Fox Searchlight, the studio arm behind last year’s Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire, must have had a terrific last-minute screening of their country music-themed acquisition Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges. The studio has settled on the release date of Dec. 16 after quickly putting together a last-minute press viewing of their film yesterday in Los Angeles. The studio acquired the movie back in July from writer-director Scott Cooper. It centers on Bad Blake (Bridges), a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who has had too many marriages, too many years on the road and too many drinks. He reaches out to Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who discovers the man behind the musician. Oscar buzz for Bridges is already high (EW’s Dave Karger expounds on that here). Imagine what it will be when we actually all see his movie.
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“Fox Searchlight” is just code of low-budget pretentious crap that emos will watch at the local art house theater with crappy sound and uncomfortable seats.
actually, i watched “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Slumdog Millionaire” in big-box movie theaters. they may have been “low-budget” movies but they were certainly not pretentious. those are actually very accessible movies about every day people struggling to make their lives worth something. if that’s pretentious to you then i hate to know what you think “humble” means.
You’re the one who sounds like an emo. It’s smart people with good taste that go to these films, and the art house theatre you describe I’m sure plays a lot more obscure of films than “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Slumdog Millionaire.”
the movie described above sounds like a great movie about people, not zombies or robots. me suspects a studio troll trying to turn folks away from a movie where script, direction and acting trumps soulless CGI droids. possibly a pawn of Michael Bay.
looks like WAYLON JENNINGS