TEN BETS FOR TFF #53-VOL. 4
Last week's Ten Bets list:
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.
PAUSE: MOVES THIS WEEK...
We'll get to the new Ten Bets after this ...
Variety reports that hot property Elsinore starring Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman has been acquired by Focus Features after what they report as a:
"a competitive bidding war among several studios for the Simon Stone-directed drama"
MTFB has been following the emergence of the film since last week marking it as a late breaking possibility for TFF #53. Variety's tory on the acquisition by Focus also had something to say about that:
"Sources tell Variety that programmers at each of the fall festivals — Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York — are circling the title, though a premiere venue has yet to be set."
The Playlist underscored the point reporting that:
"(Elsinore) is also a movie that, like “Artificial,” has gotten into every festival it has screened for."
The way I read that is that all four fests are eager to program the film and now it's matter of what Focus wants to do...where they wan to with the film. It sure doesn't slow down the speculation that it might well be included for The SHOW.
Add that to the other notices last week that Artificial had been invited by "all the major fall festivals" per The Playlist.
On top of that, Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut seems to be picking up steam with his claim that the film will debut at a fall film fest. Don't discount that A Real Pain played Telluride nor should we ignore that Emma Stone, who we believe is a big fan of Telluride, is/was a producer for both films.
All of this has altered the new Ten Bets from last week. Which leads us back to...
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/focus-features-elsinore-andrew-scott-acquisition-1236801625/
https://theplaylist.net/halfway-to-oscars-2027-project-hail-mary-la-bola-negra-digger-andrew-scott-20260701/
BACK TO THE 4TH TEN BETS
Here's your latest Ten Bets for TFF #53...
Artificial
Bucking Fastard
Club Kid
Coward
The Debut
Elsinore
Fatherland
La Bola Negra (The Black Ball)
Minotaur
Paper Tiger
Other possibilities: A Long Winter, Fjord, Yellow Letters and The Story of Documentary Film.
WHO'S GOT WHAT? DISTRIBUTORS: FOCUS FEATURES
I MTFB's continuing look at common distributors of films that make the Telluride lineup we turn for Focus Features which, over the last five years, has been the fourth most ubiquitou distributor at TFF. They've screened 11 films at The SHOW in that time:
2021: Belfast, The Card Counter.
2022: TAR, Armageddon Time.
2023: The Holdovers, The Bikeriders
2024: Conclave, Piece by Piece.
2025: Hamnet, Bugonia, Hamlet.
11 films, six of which were nominated for Best Picture. That's an impressive list. So going into TFF #53 you have to think Focus will have at least two films make the grade... Here's their most likely applicants:
(The newly acquired) Elsinore, Sense and Sensibility, Hope and The Uprising.
Chances for TFF #53:
Elsinore 70%
Sense and Sensibility 40%
Hope 25%
The Uprising 20%
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