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Last week of July

Press conference - lineup announcement

We will know by then if THE SON is going to be presented at the Venice Film Festival ( part of "la biennale").


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Per Variety --

The 75th edition of Venice will run Aug. 31-Sept. 10. The lineup will be announced on July 26.

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Btw, at the stagedoor of the Winter Garden, when I wished Hugh GOOD LUCK for THE SON -- this was the gesture he made.

Maybe he is hoping for the best for his new movie.

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Julianne Moore to lead the Jury at the Venice Film Festival --

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/julianne-moore-jury-president-venice-film-festival-1235175483/#recipient_hashed=5b991c23f1c582a61cbb934c238bdbb807b21cc6e763ce4f63787518c66e83fd

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Alright #FilmTwitter, some thoughts on THE SON!

Liked this a LOT. It’s a more simple and straightforward story than THE FATHER, but no less stirring (with a similarly wrenching conclusion). While that film tackled dementia, this centers around familial strife and depression.
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Peter is a great role for Hugh Jackman - a man who’s made a lot of mistakes in his life, trying to simultaneously care for his new family *and* salvage his relationship with his son. He has multiple moving monologues I can see Jackman deliver superbly.
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Though, after reading both this *and* THE WHALE, I think Brendan Fraser (his major Best Actor competitor) may have the better/richer role throughout, at least on paper (obviously still have to SEE the performances). Nicholas, the titular “son,” stood out to me more than Peter.




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And that’s why you should watch out for newcomer Zen McGrath (Nicholas) in Supporting Actor. I sensed shades of Timothy Hutton in ORDINARY PEOPLE & Lucas Hedges in MANCHESTER BY THE SEA in him - a depressed teen struggling to move past a traumatic event. He’s the heart here.





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As for Laura Dern (as Peter’s ex-wife/Nicholas’ mom, who Peter left) and Vanessa Kirby (the woman Peter left Dern *for*), both have VERY strong supporting roles, but if I had to give one the edge, it’d be Kirby. How she factors into this familial strife is FASCINATING.
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Kirby’s character gets a bit more to do throughout (as a flustered wife and new mom) but the relationship that receives the MOST attention here is clearly Peter and Nicholas’, so I’d say Jackman and McGrath have the most promising parts overall (again, at least on *paper*).





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I’m not sure this’ll be AS big as THE FATHER was come awards season (a simpler story, might be less “cinematic”), but I do have high hopes for Jackman, McGrath, and the screenplay, and I’m very excited to see how Zeller and co. adapt it!

She probably based her comments on the play ( which has been published). The play was staged in London and won raves both for the actors playing Peter and Nicholas. It was also staged in Singapore where it won a Best Actor award for the actor who played Peter.

I have read the play and it is meant for a stage production. It could be changed to suit a cinematic audience better. For one, I do not remember how New York is made the major setting, what happened in southern France and what role will Anthony Hopkins ( relatively small, according to reports) play in the movie.

The issue is how Florian Zeller has adapted the play for the screen and if the roles have been rewritten?

Also, based on my reading of the play, I do not agree that the role of the present wife is more attention-getting than the role of the ex-wife. The role of the present wife seemed quite passive to me.

Btw, there has been some news/speculations that the release of Aronofsky's THE WHALE may be postponed to next year?

On Gold Derby, the major competition is currently focused on Colman Domingo's role in RUSTIN ( the story of a black gay rights activist) and may be the actor on the Lurhmann Elvis movie?

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It looks like Sony/international distributors are now putting together the release strategy for THE SON.

We know that it will be released sometime in 2022 in the USA to meet the Oscar deadline. I think it will also be released within 2022 to make the BAFTA deadline (THE FATHER was successful there).

I just saw this tweet - presumably a French site :

It will be released in early March, 2023.

Why that date? I think Zeller & Sony / other distributors are very confident of Oscar glory ( Oscars are in late February 2023) and they will harvest any goodwill the movie is expected to get by award wins!

