This is meant to be a thread to share information on what ads are being taken out (mainly by studios/distributors).
It's early, but it has begun - at least in terms of listing screenings, and more importantly, indicating which films the various companies are focusing on.
Speaking of Focus, they are first out of the box, with a Daily Variety ad last Wednesday (10/7) in which they list screenings over the next three months for four films.
Normally, unless a film is year end and a late release, these ads will indictae which ones are being pushed. What is not being screened of course is as important.
Anyway, the four films listed by Focus are:
A Serious Man Coraline 9 Sin Nombre
Although it is possible they might set up later screenings, it would be unusual to leave out already released films that they intend to push. So the absence of both Taking Woodstock and Away We Go - both directed by fairly recent best director winners - is noticeable. Not that either is really in the running (and both of course can be included in DVD screener packages, where is where most Academy members see films), it is a change from business as usual that they aren't included. Having screenings and taking ads for them (and adding this expense even if it means increasing the losses on these films) has in the past been de rigeur and contractually obligated.
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So they aren't listing later year releases (like Sherlock Holmes) at least not yet.
This is not unusual - often they wait until final decisions are made on acting category preferences, although I'm not sure there would be any questions between lead and supporting here, unless Jude Law has a role as big as Downey's.
Hey Jude has thoughtfully started a separate thread for studio Oscar website information.
My purpose in this thread was to indicate which films the studios were spending money on, and in what sort of volume, which indicates level of support.
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But on page 3 of Daily Variety today - a full page ad for one of the 65 FL contenders - the one I fear most will hit a homerun with the members (actually I don't fear; I hope the worst film, whatever it is, wins to further disgrave this category).
It's Baaria, the Tornatore/Italian entry.
Key quote (from Italy) - "Tornatore has made his Amarcord." (wonder what the context is - the next line could be, but it's not nearly as good).
They also leave out the more mixed parts of a quote from Screen Daily.
The Italians are serious about winning this (and maybe getting a distributor, which the film doesn't have yet).
But it also shows once again that the studios are cutting way, way back in the films they are pushing.
We'll know in a few weeks if this extends to screeners they send out, although in the past there has been a pretty strong correlation between films listed in ads/screenings scheduled & the DVDs sent out, at least to Academy members.
Broken Embraces Coco Before Chanel Damned United An Education Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Last Station (NOTE: CONFIRMS THIS IS COMPETING) White Ribbon
Weinstein
screening schedule ad
Inglorious Basterds Nine The Road A Single Man
Warner Bros
screening schedule ad
Harry Potter Informant Where the Wild Things Are
(they list neither Invictus nor Sherlock Holmes at this point)
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This is unprecedented - there literally have been no for your considerations ads, or even screening listings, so far this month in Daily Variety. This is unprecedented since the date moved up.
The studios/distributors either are holding back and/or vastly cutting their print campaigns.
Daily Variety very well may not survive as a print entity. They can't survive this.
Is this going to result in one of you two hurling some inanimate object at the other?
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But it may result in seanflynn, in true "Housewives of New Jersey"-style, flipping a table and yelling, "PROSTITUTION WHORE!!!"
Wouldn't be the first time that happened to me....
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