Tag: The Front Runner
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Santa Barbara’s Kirk Douglas Award going to Hugh Jackman
The Front Runner star joins an honour roll including Judi Dench and Robert DeNiro.The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is to present its thirteenth annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film to Hugh Jackman, star of upcoming awards contender The Front Runner.The award will be presented at a gala dinner at the Ritz Carlton…
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‘The Front Runner’ Has a Great Cast and a Snappy Script, But Something’s Missing [Tiff]
Jason Reitman‘s The Front Runner turns a lens towards the three-week presidential campaign of Gary Hart and finds that it signaled the beginning of a whole new era of tabloid-based political coverage. “It’s none of their business,” is a line that gets repeated a lot in The Front Runner, Jason Reitman’s new political drama based…
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Telluride Film Review: Hugh Jackman in ‘The Front Runner’
“How did we get here?” asks Jason Reitman in “The Front Runner,” dredging the past for answers with this ambitious — and almost intentionally unwieldy — Altmanesque re-enactment of the three weeks in which Gary Hart’s bid to become the 1988 Democratic nominee for president was undone by tabloid-style monkey business. Hugh Jackman proves an…
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‘The Front Runner’ Early Buzz: Hugh Jackman is Oscar Worthy in Robert Altman-esque Political Drama
This weekend the Telluride Film Festival is getting a sneak peek at some of the movies that will be hitting the festival circuit in the coming weeks. A good amount of them had already debuted at the Venice Film Festival this past week, but one that we hadn’t yet heard anything about yet was the…
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Toronto Film Festival Lineup Includes ‘A Star Is Born,’ ‘Widows,’ ‘First Man’
“A Star is Born,” “First Man,” and “Widows” are among the awards-season hopefuls that will screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, running Sept. 6-16.Other notable films scheduled for the prestigious gathering include “Beautiful Boy,” a drug addiction drama with Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet; “The Front Runner,” with Hugh Jackman as Sen. Gary…
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Hugh Jackman awards prospect ‘The Front Runner’ gets November release
Gary Hart drama to open in limited release in November before expanding wide.The Front Runner starring Hugh Jackman as the charismatic yet flawed 1988 Democratic presidential hopeful Gary Hart will open in the awards corridor on November 11.Sony announced the date on Tuesday (June 19) and executives will be bullish following Jackman’s star turn in…
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Hugh Jackman may play The Good Spy for director Baltasar Kormakur
Hugh Jackman and director Baltasar Kormakur (Adrift) are said to be eyeing The Good Spy, which would see Jackman portraying Robert Ames, a CIA operative who pushed for breaking down barriers in the Middle East, and was killed during the 1983 American Embassy bombing in Beirut.The project, scripted by F. Scott Frazier and based upon…
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Sony Picks Up Jason Reitman’s Upcoming Film, Neon Acquires ‘Border’
Juno and Up in the Air director Jason Reitman‘s new movie Tully hit theaters only about a week ago, but the director has already locked down worldwide distribution for his next movie, a political drama called The Front Runner that stars Hugh Jackman. Meanwhile, the relatively new distribution company Neon – which has distributed movies…
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‘The Front Runner’: Jason Reitman and Hugh Jackman’s Political Dark Comedy Lands at Sony
Just days after Jason Reitman released “Tully” to disappointing box-office results, his eighth film has found a distributor. Sony Pictures will rollout his big-screen telling of former Colorado Senator Gary Hart’s doomed political career. Aussie Hugh Jackman is set to star in the namesake role, a candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination who was…
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Hugh Jackman Eyes ‘Bad Education’ as Next Pic From ‘La La Land’ Producer Fred Berger (Exclusive)
Hugh Jackman looks to have found his next project as the A-list star is in talks to star in the Automatik pic “Bad Education.”“I Think We’re Alone Now” scribe Mike Makowsky penned the script. Cory Finley, who recently directed the Sundance darling “Thoroughbreds,” will direct.Though plot details are being kept under wraps, the script, which…