This was the strategy for La La Land (which turned up unexpected box office numbers) and even The Father and they benefited from the windfall.

To me, this sounds like a vote of confidence!

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Oscarisé pour #TheFather le réalisateur français Florian Zeller revient avec #TheSon - Porté par Laura Dern, Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Hopkins et le jeune Zen McGrath, le long-métrage sortira dans nos salles le 8 mars 2023.

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Oscar winner for #TheFather the French director Florian Zeller returns with #TheSon - Worn by Laura Dern, Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Hopkins and the young Zen McGrath, the feature film will be released in our theaters on March 8, 2023.

Interesting, given that Florian Zeller is a celebrated playwright in his native France!


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Nothing to do with THE SON, but Hugh seems like a big fan of Anthony Hopkins!

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Venice Film Festival: 12 Films Likely to Premiere on the Lido

Will the go-to festival for awards season hopefuls follow up on its impressive 2021 edition ('Dune'! 'The Power of the Dog'!) with a similarly A-list lineup? New features from Luca Guadagnino and Alejandro González Iñárritu, plus a red-hot Marilyn Monroe biopic, suggest it might.

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Bones And All Still
Luca Guadagnino's 'Bones and All' starring Timothée Chalamet is tipped to premiere on Venice's Lido this year. YANNIS-DRAKOULIDIS


The 79th Venice Film Festival has its work cut out.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival set the bar high with a combination of flashy Hollywood blockbusters — Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis — and buzzy art house and independent films, including Ruben Östlund’s socially satiric Palme d’Or Winner Triangle of Sadness, David Cronenberg’s freaky sci-fi dystopia Crimes of the Future, and Park Chan-wook’s mystery masterpiece Decision to Leave.

If Venice is to retain its crown as the go-to festival for awards-season contenders — last year’s Lido lineup included Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, which went on to win this year’s Oscar for best director, as well as Denis Villeneuve’s six-fold Oscar winner Dune — it will have to match Cannes with just the right mix of prestige auteur titles and red carpet glamour.

Venice will formally unveil its 2022 lineup on July 26. Here are the hottest contenders that could make the cut.

Bones and All

Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is all but guaranteed to premiere in Venice. It re-teams the Italian director with his Call Me By Your Name Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet, whose appearance on the Dune red carpet last year drove Venice crowds wild. David Kajganich, who penned Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash and Suspiria, both of which premiered in Venice, adapted the script for Bones and All from the novel by Camille DeAngelis. Waves breakout Taylor Russell stars as Maren, a young woman living on the margins of society who falls in love with Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter. Together they set out on a thousand-mile odyssey through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America. Jessica Harper, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg and Mark Rylance co-star. MGM has worldwide rights, with United Artists releasing in the U.S. and Vision Distribution handling Bones and All‘s Italian bow.

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

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Alejandro González Iñárritu, who used the 2014 Venice Film Festival as a launchpad for his eventual Oscar best picture winner Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, could return to the Lido with another ambitious, and long-titled, drama. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths marks the director’s return to Mexico, 22 years after his 2000 feature debut Amores Perros. The film is billed as a nostalgic comedy set against an epic personal journey of a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker (Daniel Giménez Cacho) who returns home to work through an existential crisis. The director’s first feature since The Revenant, Bardo is set in Iñárritu’s hometown of Mexico City and was shot on 65mm. Netflix, which has snatched up worldwide rights to the film, could follow the same promotional playbook it used for Roma, from Iñárritu’s amigo Alfonso Cuarón, which premiered (and won) in Venice in 2018, kicking off an awards campaign that ended with three Oscars.

White Noise
Three years after Marriage Story landed on the Lido on its way to becoming a major presence in the 2020 awards season (it won one of its six Oscar nominations), Noah Baumbach looks almost certain to return with his next feature with Netflix. Based on Don DeLillo’s breakout 1985 novel — the first time Baumbach hasn’t worked from his own original idea — the film, following a dramatic year in the life of a professor in the mid-West, packs a Venice-worthy ensemble, including Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Andre Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith and Don Cheadle.

