News from New York and Toronto / World of Reel and Hollywood Elsewhere Add to the Stack / And One More Thing...

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NEWS FROM NEW YORK AND TORONTO

New York announced its Main Slate lineup on Tuesday and I had the ramifications up on Twitter fairly quickly and a Late Breaking post here on the blog by late Tuesday afternoon.  By way of reminder, here's what I had Tuesday afternoon from NYFF:

New York Film Fest announcement seems to confirm or point to these films as Telluride players:

Marriage Story
Motherless Brooklyn
Beanpole
First Cow
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Woman on Fire
Varda by Agnes


Via Matt Neglia of Next Best Picture:

Not going to Telluride...

Atlantics
Bacurau
Fire Will Come
A Girl Missing
I Was at Home, But
Liberté
Martin Eden
Moneychanger
Oh Mercy!
Saturday Fiction
Sibyl
Synonyms
To the Ends of the Earth
The Traitor
Vitalina Varela
Wasp Network
Wild Goose Lake
Young Ahmed
Zombi Child

And it seems the only NYFF World Premiere is The Irishman.

Full disclosure...my tweet on Tuesday regarding Telluride films suggested or confirmed included The Whistlers.  On Twitter it was pointed out to me by @BobertHarris that The Whistlers will U.S. Premiere will be at Fantastic Fest.  That would explain the lack of premiere designation in the NYFF announcement.  My apologies.

The above list reflects that realization.

The biggest info regarding films that now appear likely for Telluride were the inclusion of  Varda by Agnes, First Cow and Beanpole.

Films that had been seriously on my TFF #46 radar that now seem certain to not be at Telluride are: Atlantics, Synonyms, Bacurau, The Traitor, Wasp Network and Young Ahmed.  So...three up and six down.

Meanwhile, Toronto announced its ten film platform lineup with nine of the ten films listed as World Premieres thus ruling them all out.  Martin Eden, the only film listed as an International Premiere underlines the NYFF announcement which had ruled it out for Telluride.

Honestly, the only Platform film that TIFF announced that I had thought might show at The SHOW was Sarah Gavron's Rocks.


So, that's what we learned on Tuesday from other fest announcements.

Here's the official lineup announcement from the Film Society of New York.

Additionally, from Indiewire, this is the Toronto Platform section news.



WORLD OF REEL AND HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE ADD TO THE STACK

Between Jordan Ruimy's latest Telluride spec post (yesterday) and Jeff Welles posting about it yesterday as well, it looks like we can probably add Terrence Malick's latest film, A Hidden Life to our list of Telluride probables.  Wells says that he "was in fact told that it will screen at Telluride".  That's a big get as far as I'm concerned. 

Additionally, both Ruimy and Wells suggest that Scott Burns The Report is a real possibility.  I'm thinking it's likely. 

I can reveal that The Report was the film I was referencing in my post last Tuesday under the heading "Trafficking in Rumor".

I recall suggesting this Sundance title as my preferred film form that fest for T-ride to make an exception for in as far as its previous play in Utah.  You can find that suggestion from me in my post from Jan. 31st.


Honestly, between the New York, Toronto announcements and Wells and Ruimy...the last couple of days have been a gold mine of useful information.  Seems like the next thing we should hear is the actual schedule from Venice which I expect any day now.

Here's the link to the Hollywood Elsewhere post.

And to the World of Reel post, which graciously shouts out MTFB...thanks Jordan!



AND ONE MORE THING...

In addition to the detective work the last couple of days it has been a hell of a good time having responses from people guessing what the "Trafficking in Rumor" film might be. 

Several readers dropped me a note in a variety of ways...Twitter, email note to Facebook with questions and guesses.  Far and away the leading guess was Little Women.

Noop.

The clues that actually pointed to The Report were that it's "curiously related" to a film that we're "very sure" is playing the fest...which is, ironically Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story...as Adam Driver stars in both films.  The other clue was that I had mentioned the film earlier...see the note above about my Sundance suggestion back on Jan. 31st.

Again, the buzz is that Little Women is not likely to play any fest prior to its Dec. 25th premiere date.  That said, if you'd like to re-visit my fantasy scenario for the Greta Gerwig film, that was in my post from last Monday.


