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Paramount Snags ‘September 5,’ Shaking Up Oscar Race (Exclusive)

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In a transfer that may completely shake up the Oscar race, September 5, the most well liked gross sales title that performed at this 12 months’s fall movie festivals and an across-the-board awards contender, has landed at Paramount Photos, The Hollywood Reporter has completely realized.

The studio has secured the worldwide distribution rights for the movie — aside from Germany, Switzerland and Austria, the place it will likely be dealt with by Constantin Movie — and will start platforming it within the U.S. on Nov. 27, the Wednesday of the Thanksgiving lengthy weekend, with plans to increase its theatrical footprint into December and again it with full-fledged awards push.

Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Leonie Benesch star within the third characteristic from director Tim Fehlbaum (The Colony and Hell), a dramatic thriller about ABC Sports activities’ protection of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist assault during which Palestinian militants took hostage Israeli athletes. The ensuing standoff grew to become the primary live-televised protection of an act of terrorism, with all types of accompanying ethical and moral dilemmas for the journalists on the bottom, together with ABC Sports activities’ legendary chief Roone Arledge (Sarsgaard), the community’s younger coordinating producer for Olympics protection Geoff Mason (Magaro) and a German nationwide who helped them navigate the language and tradition (Benesch).

Paramount’s Republic Photos acquired the worldwide gross sales rights for September 5 again in July and commenced buying its U.S. rights. Curiosity amongst distributors reached a crescendo after the movie premiered at — and blew the roof off of — the latest Venice and Telluride movie festivals, producing comparisons to previous greatest image Oscar winners Argo and Highlight. Finally, the Paramount Movie Group decided that it was a property that must be saved within the household. It now joins the studio’s already-formidable awards slate that additionally contains Gladiator 2, Higher Man and Transformers One.

The Hollywood Reporter, in our assessment of September 5, described it as “an enlightening, altogether gripping expertise” with a “terrific forged” that’s “greater than only a time capsule about how the information was dealt with within the pre-digital age; it’s an account that speaks to our time as nicely.”

The movie’s producers embrace Fehlbaum, Sean Penn, Philipp Trauer, Thomas Wöbke (BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion), John Ira Palmer and John Wildermuth (Projected Image Works).

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‘September 5’ Telluride’s Hottest Sales Title, Top Awards Contender

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Many Telluride Movie Competition attendees prioritized, within the first days of this 12 months’s fest, screenings of high-profile titles that have already got distributors. However by Monday, extra of them — us — had been capable of department out a bit bit and atone for lesser-known titles that don’t but have a backer. One such movie, the fest’s second screening of which simply let loose on the Werner Herzog Theatre, is known as September 5. (It had its world premiere on the Venice Movie Competition final Thursday and its North American premiere right here final Saturday, shortly after which its relevance and timeliness was strengthened by tragic real-world occasions.) And right here’s the kicker: it may be the strongest narrative movie of all the fest! It actually left many festivalgoers — trade insiders and civilians — completely buzzing as they left the venue.

If/when this 94-minute flick — the story of ABC Sports activities’ protection of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist assault on Israeli athletes — lands a top-tier distributor, it may critically contend in quite a few Oscar classes. I’m speaking about finest image (it’s laborious to seek out 10 worthy nominees this 12 months, however this movie, which counts Sean Penn as a producer, would definitely be one), finest director (Tim Fehlbaum, a younger Swiss filmmaker who I had by no means heard of earlier than), finest actor (Peter Sarsgaard, who performs the legendary ABC Sports activities chief Roone Arledge, and has fairly criminally by no means been nominated earlier than), finest supporting actor (John Magaro, who performs the community’s younger coordinating producer for Olympics protection, Geoff Mason), finest authentic screenplay (Fehlbaum and Moritz Binder) and finest manufacturing design, not less than.

Distributors have, of late, disappointingly prevented many worthy gross sales titles that contact on politically-sensitive subjects like abortion, Ukraine and Donald Trump, and so some could also be hesitant to go anyhwere close to the Israeli-Palestinian battle. However I’m assured that not less than considered one of them goes to be sensible sufficient to nab this movie, through which there is no such thing as a argument about who wronged who — and through which one can be supplied an enchanting, thrilling, haunting take a look at journalists, journalism and journalistic ethics. It is going to be remembered alongside All of the President’s Males, Shattered Glass (through which Sarsgaard had an incredible early position), Good Evening, and Good Luck and Highlight.

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‘Nonostante,’ ‘September 5’ to Open Venice Horizons Sidebar

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The 81st Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant has introduced the opening evening movies for its Horizons and Horizons Additional competitors sections.

Nonostante, the second function from Italian director Valerio Mastandrea (2018’s Journey) will open the Horizons competitors part on August 28. The Horizons Additional competitors part will kick off on August 29 with September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s historic drama in regards to the 1972 Munich Olympics starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin.

September 5 focuses on a sports activities broadcasting workforce who abruptly discover themselves masking a hostage disaster when the Palestinian militant group Black September infiltrates the Olympic Village, kills two members of the Israeli Olympic workforce, and takes the opposite 9 hostage. The Instructor’s Lounge breakout Leonie Benesch additionally co-stars. Fehlbaum is finest identified for his sci-fi options Hell (2011) and The Colony (2021).

September 5 was produced by BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion and Projected Image Works, in co-production with Constantin Movie and ERF Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion. Fehlbaum, Philipp Trauer, Thomas Wöbke, Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer, and John Wildermuth produced. Republic Photos holds the rights to the movie exterior German-speaking Europe and is promoting the film worldwide.

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Nonostante options Excellent Strangers star Valerio Mastandrea as a person hospitalized with a long-term sickness, content material to be shut away from the world, who finds his comfy routine disrupted by an offended new affected person (Truman actress Dolores Fonzi) who refuses to simply accept her situation. Lino Musella, Giorgio Montanini, Justin Alexandre Korovkin, Barbara Ronchi and Luca Lionello co-star. Viola Prestieri and Valeria Golino produced Nonostante for HT Movie, alongside Francesco Tatò and Oscar Glioti for Damocle, and Moreno Zani and Malcom Pagani for Tenderstories with Rai Cinema. BiM Distribuzione will launch the film in Italy.

“Opening the competition means opening the movie to the eyes and hearts of the general public,” mentioned Mastandrea. “I take it as a possibility to launch a narrative that has been mine alone for a very long time and which, I hope, will turn out to be everybody’s.”

Individually, Venice has additionally unveiled this yr’s poster (see under). Designed by famend Italian illustrator and artist Lorenzo Mattotti, who has been behind the final seven Venice posters, the colourful picture contains a girl in a brilliant pink cloak driving an elephant within the metropolis’s legendary lagoon.

Mattotti says the picture, impressed by a memorable occasion from the 1981 Venice Carnival when an precise elephant wandered by Venice’s slender streets, symbolizes the competition’s function as a crossroads of worldwide cinema, with the elephant representing ‘Reminiscence and in addition the Historical past of Cinema: a celebration, a parade, a present!’”

The 81st Venice Movie Pageant will announce its full competitors lineup on Tuesday, July 23. The 2024 competition runs from August 28 to Sept. 7.

2024 Venice Movie Pageant Poster.

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