Many Oscar challengers have dives bombed over the years, but best actress nominated Karla Sofía Gascón made himself in: First to have complained about rival Fernanda TorresThen for rediscovered tweets on her now-erased X-account (@Karsiagascon). In previous posts that went viral this week, She dissected Muslims, George Floyd and Oscar Diversity, among other things. We debate: If Gascón is out of the run, does she take down her film as well, which leads the field with 13 nominations?
Ryan Lattanzio is back from Sundanceas Friday announced its Awards; He and Anne are both Binge on the Sundance Portal. While some films came in with the distribution, the market seems slow. A midnight entry created a tender war that won neon for over $ 16 million, Michael Shank’s horror girl “together”, In the lead role Make-and-wife team Alison Brie and Dave Franco, who Ryan liked and believe will hit big at the checkout. Neon has reason to bid high for horror, after collecting $ 169 million from three low -budgets broad publishing: “Longlegs”, “Immaculate” and “Cuckoo.”
A second big purchase was Clint Bentley’s Magic-Hour period drama “Train Dreams” (who went to Netflix), adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella, with an Oscar-worthy Joel Edgeton as a logger who was forced to spend months away from his beloved wife, Felicity Jones. Ryan also liked “rebuilding”, with Josh O’Connor, who also has a destructive fire, and “If I had legs I would kick you“In the lead role Rose Byrne as a stressed mother. “A horror movie of motherhood,” he said.
The highest profile sales title was Bill Condon’s expensive Kander and Ebb Musical Adaptation of Manuel Puig’s novel ”Spider woman. “They film Stars Diego Luna and the Breakout star Tonatiuh who split a cell in 1983 Argentina, with Jennifer Lopez who led the musical fantasy sequences as a fictional screen. Héctor Babenco’s Oscar-winning original from 1985 costs $ 1.5 million. (The new film’s representatives say this budget is well below $ 50 million.) Condon’s singing-and-dance can be a tough sale. We wonder if it is too old -fashioned to land with today’s audience.
One reason why late breaking purchases may be due to fewer screening places, which requires Sundance to spread the program over more days. Some lively titles like “Sorry, Baby” debuted after the first weekend.
For this purpose, we both loved “Train Dreams” and the US dramatic competition winner “Sorry, Baby”, which marks a successful debut for author/director/actor Eva Victor, who has made a comedy splash on Tiktok. Naomi Ackie Costars in this well -observed academic drama about the repercussions of a “bad thing”.
Anne also focused on the documentaries, as Sundance always delivers three or four Oscar challengers at the end of the year. Sundance 2024 now premieres for Oscars includes “Black Box Diaries”, “Sugarcane”, “Soundtrack to a coup d’etat” and “Porcelain War.” We admired both “The Jinx” director Andrew Jarecki’s shocking prison exposes “Alabama solution“Containing the prisoners’ own telephone videos to detail terrible conditions within the state’s prison facilities; “Perfect neighbor,” who edited police bands in a powerful story about a Florida murder; and “folktales,” Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Heart -warming story about a program that teaches young people as a dog sledding in the Arctic. Anne liked “Prime Minister” about New Zealand’s Covid Fighter Jacinda Ardern. “Perfect neighbor” and “Prime Minister” won both Sundance prizes on Friday.
In other Sundance-related news, Quentin Tarantino held a festival talk where he declared to set aside his assumed final film, “The film critic,” And how he probably won’t deal with a new film at any time soon, partly for the film industry, he said, died in 2019. He will try theater, where the audience is in the palm of the author’s hand. Then, if it is a hit, he can make it a movie. “He is under so much pressure on the tenth film,” Anne said. “He sees that the old universe that used to guarantee that a certain type of movie would do it no longer. He does not want to go out on his last movie a failure. ”
Is the film business dead? “It was a muted Sundance,” Ryan said. “We can’t take the temperature in the broader question of Sundance alone … but so many films will disappear and die here.”
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