Here's the current Ten Bets with Bonus Bets:


10) The Aeronauts
9) Ford v. Ferrari
8) The Two Popes
7) Pain and Glory
6) Uncut Gems
5) Judy
4) Motherless Brooklyn
3) Marriage Story
2) Portrait of a Lady on Fire
1) Parasite

"Bonus Bets":

Bonus 1) The Truth
Bonus 2) Varda by Agnes
Bonus 3) First Cow
Bonus 4) Family Romance LLC
Bonus 5) Country Music


Got a new Ten Bets plus Bonus Bets coming tomorrow!



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Little Women May Be Off the Table / Hollywood Elsewhere Clues? / Looking Back to Look Forward

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LITTLE WOMEN MAY BE OFF THE TABLE

I was listening to Indiewire's Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson's ScreenTalk podcast this weekend (they posted it last Friday) as they had teased some discussion of fall films and they do, in fact, talk about the films that they're hearing will be involved in festivals.  The most interesting comment comes from Thompson who suggested that Greta Gerwig's Little Women isn't likely to play any of the festivals.  The pronouncement isn't necessarily definitive but Anne Thompson is going to know more about these things than I am.

If the film doesn't play then that disappoints as I am genuinely curious to see what Gerwig and her crew do with the classic tale.  I have had Little Women on all three of this summer's Ten Bets with it at the #4 spot last Friday but you can expect that will be different when this Friday's Ten Bets goes up.

Among the films listed by Thompson and Kohn that they say are expected to play at some of the fall fests are: Motherless Brooklyn, A Hidden Life, The Report (after its debut at Sundance), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Lighthouse, Pain and Glory and Jojo Rabbit.

The complete ScreenTalk Podcast is linked here.



HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE CLUES?

Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere had a couple of posts Friday and Saturday that, if nothing else, are interesting from a TFF speculative standpoint.

The first post on Friday talked about the Indiewire podcast that I have referenced above.  Wells suggests that he hasn't heard the same notion about Little Women.

Additionally, at the end of that post he rattles a list of films he calls "fall hotties" which include: The Irishman, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Motherless Brooklyn, Fair and Balanced, Harriet, The Last Thing He Wanted, The Laundromat, Torrance, Blackbird, Judy and The Aeronauts.

That post is linked here.

The following day (Saturday) Wells posts a continuation on his meditation entitled "If Wanting These Films to Play Telluride Is Wrong...".   Wells had received a response from someone he refers to as a "friend" suggested that NONE of the films that Wells had listed as his "fall hotties" would play TFF.

If true, that would nuke some titles that I have been thinking could/would be TFF bound most notably Motherless Brooklyn, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Judy.

Wells takes exception to the blanket characterization but who knows?

Further, Wells' source suggests that Netflix will probably have a couple of films at Telluride that Wells doesn't include on his "fall hotties" list.  By process of elimination the likely films would be Fernando Meirelles The Pope and the still untitled Noah Baumbach project.

Wells' Saturday post is linked here.



LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD

I have been spooking around my "Future Telluride" file lately.  That's the folder where I save articles about films when they're announced that feel like something I should keep an eye on as potential Telluride players in their future.

For hoots, this morning I took a quick inventory of films that I have in their that seem to be actively possible for TFF #46.  The earliest entry I have in there of a film that might make this year's SHOW is Lucy in the Sky which I put in the folder in May of 2015.

Others in chronological order:

The Irishman
Ad Astra
The Goldfinch
The Glorias: A Life on the Road
Judy
Ema
Bergman Island
Just Mercy
Harriet
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Falling
Blackbird
The Good Liar
Molly
1917
Untitled Todd Haynes Project (Dark Water/Dry Run?)
John Prine: Hello In There
Nomadland
Varda by Agnes
Light of My Life


It'll be fun to see if any and/or how many of these titles actually get announced in a few eeeks for Telluride.


That's the story for this Monday.  I'll have more tomorrow.

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The Second Telluride Film Festival-1975 / Cold War Trailer / Wells Thinks We'll See The Other Side

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THE SECOND TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL-1975

Here's the penultimate addition to the ongoing look back at the history of the Telluride Film Festival.  

