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Award Season Hopefuls: Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road
The early word on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: again, David Fincher has handed in a movie to Paramount that is quite long. That hurt his last pic for Paramount, Zodiac. This film is polished to a fine sheen, I understand. The word from one viewer: "shiny."
UPDATE: According to the studio, as of their last research screening last week, the movie ran two hours and 43 minutes. Fincher is still cutting to find "the length he is happy with," said one spokesman. "The final print is due in October."
Slashfilm has the Olympic TV spot that aired Sunday.
Leo DiCaprio looks hot here in Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road, which is a serious marital drama set in the 50s based on Richard Yates' novel. DiCaprio reunites with Kate Winslet more than a decade after they starred in Titanic, still Hollywood's number one blockbuster of all time. There's no early word on this because Mendes is still in the editing room.
Now is the time that the various Oscar campaigners are lining up behind certain studios and movies. They're watching early screenings and screeners to see which movies they want to back. Many producers of would-be foreign film entries hope that press agent Fredell Pogodin will agree to take on their films, because that's a sign they might actually be in contention.
42 West Oscar maven Cynthia Swartz (who worked on both Crash and No Country for Old Men) is already plotting strategy on Scott Rudin's Doubt and Revolutionary Road, which also will get a push from Paramount's new marketing co-chief, Megan Colligan, who's no slouch when it comes to Oscars (Babe, Inconvenient Truth, There Will Be Blood, etc).
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