TEN BETS #2 FOR TFF #50
A week ago I debuted the first Ten Bets for the 2023 edition of the Telluride Film Festival. Here's what that looked like a week ago:
1) The Holdovers/Payne
2) May December/Haynes
3) Nyad/Chin and Vasarhelyi
4) Monster/Kore-eda
5) Strangers/Haigh
6) El Conde/Larrain
7) Poor Things/Lanthimos
8) Anatomy of a Fall/Triet
9) The American Buffalo/Burns
10) The End/Oppenheimer
And after a week of additional snooping, here is your latest iteration of MTFB's Ten Bets:
1) The Holdovers/Payne
2) May December/Haynes
3) Nyad/Chin/Vasarhelyi
4) Strangers/Haigh
5) Poor Things/Lanthimos
6) Monster/Kore-eda
7) Anatomy of a Fall/Triet
8) El Conde/Larrain
9) Saltburn/Fennell
10) The End/Oppenheimer
Other possibilities: The Zone of Interest/Glazer, Freud's Last Session/Brown, The Teachers' Lounge/Catak, The Royal Hotel/Green, Rustin/Wolfe, The American Buffalo/Burns, Priscilla/Coppola and Shirley/Ridley.
CHECKING THE DISTRIBUTORS: AMAZON STUDIOS
The sifting through the most common recent film distribution companies that have played Telluride and the guessing game about what that might mean for TFF #50 continues today with Amazon Studios.
Here's their track record at TFF over the past few years:
2022: Wildcat, Good Night Oppy
2021: Encounter, A Hero
2020: All In: The Fight for Democracy
2019: The Aeronauts, The Report
2018: Peterloo, Cold War
2017: Wonderstruck
2016: Manchester by the Sea
So, what might we see?
Three possibilities: Emerald Fennell's Saltburn seems the most likely. A couple of sources have indicated that the film is a hot commodity among the Telluride/Venice/Toronto triumvirate.
Other films are Garth Davis' Foe Michael Showalter's The Idea of You and Maggie Betts' The Burial.
Other Amazon films for 2023 have already been released or screened at Sundance making their play at TFF unlikely.
My assessment of chances for these four films:
Saltburn 40%
The Burial 30%
The Idea of You 20%
Foe 20%
TORONTO ANNOUNCES FIRST FILM
.jpeg)
The Toronto International Film Festival announced yesterday that it will World Premiere Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins from distributor/producer Searchlight. That effectively removes the film from TFF #50 consideration...at least on this blog.
I had Next Goal Wins at a 25% chance of making the Telluride lineup when I did my review of Searchlight films on June 19th.
Two other Searchlight films had better shots at Telluride on that June 16th post-Strangers and Poor Things. Both of those films stayed in today's new Ten Bets.
Here is coverage of Toronto's announcement from Jordan Ruimy's World of Reel.
SEPAKING OF WOR
MTFB made an appearance at Jordan Ruimy's World of Reel yesterday as the blog got cited as Ruimy turned his attention to films that might be possibilities for TFF #50.
A Compass
In addition to the films he cites from MTFB's Ten Bets, Ruimy adds this:
"Maybe we’ll also get some of these: Maestro (Cooper), Priscilla (Coppola), The Actor (Johnson), The Bikeriders (Nichols) and Ferrari (Mann). It all depends on their quality, Telluride head Julie Huntsinger is very nitpicky when it comes to curating her lineup."
All of these would be welcome and interesting choices. Of the five Ruimy lists I think Priscilla is the most likely Telluride play. As a matter of fact, Ruimy's speculation is enough for me to add Priscilla to the "Other possibilities" listing for today's update of the Ten Bets.
The complete Telluride 2023 story from WOR click here.
A COUPLE OF TRAILERS FOR TFF #49 DOCUMENTARIES
A COMPASSIONATE SPY
MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK
EMAIL: mpgort@gmail.com
No comments:
Post a Comment