The second Telluride Film Festival took place on Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1975 with the following:

Tributes: Jack Nicholson. Werner Herzog and Henry King

SHOWS:

Ace Up My Sleeve

Aguirre, Wrath of God

Alexander's Ragtime Bad

Carnal Knowledge

The Cockfighter

Drive, He Said

Dupont Lajoie

Easy Rider

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Every Man for Himself and God Against All

Fata Morgana

Five Easy Pieces

Funny Face

Garden of Allah

General Idi Amin Dada

The Gunfighter

Happiness

Hester Street

Jesse James

Karl May

King of Marvin Gardens

The Last Detail

Leap Year

Legacy

Les Ordres

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

Man, Woman and Sin

Ride in the Whirlwind

Song of Bernadette

State Fair

Sweethearts

Taking Off

Tol'able David

Trail of the Lonesome Pine

12 O'Clock High

The White Moth

White Sister

Guests:

Shelley Duvall

Louise Fletcher

Milos Forman

Monte Hellman

Buck Henry

Anjelica Huston

Carol Kane

Mary Kay Place

Joan Silver

It's crazy how many of Jack Nicholson's films they programmed to coincide with his tribute: Carnal Knowledge, Drive He Said, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, King of Marvin Gardens, The Last Detail and Ride in the Whirlwind.

Here's what's even crazier...Jack, Louise Fletcher and Milos Forman were all in town and there's no record of any screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which would open on Nov. 19th of that year.

COLD WAR TRAILER

Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War made a splash at Cannes.  The film won Pawlikowski the Best Director prize there.

This weekend we saw the release of a trailer for the U.K.  Here it is from YouTube:

Linked here are stories about the film and its trailer release from The Playlist and The Film Stage.  A note that the August release date is for Great Britain not the U.S. which still leaves the door open for a play at Telluride.  Its distribution from Amazon Studios suggests that there's chance that it could play The SHOW.

WELLS THINKS WE'LL SEE THE OTHER SIDE

Jeff Wells posted a piece at his Hollywood Elsewhere site over the weekend assessing/analyzing the fall fest fortunes of Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind.

Over the past few days, the film has emerged as a popular guess as the possible opener for the Venice Fest.

Wells says he has heard a rumor to that effect but he is also relatively confident that regardless of its Venice status that we'll find it on the play list for TFF #45.

The complete Wells piece is here.

That's your MTFB for this Monday.  More tomorrow.

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We Have a Poster / Hollywood Elsewhere Makes Some Telluride Guesses / Spielberg at TFF #44? /

Good Thursday friendo...can you tell I was watching No Country for Old Men late last night?


WE HAVE A POSTER


After teasing you with glimpses of what we thought was the official poster hanging in the Nugget Theater in Telluride we have the confirmation now as the Telluride Film Festival officially announced this year's poster artist as well as releasing the poster to the public for viewing and for sale.  Here's the visual:

This year's poster artist is Lance Rutter who, according to the TFF press release is a graphic designer and also teaches design at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.  He is also a Vice President of Silicon Valley based start up Design for Quantifind.  He also is on the national board of the American Institute for Graphic Arts.

TFF #44 poster artist Lance Rutter (via quantifind.com)

Rutter is quoted in the release saying, "I don't think it's possible to overstate how thrilled I was to be asked to create a poster for the 44th edition of the Telluride Film Festival."  He went on to say, "I believe there is something uniquely magical that happens there every year."

Festival Executive Director Julie Huntsinger said, "Lance's design for this year's poster is simply stunning."

Rutter joins an impressive list of artists who have designed the fests posters in past years that includes: Julian Schnabel, Chuck Jones, Gary Larson, Laurie Anderson, William Wegman and Dave Eggers among others.

The new poster is on on sale online here.

HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE MAKES SOME TELLURIDE GUESSES

You can tell that TFF #44 is getting closer as well as the entire fall film fest gauntlet as the press covering the film industry increase their focus on what films will be featured at which festivals.

Tuesday saw Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere post his first serious take on what he thinks will and won't and could play at The SHOW.

Wells has some interesting thoughts about TFF.

He says that he thinks that Todd Haynes Wonderstruck, Sean Baker's The Florida Project and Sebastain Lelio's A Fantastic Woman are all "locks" for TFF #44.  All three films have been on my first two Ten Bets lists these past two weeks.

Other films that Wells says would be a "good fit" or "make sense" are:

Denis Villenueve's Blade Runner 2049 (more about that later on in this post).
Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game
Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Ritesh Batra's Our Souls at Night
Geroge Clooney's Suburbicon
John Curran's Chappaquiddick

Couple of notes here:  I keep forgetting about both Batra's and Curran's films which I shouldn't as both film makers have had films at Telluride in the past.  Batra with The Lunchbox in 2013.  Our Souls at Night also has the distinction of re-paring of Jane Fonda and Robert Redford (Barefoot in the Park, The Electric Horseman). It would be a tremendous event to have those two in Telluride for a Jane Fonda tribute. As best as I can determine Fonda has never been to Telluride with a film. Redford, of course, was a tribute recipient in 2013 with All Is Lost.  Netflix is the distributor of the film.

