Matthew Heineman’s documentary profiling Grammy and Oscar winning musician Jon Batiste and the medical struggles for his wife that have marked trying times in their marriage leads the pack of nominees for the 8th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards with six. The inspiring docu from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground was picked up by Netflix after premiering and winning acclaim at the Telluride Film Festival last month. Not far behind are a trio of docus each with 5 mentions including 20 Days In Mariupol, Kokomo City, and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. And not to be ignored, this weekend’s boxoffice champ, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour which landed a nomination as Best Music Documentary. The CCDA nod marks the first awards recognition for the film (however it is not eligible for a Documentary Oscar) which only just had its first premiere screening on Wednesday of last week and came in just under the eligibility wire.
Jason Blum Explains The Move Of ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ To Avoid Clash With Taylor Swift Concert Film
29.09.2023 - 04:43 / deadline.com
The power of Taylor Swift compels you. And it’s also worked its ways on producer Jason Blum, who cast out his The Exorcist: Believer to an earlier October release date to avoid a clash with Swift’s concert film.
Blum explained his reasoning in an interview with EW.
“The one thing that scares me to death is Taylor Swift!” Blum said.
“We had this amazing Friday the 13th in October, which is the single best day to release a scary movie,” said Blum. no doubt shaking his head. He originally paid homage by writing the tag #Exorswift” on Twitter when the Eras announcement came out.
Later that same day, things changed. “Look what you made me do,” Blum wrote, quoting a Swift song. “The Exorcist: Believer moves to 10/6/23 #TaylorWins.”
“Obviously, we moved off that [date] and we bowed our head to Taylor Swift,” Blum said. “It was too risky to see if ‘Exorswift’ was going to take or not. People will still have the Exorswift opportunity, so maybe we got to have our cake and eat it, too.”
The Exorcist: Believer stars young actors Lidya Jewett and Olivia O’Neill as a pair of demonically possessed children, Leslie Odom Jr. as the father of Jewett’s character, and Ann Dowd as a nurse. Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn reprises the role of Chris MacNeil for the first time since William Friedkin’s original film. The “Believer” film is directed by David Gordon Green,
“I really give David Gordon Green credit for that,” Blum says. “He was able to get Jamie Lee Curtis comfortable [on 2018’s Halloween], and David got Ellen to feel comfortable to join us in this iteration of her iconic movie.”
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Rare Impact Fund Benefit benefited the “Come & Get It” singer’s mission to help people struggling with mental health issues and self-acceptance.Gomez’s “Only Murders in the Building” co-star Martin Short, 73, emceed the event and started the bidding for the Swift tickets at $5,000.The jokester entertained the crowd while bidding for the tickets, quipping that $6,500 was just the price for valet parking at a Swift show. The winning bidder dished out three times that amount, months after Swift’s Eras Tour, which is currently on hiatus, broke Ticketmaster, upsetting fans — and the “Anti-Hero” singer herself.
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attended a second game of the athlete’s — this time with the Chiefs taking on the Jets at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey — the actress pleaded with haters to stop bashing the pair’s budding romance.“Can all of you negative nellies just stop? Stop. Let the rest of us enjoy watching two successful, funny, talent, incredibly gorgeous human beings — let us enjoy watching them fall in love. Okay?” the “Hot in Cleveland” alum, 63, said via TikTok on Saturday.“‘Oh, but she was too loud at the game.’ It’s a game! It’s a football game! They’re very exciting.
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