Turns out Julie Taymor’s The Tempest, the film Miramax had to rely on for the awards season as Stephen Frears’ Cheri didn’t pan out very well at all, is being delayed to 2010 because of visual effects issues and the fact that Taymor has this Spiderman: The Musical debacle on her hands. So now what? Well, I think I have an answer.
I know Miramax won’t try this, but they definitely should try an Adventureland push. Critical approval up the yin-yang and quite a lot of broad appeal. The push would most likely not work but I only say that because pushes for movies like that hardly happen, but hey, the last movie even remotely similar is In Bruges, with a high Tomatometer in the March-April release frame, serving as a really dark comedy. Sure, both films aren’t really alike, but on paper, they both fit a certain niche that won Colin Farrell a Globe last year. Just throwing that out there.
At least, there’s a push to be made for Kristen Stewart.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Adventureland, Best Actress, Colin Farrell, Greg Motolla, In Bruges, Jesse Eisenberg, Julie Taymor, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Stewart Adventureland, Martin Starr, Miramax, Oscars, The Tempest
August 26th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
except there’s gonna be more advertising for Adventureland’s Oscar campaign on this website alone than anywhere else on the internet.