John Curran was also at Telluride in 2013 with Tracks.

As to Blade Runner 2049...I keep hearing buzz that Warners is going to forgo any Fest play in an effort to keep the film's secrets and twists under wraps until its release on Oct. 6th.  That makes a bunch of sense to me and despite the fact that I think I've made a pretty good case for why it could be a Telluride pick...right now, it feels like it's still not likely.

Other Well's notes on some TFF possibilities on a film by film basis:

Downsizing...HE says "nope".
The Current War "probably not"
Wonder "maybe"
mother! Wells says "Bring it on" which I'm not sure if he means that he thinks it will be at T-ride or that he wants it to be or both.
Mary Magdalene "no clue"
Three Billboards "likely"
Stronger "maybe"
Suburbicon "maybe"
The Shape of Water "doesn't seem like a Telluride-type" (though I hear some buzz that Fox Searchlight might really want it to play at TFF)
Blade Runner 2049 "likely" (see above)
Molly's Game "maybe"

Again, the entire "Telluride Spitball" post is here.


SPIELBERG AT TFF #44?

No. No. No.  Not with The Papers which has almost zero chance to be ready by Labor Day.  I think that it'll be lucky to hit its limited release date of Dec. 22nd.

No, instead, I think we might have a chance to see the HBO doc about Spielberg that was all over the media the last couple of days.


HBO Docs has had a substantial presence at Telluride recently:

2012: Love, Marilyn
2014: The 50 Year Argument, Tales of the Grim Sleeper
2015: Heart of a Dog
2016: Bright Lights

So a spot for a doc about Steven Spielberg seems like a real possibility.  The film will air on HBO on Oct. 7th.

Coverage is here from SlashFilm and here from Indiewire.

A screening in Telluride would also coincide with the Sept. 1 re-release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to celebrate its 40th anniversary.


There's your MTFB post for Thursday, July 13, 2017.  More to come tomorrow including the latest update TFF #44's Ten Bets.


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Guilds Begin to Weigh In / Telluride Films Dominate Online Film Critics Awards / New Trailer for La La Land / HBO Drops Trailer for Bright Lights / Hollywood Elsewhere Looks at 2017

GUILDS BEGIN TO WEIGH IN

We are in the awards transition period.  The critics have largely weighed in, Oscar nomination ballots are going out to the AMPAS membership (voting starts today) and the Golden Globes are being handed out on Sunday.  It's time for the Guilds to make their mark.  The Film Editors teed off this week with their Tuesday announcement of nominees.  The Writer's Guild named their nominees yesterday and the Art Directors Guild announces today. The actors had already spoken with their SAG Award nominees announced on Dec. 14.

Coming up quickly are nominees from the Producers Guild on Jan. 10th and the Directors Guild two days later.

Here's what we learned this week.  Among "Eddie" editing nominations were a good number of TFF #43 films.  Drama nominees included: Arrival, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight.  La La Land was included among the nominees in the comedy feature category.

Complete coverage of all categories and nominees is here from The Hollywood Reporter and here from Indiewire.

The Writers Guild nominated four TFF #43 films for theur screenplays.  Moonlight, La La Land and Manchester by the Sea were nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category and Arrival was nominated as the Best Adapted Screenplay.  It should be noted that Moonlight has been deemed an adapted screenplay for Oscar consideration.

Here's complete coverage of the WGA nominees from yesterday from the Writers Guild itself as well as from Indiewire.


TELLURIDE FILMS DOMINATE ONLINE FILM CRITICS AWARDS

The Online Film Critics Society went for Telluride 2016 films in a big way as they announced their awards on Tuesday.  TFF #43 films won a total of eight of the OFCS awards.

Barry Jenkins Moonlight was the big winner with the OFCS awarding it four prizes: Best Picture, Direction and Supporting wins for Maharshala Ali and Naomie Harris.

La La Land picked up two wins for film editing and cinematography.

Manchester by the Sea's Casey Aflleck was named Best Actor and Eric Heisserer won for Best Adapted Screenplay for Arrival.

Here's the comprehensive rundown of winners from the OFCS press release.


NEW TRAILER FOR LA LA LAND

Lionsgate tweeted out a new trailer for Damien Chazelle's La La Land on Tuesday as the film continues to do well in limited release and also expands into more and more theaters.  This trailer uses the John Legend song Start a Fire as the aural backdrop for scenes from the film.

