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Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2020 19:06:44 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2020 19:17:50 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2020 19:32:53 GMT
It seems award pundits are excited with BC's performance, TBH I would prefer it to be a hit in the box office instead of being savaged by pundits during the increasingly nasty award seasons. This sounds like a fun humble little drama with a strong central performance that could attract mature audiences (A Dad's Movie according to young movie critics). The problem could be the Covid-19. If by the end of August things are calmer it could be a a hit with people happy to return to theatres but if not, it could be affected in multiple ways. Anyway, it's nice to see those nice comments by pundits but, you know, they are always nice at the beginning!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2020 19:36:27 GMT
An account specialized in the box office, not just awards as the others, They are going for the box office not necessarily the awards.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2020 21:01:03 GMT
For those not happy because the award possibilities, I checked and it's true that most Oscar nominated films are released in the last three months of the year but a few recent late Summer movies examples are BlacKkKlansman (August 10th), Sully (September 9th), Dunkirk (July 20th), Once upon in Hollywood (July 26th), Hell or High Water (August 26th), Boyhood (July 11th), Captain Fantastic (July 8th) and The Wife (August 17th) so it's not exactly impossible. Just statistically less frequent than a late Fall-Winter release.
I think the main worry, apart of Covid-19, is that the distributor just abandone it and didn't promote it in the best way but not necessarily the date.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2020 22:36:41 GMT
More frivolous data, Roadside Attractions did a massive Oscar campaign for Renee Zellweger last year. Her film, Judy, had a more conventional award-baity release at Telluride but it was comercially released in the USA in September 27th. It's a Fall release but slightly earlier than most. They also released a movie in early August, The Peanut Butter Falcon with Shia LaBeouf. It did really well with both critics and audiences. According to Wikipedia it was "the highest grossing independent film of 2019".
In 2018, they also released two films in August and September. The August one, also bought at Sundance, was Juliet, Naked with Ethan Hawke and with a screenplay by indie darling Tamara Jackson. It was well received by the critics but not a big hit. The September title was Lizzie with Cloe Sevigny and Kirsten Stewart. I liked it but it wasn't successful at all. They released two movies in October but they weren't award baity nor critics darlings nor hits. Their only award winning movie in 2018 was the documentary Whitney about Whitney Houston and directed by Kevin Mcdonald, also Prisoner 760 director. It was released in the Summer.
And in 2017, they did a big Oscar campaign for Stronger with Jake Gyllenhaal. It was released late September and was well received by critics but failed in the box office and was totally ignored by the Academy. Their early August release was The Only Living Boy in New York, a big failure. Again, probably their biggest (discreet) hits of the year were two summer releases: Lady Macbeth and Beatriz at Dinner. Both did well with indie awards associations. They also released Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck in October. It was considered a big player before it was released because it was well received at Cannes but it was mostly ignored in the USA. American critics weren't that impressed neither.
I would guess they normally go for late September for their recent Oscar baity movies. They use to schedule an August movie (usually bought at an early of the year festival) but normally earlier than when they scheduled Ironbark/The Courier (Covid-19!). Maybe that's positive or maybe not: they bought another title at Sundance, The Glorias about Gloria Steinem with Julianne Moore playing her. TBH this film sounds much more Oscar baity than Ironbark/The Courier. I guess they will schedule it for a late September or maybe even October release.
Again, I just hope they see the potential of Ironbark/The Courier as a possible adult oriented hit. It doesn't need an award campaign to be a hit, especially because it's not just a bio but also a thriller that according to the Sundance reviews is really fun and a crowd-pleaser.
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Post by prudence on May 6, 2020 23:46:01 GMT
Terrible title. Hope that is misinformation.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 7, 2020 0:03:38 GMT
It's true! The articles are clearly based on a official statement. Also someone on Twitter said a few days ago that she received an e-mail from an entertainment polling company with the trailer attached to it and she was surprised that this new The Courier movie was actually Ironbark. So there is already a trailer out there and if the test went well, we probably will watch it very soon. It's a very generic title. I agreed Ironbark sounded slightly better. Not great but better. It also means something to the story so that automatically make it better. I bet they tested it and probably most people didn't knew what to make of the title, tho. Here is the tweet,
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Post by mllemass on May 7, 2020 0:05:53 GMT
How sure are we that the name has been changed to The Courier? It sounded familiar, so I looked it up, and it was already a 2019 movie. The description on IMDB:
I think somebody’s information got mixed up somewhere.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 7, 2020 0:10:45 GMT
There are a lot of movies with that title. Someone posted the posters of a few of them on Twitter. All of them were forgettable so they just need to make a movie so good and popular that no one else would dare to use the title anymore in the future! 😉
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