The Weinstein Co. film lands at the Cannes festival in the Un Certain Regard section -- an excited crowd lined up to see the movie late on a rainy Thursday night -- which positions it well for its June 12 release and a likely awards-season run to follow.
Will Lewis, hero of Expensesgate, editor of 2009 on any likely awards count, returns from a term at Harvard Business School and heads to an unprepossessing office block in Euston.
So by this stage quite a few of the likely awards contenders have been seen.
In limited release, the likely awards film Loving, about the true story of the couple behind the supreme court decision that invalidated laws against interracial marriage, opened in four theaters to $169,000.
The proposed rules turn the Congressional legislation on its head, unbalancing it by reducing likely awards to levels far below the economic losses suffered by victims and their families while protecting airlines and others that might be sued.
The movie has commercial and, with the fest announcement, likely awards ambitions as well.
Real Oscar devotees start making their mental lists early, at least by November and December, when most of the likely award contenders are released.
That means taking the likely award and multiplying it by some probability of success.
CIRM will likely award its final round of grants from its initial round of funding in 2017.
Ampas published the full list of films put forward on its website, which includes other likely award nominees Captain Philips, Philomena and Nebraska.