Take a look at it here from YouTube:

HBO DROPS BRIGHT LIGHTS TRAILER

In light of its decision to push the premiere of the documentary Bright Lights: Starring Debboe Reynolds and Carrie Fisher up to Jan. 7th, it shouldn't be a surprise that HBO released a trailer for the doc yesterday.  Here it is from YouTube:

Coverage of the trailer and the doc's premiere is here from:

Variety

Time

and Indiewire



HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE LOOKS AT 2017

Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere has posted an evolving listing of films (80 at the time of this post) of films suspected or confirmed for 2017 release that he calls "high end releases".  From that list I have culled ten that have a reasonable chance of playing Telluride plus an additional ten that I would personally put on my Telluride 2017 wish list.

On the "could play" list:

Downsizing/Alexander Payne
Roma/Alfonso Cuaron
Wonderstruck/Todd Haynes
The Sisters Brother/Jacques Audiard
Mektoub is Meltoub/Abdellatif Kechiche
Tully/Jason Reitman
Untitled Andrey Zvyaginstev Film
The Current War/Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Happy Ending/Michael Haneke
You Were Never Really Here/Lynne Ramsay

Wish List:

Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project
The Finest Hour/Joe Wright
Blade Runner 2049/Denis Villenueve
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara/Stephen Speilberg
Mother/Darren Aronofsky
Last Flag Flying/Richard Linklater
Chappaquiddick/John Curran
The Shape of Water/Guillermo Del Toro
Battle of the Sexes/Faris and Dayton
Molly's Game/Aaron Sorkin

Wells' complete post is here.


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A First Look at Dog Eat Dog / Poland and Wells Talking Oscar / What's to Come This Week

Welcome to Monday film fans...


A FIRST LOOK AT DOG EAT DOG

I've been saying for some time that we may well see Paul Schrader's latest, Dog Eat Dog starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe on the list of films that play TFF #43.

The film played at Cannes to reasonably good reviews and Schrader has certainly been a frequent visitor at Telluride.

We got a new trailer for the film over the weekend.  It's above and here's coverage:


http://theplaylist.net/nicolas-cage-willem-dafoe-get-crazy-first-trailer-paul-schraders-dog-eat-dog-20160806/

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/08/dog-eat-dog-trailer-nicolas-cage-willem-dafoe-paul-schrader-1201714115/

http://www.firstshowing.net/2016/watch-first-trailer-for-paul-schraders-dog-eat-dog-with-nicolas-cage/

https://thefilmstage.com/trailer/nicolas-cage-and-willem-dafoe-plan-the-perfect-crime-in-first-trailer-for-paul-schraders-dog-eat-dog/



Here's a link to Dog Eat Dog;s IMDb page:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4054654/?ref_=ttco_co_tt


POLAND AND WELLS TALK OSCAR

David Poland at Movie City News was up this weekend with his first take on the possible Oscar scene for this year.  Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere was also up this weekend with  a critique of the Poland article as well.

Films that we're pretty sure about for Telluride and films that might be T-ride bound that are addressed by both posts are:  Probable T-riders Poland suggests for Best Picture: Manchester by the Sea, Bleed for This, La La Land, Moonlight.  Possible T-riders:  The Founder, Allied, The Accountant.

Poland's piece is here:

http://moviecitynews.com/2016/08/29-weeks-to-oscar-let-the-wild-rumpus-start/

Well's' analysis of the Poland post is here (needless to say, he's not necessarily on the same page as Poland):

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2016/08/polands-best-picture-assessments-with-grain-of-salt/


WHAT'S TO COME THIS WEEK

We're expecting the third wave announcement from Toronto this week as well as the announcement from the New York Film Festival of the rest of its lineup.

Last year both sets of information were very valuable in nailing down as many as seven films that would play at TFF #42.  It might be more than that as last year was a tad anomalous in that TFF and NYFF didn't share as many titles as they often have.

Whatever the case, we ought to have good intell by the end of the week on a number of films that will probably play TFF #43.


That's it for this Monday.  More to follow...

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Friday Business Part One-Dreams of Jackie / Friday Business Part Two-Eight Days a Week / MTFB Shows Up on Awards Circuit

Good Monday to All and welcome back from the weekend.

FRIDAY BUSINESS PART ONE-DREAMS OF JACKIE

Last Friday's post included some speculation concerning Pablo Larrain's Jackie.  The film was announced for Venice on Thursday and the thinking was that, as we are already relatively certain that his Neruda is going to play Telluride that, perhaps, Jackie might play T-ride as well.  The thought was echoed at Hollywood Elsewhere by Jeffrey Wells.

