FLOWER MOON HAS A DATE
Since my last post on Monday we have come to learn that Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon will have a limited release in select U.S. theaters on Oct. 6th followed by a wide release two weeks later on Oct. 20th. Variety, among others, reported the news on Monday.
The announcement comes amid lots of informed buzz that the film will screen at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Other news regarding KOTFM releasing strategy in France indicates that the film could actually screen in competition for the Palme d'Or.
The Oct. 6th date also means that Telluride along with the Toronto and New York fests could, in theory, also screen the film.
I still believe a New York slot for its North American premiere is the most likely scenario. Additionally, and this is just complete speculation on my part, but I half-way suspect that there will be some sort of fairly exclusive screening prior to the films announced release in Tulsa, OK. that will focus on presenting the film for the Osage Nation and other locals that worked on the film.
Telluride chances-still about 10%.
IONCINEMA'S CANNES PREDICTIONS
Over the past several days Ioncinema has been posting daily predictions for various sections of the Cannes Film Fest. This is worth noting as Ioncinema has a pretty solid track record regarding the buzz for films in France in May and because of the oft mentioned penchant for Telluride to screen an average of seven films each year that have screened previously there.
Highlights from some their predictions in terms of films that could do Cannes in May and then The SHOW in September.
Cobweb-Kim Jee-woon. His The Good the Bad and the Weird played at TFF in 2008.
Fallen Leaves (or maybe its Dead Leaves... I'm seeing it translated both ways) Aki Kaurismaki
Daaaaaali!-Quentin Dupieux-His Mandibles would have played at TFF #47.
The Book of Solutions-Michael Gondry
Orwell-Raoul Peck-Its recent attachment to NEON has made me think it's a possible.
Only one film from this list jumps out at me and that's Kitty Green's A Royal Hotel.
Io Capitano-Matteo Garrone
La Chimera-Alice Rohrwacher
May/December-Todd Haynes
Poor Things-Yorgos Lanthimos
The Zone of Interest-Jonathan Glazer
Untitled Sean Baker film
As an added note, we now know that Cannes will announce its lineup (or at least most of it) on April 13th. Here's the press announcement from Apple. That'll be just in time to get a post up about it before MTFB goes dark for three weeks.
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