The Eternal Daughter
While she was on the main jury in 2020, British auteur Joanna Hogg is yet to bring one of her films to Venice (her last, The Souvenir Part 2, bowed at Cannes 2021). But The Eternal Daughter could change all that. Once again reuniting Hogg with Tilda Swinton and A24, the ghost story — shot in secret during lockdown — adds some further prestige punch thanks to producers including one Martin Scorsese and Irish banner Element Pictures, which was behind The Favourite and Normal People. Following a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother who must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their once-grand former family home, the film also stars Carly-Sophia Davies, Joseph Mydell and Alfie Sankey-Green also star.




The Son

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Given the very recent awards pedigree behind it, this feature seems tailor-made to bow on the Lido and is well expected to make the trip. The follow-up to Florian Zeller’s mind-twisting debut feature The Father, which in 2021 won the Oscar for best-adapted screenplay and saw Anthony Hopkins claim best actor, The Son — also adapted from Zeller’s own stage play — packs an A-list cast in Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby. Hopkins also returns for a second shot with the fast-rising French filmmaker. And linking it to last year’s festival, The Son is being produced by See-Saw, the Brit/Australian banner behind 2021 Venice Festival and 2022 awards season darling The Power of the Dog. Sony Pictures Classic has rights.




The Whale
Darren Aronofsky’s last Venice visit — for 2017’s Mother! — was a bit of a disaster. Critics hated his mystery horror mash-up, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, and the film quickly sunk after its Lido debut. But Venice still has a soft spot for Aronofsky: 2008’s The Wrestler won the Golden Lion, and both The Fountain (2006) and Black Swan (2010) debuted in Venice, making the festival an ideal spot for the director’s return. Aronofsky’s latest stars Sadie Sink, Brendan Fraser and Samantha Morton in the story of a reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity who attempts, one last time, to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. A24 has worldwide rights.

Rheingold
German-Turkish auteur Fatih Akin (Head-On, In The Fade) has brought two features to Venice to date: 2009’s audience favorite Soul Kitchen and the 2014 period drama The Cut. Rheingold, a hotly anticipated biopic of German ex-convict turned hip-hop entrepreneur Giwar Hajabi, could make it three. Starring Emilio Sakraya, Rheingold is being released in Germany by Warner Bros. and sold worldwide by MUBI’s The Match Factory.

Blonde

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Blonde, a fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe from New Zealand director Andrew Dominik, featuring Knives Out and No Time to Die star Ana de Armas as Monroe, would fit nicely into the star-driven auteur slot filled last year by Pablo Larraín’s Kristen Stewart-as-Lady-Di drama Spencer. Based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel, Blonde co-stars include Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody and Caspar Phillipson. Dominik so far has just one Venice appearance to his name: the 2007 Western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Netflix, who has worldwide rights, would love for Blonde to be his second, setting up the film, and de Armas, for an awards run next year.


She Said
The investigative drama, which follows New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor as they break the sexual assault stories that helped launch the #MeToo movement, was rumored to be in the mix for Cannes. But the latest feature from German multi-hyphenate Maria Schrader, coming hot off her Emmy win for Netflix’s Unorthodox and critical and commercial acclaim for her sci-fi rom-com I’m Your Man, would be a nice fit for Venice. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as Twohey and Kantor, the reporters who exposed disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in a cast that also includes Jennifer Ehle, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher and Samantha Morton. Universal Pictures has worldwide rights.


Chiara


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Susanna Nicchiarelli’s follow-up to her 2020 Venice competition entry Miss Marx looks set for a Lido bow. The period drama is a biography of St. Clare of Assisi, who, after hearing St. Francis preach, left her wealthy family to become a nun. My Brilliant Friend star Margherita Mazzucco plays the protagonist. Rai Cinema has rights.

