Jax_Teller wrote:Tatum can definitely act with the right material, he's excellent in 21 Jump Street, also very solid in Magic Mike.

theseeker9175 wrote:

Allstar wrote:

theseeker9175 wrote:Per GoldDerby, Tatum and Carell go as Lead, and Ruffalo as Supporting.

No surprise but I heard Ruff was MVP.

Source?
I've read in AW that that Ruffalo's part is very juicy. (Damn, I need that script this weekend)

(and lol @ dismissing so quick Tatum)

Jax_Teller wrote:Playing oneself is such an overused defense, it's still acting. You don't act by snapping your fingers, it still demands a lot of work & craft. Otherwise, everyone would do it.

Jax_Teller wrote:he's excellent in 21 Jump Street

Allstar wrote:

theseeker9175 wrote:

Allstar wrote: No surprise but I heard Ruff was MVP.

Source?
I've read in AW that that Ruffalo's part is very juicy. (Damn, I need that script this weekend)

(and lol @ dismissing so quick Tatum)

A member at AwardsDaily

yes... this move suggests they have no confidence in Tatum. Tatum was a plank of wood in Magic Mike.

Word was that Sony Pictures Classics was releasing "Foxcatcher," Bennett Miller's follow-up to Sony/Columbia's Best Picture nominee "Moneyball," and so it turns out to be. SPC will open the film for Oscar consideration on December 20: it will not be finished in time for the fall festival circuit. Sony's Columbia Pictures co-financed the film with Annapurna Pictures' Megan Ellison (Sony's "Zero Dark Thirty"), who produced the film with Anthony Bregman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind").

Ellison--who also backed Weinstein Co. releases "The Master," "Lawless," "Killing Them Softly" and Wong Kar-Wai's upcoming "The Grandmaster"--made a multi-picture deal with Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal that also included Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and David O. Russell's December Sony release "American Hustle," but SPC was always planning to release "Foxcatcher."

Based on a true 1996 murder case that Miller has been developing as a film since 2005, the film stars Channing Tatum, who has been on a roll lately, as Mark Schultz and a dark-bearded Mark Ruffalo as his brother David. Both are Olympic Wrestling Champions who visit John du Pont (Steve Carell), a multimillionaire and paranoid schizophrenic who has erected a wrestling training facility named Foxcatcher on his personal estate in Pennsylvania. In 1996, Du Pont was accused of murdering one of his wrestlers, whom he was convinced was part of a conspiracy to kill him.

"Foxcatcher" also stars Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Michael Hall. The screenplay is by E. Max Frye ("Something Wild") and Dan Futterman ("Capote"). The film was shot by "Zero Dark Thirty" cinematographer Greig Fraser; production design is by Jess Gonchor, who worked with Miller on "Moneyball" and "Capote" and the Coens on "No Country for Old Men" and "True Grit." Editors are Stuart Levy, who worked a lot with Oliver Stone ("Savages," "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps") and Conor O’Neill ("Capitalism: A Love Story").

SPC's Michael Barker and Tom Bernard had "pursued the project the minute we heard Bennett wanted to make it," they said. Miller had long hoped that SPC would distribute the film, he said, as they had released Miller's "Capote," which earned Philip Seymour Hoffman the Oscar for Best Actor.

SPC recently scooped up another big Sony title, Alex Gibney's doc about Lance Armstrong, "The Armstrong Lie," which is hitting the fall festival circuit.

@kristapley: Campaign notes from Telluride: Brolin going supporting, Felicity Jones, too. Carell lead (though Foxcatcher NOT here).

Saving Mr. Banks will open the fest [AFI] with its North American premiere and Foxcatcher will have its world premiere as part of the "opening weekend gala" (as Deadline says, a clever way of have it also being a big part of the fest's opening, without being the actual opening film).