But as we guessed (and hoped), the move was not a case of the studio dumping the picture, but instead, making sure that what they see as a possible
awards season contender has the best debut possible.
While Brad Pitt has been making more headlines this week for his personal life with Angelina Jolie, he makes headlines today for his anticipated
awards season contender, «Allied,» with Academy Award - winning actor Marion Cotillard.
Directed by David Frankel and written by Allan Loeb, the film looks like a sure - fire
awards season contender with its starry ensemble cast and end - of - year distribution through Warner Brothers.
It will be interesting for fans of the classic Creature From the Black Lagoon to see the Gillman / Kay influences in The Shape of Water, which is already considered to be
an awards season contender.
Fox Searchlight is positioning McCarthy as a legitimate Best Actress
awards season contender with her performance as celebrity biographer Lee Israel in this crime / biopic dramedy.
Thelma Adams: From rage to rapture, Melissa Leo runs the gamut in
another Awards Season contender, lifting up Maggie Betts» Novitiate for a major hallelujah.
Artistically, though, this was a clear success, a critical darling that would be a major
awards season contender if voters could remember pre-fall releases and actually honor worthy cinema.
Following its positive reception at Telluride, «Argo» will have its official world premiere in Toronto next week, where distributor Warner Bros. will likely use the buzz to position the movie as a major
awards season contender.
There's more to the story (co-written by «The Usual Suspects» screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie), but it doesn't matter much — with Depp and Jolie on the poster, people are going to turn out for «The Tourist,» and with the amazingly named Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck behind the cameras, it's an immediate
awards season contender.
Seeing the three of them and other respected actors like Molina, Dean Norris, and Michael Kelly assembled here in a movie unspooling in theaters just before Thanksgiving gives Secret the illusion of being
an awards season contender.
Scorsese's longest film ever, clocking in at two hours and 59 minutes with credits, will have its wide release on December 25th, just in time to give it a chance to be
an awards season contender.
He was joined in conversation with Hedges, who once again seems poised to turn a burdened teen («Manchester by the Sea») into
an awards season contender.
La La Land, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, was recently pushed back to December, making it a possible
awards season contender.
From I've seen so far this year, I consider
it an awards season contender.
The star of
the awards season contender «Molly's Game» grew emotional in recalling her first trip to the festival five years earlier, telling a story of spying on Oldman while he was eating lunch.
Hawke is coming off of a busy year with
awards season contender Boyhood; documentary Seymour: An Introduction, which he produced and directed; Michael and Peter Spierig's Predestination; Andrew Niccol's Good Kill; and Shakespeare update Cymbeline.
Seeing the three of them and other respected actors like Molina, Dean Norris, and Michael Kelly assembled here in a movie unspooling just before Thanksgiving gives Secret the illusion of being
an awards season contender.
Denzel Washington directs and stars in the new
awards season contender based on August Wilson's award - winning play, featuring an astonishing performance from Viola Davis.
Nominations for Film Independent's 31st Annual Spirit Awards have been announced, and this year's serious
awards season contenders begin to take further shape.
While it's unlikely that record will be replicated this year (though we'll find out soon enough if this year's slate at least has that potential), we figured why not take a trip down Cannes memory lane to revisit
the awards season contenders Cannes has launched, getting us on the lookout for what films from this year's line up might be their successors?
Elsewhere on the list are more recent films and
awards season contenders like «The Artist» from The Weinstein Company and «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy» from Focus Features.
Shaping as an unlikely but very real
award season contender, it was scary as hell, but also smart, funny, stylish and perfectly timed to rattle Trump's America.
More than ever before, Hollywood's A-list actors aren't in just 1, but 2 major
Awards Season contenders.
August is one of
those award season contenders you see coming from a mile away.
«I, Tonya» will likely be one of them, along with «The Shape of Water» and probably one or two other late,
Awards Season contenders.
«Atomic Blonde» is being distributed by Focus Features, a studio best known for their indie, arthouse films and
awards season contenders that don't usually make big bucks at the box office.
Despite being more aesthetically pleasing than Michael Bay's garishly executed Pearl Harbour, Nolan's big film in service of a small story has more in common with that much - maligned war pic than more serious minded
award season contenders of past years like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Peter Weir's Gallipoli or Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line.
With
awards season contenders on the rise, here are 18 films to close out a strong year in films including «Selma,» «American Sniper,» «Wild,» «Top Five,» and others.
He singled out several
awards season contenders from women directors, adding that «' Mudbound,» «Lady Bird» and «Wonder Woman» are all terrific.»
Oscar campaigning is officially underway as there were several events this weekend in Hollywood, featuring many expected
award season contenders trying to build as much awareness around their projects and performances before the holiday break.
Catch up on this year's
Awards Season contenders right now On Demand, including today's pick, «The Danish Girl.»
Things will cool off a bit at the start of the new year, following December's barrage of late year
awards season contenders and crowd pleasing tentpoles (led by Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle).
What
awards seasons contenders Naomie Harris, Viola Davis, and Mahershala Ali can tell us about last year's controversial campaign.
Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Awards Season,
Awards Season Contenders, Critics Choice Awards, Lights Camera Jackson, Lights Camera Jackson Critics Choice Awards
Not exact matches
The Spain international is also one of the main
contenders for the PFA player of the
season award.
And finally, tweet of the night surely goes to Matt Spiro, who perfectly sums up the enigma that is Olivier Giroud — a player equally capable of missing two - yard sitters as scoring several Puskas
Award contenders a
season...
Benteke's effort is an early
contender for goal of the
season, but he insists personal
awards are of little interest to him and would have swapped his strike for a victory:
Tottenham Hotspur have punched way above their weight this
season, with Pochettino already one of the stronger
contenders for the end of the year manager of the
season award — for the impressive work he's done in a fairly short time at the North London club.
The PFA announced the shortlist of
contenders for the 2015/16 Players» Player of the Year
award today with six games remaining in the Premier League
season.
This story of the strange relationship between eccentric millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) and Olympic wrestling champions Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) will be a major
contender during
awards seasons, with all three actors in the running for nominations.
Still, there's no denying this handsome period pageant ticks all the right boxes, the Four Feathers director building a suitably imposing epic around his radiant leading lady who, off the back of this and Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, is sure to enter the
awards season as a leading
contender.
When said rare movie opens in theaters one week before Christmas with a fair amount of pre-release buzz, it is expected to not only be good, but a wisely - timed serious
contender for Hollywood's
award season.
The Film Stage has been sharing the screenplays for this
award season's top
contender movies, and the official one for Lady Bird, written by Greta Gerwig, is now available!
For those curious about the film's
awards season prospects, Witherspoon clearly moves to the front of the pack of Best Actress
contenders.
Sometimes those few mostly come in the form of foreign language film
contenders, but sometimes Cannes blows away even Toronto when it comes to giving
awards season its main
contenders.
Starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence as the two leads, the film is expected to be one of the major
contenders in the upcoming
Award season.
Jolie and her co-writer Loung Ung visited last month's 7th annual Deadline's The
Contenders all - day
awards -
season event at the DGA Theater to talk about their film (as part of N... Read
All three women joined me on the DGA Theater stage recently as part of the A24 presentation at Deadline's 7th annual The
Contenders awards -
season event.
Earlier this week, Franco won the Best Actor prize at the Gotham
Awards and is considered a strong
contender as the
season rolls on.
«You know,» she mused at Deadline's seventh annual The
Contenders awards -
season event last month, «normally I play the President of the United States, or I'm asked to play women that are very commanding, [but] Jean is a completely different kind of animal.