{"id":98036,"date":"2023-04-27T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/ethan-coens-drive-away-dolls-tops-focus-features-cinemacon-previews\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:18:15","slug":"ethan-coens-drive-away-dolls-tops-focus-features-cinemacon-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/ethan-coens-drive-away-dolls-tops-focus-features-cinemacon-previews\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Coen&#8217;s Drive Away Dolls Tops Focus Features CinemaCon Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"\/>\n<p>Universal Pictures could have had some huge weapons to play with at CinemaCon with <a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/universal-pictures-reveals-new-wicked-oppenheimer-fall-guy-footage-cinemacon-20230426\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cOppenheimer,\u201d<\/strong> <strong>Jon M. Chu\u2019s \u201cWicked\u201d<\/strong> and<strong> David Leitch\u2019s \u201cThe Fall Guy,\u201d<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>however its mini-major division, Focus Features, needed just a little little bit of the highlight. Chairman <strong>Peter Kujawski<\/strong> took the stage and made the argument that the info reveals that specialty enterprise has recovered greater than the media narrative thinks it has. That 2022 was really higher for the specialty divisions than 2019. More importantly, he had 4 movies to champion, <strong>Wes Anderson\u2019s \u201cAsteroid City,\u201d Ethan Coen\u2019s \u201cDrive-Away Dolls,\u201d Alexander Payne\u2019s \u201cThe Holdovers,\u201d<\/strong> and, after all, <strong>Nia Vardalos\u2019 \u201cMy Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/gareth-edwards-the-creator-pixars-elemental-top-disneys-cinemacon-teases-20230426\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE: Gareth Edwards \u2018The Creator\u2019 and Pixar\u2019s \u2018Elemental\u2019 high Disney\u2019s CinemaCon teases<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get to crucial one first. Yes, \u201cMy Big Fat Greek Wedding 3\u201d will make your mother snicker, has fairly Greek sunsets and<strong> Andrea Martin<\/strong> as soon as once more steals the present. Clearly, a textbook instance of a Focus Features launch.<\/p>\n<p>The movie that basically obtained the viewers\u2019s consideration, nonetheless, was Coen\u2019s \u201cDrive-Away Dolls.\u201d Co-written with Cohen\u2019s spouse, <strong>Tricia Cooke<\/strong>, this comedy finds Jamie (<strong>Margaret Qualley<\/strong>) snatching her pal Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) for a lesbian highway journey from New York City to Tallahassee, Florida. Along the way in which they get within the crosshairs of some nefarious people together with one fellow performed by <strong>Colman Domingo<\/strong> and meet up with a pal performed by <strong>Beanie Feldstein<\/strong> who one way or the other makes their circumstances worse. While actually, its personal factor, the preview proven gave just a little little bit of <strong>\u201cRaising Arizona\u201d <\/strong>vibes. Oh, and it was additionally super-fun. Is it a film that may get a whole lot of awards consideration? It doesn\u2019t appear to be it, but it surely additionally seems like essentially the most A24\/Neon-esque movie that Focus has launched in years. <\/p>\n<p>One of Focus\u2019 main awards movies this Oscar season will doubtless be Payne\u2019s \u201cThe Holdovers.\u201d An authentic screenplay from <strong>David Hemingson<\/strong> (<strong>\u201cNebraska\u201d<\/strong> is the one different movie Payne has directed however not written in his profession), this late coming-of-age story facilities on Angus (<strong>Dominc Sessa<\/strong>), a pupil caught at his personal boarding faculty over the vacations underneath the curmudgeonly eye of Mr. Hunham (<strong>Paul Giamatti<\/strong>), who additionally needs he was anyplace else. As the break turns into lonelier the 2 come to know one another and in addition kind a bond with the college\u2019s head chook, Mary (<strong>Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph<\/strong>), who&#8217;s coping with her personal tragedy. Set within the early to mid-70s, the fabric appears considerably acquainted but in addition brims with a nostalgic high quality Payne hasn\u2019t actually tried earlier than. And that\u2019s not essentially a nasty factor. If you really liked<strong> \u201cWonder Boys\u201d <\/strong>or <strong>\u201cDead Poets Society\u201d<\/strong> (or not to mention seen these movies) we\u2019re gonna guess this one\u2019s for you.<\/p>\n<p>The specialty division additionally screened what we consider is a brand new trailer for Anderson\u2019s \u201cAsteroid City\u201d which was fairly much like the primary with, maybe, only a bit extra of <strong>Tilda Swinton\u2019<\/strong>s character. That movie will display screen in competitors on the Cannes Film Festival in only a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Focus didn&#8217;t take the time to push the extremely anticipated<strong> \u201cBook Club: The Next Chapter\u201d <\/strong>which arrives in theaters on May 12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id){var js, fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if(d.getElementById(id)) return; js=d.createElement(s); js.id=id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Universal Pictures could have had some huge weapons to play with at CinemaCon with Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cOppenheimer,\u201d Jon M. Chu\u2019s \u201cWicked\u201d and David Leitch\u2019s \u201cThe Fall Guy,\u201d however its mini-major division, Focus Features, needed just a little little bit of the highlight. Chairman Peter Kujawski took the stage and made the argument that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}