SpencerThe highly anticipated movie about Diana, Princess of Wales, starring Kristen Stewart will be on Friday Venice Film Festival – The film industry hopes that after 18 months of the pandemic, one of a series of high-profile debuts will return to a certain normal state.
With nearly the same time Toronto Film FestivalTraditionally, Venice marked the end of the summer blockbuster film season and the arrival of films designed to gain critical acclaim and subsequent award recognition. Spencer will join Venice by the dunes, Long-term adaptation Frank Herbert’s huge science fiction novel directed by Dennis Villeneuve; Ridley Scott’s medieval drama Final duel, Starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Judy Comer; thriller Last night in Soho, Directed by Edgar Wright; and Parallel Mothers, this is the latest work by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.
Although Venice has a good track record in selecting films that have had a major impact during the awards season-recent Golden Lion award winners at the festival include “Nomads”, “Joker”, “Rome” and “The Shape of Water”- However, the 2021 version is competing with the planned restoration. After months of delay and reconfiguration, changes in the industry’s release channels have caused dozens of movies to be postponed and key films to be transferred to streaming media platforms.
Delphine Lievens, a senior box office analyst at Gower Street Analytics, a film industry data agency, said: “It feels like what we are seeing now is more like a’new normal’. So far, the attendance rate of movie theaters in 2021 is about 50% of the same period in 2021. , So there is still some way to go. However, the larger movie box office reached 70-80% of the pre-pandemic period-so I don’t think the movie is dead, but the way viewers consume content is changing. The factory knows.”
Since the trailer was released on Thursday, Spencer quickly became the main contender this fall, both in terms of box office and award considerations.Stewart has been talked about as Oscar contenders for best actress, And Neon, the American distributor of this movie, is Release movie Despite the poor performance in 2013, a mid-season similar to the Oscar-winning “Parasite” in 2019 Diana, The last high-profile movie about the princess.Stewart’s apparent enthusiasm for the role enhanced the dealer’s efforts, the actor told fashion magazine: “By the way, I haven’t been so excited about playing a role in a long time.” Stewart added: “This is one of the saddest stories in history. I don’t want to just play Diana-I want to understand implicitly. she.”
The director of Spencer and Chilean director Pablo Larraín will compete with a series of filmmaking heavyweights for the Golden Lion Award: In addition to Almodóvar, the Venice competition also includes entries from The Great Beauty’s Paolo Sorrentino (Hand of God), a senior American author ——Director Paul Schrader (Card counter) And New Zealand director Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog). The award also received a new generation of directors, including Iranian-American film producer Ana Lily Amirpour for her fantasy thriller “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon” and “Elena Ferrante” adapted from Elena Ferrante. “The Lost Daughter” (The Lost Daughter) actor Maggie Gyllenhaal (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
No matter who wins the Golden Lion Award, they will enter the film distribution map that is still undergoing huge changes compared with the pre-pandemic era. Have titles such as Cinderella, Come 2 America with Borat follow-up film Publish directly on streaming media platforms, while other platforms including Black Widow, Nomadland and Midnight Sky choose “hybrid” publishing. The film industry is still experimenting with how to get the best results from a situation that is still undergoing considerable changes. . Lievens said: “The accelerated development of streaming media platforms has undoubtedly brought some changes to movie theaters, although these changes will eventually occur. It is also promoting the rapid development of outdated models in the film industry, and we should see this continue in the future. .”
Lievens said: “As Venice gradually ends, the world premiere of films in Toronto will increase the number of prestigious films competing for attention during the fall.” These include Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical drama Belfast Belfast, the adult musical “Dear Evan Hansen”, Tammy Faye Messner’s biopic “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” (The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Terence Davies’ study of the poet Siegfried Sassoon.The backlog of films lining up to enter film festivals and movie theaters leads people to hint that the product boom is coming and talk about The result is a new “golden age”.
In terms of box office prospects, Livings took a more cautious tone: “There are too many factors to determine whether this will happen. The first and most obvious is the level of content. The audience only has so much time and money, if the film Too many, they risk cannibalizing each other at the box office. We don’t know what the next development of the Covid pandemic might be, and we’re not sure that the release date will start to change again.”
