From Red Envelope To Red Carpet: Netflix Gets Ready To Stun Oscar
Netflix has an Emmy, but like everyone in Hollywood, it really wants an Oscar. The streaming video company stunned the motion picture industry just a few weeks ago, when it hinted that it’s looking at picking up the rights to movies and releasing them on Netflix and theatrically on the same day. And while the motion picture documentary The Square, about the Egyptian revolution during the Arab Spring, is currently in theaters, that’s not stopping the company from quietly picking up the rights to the potential Oscar nominee. This according to the LA Times, Netflix is now the proud owner of the distribution rights to the doc, which is already receiving rave reviews and on the long list of qualified doc feature Oscar contenders. While this isn’t the company’s first dive into motion picture distribution, which it previously accomplished with...
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Scorsese’s WOLF OF WALL STREET Will Get A Christmas Day Release
Ah, nothing says Merry Christmas like fraudulent investments. They are the gifts that keep on giving after all. Still, it’s good news for Martin Scorsese and Paramount Pictures that, after publicly acknowledging that The Wolf of Wall Street wouldn’t hit its November release date because of a spat over the length of the picture, the Leonardo DiCaprio starrer will hit theaters in 2014 after all. Paramount made it official today, with Deadline reporting they have staked their claim on Dec. 25 for the latest Scorsese-DiCaprio collaboration. This means that after much speculation the film will be released in 2013 in time for Oscar. Does this shake up a race? Probably not much with 12 Years a Slave and Gravity way out in front at this point. But never underestimate the power of Martin...
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FOXCATCHER Moves To 2014, Trailer Disappears From The Web
Another day, another release date shift. It looks like Sony’s Foxcatcher will join Grace of Monaco and (possibly) The Wolf of Wall Street as a certain Oscar contender that has moved out of prime awards territory. So if you were expecting to see the trailer for Bennett Miller‘s latest film, sorry kids. Sony Pictures Classics has pretty much wiped its existence off the web after it debuted last week. Why another release date shift? Well, it certainly looks like a very competitive year for Oscar. Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, The Butler and the still to be released American Hustle and Captain Phillips all have momentum going into the race that the three movies listed above are lacking. Sony, too, wants to give the Foxcatcher filmmakers the time they need to get the job done right, so they aren’t rushing the release. So would you rather have a Bennett Miller masterpiece in...
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Will Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Move To 2014?
It looks like The Wolf of Wall Street may pull a Shutter Island and move out of Oscar contention for a prime spot in early 2014. At least that’s a possibility now that Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Wall Street broker Jordan Belfort’s best-selling memoir is running 180 minutes long and needs some editing to make any 2013 release date. According to THR, The Wolf of Wall Street is likely to shift its release from Nov. 15 to Christmas Day to give the legendary filmmaker a chance to tighten the film. That move would push Paramount’s Jack Ryan off until early 2014. Of course, there’s always the chance that The Wolf of Wall Street could remove itself from awards season contention all together, much like Scorsese’s Shutter Island did four years ago. That movie shifted from Oct. 2, 2009, to Feb. 19, 2010, giving Paramount more time for promotion and in the...
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The Non-Tenders: Nicole Kidman’s GRACE OF MONACO Pushed To 2014
Well, it looks like one princess won’t be making it to the Oscar ball this year. The Weinstein Company has decided to move the Princess Grace biopic starring Nicole Kidman out of 2013 Oscar contention and into a less competitive date in 2014. This means that Kidman’s very slight chances at getting an Oscar nod for the role have been pushed off for a year. But audiences won’t have to wait that long for the film to hit theaters. According to THR, the film is still planned for release in the spring of 2014. Grace of Monaco is directed by La Vie En Rose helmer Olivier Dahan and tells the story of Grace Kelly’s controversial move from Hollywood royalty to actual royalty when she meets Monaco’s Prince Rainier III. Fortunately for princess fans, at least one biopic is still slated for release this Oscar season: Diana starring...
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The Contenders: 12 YEARS A SLAVE Becomes The Oscar Front Runner With Toronto Win
The Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award doesn’t always precisely line up with Oscar. But in the last five years, four winners have gone on to Best Picture nominations and two (Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech) have gone on to win Oscar’s big prize. So if nothing else, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, which won the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 fest, just earned itself a guaranteed spot on the Best Picture nominations list. As of today, it’s also you’re likely winner. The reception for 12 Years a Slave was outstanding at Telluride, where people who saw the movie instantly touted it as the Oscar front runner. Given the hyperbole that tends to come along with these Oscar season fests, I didn’t buy it. But with the People’s Choice Award win, 12 Years a Slave proves that beyond critics and hardcore...
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