It was also announced yesterday that after last year's successful collaboration on Manchester by the Sea, Amazon is once again teaming with Roadside Attractions to release the film and is giving it one of
the best awards season release dates — October 20th.
Not exact matches
As he did on The Ides of March and
Good Night, and
Good Luck, Clooney co-wrote the screenplay with producing partner Grant Heslov, and the late - December
release date suggests
awards -
season hopes.
Usually a delay of six months would be a very bad sign for a film of this scale, but Warners are choosing to
release the film in a period we've come to know as «
awards season,» and that can only be a
good thing.
Honestly, although Whedon's screenplay will probably be one of the
best of the year, the film's limited budget, exposure and early
release make it highly likely to be forgotten come
awards season.
This is news to nobody who stays abrest of upcoming movie
releases, least of all Disney, who anticipated this at the project's independent inception and thus scheduled a pre-Christmas opening to maximize impact in both the
awards season and year - end
best - of lists.
Earlier in the day, the studio also mapped out the
release dates for the long - delayed Avatar sequels, as
well as stationed Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers film The Post at December 22nd, 2017, setting it up for an
awards season run.
All of the specialty
Best Picture nominees still in
release upped their theater counts heading into the
awards -
season climax, which has offered an extra week of playtime due to the Winter Olympics.
It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's
award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's
best previous work.
The 2014 Summer Movie
Season is now over - and we have
awards for the
best, worst, most disturbing and downright WTF films
released May - August.
The Venice Golden Lion winner is a headliner packed with some fellow high - profile limited
release titles the first weekend of December as
well as a plethora of others, marking the final stretch of phase one of
awards season.
The film is set to be
released on 20 December 2013 in the USA, and has already been generating critical acclaim during the upcoming
awards season, being nominated for no less than 7 Golden Globes including,
Best Motion Picture,
Best Actor — Christian Bale,
Best Actress — Amy Adams,
Best Supporting Actress — Jennifer Lawrence,
Best Supporting Actor — Bradley Cooper and two nominations for director David O'Russell with
Best Screenplay and
Best Director.
«I went to a lot of pubs,» said Weaver, speaking on the day she won a
best - supporting - actress nod for the movie, which today goes into wider
release to capitalize on its
awards -
season success (eight Oscar nods, a Golden Globe win for Jennifer Lawrence).
This modern masterpiece was shamefully overlooked come
award season and over-shadowed by «Saving Private Ryan» on it's
release — which is unfair, as they are very different films and this is just as
good, if not
better, than Spielberg's take.
Right now we're in a bit of a dead zone for theatrical
release, s with most movies
released this month being neither
good enough for a summer blockbuster
release or hopeful enough for a debut during
awards season.
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Michael Fassbender has been receiving
well - earned praise for his riveting performance in Steve McQueen's «Shame,» which Fox Searchlight plans to
release for an
awards -
season run on Dec. 2.
The film's summer
release date is a bit strange considering the heavy hitters it's going up against, because while it'll be a nice break from all the CG - fueled blockbusters, if «Southpaw» was as
good as its talent suggests, it would have been
better positioned for an
awards season run.
Whether «Get Out,» over a year after its February 2017
release, can go all the way this film
awards season and claim the Oscar for
Best Picture, remains to be seen.
Sony Pictures has secured worldwide distribution rights to Jason Reitman's political drama The Front Runner and is planning a fall
release to coincide with film
awards season as
well as the fall election cycle.
«Carol» debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it scored a Queer Palm and a
Best Actress
award for Rooney Mara, and, with its careful
release to festivals this
season, is sure to ride the wave of hype to a December
release.
Originally planned for an
awards season release, the move to spring seemed to give «Chappaquiddick» a
better chance to stand out.