Other People’s Children
French director Rebecca Zlotowski has to date been a Cannes favorite: Her 2019 feature An Easy Girl screened in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, 2010’s Dear Prudence was a Critics’ Week title, and 2013’s Grand Central also premiered on the Croisette. But after her latest, Other People’s Children, didn’t show up on the Cannes 2022 lineup, speculation began to swirl that the film could be heading to Venice instead. The drama stars Belgium’s Virginie Efira (Elle, Benedetta) as a childless woman who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend’s young daughter.

Monica
Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, whose 2017 drama Hannah, starring Charlotte Rampling, was part of the Venice competition in 2017 and whose 2013 debut Medeas screened in the festival’s Horizons sidebar, is set to return to the Lido with his English-language debut. The family drama stars Trace Lysette as a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza and Emily Browning co-star. The Exchange and UTA Independent Film Group are handling world sales.

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Potential competition for THE SON, Spielberg's THE FABELMANS, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival --

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Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ To World Premiere At Toronto Film Festival

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Steven Spielberg’s The Fablemans, the director’s semi-autobiographical movie based on his own family and upbringing, will world premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. The 47th edition of TIFF runs September 8-18.

The bow will mark Spielberg’s first-ever appearance at the Toronto fest, which comes in the critical fall festival corridor that also includes Venice and Telluride. An exact date for the Fabelmans premiere has not yet been set, but it comes ahead of the Universal/Amblin film’s platform release November 11. It opens wide November 23.

The Fabelmans centers on a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves. Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Gabriel LaBelle, Seth Rogen, Jeannie Berlin, Julia Butters, Robin Bartlett, Keeley Karsten and Judd Hirsch star in the pic penned by Spielberg and Tony Kushner.

The cast also includes David Lynch, Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord, Birdie Borria, Alina Brace, Sophia Kopera, Oakes Fegley, Sam Rechner, Chloe East, Jonathan Hadary and Isabelle Kusman.

Kristie Macosko Krieger, Spielberg and Kushner are producers.

The 47th annual TIFF is amassing an impressive list of high-profile pics for world premiere slots, including Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel, Billy Eichner’s Bros, Clement Virgo’s Brother and On the Come Up from Sanaa Lathan.

No strong competition for Best Actor ( all classified as Supporting Actors) for the movie, based on current Gold Derby predictions.

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Oops - there is speculation that THE SON will not be in Venice but will hold its world premiere at TELLURIDE and then go to TORONTO!

Jeffrey Wells picks his sources of speculations --

Excellent Fall Festival Spitballing

Yesterday Nextbestpicture.com‘s Matt Neglia posted what seems to me like a reasonably savvy and comprehensive guess list of what the hot fall festivals may (and probably will to a large extent) be screening. I’ve heard this and that, and Neglia’s guesses seem pretty spot-on. Boldfaced HE = exceptional interest and unseen (and in some cases Cannes-viewed) approval.

Which projected festival are giving me the slight willies? Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, for one. Aronofsky’s The Whale, for another.

Why isn’t Neglia projecting Blonde to play Telluride? Venice and Toronto but not Telluride? Doesn’t figure.





VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The Banshees Of Inisherin (Dir. Martin McDonagh) – WORLD PREMIERE
Bardo (Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu) – WORLD PREMIERE / HE
Blonde (Dir. Andrew Dominik) – WORLD PREMIERE / HE
Bones & All (Dir. Luca Guadagnino) – WORLD PREMIERE / HE
Don’t Worry Darling (Dir. Olivia Wilde) – WORLD PREMIERE
The Master Gardener (Dir. Paul Schrader) – WORLD PREMIERE / HE
Tár (Dir. Todd Field) – WORLD PREMIERE / HE
The Whale (Dir. Darren Aronofsky) – WORLD PREMIERE / HE


TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL

Aftersun (Dir. Charlotte Wells)
Armageddon Time (Dir. James Gray) / HE
Bardo (Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu) / HE
Broker (Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Close (Dir. Lukas Dhont) / HE
Decision To Leave (Dir. Park Chan-wook)
EO (Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
Holy Spider (Dir. Ali Abbasi)
The Master Gardener (Dir. Paul Schrader) / HE
One Fine Morning (Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
The Pale Blue Eye (Dir. Scott Cooper) – WORLD PREMIERE / HE
See How They Run (Dir. Tom George) – WORLD PREMIERE
She Said (Dir. Maria Schrader) – WORLD PREMIERE / HE
Showing Up (Dir. Kelly Reichardt) / HE
The Son (Dir. Florian Zeller) – WORLD PREMIERE
Tár (Dir. Todd Field) / HE
Tori and Lokita (Dir. The Dardenne Brothers)
Triangle Of Sadness (Dir. Ruben Östlund) / HE
The Whale (Dir. Darren Aronofsky) / HE
Women Talking (Dir. Sarah Polley) – WORLD PREMIERE



TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Aftersun (Dir. Charlotte Wells)
Armageddon Time (Dir. James Gray)
The Banshees Of Inisherin (Dir. Martin McDonagh)
Bardo (Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Broker (Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Blonde (Dir. Andrew Dominik)
Bones & All (Dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Boy From Heaven (Dir. Tarik Saleh)
Bros (Dir. Nicholas Stoller) – WORLD PREMIERE
Brother (Dir. Clement Virgo) – WORLD PREMIERE
Brothers (Dir. Max Barbakow) – WORLD PREMIERE
Call Jane (Dir. Phyllis Nagy)
Close (Dir. Lukas Dhont)
Corsage (Dir. Marie Kreutzer)
Decision To Leave (Dir. Park Chan-wook)
Devotion (Dir. J. D. Dillard) – WORLD PREMIERE
Don’t Worry Darling (Dir. Olivia Wilde)
The Eight Mountains (Dir. Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch)
Eileen (Dir. William Oldroyd) – WORLD PREMIERE
EO (Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Dir. Rian Johnson) – WORLD PREMIERE
The Good Nurse (Dir. Tobias Lindholm) – WORLD PREMIERE
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Dir. Peter Farrelly) – WORLD PREMIERE
Halloween Ends (Dir. David Gordon Green) – WORLD PREMIERE
Holy Spider (Dir. Ali Abbasi)
Leila’s Brothers (Dir. Saeed Roustayi)
Living (Dir. Oliver Hermanus)
The Lost King (Dir. Stephen Frears)
The Menu (Dir. Mark Mylod) – WORLD PREMIERE
Moonage Daydream (Dir. Brett Morgen)
My Policeman (Dir. Michael Grandage) – WORLD PREMIERE
The Pale Blue Eye (Dir. Scott Cooper)
Passages (Dir. Ira Sachs) – WORLD PREMIERE
Past Lives (Dir. Celine Song) – WORLD PREMIERE
One Fine Morning (Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
On The Come Up (Dir. Sanaa Lathan) – WORLD PREMIERE
R.M.N. (Dir. Cristian Mungiu)
See How They Run (Dir. Tom George)
She Said (Dir. Maria Schrader)
Shirley (Dir. John Ridley) – WORLD PREMIERE
Smile (Dir. Parker Finn) – WORLD PREMIERE
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies (Dir. Michael Showalter) – WORLD PREMIERE
The Son (Dir. Florian Zeller)
Tár (Dir. Todd Field)
Tchaikovsky’s Wife (Dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)
Till (Dir. Chinonye Chukwu) – WORLD PREMIERE
Tori and Lokita (Dir. The Dardenne Brothers)
Triangle Of Sadness (Dir. Ruben Östlund)
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Dir. Kasi Lemmons) – WORLD PREMIERE
The Whale (Dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Women Talking (Dir. Sarah Polley)
The Woman King (Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood) – WORLD PREMIERE
The Wonder (Dir. Sebastián Lelio) – WORLD PREMIERE



NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

Aftersun (Dir. Charlotte Wells)
Armageddon Time (Dir. James Gray)
Bardo (Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Boy From Heaven (Dir. Tarik Saleh)
Broker (Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Close (Dir. Lukas Dhont)
Decision To Leave (Dir. Park Chan-wook)
The Eight Mountains (Dir. Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch)
EO (Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Fabelmans (Dir. Steven Spielberg) – WORLD PREMIERE
Holy Spider (Dir. Ali Abbasi)
Leila’s Brothers (Dir. Saeed Roustayi)
One Fine Morning (Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
R.M.N. (Dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Showing Up (Dir. Kelly Reichardt)
The Stars At Noon (Dir. Claire Denis)
Tár (Dir. Todd Field)
Tchaikovsky’s Wife (Dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)
Tori and Lokita (Dir. The Dardenne Brothers)
Triangle Of Sadness (Dir. Ruben Östlund)

I wonder if Zeller was not amenable to the Venice Festival requirements. As late as the other day (July 21), Hollywood Reporter predicted that The Son will be in Venice.

But later on, I saw one film festival predictor site omitting The Son from the lineup when it used to be there.

We will know soon enough - by July 26, 2022.


Telluride is the critics and movie press favorite festival because they usually opt for top quality and it is very hard to be able to exhibit there.

Toronto has the biggest audience of film festival goers. No awards given but audiences are asked to vote for their favorites. Prisoners won 2nd place in 2013.

Lately, Venice became a predictor of potential Oscars winners.


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TELLURIDE

Where there is speculation that THE SON will hold its world premiere there!


www.telluridefilmfestival.org/show/passes

The 49th Festival will be held from September 2 to 5, 2022!

There are many slots showing TBA ( To Be Announced) Boxes for Sept 5, presumably intended for new movies?

telluridecms-production.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/pdfs/48th-TFF-program-guide-FINAL-2.pdf


Hugh has performances for The Music Man from Sept 2-4, 2022. He can fly to Telluride if there are night flights on Sept 4. Hugh takes a leave from Sept 5-12, 2022



TORONTO

Where there is speculation that THE SON will hold a screening!


The festival will be held from September 8 to 18, 2022.




VENICE

The festival will be held between August 31 to Sept 10, 2022.



It looks like there will be difficulties arranging for Hugh to be present in Venice, Telluride (Colorado) and Toronto. He will be available only from Sept 5 (Monday). Telluride ends on that day. If he flies there, he can fly to Venice, Italy the following day or when The Son can be scheduled. Assuming they also want to go to Toronto, there is much leeway here because Toronto will end only on Sept 18. Hugh is available only from Sept 5 to Sept 12.

Maybe the logistics is not practical to try screening in all three festivals. Sony is the sponsor studio ( with Tom Rothman). Will he allow such a promotion budget for an indie movie?

But the real stumbling block is the premiere status requirement! Venice requires that the movie has not been shown in any public screening (no international premiere anywhere). Telluride only requires that it has not been shown in a North American premiere.




If they have to choose between the 2 - rumor is they will have the world premiere in Telluride.

Little is known about Telluride. But of all the major filmfests -- it is the most respected and considered top of the class, art-wise, by film critics and media.

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The Fabelmans (leading Gold Derby for Oscar Best Picture) which is actually a semi-biographical film about Steven Spielberg, is going to Toronto. Jeff Wells observes it is "not a Telluride-type" of film but may appeal more with the younger Toronto audience ( may try for the Audience Award...Prisoners placed 2nd in that poll).

Telluride will be the prestige type of movies??


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Not yet officially confirmed at the official website, La Biennale de Venezia, but film sites are publishing that


THE SON will hold its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival!

Translated by GOOGLE--

'The Son', Oscar-winner Florian Zeller's (The Father) new film, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 31st.
The cast consists of Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby and Anthony Hopkins.

Btw, for the first time in the history of the AMPAS and the Venice Film Festival, the newly-elected officials of the Board of Governors of the AMPAS are attending the Biennale and are holding discussions with other key filmmakers and festival officials.

This may be one of the key points that swung the decision by Sony and Zeller to present the movie's world premiere at the Lido (Venice). Btw, Jason Reitman ( The Front Runner) is a member of the new Board but I am not sure if he will be part of the delegation to Venice.

