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[WrathOfHan]

17 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

I think your early Best Picture additions include the following....

 

- Hell or High Water

- La La Land

- Manchester by the Sea

- Fences

 

Need to wait on reviews, but other contenders likely to be Live By Night, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, The Founder, Silence, Loving, Moonlight and others.  

 

Depends how the campaign goes in a couple months

Yes

Yes

Yes

If it even gets a platform release

Yes

This is Weinstein we're talking about

Yes

Nope. This is going to get Carol'd.

Maybe.

[filmlover]

This is probably gonna hold "frontrunner" status until Billy Lynn premieres at NYFF in October.

[Incarnadine]

Awesome reviews so far, it sounds like it will be everything I'm hoping it will be.

This is by far my most anticipated movie for the rest of the year. Hopefully there's a Best Picture and Best Actress nomination coming for this.

[bapi]

 

 

 

[Arlborn]

That's a lot of praise by the big ones.

[Eric Duncan]

This praise!

[bapi]

7 minutes ago, Arlborn said:

That's a lot of praise by the big ones.

Also 5/5 from the Telegraph:

 

 

[75Live]

I guess I should watch the trailer for this at some point  

[Arlborn]

2 minutes ago, bapi said:

Also 5/5 from the Telegraph:

 

 

Interesting, but I think this will be the kind of movie all the big sites give wonderful reviews to and the smaller ones come in later with reviews that, while still being positive, are a lot less enthusiastic. We'll see about that, but no matter what happens this early praise is incredible. A lot of As/10s!

[bapi]

Both trailers are absolutely gorgeous tbh.

[bapi]

Just now, Arlborn said:

Interesting, but I think this will be the kind of movie all the big sites give wonderful reviews to and the smaller ones come in later with reviews that, while still being positive, are a lot less enthusiastic. We'll see about that, but no matter what happens this early praise is incredible. A lot of As/10s!

It's possible. But after I saw movies like Civil War making 'this year's best movies so far' lists on those less prestige movie sites... I'm not sure if I still care about their opinions like I did few years ago. LOL

[RichWS]

1 hour ago, EmpireCity said:

I still contend that your Best Picture lock is going to be Fences, especially after the controversy last year.  

 

NOTHING IS A LOCK.

[LateReg]

Not sure if posted, but the first so-so but still really good review came from Indiewire, a B. Sorry for the lack of link.

[MrPink]

God is fucking real brehs.

[MCKillswitch123]

I loved Whiplash, I loved 10CL (other movie Chazelle wrote), and right now, my grin is bigger than the Golden Gate because of this. ALL HAIL KING CHAZELLE, GOD AMONG US PETTY MORTALS.

[AniNate]

Last year Steve Jobs was the BP lock, then it was Spotlight, then it was The Big Short, then it was Spotlight again

[Empire]

Love that this is getting lots of glowing reviews! 

[trifle]

2 minutes ago, Empire said:

Love that this is getting lots of glowing reviews! 

 

Me too.  I'm seeing it on more and more 'best picture prediction' lists.   I like Emma Stone, and I'm glad a musical is getting this sort of attention, and not just on stage.

[babz06]

So what are the predictions for this? The most recent musicals that have done well are already well known(Les Meseriables, Into the Woods). I think the last one that was original material was Burlesque and that bombed (11.9 OW/ 39.4m DOM) 

However, La La Land is surely going to have better reviews and is a contender for BP. 

[Jake Gittes]

6 minutes ago, babz06 said:

So what are the predictions for this? The most recent musicals that have done well are already well known(Les Meseriables, Into the Woods). I think the last one that was original material was Burlesque and that bombed (11.9 OW/ 39.4m DOM) 

However, La La Land is surely going to have better reviews and is a contender for BP. 

 

I keep thinking of Black Swan, which made $107m with the exact same release pattern this is going to have (platform release the first week of December, wide expansion the weekend before Christmas... they both premiered in Venice too). Add glowing reviews, Oscar buzz, and likely great word-of-mouth, and I really think $100m is more likely than not.