A notice from Scott: As September comes to an end, the awards race is heating up. Numerous selectimistics are rolling out at the box office, with some soaring (DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot topped the weekend with a $35 million haul; Sony’s Saturday Night had the year’s second-best restrictcessitate debut) and others fall shorting to begin (Lionsgate’s Megalopolis created a disassigning $4 million). Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 had the hugegest Disney+ premiere of the year. And Warners’ Joker: Folie à Deux is premiering in LA Monday night ahead of its theatrical free next weekend.
Meanwhile, the 62nd New York Film Festival initiateed off last Friday with Amazon/MGM’s Nickel Boys, which was greeted with a lengthy standing ovation. Then, over the weekend, the fest persistd with well-getd screenings of Netflix’s Maria, with writer/straightforwardor Pablo Larraín and Angelina Jolie in tow, and Neon’s Anora, helped by writer/straightforwardor Sean Baker and direct actress Mikey Madison. Among the films that will screen there over the next week: Netflix’s Emilia Pérez, Neon’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Sony Classics’ The Room Next Door, Bleecker Street’s Hard Truths and Searchweightless’s A Real Pain.
Additionpartner, a number of upcoming descfinish film festivals proclaimd distinctive screenings and honorees, including Newport Beach, SCAD Savannah and Middleburg. Dozens of countries resettled their subignoreions for best international feature Oscar think aboutation ahead of the Oct. 2 subignoreion deadline (they have been compriseed to the charts below), with the most disputed pick coming from India — not for the first time — which accessed Laapataa Ladies over Janus/Sideshow’s Cannes Grand Prix thrivener All We Imagine as Light. And contenders in the music categories are getting increasingly vivacious, with Kristen Wiig carry outing “Harper and Will Go West” follothriveg a New York screening of Netflix’s Will & Harper on Sept. 24, and Hans Zimmer, writer of Warners’ Dune: Part Two and Apple’s Blitz, set to join the Crypto Arena on Tuesday night.
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