Ten Bets #4/Wells Speculates...Mind Blown/Domestic Counselor (Trailer)/New Rush Trailer/SPC and Dune/Map of the Stars...kind of

Good Friday Everyone...

 TEN BETS #4

Not much movement in the "Ten" this week.  Anxiously waiting for the Toronto and Venice fests to announce lineups next week and see how that news impacts the thinking about Telluride.

Here's last week's Ten Bets:

1) Nebraska
2) The Invisible Woman
3) The Story of Children and Film
4) The Past
5) The Unknown Known
6) Daughter of the Dawn
7) Aguirre: The Wrath of God
8) The Immigrant
9) Labor Day
10) The Lunchbox

This week's Ten Bets:

1) Nebraska
2) The Invisible Woman
3) The Unknown Known
4) The Story of Children and Film
5) The Past
6) The Immigrant
7) Daughter of the Dawn
8) Labor Day
9) Blue is the Warmest Color
10) Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Just below the "Ten": "The Lunchbox", "Like Father Like Son", "Life Itself", "Only Lovers Left Alive", "12 Years a Slave", "Quai d'Orsay", "Heli", "Philomena" and "The Selfish Giant".

Also be looking out for SPC additions (reportedly) "Foxcatcher" and "Jodorowsky's Dune" as possibles.

WELLS SPECULATES...MIND BLOWN

Jeff Wells/ Hollywood Elsewhere tweeted enigmatically the link to this bit of Telluride #40 speculation:
"All is Lost"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"Blue is the Warmest Color" and
"Captain Phillips"

Hope he's right.

Here's the link to his post from yesterday:
http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/2013/07/homework-assignment/

DOMESTIC COUNSELOR TRAILER

A new domestic trailer for Ridley Scott's "The Counselor" is making the rounds.  I have stories linked here through The Playlist, FirstShowing and Rope of Silicon:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/watch-another-seductive-new-trailer-for-ridley-scotts-the-counselor/?uid=8264cacf1f1cdc13fee895bdf87a2b0bc913f67c

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-new-teasers-for-the-amazing-spider-man-2-ridley-scotts-the-counselor-feature-fresh-footage-20130718

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/counselor-official-trailer-michael-fassbender/

It will be interesting to see where this film lands next week when Venice and Toronto begin announcing their lineups.



NEW RUSH TRAILER

There has been a bit of media speculation that the new Ron Howard film "Rush" could make an appearance as a part of this year's Telluride program.  Frankly, I'm less convinced, but a) you never know and b) I have to tell you that over the last six weeks I've heard some pretty interesting/strange T-ride possibilities...so maybe it could pop up.

"Rush" trailer via movieCLIPS and YouTube

The film stars Daniel Bruhl and Chris Hemsworth and focuses on the true life competition between two Formula One racers (Niki Lauda and James Hunt) that happened back in the '70's.

I have also linked accompanying stories from...

Rope of Silicon:
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/rush-movie-trailer-release-date-september/

The Wrap:
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/rush-trailer-chris-hemsworth-ron-howard-video-103916

FirstShowing:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/watch-chris-hemsworth-is-a-racing-playboy-in-new-trailer-for-rush/

SPC AND DUNE

Word this week that Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the documentary "Jodorowsky's Dune".  That makes it a film to consider for Labor Day weekend.  The doc explores the failed attempt by film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky to produce an adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic SciFi novel.

I've attached SPC's news release via Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/sony-classics/sony-pictures-classics-acquires-documentary-jodorowskys-dune/10151620899536731?utm_content=buffer8eec7&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer


MAP TO THE STARS...KIND OF

And now this from Telluride Film Fest via Foursquare.  A map of all the TFF venues includuing the new Werner Herzog (The ZOG).

https://foursquare.com/telluridefilm/list/telluride-film-festival-venues?ref=tw

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Starting to Read the Tea Leaves

Good Tuesday!

STARTING TO READ THE TEA LEAVES

Last February 28th the fine folks at HitFix/InContention gave us their rundown of 25 films that they thought would have Oscar potential for this year.  Included within each film's capsule description was a guess at its fall film festival potential.  I have referenced this article a couple of times since its initial post and thought of it again as I get ready for a summer of Telluride #40 speculation so it seemed like a good place to return to as a way of kicking off the summer.  You can access the entire post here:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/oscars-2014-contenders-25-films-to-watch-for

For those that would prefer a truncated version...here you go.

Listed alphabetically, here are the 13 films they mentioned as Telluride possibles on the list of 25 (with a comment or two along the way):

"August: Osage County"...I'm dubious that this will actually play Telluride.  This seems more like a New York Film Fest opener or closer to me.  That said, it's not impossible.  Distribution is by The Weinstein Company...past tributee George Clooney is a producer.  Past tributee Meryl Streep plays the lead (or co-lead).

