And here is the Anne Thompson story from Indiewire that flat says no Telluride, Venice, Toronto or New York.
THE GOOD LIAR HAS A TRAILER
Starring Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, Bill Condon's The Good Liar has been on my Telluride radar for a bit. The film is set for release on Nov. 15th and is being domestically distributed by Warner Bros.
The film has McKellen as a con man and Mirren as his mark but things don't go according to his plans.
New Line Cinema dropped the first trailer for the film yesterday. Here it is via YouTube:
It looks...good.
Condon is an Oscar winner for writing the screenplay for Gods and Monsters. He also was nominated for Chicago.
The Good Liar's IMDb page is here.
That's your Thursday MTFB. More tomorrow including the season's first Ten Bets.
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