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Post by Film Socialism on Oct 27, 2019 0:18:46 GMT
>sorkin
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Post by jimmalone on Oct 27, 2019 15:34:38 GMT
Rylance, Hurt, Langella, Keaton - that's a really good cast.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 28, 2019 14:14:10 GMT
This woulda been a really good project for Cruise to reteam with Sorkin.
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Post by Lubezki on Jun 20, 2020 14:54:10 GMT
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Post by stephen on Jun 20, 2020 14:56:46 GMT
Netflix is really taking no chances this year.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 20, 2020 15:05:23 GMT
Yikes this project as a film might be shaky (I could see it being didactic or great) but literally with this cast and with Lindo - Netfix could have at least 3 of the 5 BSA, 3 of the 5 screenplay and director nods. This is world domination stuff and I'm not even talking about Hillbilly Elegy at all in the above
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Post by LaraQ on Jun 20, 2020 15:34:17 GMT
I guess it's because they don't want to risk releasing it if Covid is still an issue.Either that or it's just not very good and Paramount want to unload it.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 20, 2020 15:45:36 GMT
I’m all about as many quality films hitting streaming services I already have subscriptions to as possible.
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Post by morton on Jun 20, 2020 16:17:53 GMT
I guess it's because they don't want to risk releasing it if Covid is still an issue.Either that or it's just not very good and Paramount want to unload it. Yeah, I wonder if it’s the latter because I know Netflix spent a fortune on Starling, which I thought was going to be a big awards thing, and then I read from someone with sources at Netflix that it’s not. So this could just be another case of them buying up stuff to have material because there’s no new stuff being made right now and who knows when things will finally return to normal. I mean it seems baity, and Sorkin did very well his last time out, but I could see this not going anywhere too.
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Post by stephen on Jun 20, 2020 16:28:13 GMT
The best studio strategy: buy up the competition.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 20, 2020 16:34:05 GMT
I guess it's because they don't want to risk releasing it if Covid is still an issue.Either that or it's just not very good and Paramount want to unload it. Yeah, I wonder if it’s the latter because I know Netflix spent a fortune on Starling, which I thought was going to be a big awards thing, and then I read from someone with sources at Netflix that it’s not. So this could just be another case of them buying up stuff to have material because there’s no new stuff being made right now and who knows when things will finally return to normal. I mean it seems baity, and Sorkin did very well his last time out, but I could see this not going anywhere too. Yeah and .........we don't know yet of course - Chicago 7 may be a total winner - but its sort of nice/obscene to know that the practice of buying a film to "possibly" bury it to push another in Oscar campaigns - a practice more or less invented - or perfected at least by Harvey Weinstein and Miramax - is alive and well in 2020
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Post by Lubezki on Jul 1, 2020 16:55:28 GMT
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Post by morton on Jul 2, 2020 13:28:52 GMT
There's not a thread for Lee Daniels' The United States Vs. Billie Holiday yet, but it doesn't make this seem promising that Paramount let go of it but bought Lee Daniels's film and just hired Emma Watts who did a lot of prestige films at Fox, imo.
I know Paramount probably really needs money right now which is part of the reason that they let this go for so much money especially since it seemed doubtful that it would do especially well at the box office, but I'm not sure that a film about Billie Holiday will either. I mean she is legendary, but I don't know if the general audience either knows who she is or if they do know care about seeing a film about her life. It's different than something like Respect because Aretha Franklin was more well known to general audiences. So I think that they must have more faith in Lee Daniels's film from an awards standpoint. I could be totally wrong though. I also never thought I'd type a sentence like that lol.
Rooting for Andra Day though. This will be her live action debut I believe, but if it keeps Jennifer Hudson from possibly winning a second Oscar, I'm all for it. (To be fair, maybe Hudson will surprise me in a good way. Probably unlikely, but I guess it's possible.)
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 2, 2020 13:53:14 GMT
but I'm not sure that a film about Billie Holiday will either. I mean she is legendary, but I don't know if the general audience either knows who she is or if they do know care about seeing a film about her life. A little side note on this: I'm a very big Billie Holliday fan and the other day I posted her singing " Strange Fruit" - which I called THE greatest song ever written OR sung about US racism. Crickets. This board looooooooooooooves to virtue signal about racism and pat itself on the back about how "progressive" we are .........but not only don't I see it, I see the board unfortunately very much like US culture at large - oblivious to frames of reference outside their own narrow framing........ but anyway that song - written by a Jewish White Male and sung by an African American singer - should actually be her 2020s bio-pic imo. Instead it may be a small part of an otherwise standard pic. I also started a thread about "odd" biopics that could be made (again, crickets!) and that is definitely one to consider - how a songwriter who didn't need to write that song to make money and a soon to be heroin addicted singer who didn't really need to sing it at all in 1939 (!) and may have looked foolish singing it (it is a very hard piece to sing) teamed on the song and arrangement. Instead the song made her career and cultural history and is a story about race relations triumphing together - .........here's the performance again. We need THIS movie more than ever but we'll get another one :
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Post by Billy_Costigan on Jul 22, 2020 14:06:53 GMT
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 22, 2020 14:28:09 GMT
I never thought I needed to see Mark Rylance in a mullet... but alas, I have now.
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Jul 22, 2020 14:30:38 GMT
I never thought I needed to see Mark Rylance in a mullet... but alas, I have now. I think we'll all be better people for having witnessed it.
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Post by stephen on Jul 22, 2020 14:30:53 GMT
Stoikiy mullet.
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Post by speeders on Jul 22, 2020 14:58:37 GMT
Still my early BP prediction, doesn't matter if it's dreadful, feels baity enough.
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Post by jakob on Jul 22, 2020 15:17:46 GMT
This movie is gonna hit hard when it’s released. It may be the most perfectly timed movie this year. Best Picture chances are strong and Netflix should be gunning hard if it lives up to expectations.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 15:28:19 GMT
Sorkin def deserved better for Molly's Game, so I'm gonna have some faith in this.
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Post by stephen on Jul 22, 2020 15:47:53 GMT
So I guess we've got our Makeup and HAIRstyling winner right here.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 22, 2020 16:48:50 GMT
One more.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jul 22, 2020 17:04:38 GMT
No mullet here...
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 22, 2020 17:35:37 GMT
Stoked for this. Assuming it will be a player for screenplay and probably supporting actor (for someone) at a minimum.
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