Tag: Best Actress
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The Fate of Searchlight in the Hands of “Ann Lee”
We hinted on the Academy Anonymous podcast that with The Testament of Ann Lee still on the bidding table one of the art-house (and Oscar friendly) specialty labels would pounce – but only after their homegrown stock either failed to launch or fizzled! There were rumblings at TIFF about Netflix jumping on board, which we…
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Lucy Liu Officially Joins the Best Actress Hunt, as Vertical plots December release for “Rosemead”
There’s a busy few days ahead for everyone trying to keep pace with the awards circuit as a bevy of highly anticipated films will finally be unveiled in Italy at the Venice Film Festival and Colorado at the Telluride Film Festival. With each passing day, the awards race will start to take shape and we’ll…
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Netflix poised to make a move on “The Testament of Ann Lee”?
By all accounts, it appeared that Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet wanted to apply the same savvy release strategy that they unfurled last year with “The Brutalist,” the runaway talk of Venice, with this year’s “The Testament of Ann Lee.” After its Venice debut, Corbet’s “The Brutalist” would go on to be acquired by A24…
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HAMNET is soaring at the Telluride Film Festival; Jeremy Allen White impressing as The Boss
The Telluride Film Festival has officially started, and the first big peeks were Chloe Zhao’s much anticipated HAMNET and Scott Cooper’s DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. We’ll have more tomorrow, when official reviews will be out, but the verdict for HAMNET is: a bona fide Best Picture contender (as Joseph and I predicted from the get-go),…
