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Post by quetee on Jun 14, 2021 16:59:22 GMT
Alexander Payne Taps His ‘Sideways’ Star Paul Giamatti For ‘The Holdovers:’ Hot Cannes PackageEXCLUSIVE: Alexander Payne has set Paul Giamatti to star in The Holdovers, a David Hemingson-scripted film that Mark Johnson is producing. FilmNation will rep international rights and CAA Media Finance will handle domestic as the film is shopped next week in the Cannes Virtual Market. Production will begin early next year in New England. Payne and Giamatti teamed memorably on the 2004 wine tasting road trip comedy Sideways, which won Payne and Jim Taylor Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Holdovers is a comedy, with the poignancy and grounded characters of past films including Nebraska, The Descendants and Sideways. Giamatti plays a universally disliked teacher at the prep school Deerfield Academy. His non-fans include his students, fellow faculty and headmaster who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student holdover remains — a trouble-making 15-year-old named Angus, a good student undermined by bad behavior that always threatens to get him expelled. Joining Paul and Angus is Deerfield’s head cook Mary—an African American woman who caters to sons of privilege and whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. These three very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family, sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England, and realizing that none of them are beholden to their past.
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Post by stephen on Jun 14, 2021 17:06:04 GMT
with the poignancy and grounded characters of . . . The Descendants Lol. |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 14, 2021 20:13:42 GMT
Huh, I guess Payne isn't cancelled after all..... maybe he just didn't want to do The Menu anymore.
Downsizing is the only outright misfire in his filmography imo, and Sideways is an all-time fav of mine, so I'm excited for this and hope it's a return to form for him. It would be cool to see Giamatti get another Oscar nom for this too since the role sounds kind of perfect for him.
Also, the Mary character just screams Octavia Spencer.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 9, 2022 19:02:13 GMT
Should this be on our 2022 radar so we can stop deluding ourselves that Maverick wins BP?  Racist Jeff Wells (just kidding, wtf MAR) wrote this up today - from his website:
Last night Deadline‘s Michael Fleming reported that Alexander Payne‘s The Holdovers, a low-key, Christmas-themed ensemble comedy with Paul Giamatti as “a disliked curmudgeonly teacher” at an elite New England private school, will be screened this weekend for distributors and marketers in Toronto.
The Holdovers “isn’t officially on the for-sale lists,” Fleming wrote, “but I expect it to be a big deal. And it’s very possible that one of the usual suspects will step up and put this film [into] the awards season race late in the year.” |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Sept 9, 2022 19:08:31 GMT
I guess Sandra Oh will not make a brief cameo as the crazy lady.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Sept 9, 2022 22:19:20 GMT
Should this be on our 2022 radar so we can stop deluding ourselves that Maverick wins BP? Even if it were to come out this year, it doesn't sound like the type of thing that would win BP. What would you predict to win right now? |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 9, 2022 23:26:59 GMT
Should this be on our 2022 radar so we can stop deluding ourselves that Maverick wins BP? Even if it were to come out this year, it doesn't sound like the type of thing that would win BP.
What would you predict to win right now? Yeah, tbh I was in Bold Statement Mode just to get people to stop talking about Queen Elizabeth and making me want to scratch my eyes out ........ um It seems Fablemans is the big threat - to me anyway - emotonal, historical, familial, tangentially about the movies, that's a lot of boxes it's checking.........although I coud see She Said........ I thought that She Said trailer was awful myself but it could be Spotlight Redux maybe - I don't much like Spotlight either and that "and then this happened" perfunctory style of drama but it could stamp itself as the "important" film of the season in that way I guess....... The Payne movie even if it doesn't compete in BP - might be something in his usual categories - maybe Giamatti in a weak Best Actor field right now, screenplay ..........maybe a Support nod......also intrigued by Hanks A Man Called Otto - Dec 14th release......but that also doesn't seem like a BP winner either....... but could have nod potential in some categories based on the original film and where it's slotted....... |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Sept 10, 2022 5:26:27 GMT
Even if it were to come out this year, it doesn't sound like the type of thing that would win BP.
