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JOKER: THE MOVIE produced by Martin Scorsese (TBD)
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The publicity campaigns for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, Netflix’s The Irishman, Warner Bros’ Joker, Columbia Pictures’ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Paramount’s Rocketman and Universal’s Us have been nominated for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaign for the 57th annual ICG Publicists Awards.

 

The award, which honors guild members for achievements in publicity and promotion during the calendar year, will be bestowed February 7 at the 57th annual luncheon at the Beverly Hilton.

 

“This year’s nominated campaigns are diverse and creative, covering the spectrum from superhero, comedy, drama, horror and musical,” said Tim Menke, ICG Publicists Awards Chair. “Congratulations to the teams of publicists who orchestrated and implemented these exceptional and successful strategic campaigns bringing people into theaters around the world.”

 

Last year, Warner Bros took the movie crown for Crazy Rich Asians.

 

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Joker Movie Star Joaquin Phoenix Arrested At Protest

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It seems that Joaquin Phoenix is living up to his Joker persona! Phoenix was attending the latest of Jane Fonda's "Fire Drill Fridays" climate change protests, held at Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.; now comes word that Phoenix has been arrested as part of that same demonstration. The Washington Post and TMZ both report that Phoenix was taken into custody by the capitol police - with video of the incident said to be forthcoming. This is not a unique incident, as Fonda and other celebrities have previously been arrested as part of "Fire Drill Fridays" since the protests began in November.

 

 

Ironically enough, this was the final installment of Fonda's Climate Protests (which was first inspired by climate activist Greta Thunberg), and Joaquin Phoenix isn't alone in the list of high-profile celebrities that the Capitol police have arrested in the last few months. Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston, Ted Danson, Diane Lane and Sally Field have all been taken into custody for demonstrating or blocking areas of the Capitol; not to be outdone, Jane Fonda herself has been arrested five times since the demonstrations began.

 

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Tonight, when 60 Minutes airs its Anderson Cooper interview with mercurial actor Joaquin Phoenix, it will cap a seriously strong seven-day run for Todd Phillips’ Joker. It began last Sunday night when Phoenix picked up the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama for his darkly hypnotic performance in the Warner Bros film while Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir took home a Globe of her own for best original score. Over the next three days, Joker built more trophy momentum by adding 11 BAFTA nominations (the most for any film in this year’s field); a PGA nomination (as one of the 10 films vying for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award); and a WGA nomination for the remarkable -script written by Phillips & Scott Silver.

 

The controversial movie’s resonance isn’t limited to the Hollywood awards circuit, either. Joker was released 101 days ago amid anxieties about its malevolent imagery but that only added to the edgy aura of a film that promised to reframe the origin story of the Joker, the most iconic super-villain in comic book history and a screen character who already rivaled Hannibal Lecter, Michael Myers, and Norman Bates among Hollywood’s most celebrated homicidal maniacs. The result: Joker  now stands as the first billion-dollar R-rated movie in box-office history.

 

Joker also continued to burrow into the zeitgeist in fascinating ways . This past week, for instance, Burger King premiered a new commercial spoofing the film’s signature scene at the Bronx Stairs. The quirky ad offers free Whoppers to New Yorkers for putting up with all the tourists now flocking to the landmark to reenact Phoenix’s precarious, stair-stepping jig from the movie.

 

Phoenix himself started this weekend with the sound of handcuffs (the 45-year-old native was arrested Friday in Washington during a climate change political protest) and finishes it amid grim news dispatches from his native Puerto Rico. The news shifts back to Joker come Monday morning, however, with nominations arriving for the 91st Academy Awards.

 

Beyond the film’s Oscar destiny on Feb. 9, the big question surrounding Joker is the viability of a sequel. One of Phoenix’s early impetuses to make Joker was his desire to investigate the possibilities of graphic novel character without signing up for multi-film franchise duty. The project’s one-and-done mindset was creatively liberating for all involved but, no surprise, that mindset has been reevaluated amid the movie’s historic success.

 

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On 1/10/2020 at 12:20 PM, paperheart said:

How many major Oscar nominations are coming? Based on tally of film awards below, Phoenix obviously a shoo-in and Best Picture seems assured, longer shot for screenplay and director seems unlikely.

https://www.metacritic.com/feature/2019-film-awards-and-nominations-scorecard?ref=hp

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Predicting 8 nominations, would match Dark Knight: https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/oscars/oscars-2020-we-predict-the-nominations-in-all-24-categories-photos/ss-BBYNCM5?li=BBnb7Kz#image=23

Had The Dark Knight come out today, it would have gotten a Best Picture nomination. Phoenix alone carries The Joker and his acting rises above anyone in TDK but TDK is still easily a superior movie.

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How far comic book movies have progressed at the Oscars.

Although they forget to mention Avengers: Endgame which was nominated for visual effects. And Suicide Squad, which won an Oscar for makeup and hairstyle.

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How Joaquin Phoenix and Bradley Cooper Helped Shape ‘Joker’ in the Editing Room

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A couple of somewhat surprising people had a significant hand in editing Joker, which picked up 11 Oscar nominations earlier this week including Best Film Editing for Jeff Groth. The film hailed from an original idea by Todd Phillips, who co-wrote and directed the movie, and he worked closely with star Joaquin Phoenix to develop this gritty, character-driven take on the titular DC Comics villain in a way that felt unique and impactful.

 

All films go through some sort of evolution in the editing room, and decision-making is crucial to a film’s success or failure at this time. In the case of Joker, Phoenix’s dynamic performance offered up a number of different options from scene to scene, but the film also plays with ambiguity and point of view in ways that make the piecing together of the narrative all the more important.

 

I recently got the chance to speak with Groth about his Oscar-nominated work on the film during a phone interview, and when I asked about feedback from “friends and family screenings”—during which cuts of the movie are shown to a handful of friends and family for notes—Groth says they didn’t really go through that process on Joker. Instead, the film was screened more personally for friends and filmmakers one or two at a time, including producer Bradley Cooper:

 

“We kept this one pretty close to us. We screened it more personally for people and filmmakers. Bradley Cooper definitely came in a couple of times. He was a producer on the movie, but he definitely watched the movie many times and sat with us. We could call him if we got stuck with something and be like, ‘Hey, can you come over and take a look at things?’”

 

Cooper obviously is a tremendous filmmaker in his own right, as evidenced by 2018’s magnificent A Star Is Born, and indeed he produced Joker through his shared production company with Phillips. Groth praised Cooper’s knack for picking up on small details:

 

“He doesn’t miss a thing (laughs). He would watch stuff and he would pick out even some of the smallest things and what are some of the things that he can be picked out for us to address. He was definitely a huge help. I think he got a lot more experience in editing than most people would realize.”

I saw his name in the credits. But never realized how involved he was in the editing.

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