ONE MORE FILM FALLS FROM CONSIDERATION (MAYBE TWO)
The New York Film Festival named Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate as its Closing Night Film yesterday and labeled it as a North American Premiere. That effectively signals us that the film will not be making a stop at Telluride.
Schnabel has had a significant relationship with T-ride including acting as its poster artist (where's this year's poster?) in 2002:
His magnificent The Dining Bell and the Butterfly played TFF in 2007 but he hasn't been back since.
Additionally, Anne Thompson at Indiewire tweeted yesterday that Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased is likely to play the first weekend of Toronto which almost certainly means that it won't play T-ride:
Thompson later tweeted that the film's presence at TIFF is not confirmed as yet but The Playlist's Gregory Ellwood hinted last weekend that a Focus Feature film would be playing Toronto's opening weekend...and Boy Erased was speculated by some to be that film.
However, late yesterday afternoon and five and a half hours after the above tweet, Thompson seemed to open the door back up for the potential of a play at Telluride revealing that director Joel Edgerton had screened the film for festivals "late" and, quoting Anne, "we may see it at Telluride".
Here's the story Thompson filed at Indiewire late yesterday afternoon.
I can't think of a reason that Thompson would have even done the story following her earlier tweet if there wasn't some possibility that still existed for the film to make the TFF #45 lineup.
CANADIANS ANNOUNCE CANADIANS
The Toronto International Film Festival announced Canadian films that have been added to various portions of their program yesterday. While the announced films didn't add or really eliminate films that we've been thinking about as Telluride potentials, the absence of an announcement for Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life of John F. Donovan made me think that another fall fest season is going to pass without that film showing up anywhere.
Then , yesterday afternoon, in a separate announcement, TIFF revealed that Dolan's film will World Premiere there thus removing it from Telluride consideration
The story of the addition of John F. Donovan is here from The Playlist.
MTFB MAKES APPEARANCE AT AWARDS CIRCUIT
Mark Johnson of Awards Circuit posted his TFF #45 speculation piece yesterday and was kind enough to mention MTFB and link to the blog in the body of the article.
So a big thanks to Mark and the entire Awards Circuit crew for the shout out. Those of you tuning in for the first time from A.C. ...Howdy!
Mark goes on to name 10 films he's predicting which mirror my latest Ten Bets closely but not 100%.
For example, Mark does name Backseat (The Adam McKay biopic about Dick Cheney that stars Christian Bale as the former Veep) which may be titled something else before its release. I hope he's right because I would love to see that.
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