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The Substance has been added to the wire

MUBI has dated The Substance for September 20th

Cannes Winners: Palme d'Or: Anora Grand Prix: All We Imagine as Light Jury Prize: Emilia Perez Best Director: Miguel Gomes, Grand Tour Special Prize: Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seeds of a Sacred Fig Best Actor: Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness Beat Actress: Adriana Paz, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofian Gascon ...

The Strangers: Chapter 1:
Alien: Romulus
It Ends with Us
The Bikeriders
The Watchers
Speak No Evil
A Quiet Place: Day One
The Crow
Never Let Go

Babes:
Run Lola Run Re-Release
Kinds of Kindness
National Anthem
Summer Camp
Twisters
A Quiet Place: Day One
Thelma
Robot Dreams

The Smashing Machine has cleared waivers

Preview totals:
Furiosa $3.5 mil
The Garfield Movie $1.9 mil

Possum Trot has cleared waivers

Netflix has nabbed the North American and UK rights for Emilia Perez

New dates:
The Fire Inside 12/25/24 (from 8/9/24)
Untitled Steven Spielberg Event (Believed to his long-discussed UFO project) 5/15/26

Done

Dwayne Johnson's been trying to do that for a long time now (remember Snitch?). It's probably more likely A24 tries to make it another one of their attempts at being mainstream and appealing to conservative audiences instead of selling it as an Oscar movie. Are we talking about the same Dwayne John...

A24 didn't even attempt to mount an awards campaign for The Iron Claw. They could view The Smashing Machine as an opportunity to atone for that oversight, especially with the juicy "Dwayne Johnson transforms into a serious actor" narrative and a group of potential contenders that looks like it's goi...

The Smashing Machine is officially on the wire

Sure. I was going to wait till the reports that it was aiming to be ready for this awards season got additional/better sourcing, but it's in production now and there are some other dateless titles that just started shooting that are already in the pool of available films, so there's no real reason t...

Anything's possible. The acquisition market is wonky as hell in the current marketplace and a remake of a grindhouse splatter classic doesn't seem like something that would appeal to most distributors.