When Searchlight pushed “The French Dispatch” to 2021, after losing a Cannes berth and pulling it from fall festival consideration, many wondered if the film would ever open. For Searchlight the delay comes down to simple math: The year 2020 can’t accommodate an awards movie for adult audiences without severely […]
Oscars
The awards calendar keeps adjusting, not only to the new Oscar date of April 25, 2021 but to ever-shifting theater openings. The slimmer fall festivals can’t serve as the usual launchpads, but they will perform a valuable function for smaller titles that need the branding. Last year, Bong Joon Ho’s […]