Summer is when distributors check out the movies coming in and make decisions about the best time to release them. Some movies just cry out as Oscar bait, and Warner Bros. has slotted writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton’s civil rights drama “Just Mercy” for an Oscar-qualifying December 25 limited release before going wide January 10, 2020. (It was slated for January 17.)
This studio doesn’t make awards decisions lightly; it wouldn’t stick a modestly budgeted drama into the height of the Christmas rush without good reason. Other high-profile, year-end Oscar contenders include Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” starring Soairse Ronan, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, and Timothee Chalamet, which is likely to skip the fall festivals due to its late release date, as well as Jay Roach’s “Fair Game,” starring Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron as the gutsy women who take on Fox news czar Roger Ailes (John Lithgow).
“Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler,...
This studio doesn’t make awards decisions lightly; it wouldn’t stick a modestly budgeted drama into the height of the Christmas rush without good reason. Other high-profile, year-end Oscar contenders include Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” starring Soairse Ronan, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, and Timothee Chalamet, which is likely to skip the fall festivals due to its late release date, as well as Jay Roach’s “Fair Game,” starring Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron as the gutsy women who take on Fox news czar Roger Ailes (John Lithgow).
“Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler,...
- 7/16/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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