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If this is true --

August 31, 2022 is a 2-DAY performance date for The Music Man!

www.telecharge.com/Broadway/The-Music-Man/Ticket
Proceed to August 2022 calendar.

Calling on Max -- time to be Harold Hill again



Btw, there is no conflict with holding screenings at Telluride ( only restriction is that it has not been shown in a North American market).



What about Toronto?

7. A Film will not be eligible for consideration and should not be submitted if:
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b. the Film was previously submitted to TIFF for Festival consideration (please note: we will accept a “new cut” of a film that was previously submitted to TIFF, provided that the Film still meets our eligibility requirements. We define a “new cut” as a Film that has undergone substantial changes including, but not limited to: editing, reshoots, or a new run time. Please submit a brief statement with your submission with reference to the new cut by way of a FilmFreeway Cover Letter); or
c. the Film has been for sale on DVD/Blu-ray/VOD; or
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e. the Film has been publicly posted or exhibited online in North America (films that are publicly posted or exhibited online but geoblocked to a region outside of North America are still eligible for our Festival); or
f. the Film does not have, at minimum, a North American premiere status at the time of submission; or
g. the Film has had, or will have, a public presentation in Toronto and therefore will not have a premiere status prior to September 8, 2022.
TIFF reserves the right to rule, in its sole discretion, on cases and situations not foreseen by these Terms.

Jo

[jo]

Warning!!

Translated from Italian by Google

"The Son", second film by Florian Zeller ("The Father" two Oscars), with Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby and Laura Dern, will premiere at #Venezia79

The news, not yet confirmed, comes within hours of the announcement of the program of the exhibition. Tomorrow 11 am
@la_Biennale

[jo]

It looks like the film world is excited to see it at the festival, even if it seems only like leaked news ?

[jo]

Lol - the source of the leak??

The Festival Director, himself

Google translation of Main Question (tricky!)

I was wondering if it was already possible to know if Vanessa Kirby and Laura Dern will be present at the festival and possibly on what dates

[suefb]

Jul 25, 2022 14:51:23 GMT -5 jo said:

Not yet officially confirmed at the official website, La Biennale de Venezia, but film sites are publishing that


THE SON will hold its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival!

Translated by GOOGLE--

'The Son', Oscar-winner Florian Zeller's (The Father) new film, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 31st.
The cast consists of Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby and Anthony Hopkins.

No need to fret about Max Clayton. The automatic Twitter translator was apparently confounded by a typo in the Portuguese. If you translate just the words "que acontece a partir de 31 de Agosto.", the meaning is "which takes place from the 31st of August." It's saying the FESTIVAL starts on that date, not that the film will be screened on that date. 

[jo]

I am waiting for tonight (here) - 11:00 am in Venice to get the official announcement.

The only thing confirmed for August 31 is the film that will open the festival ( shown on the website), Noah Baumbach's WHITE NOISE ( starring Adam Driver). But Erik Anderson of Awards Watch is having fun by the slip of the tongue of the Festival Director ( about Laura & Vanessa being confirmed to attend).

We'll see

PS: I am hoping though that if THE SON gets any screening schedule, that it be close to August 31. The AMPAS delegation ( the new president of the Board of Governors and others) are attending Opening Night. I am hopeful they can stay long enough to see THE SON and be able to give the movie some good feeback to other AMPAS members?

Jo

[jo]

Why is Venice important - because the festival is considered one of the early harbingers of the awards season, primarily the Oscars. Given how Hugh Jackman is, at the moment, the leading Oscar contender at Gold Derby, it is curious to know if the early reactions at Venice will validate that sentiment to a great extent. Hopefully, it does!

Re scheduling -- the problem is Telluride has a very short screening schedule...and Venice will have to schedule ahead of that time frame for The Son. Because Venice requires that it is a world premiere site, The Son will have to screen ahead of any Telluride plans ( if any).

Lol - why am I trying to fix the schedule of THE SON? Just excited - for all I know - it will all go awry

Jo