More from Scott Feinberg
Telluride: ‘The Apprentice’ Filmmakers Discuss Blind Criticisms of Their Movie, Offer to Screen It for Trump, Think He Will Like It
On Sunday morning, just hours after the North American premiere of The Apprentice — a film about the relationship between Donald Trump and his mentor Roy Cohn that everyone in the film community has been talking about for months — the principal creators of the film sat down with The Hollywood Reporter for their first stateside […]
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Telluride: Don’t Bet Against Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong’s Oscar Prospects for Trump Origin Story ‘The Apprentice’
The Apprentice, the Donald Trump origin story that everyone in the film community and beyond has been talking and speculating about, had its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival’s Galaxy Theatre on Saturday night. The stateside unveiling comes three months after its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and just days after […]
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Telluride: For a Towering Turn in ‘Maria,’ Angelina Jolie Is in the Hunt for a Second Oscar
At the Academy Awards ceremony held earlier this year, Emma Stone was awarded her second best actress Oscar, a mere seven years after winning her first. You might think that winning multiple acting Oscars would be an extreme rarity, but you would be wrong. Stone became the 45th performer ever conferred more than one. Why […]
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Telluride: ‘Nickel Boys,’ Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Book, Will Challenge Oscar Voters
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’ big screen interpretation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Nickel Boys, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival’s Herzog Theatre on Friday night. Reactions among attendees, including numerous Academy members, have been strongly divided — many were impressed and deeply moved by the film, while others were left […]
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Telluride: ‘The Piano Lesson’ Angles to Be Latest August Wilson Adaptation to Land Oscar Recognition
The Piano Lesson, a big screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play — the fourth in the late playwright’s celebrated “Pittsburgh Cycle” about the Black experience in that city during the 20th century — had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday morning at the Herzog Theatre. Reactions on the […]
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Telluride: Could ‘Conclave’ Be the Film that Finally Brings Ralph Fiennes an Oscar?
Conclave, the German filmmaker Edward Berger’s follow-up to his Oscar-celebrated interpretation of All Quiet on the Western Front, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival’s Herzog Theatre on Friday night. And if my gut reaction to the film, and that of industry insiders with whom I consulted after it ended, are any indication, […]
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Telluride: ‘Piece by Piece,’ Animated Doc About Pharrell, Opens Fest; Set to Challenge Academy Genre Biases
The 51st Telluride Film Festival officially kicked off Friday afternoon with the world premiere of Piece by Piece, an animated documentary about the innovative singer, songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams, as the Patron Preview screening at the Werner Herzog Theatre. And the consensus of those in attendance was that the film is a truly […]
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James Carville Documentary ‘Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid’ Acquired by CNN Films (Exclusive)
Matt Tyrnauer’s Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, one of the buzziest documentaries set to premiere at this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival, has been acquired by CNN Films for television and SVOD. It will debut on CNN on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. ET and will stream on Max later this fall, when it separately […]
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Hot-Button Trump Flick ‘The Apprentice’ Acquired by Briarcliff for Pre-election Release, Awards Campaign (Exclusive)
The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi’s hot-button film about the young Donald Trump, has been acquired by Tom Ortenberg’s Briarcliff Entertainment for a pre-election U.S. release on Oct. 11, as well as an awards push, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The film was written by Vanity Fair’s longtime Trump chronicler Gabriel Sherman and stars Sebastian Stan as […]
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Telluride: Matt Tyrnauer and His Doc Subjects James Carville and Nobu Matsuhisa Are Fest’s “Odd Throuple”
“The oddest throuple in Telluride,” joked the filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer, while driving from his Beverly Hills home to the film fest in Colorado, will be Tyrnauer and the colorful characters at the center of the two verité documentaries that he is premiering in the Rockies this Labor Day weekend: the legendary Democratic political strategist James […]
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Jack Huston’s ‘Day of the Fight,’ Featuring Standout Performance by Michael Pitt, Lands Distributor and Awards Campaign (Exclusive)
In what is shaping up to be a rather thin awards season, could a small but formidable film, written and directed by a filmmaker with three Oscar winners in his family, find its way into contention? That’s what Falling Forward Films is betting on in acquiring the U.S. distribution rights for Jack Huston’s impressive directorial […]
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Emmys Predictions via Feinberg Forecast: One Last Update Before Voting Closes
The 11 days allocated for the final round of Emmys voting will come to an end at 10 p.m. PT on Monday. My sense from talking to a wide cross-section of voters (including one whose picks will be posted on Friday as this year’s “Brutally Honest Emmys Ballot”) is that all three of the top program […]
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