"Captain Phillips"...Again, I'd be surprised.

"Diana"...Third straight film that HitFix lists that I think probably won't play.

"The Fifth Estate"...The Julian Assange film starring Benedict Cumberbatch.  Finally, a film that I think has a fighting shot to make the T-ride playlist.  Bill Condon directs and has been repped at Telluride previously with "Kinsey" which also provides the second bit of Telluride connectivity.  Laura Linney (of "Kinsey" and frequent Telluride appearances) is a in "Fifth Estate".  This might even make the first "Ten Bets" list that'll go up at the end of the month.

"Foxcatcher"...Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum in a true story of murder and Olympic wrestling directed by Bennett Miller.  This is a soft maybe from me at this point, though I'd be pretty psyched if it actually does show at The SHOW.

"Labor Day"...Jason Reitman directs ("Juno", "Up in the Air") after having not been in Telluride with "Young Adult" in 2011.  I think he'll be back.  And I am looking forward to that potential return.  Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin...yes please.  And just to toss a thought out there...A Kate Winslet tribute?

"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"...Again, I'm dubious.  Although it has a Telluride pedigree in that its distribution is via TWC and director Justin Chadwick was repped at TFF #37 with "The First Grader".

"A Most Wanted Man"...The TFF connection is pretty thin here but I'd love for it to make the grade.  It's a John LeCarre story and has Philip Seymour Hoffman in it.  Film4 is listed as a producer and that's the only real connection to past TFFs.  Film4 helped produce "Shame", "Never Let Me Go" and "Slumdog Millionaire" and looking at what the have produced for the rest of 2013, I believe they will have some presence at TFF #40.

"Nebraska"...If Alexander Payne's new film isn't on the TFF #40 list I would be shocked.

"Oldboy"...If Spike Lee's new film IS ON the TFF #40 list I would be shocked.


"Out of the Furnace"...Director Scott Cooper's follow-up to "Crazy Heart", the little film that earned Jeff Bridges the Oscar for Best Actor.  The film stars Christian Bale and Casey Affleck.  "Furnace" film doesn't have any particular Telluride pedigree so it wouldn't seem likely.

"Rush"...the Ron Howard directed film about big time auto racing wouldn't seem like the most likely of Telluride films, but T-ride is the only festival that the HitFix article even suggests for the highly anticipated film.

"Serena"...I don't know a lot about this film beyond the fact that it re-unites "Silver Linings Playbook" stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence and it's directed  by Susanne Bier. What makes me think it's really possible is that U.S. distributor Magnolia also had "The Hunt" and "A Royal Affair" in its stable last year and they played Telluride.


There are 5 films on the Hit Fix list that I would love to see at Telluride that aren't speculated as T-ride films:
"The Counselor", "Inside Llewyn Davis", "Monuments Men", "Wolf of Wall Street" and "Twelve Years a Slave".  Although I think I could make a good case for "Twelve Years" and a so-so case for "Monuments Men".  The other three...yeah, I'd be surprised too.

The remaining 7 films on the HitFix list are Sundance films, will have already opened prior to Telluride or probably has no chance of playing Telluride.

So, from the entire list of 25, the best bets are "Nebraska", "Labor Day" and "The Fifth Estate".

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More Rudderless/Images from Rush/Jane Gets Another Gun

Good Thursday afternnon...late again today because, you know, State Speech...but finally posting...


MORE RUDDERLESS

William H. Macy has indicated that he still has a couple of weeks of pre-production work to do before filming begins here in Oklahoma on his directorial debut "Rudderless".   Filming (he has said) is expected to begin at the end of April.

Here's a link to Macy being interviewed by local television station KFOR:

http://kfor.com/2013/04/05/william-h-macy-brings-rudderless-to-news-channel-4/

Additionally, Just Jared was all over a meeting between Macy and his co-star Selena Gomez in California

Here's the link to that Just Jared post with about 20 pics.

http://www.justjared.com/2013/04/08/selena-gomez-rudderless-meeting-with-william-h-macy/

Gomez talks about the film with MTV:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1704789/selena-gomez-rudderless.jhtml

IMAGES FROM "RUSH"

Not long ago I posted an Oscar 2014 spec story from HitFix that that suggested that there was at least some possibility that Ron Howard's "Rush" might be a Telluride possibility.

http://www.hitfix.com/galleries/25-potential-oscar-contenders-for-2014/more-galleries

Personally I'm dubious, but you never know.  In that light, here's a link and story about the first trailer for the film from The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/apr/09/trailer-formule-one-film-rush

And here's the trailer via YouTube:

JANE GETS ANOTHER GUN

Another actor has signed on to the troubled production of "Jane Got a Gun".  Noah Emmerich has joined the film according to this post from The Playlist:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-americans-star-noah-emmerich-joins-jane-got-a-gun-20130410



More on Monday...