TEN BETS FOR TFF #53 VOL. 3
Here's the new update of MTFB's Ten Bets for TFF #53. First, last week's bets:
The Black Ball
Bucking Fastard
Club Kid
Coward
The Debut
Fatherland
Fjord
Minotaur
Paper Tiger
Yellow Letters
Other possibilities: A Long Winter and The Story of Documentary Film.
Now a look at this week's Ten Bets and Other Possibilities:
Bucking Fastard
Club Kid
Coward
The Debut
Fatherland
Fjord
La Bola Negra (The Black Ball)
Minotaur
Paper Tiger
Yellow Letters
Other possibilities: A Long Winter, Artificial and The Story of Documentary Film.
WHO'S GOT WHAT: DISTRIBUTORS-NEON
I'm continuing my look at distributors who have a significant presence at Telluride over the past five years. Last Monday we started with Netflix, which has been the most ubiquitous in the half decade. Today we look at Neon...the 2nd most "present" outfit since 2021 with 15 films over that span:
2021: Flee, Petite Maman, Spencer, Three Minutes...a Lengthening.
2022: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Broker.
2023: Anatomy of a Fall, La Chimera, Perfect Days, The Royal Hotel.
2024: Anora, The End, The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
2025: It Was Just an Accident, Sentimental Value.
And the Neon larder is stacked with primarily Cannes Fest films and a new addition just this week:
All of a Sudden (Hamaguchi)
Clarissa (Erisi/Erisi)
Fjord (Mungiu)
Hope (Hong-Jin)
Paper Tiger (Gray)
A Place in Hell (Dumont)
Sheep in the Box (Kore-eda)
The Unknown (Hariri)
And the late breaking addition (and non-Cannes film) Luca Guadagnino's Artificial. Neon picked this up after Amazon-MGM decided they would not release it. Artificial had been a film I have been keeping an eye on re: TFF #53 but Amazon-MGM had made noise that it was going to premiere at South by Southwest and release in 2027 which moved it right off the MTFB watch list.
Neon has already made it clear they intend to place the film square in the middle of the upcoming Oscar season and there is a good deal of buzz that it will be submitted for Venice. All this puts it back on the table as a TFF #53 potential selection. So much so, in fact, you'll note that it has already made the list of "Other Possibilities" in this week's "Ten Bets".
As to the other eight Neon possibles and their chances?
Paper Tiger 70%
Fjord 50%
Clarissa 50%
All of a Sudden 40%
Hope 25%
A Place in Hell 25%
Sheep in the Box 15%
A Place in Hell 15%
Artificial??? Say 45% for right now.
We'll look at Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) on Monday.
DATING NEWS
There have been a number of notices for release dates for some films that could be under considration for TFF:
Sense and Sensibility: Sept. 25.
Fjord: Oct. 9.
Saturn Return: Oct. 9.
Klara and the Sun: Oct. 23.
Wild Horse Nine: Nov. 6.
Minotaur: Nov. 20.
Clarissa Dec. 25.
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