Wells, however, appears to have re-thought the proposition.  He posted on Friday that he head re-evaluated and that he doubts that scenario will occur.

Here's the relevant section of the HE post:

Yesterday I wrote that “with Larrain already slated to attend the Telluride Film Festival with Neruda, it would be strange — a head-scratcher — if Jackie doesn’t wind up screening at Telluride also.” Convinced as I am that Telluride is the end-all and be-all of the domestic, ultra-refined, beginning-of-awards-season film festival experience, I asked “what possible strategy on the part of Jackie‘s producers could result in their film not playing Telluride?”

Answer: Jackie is looking to land a U.S. distributor, and Toronto, where it’ll screen after Venice, is much more of an acquisitions environment than Telluride. Plus a choice promotional berth at Toronto can be mighty tempting to a film in Jackie‘s position. So the decision to bypass Telluride has been made for the most practical of reasons. Fine.

I suspect that Wells has some serious inside industry dope when he concludes with that final sentence.

You can see the entire post here:

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2016/07/wasnt-thinking-strategically/



FRIDAY BUSINESS PART TWO-EIGHT DAYS A WEEK

I suggested Friday the admittedly way, way outside possibility that Ron Howard might chose to bring his new Beatles documentary to Telluride.  The thin evidence that I cited included The Playlist's guess that the film might play a couple of fall film fests, that Hulu might try to follow in the footsteps of Netflix and Amazon, that the release date of 9/15 really means that if it does play a fest it can only be among the Telluride/Venice/Toronto triumvirate.

Over the weekend I added a couple of other pieces of circumstantial evidence.  Variety's story about the release of the second trailer for the film revealed that the theatrical distribution is being handled by Abramorama which had Laurie Anderson;s Heart of Dog at T-ride last year and Particle Fever in 2013.  So, you have a distib that's not unfamiliar with Telluride and vice versa.

The Variety report is here:

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/beatles-documentary-eight-days-shea-stadium-concert-1201825054/


The other piece of circumstantial evidence...Sir Paul's concert schedule is open for any or all of the three fall fests as he has no shows scheduled between Aug. 18th and Oct. 4th according to Pollstar:

Paul McCartney 

Artist Website | Headline Shows: 10 | Date: All

46 |  83

Concert Schedule 

Date		City	Venue	Event Info
Sun 08/07/16		East Rutherford, NJ	MetLife Stadium
Tue 08/09/16		Washington, DC	Verizon Center
Wed 08/10/16		Washington, DC	Verizon Center
Sat 08/13/16		St. Louis, MO	Busch Stadium
Mon 08/15/16		Grand Rapids, MI	Van Andel Arena
Wed 08/17/16		Cleveland, OH	Quicken Loans Arena
Thu 08/18/16		Cleveland, OH	Quicken Loans Arena
Tue 10/04/16		Sacramento, CA	Golden 1 Center
Appearing at "Desert Trip"
Sat 10/08/16		Indio, CA	Empire Polo Club
Sat 10/15/16		Indio, CA	Empire Polo Club

MTFB disclaimer:  DO I think this is going to happen?  Not really but it's fun to make the suggestion.



MTFB SHOWS UP ON AWARDS CIRCUIT

When MTFB turns into The Film Awards Clearinghouse after TFF #43 concludes and focuses on the business of tracking the Telluride films that end up having an effect on this year's Awards season, one of the sources that I have included is Clayton Davis' Awards Circuit.

Now, AC has returned the favor as Davis posted a Toronto lineup piece on Saturday that referenced yours truly:

We haven’t commented on the recent Toronto Film Festival lineup this past week, with Oscar Predictions being updated.  The great thing about sussing out the lineup is that we are able to almost identify the films that will not be going to the Telluride Film Festival vs. what may or may not be.

You can bet on films like “Toni Erdmann” from Sony Pictures Classics, “Arrival” from Paramount Pictures, and “Manchester by the Sea” from Roadside Attractions popping up.  Michael Patterson of Michael’s Telluride Film Blog suggests films like “Bleed for This” from Open Road, “Moonlight” from A24, and the still undistributed “Una” could be lining up for a strong premiere.

My thanks to Mr. Davis for the shout out and linkage.

You can see the entirety of the post here:

http://www.awardscircuit.com/2016/07/30/oscars-toronto-film-festival-lineup-telluride-guesses/

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