MORE ON RUMORS AND WHISPERS
Yesterday I wrote a little bit about rumors swirling that a secret film would screen at Telluride this week. My list of what that might be was as follows:
1) None of the rumors are true and there is no surprise screening at all.
2) Todd Haynes Project (Dark Waters or Dry Run or...being snarky now...Dry Water or Dark Run or Dry Dark Water Run)
3) Nomadland
4) Little Women
5) Ad Astra
6) Joker
7) Bombshell
8) El Camino/Breaking Bad
For about three hours yesterday afternoon several of us that play this game thought we had the rumored secret figured out as Focus Features announced that Todd Haynes' Dark Waters has been dated for release. Deadline.com was the first to report the film will be in limited release on Nov. 22nd. The story also revealed that the film has been titled Dark Waters which, as far as I know, is the first definitive reference to the film's title. Dry Run had also been bandied about as a possible title.
A lot of film Twitter made clear that they viewed this as a likely "tell" that the film is probable for Telluride's lineup that will be officially unveiled on Thursday.
Here's the Deadline.com article.
Then early on Monday evening came Indiewire's story about the Dark Waters release written by Anne Thompson. Anne's story included this passage:
"The movie (Dark Waters), which co-stars Tim Robbins and Bill Pullman, will not be ready in time for the earlier fall film festivals, but might turn up at AFI Fest in November. Focus will open the movie limited November 22, with expansion a week later."
I have to believe Anne has the lowdown straight on this.
So...what does it mean?
1) The #1 possibility I listed above still looks like my best guess...I.E. no film plays as a surprise.
Then with the Thompson story in mind, we drop Dark Waters down to the last possibility and the rest of the guesses look like this:
2) Nomadland
3) Little Women
4) Ad Astra
5) Joker
6) Bombshell
7) El Camino/Breaking Bad
8) Dark Waters
Thompson's complete Indiewire report is linked here.
THE PROFESSIONALS TELLURIDE
Each year since 2012 I have polled a list of industry professionals at the conclusion of the fest to rate the films they saw on a 1-5 scale just like I ask you readers to do and over the years many, many people have been kind enough to share their thoughts about them. This year's crew of Professionals is a large one. I think the largest collection of pros since I started doing this. The list is also Deeeep!
So, my huge thanks to the following who have agreed to rate this year and a special shout out to Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter and Sasha Stone of Awards Daily who were part of that first 2012 group and, I believe, the only two who have participated every year.
Here's this year's list of Professionals:
Erik Anderson/Awards Watch
J. Don Birnam-Jorge T/SplashReport.com
Clayton Davis/Awards Circuit
Scott Feinberg/The Hollywood Reporter
Marshall Flores/Awards Daily
Mark Johnson/Awards Circuit
Gary Kramer/Salon
Tomris Laffly/RogerEbert.com
Scott Menzel/We Live Entertainment
Kenny Miles/We Live Entertainment
Mark Neglia/Next Best Picture
Eugene Novikov/Rotten Tomatoes
John Rhodes/Screencraft
Christopher Schiller/ScriptMag.com
Sasha Stone/Awards Daily
Anne Thompson/Indiewire
Chris Willman/Variety
Anonymous
I'll have the ratings compiled and ready for posting about a week after the fest closes.
CIRCUIT BREAKER PODCAST
In Awards Circuit's Circuit Breaker podcast they launch into a full examination of Telluride specific discussion just before the 40 min. mark. They also mention the blog you're currently reading.
Take a listen to what Clayton Davis and his crew have to say about TFF #46. The podcast is linked here.
JOKER BITS AND PIECES
Ahead of its new trailer release and the film's debut in Venice...and...
The Joker film at the end of the weekend was releasing bits and pieces of that new trailer. Indiewire posted a couple of the flashes of film that they had obtained on Sunday evening.
Here's a still of Robert DeNiro from one of the 10 second blips that are floating around:
All of which appear to posted to the JokerMovie Instagram account.
THE PEOPLE'S TELLURIDE
For the eighth consecutive year MTFB is soliciting your input for The People's Telluride. All you have to do is watch films during the fest and then, when it's all over, report to me your assessment of each film on a 1-5 scale with 1 being "UGH!" and 5 being "GREAT".
Report your ratings with any of the following contact methods:
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com OR michael_speech@hotmail.com
TWITTER @Gort2 (and follow me there as well)
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