"Tulip Fever" pushed back to February 2017, def won't leak online before then or anything

[la_petite_singe]

The week before its planned release, The Weinstein Company has delayed 'Tulip Fever' to February 24, 2017. pic.twitter.com/eEp5Y30j3g
- The Film Stage (@TheFilmStage) July 7, 2016

Ugh, fuckin' Harvey. I saw an early screening of this way back in November and I liked it; it has a weird, broad sense of humor, but once you get into it it's fun.

Comments

[moddchicc]

Aw, man. I didn't know that about TLBO. :/

[aristobrit]

LOL, you don't have to go to festivals to get Oscars. In fact, last year some of the films that premiered at Cannes didn't do well at all, awards-wise (I'm looking at you, Carol). I think Cannes was fairly lame this year as well. That said, I'm not holding my breath for ALBTO to win anything anyway.

February is the dumping ground for bad films, so Tulip Fever getting moved there is the kiss of death. Too bad.

[aristobrit]

I agree that TIFF and Venice have some importance, and the fall festivals have overtaken Cannes in terms of being more important for Oscar nominations. Films like Room are about timing--it just happened to hit at a specific moment and rode the momentum. That said, I have no problem with Brie winning or the film. The kid was great.

[ms_mmelissa]

I mean IA that you don't have to do festivals to get Oscars but using Carol as an example is terrible. It got 6 Oscar noms!

Also usually it's the big budget end of year movies that can skip the fests.

[aristobrit]

I used Carol specifically because it didn't win any Oscars. I thought the premise was that films needed to go the festival route to be Oscar *winning* films. Who cares about how many nominations something got? Five years later most people can't remember the winners and they sure have forgotten the films that were only nominated and didn't win.

Carol didn't win any Golden Globes, SAG or BAFTAs. I also thought the hype coming out of Cannes was fake, and despite the nominations, since it didn't win anything, I think I was right. Every year there are certain films that grab a lot of buzz coming out of the festivals but they don't win anything. I can smell fake hype a mile away, and it goes on for 9 months and then fizzles out and disappears. It's one of my pet peeves.

[ceilidh_ann]

I think Carol does count because it was one of the most acclaimed films of the year and still couldn't sustain its buzz long enough to the Oscars. It didn't get a director or picture nod and Harvey is usually a guarantee for such things. I'm still surprised he didn't try to pull an Imitation Game style "Honour the man, honour the film" angle with Carol and tie its success to the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage. Maybe he's just over it all now.

[aristobrit]

Carol was critically acclaimed but won no major awards from any group -- no Oscar, no Golden Globe, no SAG, no BAFTA, no nothing.

What Carol does is highlight the disconnect between critics, audiences and the groups that hand out awards. Critics are not the be-all, end-all when it comes to film. They're often wrong, create fake hype for films that are not worthy, and need to stop being worshiped as some kind of oracles. They aren't.

[anterrabre]

Good. That category fraud hack deserves nothing.

[ms_mmelissa]

It still might premiere at Venice though?