Variety’s Clayton Davis ran the exclusive at 9:55 am Pacific: Netflix will campaign Emilia Perez’s Karla Sofia Gascon for Best Actress. Because Karla’s titular character is trans, and so is Gascon herself.
Does anyone remember Fred Zinnemann’s Julia (‘77)? Vanessa Redgrave played the titular character, but she was campaigned for Best Suppprting actress because…wait for it…she played a supporting role. And she won.
Steve McQueen‘s Blitz is obviously a curio — McQueen imposing a “presentism” take upon the London blitz — i.e., German bombing between 9.7.40 to 5.11.41. McQueen is too good of a filmmaker for the end result to be mediocre, but given the avoidance of Venice and Telluride one presumes it’ll probably underwhelm on some level. No reviews until the big London Film Festival debut (10.9.24). Limited theatrical bookings on 11.1., followed hy streaming on Apple TV+ on 11.22.24.
HE’s very first thought about this trailer for Bong Joon-ho‘s obviously problematic Mickey 17 (Warner Bros., 1.31.25) was “whoa…RPatz is starting to look 40ish…38 years old, no longer a spring chicken.”
My second thought was “why is Warner Bros. insisting on releasing this weird-ass movie in January?” Answer: They’re not releasing it as much as dumping it. It’s probably too broadly eccentric and cult filmy, and the distribution team is scared. Bong Joon-ho has overplayed his alleged genius hand, and now the chickens have come home to roost.
My own humble opinion: This is karmic payback for that scene in Parasite in which the drunken con artists let that fired maid inside the home during the rainstorm. The Movie Godz said “Bong has to pay for that, and so what’s happened to Mickey 17 is only fair.”
