It was announced last Friday that Warner Bros. will release David Gordon Green, George Clooney and Grant Heslov‘s Our Brand Is Crisis, a political dramedy with Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy and Billy Bob Thornton, on 10.30. To me this indicates a possible debut at one of the early September film festivals (Venice, Telluride, Toronto) as a movie with this kind of dry political material (pic is about American political consultants helping out a presidential candidate during a Bolivian election) is probably too hip for Joe Popcorn and needs ahead–of–the–curve journo buzz to raise awareness.
Sandra Bullock as “Calamity” Jane Bodine in David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis.
On 7.14 I listed Our Brand Is Crisis as one of my Telluride wishies. If it plays Telluride Clooney, Bullock, Heslov, Green and Thornton could attend. One would presume this, I mean.
On 6.21 I reported that Crisis was about to be research-screened on Tuesday, 6.23, at the Arclight Sherman Oaks. It was previously screened for a test audience in Pasadena’s Old Town on Monday, 4.27.