What would you predict to win right now? Yeah, tbh I was in Bold Statement Mode just to get people to stop talking about Queen Elizabeth and making me want to scratch my eyes out ........ um It seems Fablemans is the big threat - to me anyway - emotonal, historical, familial, tangentially about the movies, that's a lot of boxes it's checking.........although I coud see She Said........ I thought that She Said trailer was awful myself but it could be Spotlight Redux maybe - I don't much like Spotlight either and that "and then this happened" perfunctory style of drama but it could stamp itself as the "important" film of the season in that way I guess....... I think The Fabelmans is probably going to be top 5 for BP (we’ll have a better idea tomorrow), but I mentioned in the Sept BP poll that I have a feeling it could be a little too slight to go all the way and not have the required passion to win. Hopefully I’m wrong (it’s my most anticipated movie for the rest of the year so of course I want there to be passion for it), but I could see it being similar to Belfast, at least in terms of its Oscar performance. Also, we haven't had a BP winner from a previous Directing winner since Million Dollar Baby, and before that you have to go all the way back to Amadeus. And The Fabelmans makes She Said a lesser priority for Universal. I don't think Universal has managed multiple BP noms in the last decade either, so I’m not super confident in its chances (on top of the fact that the trailer indeed looks awful). It's not even a top priority for Plan B, which has Women Talking. Predicting Top Gun to win might seem delusional, but to me it really seems like a top 5 BP contender since several other potential contenders have been dropping like flies, and it’s the only movie that weirdly makes sense to me as a winner at this point. This was what you wrote when you were predicting House of Gucci back in July of last year, which to me applies to Top Gun: “This is a year of commercial old fashioned MOVIE movies, not a year of a non-US film or crapping in a bucket (I liked it a lot but ...)...this is a year of a commercial movie and movie stars because the movies are dead without that.....something everybody will actually see for once.”
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 12, 2022 18:49:56 GMT
Christmas ....... 2023  The hottest sales title at the Toronto Film Festival is officially off the market, with Focus Features landing worldwide distribution rights to Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” in a deal worth roughly $30 million.
Paul Giamatti stars in the Christmas-themed film that reunites the actor and director for the first time since their Oscar-winning 2004 hit “Sideways.” It will hit theaters in Christmas 2023.
variety.com/2022/film/festivals/tiff-focus-features-alexander-payne-the-holdovers-1235369498/ |
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 24, 2023 3:41:20 GMT
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 17, 2023 15:19:41 GMT
Looks pretty damn good tbh
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Post by Brother Fease on Jul 17, 2023 15:39:29 GMT
Looks pretty damn good tbh Excellent trailer. Smells like Best Picture material. Friendship stories, where people learn life lessons. Now I might switch to TH as the favorite to win Best Picture. |
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Post by speeders on Jul 17, 2023 16:06:03 GMT
I like a Payne quite a lot but thought this sounded boring as dirt and kind of a non-starter in theory. The trailer proved me wrong. A nice throwback to 1970s films like Paper Chase etc. and looks like it will play very well on the preferential ballot... I wasn't predicting it for anything before but it's about to bombard my line-ups. Da'Vine Joy Randolph just crashed best supporting actress.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 17, 2023 19:00:39 GMT
nothing would make me happier than a Payne return to form. This looks really good
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Post by JangoB on Jul 17, 2023 19:27:02 GMT
I wasn't that interested in it but the trailer totally won me over. Love that it's a 70s stylizaton! And Giamatti looks wonderful.
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Post by sirchuck23 on Jul 17, 2023 19:44:53 GMT
More Don LaFontaine-esque voice over trailers please!
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Post by quetee on Jul 17, 2023 20:09:13 GMT
Feels like a real movie...if that makes sense.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 17, 2023 23:44:32 GMT
Giamatti's role looks like it was tailor-made for him lol
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Post by countjohn on Jul 22, 2023 4:26:00 GMT
Love, love, loved this trailer. Has that magical coming of age movie feel like Rushmore or Licorice Pizza and I laughed out loud like three times. Looks like it might be one of my favorites of the year. A nice throwback to 1970s films like Paper Chase etc. Saw the trailer before Oppenheimer without knowing what it was and thought for a second it might be a Paper Chase remake when he was throwing down all the F papers at the beginning. |
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Post by JangoB on Oct 5, 2023 20:58:17 GMT
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Post by countjohn on Oct 6, 2023 17:28:45 GMT
They seem to be really leaning in to the Christmas marketing with this. Surprised it's not coming out later then. Really looking forward to it so glad it's coming out sooner rather than later though.
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Post by speeders on Oct 6, 2023 20:50:04 GMT
They seem to be really leaning in to the Christmas marketing with this. Surprised it's not coming out later then. Really looking forward to it so glad it's coming out sooner rather than later though. Marketing it as a Christmas movie and releasing it on Halloween weekend is a choice. |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Oct 13, 2023 11:50:31 GMT
Reviews certainly indicate this is Payne's best film since Sideways.
As we've seen.... his mysteriously long 7 year layoff after Sideways only managed to give us the merely decent Descendants, and then the blip that is Downsizing.
With the Coppola, Haynes, and Payne all getting really good reviews.... lots of those early 00s guys are making a comeback - 2023 might be the best film year in 10 years.
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