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Though Warner Bros found itself in the Oscar race last year with Chris Nolan’s Inception, awards season isn’t usually when the studio shines. This year, Warner Bros finds itself with not one but two potential contenders in the Oscar race, and the studio has found a way to give both films space from each other. Warner Bros has set the Clint Eastwood-directed Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer J Edgar for a limited release on Wednesday, Nov. 9, with a wide release set for two days later. Eastwood produced with Imagine partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, and Robert Lorenz.
Warner Bros has dated the Stephen Daldry-directed drama Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close for limited release on Dec. 25, with a wide release to take place on Jan. 20, 2012. That film stars Oscar winners Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, and it was produced by Scott Rudin, who’s always got at least one film in the Oscar race.
Warner Bros also slotted the sequel Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D for Feb. 10, moving the film off its original Jan. 27 date. And the Alfonso Cuaron-directed Gravity 3D, with George Clooney and Bullock, has been set for Nov. 12, 2012. The big role in that space film is the one played by Bullock, so Warner Bros could have two years of Oscar campaigning for the actress, who won her first Academy Award for The Blind Side.
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I can see DiCaprio getting a nomination for J Edgar. He has Eastwood in his corner and the buzz about this movie is big. Plus it’s a very different role for him.
I love Bullock, but perennial Oscar nominee doesn’t come to mind. One nomination in the next two Oscar cycles would be quite surprising. Good luck WB.
But, I like surprises, so if she can pull another out, than all the power to her.
Happy to see Gravity finally getting a release date. And I hope that either Leo or Gary Oldman walks away with the Oscar this year
Leo’s role in J. Edgar is a departure from the normally heroic roles we’ve seen him in, so I’m really looking forward to this movie. It’s highly possible that he could get a nomination for the role which would be awesome.
I’m just so tired of Leo and his ‘italicized’ acting..snore…too bad WB under Robinov has little imagination … I was at an early press screening for CONTAGION and it’s by far the best film WB has put out in years…guess Soderbergh is too hot a topic or risky for them to push for the oscar race.
Trust me Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close will not be the oscar hopeful. It happens every year one movie that seems like it will be the standout turns out to be a real embarrassment. Nine, Jack Goes Boating, How Do You Know?, Love and Other Drugs, Somewhere.
I mean really thats just off the top of my head. If I took time and effort into searching it I could produce a list of 20/30 movies.
“It happens every year one movie that seems like it will be the standout turns out to be a real embarrassment. Nine, Jack Goes Boating, How Do You Know?, Love and Other Drugs, Somewhere.”
You just mentioned several films that appeared in the same year. I am not sure what you qualify as a “real embarrassment”: is a film that is not successful Oscar-wise mean that it is automatically embarrassing for all involved? Out of the ones that you mentioned, I would only suggest that Nine, How Do You Know? and, arguably, Love and Other Drugs qualify because they were so obviously straining for Oscar-love. Jack Goes Boating and Somewhere are not embarrassing because – although they weren’t necesarily rewarded by the Academy – they will live on in one respect or another because of their artfulness and attention to craft.
Saw trailer for Contagion and it scared the shit out of me and a packed theater here in the heartland of Orlando- home of MouseWorld and HasryPotterLand; definitely gonna be a BIG hit
Contagion could be the sleeper hit we’ve been waiting for all year. The trailer scared the shit out of me, and a couple of my friends who saw it told me that the audience at the theater they were at shrieked during a particular scene in the trailer.
Sorry, but J. Edgar ain’t gonna do much. I love Clint, but friends on the set said he was just phoning it in.
I always thought, in years past, Bullock was charmingly in control and playing the game exactly how she wanted, and now I feel tricked. Hanks and Clooney, winter release dates, campaigning talk…all because of The Blind Side. really? I can’t tell if this is a really great story or an embarrassing one.