Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Paramount officially sets U.S. release date for "Florence Foster Jenkins"

Deadline is reporting that Paramount will release Florence Foster Jenkins on August 12 in the U.S.  That just happens to be the the five year anniversary of Word on the Streep.  Is this a sign?

I recently posted that IMDb  had the date listed as August 31, but that it seemed strange and therefore possible that an earlier date would be made. Well, the date is now earlier, but it's still four months after its world premiere, which happens to be today!  I'm very much looking forward to reading a few responses from early screenings, assuming there's not an embargo on reviews.

Meryl films as of late certainly seem to find their way to August time slots.  Ricki and the Flash, Hope Springs and Julie & Julia were all released in that month, aiming to capture that adult audience who craves something other than a superhero flick or animated film part x. For the most part that recipe seems to work favorably for dramedies such as Florence.  Hopefully this will fair more like Julia than Ricki.  Stay tuned.


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  1. Well mainly good news! The film seems to be generally well received and Meryl singled out for high acclaim. Slightly disappointed that some feel the film isn’t as accomplished as “Marguarite” and some of it is “padded out” but the general consensus is that it continues Meryl’s trend of Larger than life roles in entertaining, popcorn films.

    Very pleased though that she’s getting sterling notice for her efforts and appears to have, unsurprisingly, made Florence very convincing. Similar to the notices for Julie and Julia actually, let’s hope the box office returns are as good!

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  2. Please, someone from London to report what happened in the premiere this evening!;-)))

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  3. Meryl has been getting excellent reviews for her performance...do I smell some award nominations?

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    1. In London she looked great in her jumpsuit at the premiere! She is very slim still. Very happy and polite to everyone. The reviews thus far are generally good but not amazing apart from complete acclaim for Meryl's work and surprising a lot of support for Hugh Grant's! Encouraging so far!

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  4. OMG.. the reviews are out..
    Meryl slays as always.confirmed Oscar nod no 20...please post the review.

    (1)Florence Foster Jenkins review – Streep is note perfect as a deluded diva
    http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/13/florence-foster-jenkins-review-meryl-streep-hugh-grant-stephen-frears

    (2)Meryl Streep sings — sort of — for her supper in Stephen Frears' marshmallowy biopic of the famously inept soprano.
    http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/florence-foster-jenkins-review-meryl-streep-1201750112/

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    1. i'm excited so i'm gonan reply to my own post.
      here's more..

      (3)Meryl Streep shines in Stephen Frears' finger-tingling comedy about the New York singer with the awful voice
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/florence-foster-jenkins/review/

      (4)‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ Review: Meryl Streep Achieves Greatness as an Awful Singer
      http://www.thewrap.com/florence-foster-jenkins-review-meryl-streep/

      (5)Florence Foster Jenkins review: Meryl Streep 'holds the room' in uplifting comedy drama
      http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/florence-foster-jenkins-review-meryl-streep-holds-room-uplifting-comedy-drama-1554383

      (6)
      http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/meryl-streep-florence-foster-jenkins-883425

      more and more reviews all in favor of Empress Meryl

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  5. When news first emerged that this film was being made, many people were understandably worried about which kind of tone it would adopt; concerned that if it became an all-out comedy it would make an unfair mockery of the late Jenkins and her attempts at fulfilling her dreams of being an opera performer. Fortunately, Frears presents a picture that while humorous, focuses on the idea of pursuing one's dreams and that blind sense of childlike whimsy that enables you to do things you wouldn't normally do.

    Grounding the humanity of the story is Streep, who as expected, is the movie's unquestionable highlight. The Oscar-winner presents a wonderfully likeable and inspiring character who could have so easily come across caricature-like or, worse, rather egotistical and vulgar given that she often used her wealth in order to get her way. But that is not the case and you leave the cinema thinking nothing of the sort of Jenkins thanks to Nicholas Martin's intelligent screenplay combined with Streep's warm portrayal.

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    1. And then we come to Streep. Again, she delivers an imperious performance, incorporating comedy, tragedy, musicality and tenderness. She’s sung before, of course, in “A Prairie Home Companion,” “Mamma Mia!” and, most recently, “Ricki and the Flash,” but never quite so badly, which requires far more skill. She mangle the music so brilliantly that we laugh ourselves silly at Florence’s operatic stabs. Her trills sound like a puppy playing with one of those squeaky toy bones, and we can’t help our chuckles, aided by Streep’s inimitable blend of old-school mugging and delicate fragility. We laugh, certainly, but feel guilty about it.

      Streep does all her own bad singing here, a remarkable feat; it is very hard to sing that awfully on purpose, and her twinkling commitment to the part is, as ever, a thing of wonder.

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  6. The critics did not like The Devil Wears Prada much but Streep performance was a classic and almost got an oscar for it (same as Julie & Julia). They likes Florence Foster Jenkins much much more here (with a top form director and Hugh Grant in a career best) and her performance is an instant classic. So I guess we can hope for not only an oscar nomination but a win for her!

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    1. please please win for 4th time...then she can equal Kat Hepburn's stat..

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    2. 0% chance of this getting Meryl her 4th Oscar. But with these reviews it's looking like she might make a play at a nom.

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    3. Before The Devil Wears Prada opened, nobody believed she would have a chance at the Oscar at all, I remembered that time very well. Let's wait a year and see. But just Streep gets these kind of reviews for Florence Foster Jenkins, that enough to make this year fun (unlike last year). Streep is loved...again that's enough for me really.

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  7. Even if she were to win her 4th, the comparisons to Hepburn would be, "Well, Kate's were all leading actress!" But it would be nice to see Meryl get her 4th. 4 children... one Oscar inheritance for each. I'm her age and thinking of these things!

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    1. Would we really want her to win for a summer popcorn film anyway? Not to denigrate the movie (very glad there's no overt criticism of it's quality thus far) but I'd rather her next win be for a brilliant film that will be remembered on its' own terms, not just for housing a great MS performance.

      I don't have a great deal of confidence this will lead to an Oscar nod but I'm sure the Golden Globes won't be able to ignore her twice in a row. Would be good to get a short at her third Musical/Comedy win and anything else beyond that is wonderful!

      I'm just hoping this will put her back on form at the box office and soon we get mentions of her next role!

      Incidentally, Glenn Close is performing here in the West End at the moment in Sunset Boulevard. What's the chances she's gunning to get this made into a movie and finally get her own little Golden man? hehe

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  8. I think The Devil Wears Prada is some kind of a summer popcorn film.

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  9. From an interview with Streep:

    She sometimes thinks about doing a musical herself; and then she thinks about the need to ‘slow down, and do other things, like life’. Not on her short visit to London, though, during which she crammed in a meeting about a possible film project — one that she wasn’t ready to share with me, just yet.
    Sometime down the road, she might do a film of the play Master Class, playing Maria Callas — who certainly could sing.
    But that’s a long way off, and she hasn’t fully committed to it because it was due to be made by her friend and director, the late Mike Nichols.
    For now, she’s keeping a beady eye on the election process in the U.S. and hopes Hillary Clinton will prevail.


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3540951/The-film-Meryl-s-key-song-Three-time-Academy-Award-winner-Streep-stars-one-worst-opera-singers-time.html#ixzz45sdotvtr
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    1. Omg!! Although is she really going to portray maria callas at the age of 70? Actually she could pull it off...I think callas was in early 50s.

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  10. Oh wow...I'm hoping the film project will be a drama directed by another British / European director if it goes through. So excited:) Thanks CJames

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  11. Meryl's interview with Graham Norton, which airs tonight, already looks great. He gets her talking about roles she feels she didn't do well and she makes a surprising admission about an Oscar nominated role I've never heard her critique before!

    I love when she offers insights into her career on stuff we never knew. Oh and it looks like she's on hilarious form too!

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  12. I saw a snippet of the Graham Norton Show and I must say I was surprised she mentioned that role (no spoiler) she wasn't pleased with. I thought she'd have said Mamma Mia or The Iron Lady (both are hammy). I beg to differ as I think that role she mentioned was really something especially the scene where the line between the two characters tends to blur.

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    1. Oh I agree about the role in question, she was brilliant in the film but I guess actors look at their work from different eyes and know how they were feeling it. Though Meryl sometimes pretends to have forgotten a lot about her work she often slips and shows this isn't true!

      She would never overtly criticise either of those films as the latter she had no excuse to not get right (she as brilliant IMO) and Mamma Mia was fun..

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