Summit picked up Kathryn Bigelow’s riveting, intense Iraq thriller The Hurt Locker out of Toronto, where I interviewed the director (below). Jeremy Renner, who stars in the debuting TV series The Unusuals, breaks out with this movie, which drew raves when it opened June 26 in limited release.
The film’s first eight minutes, and my Bigelow interview on the jump:
The question is, how will Summit keep the movie going all the way through Oscar season? Luckily, there are ten best picture slots this year, several of which could go to women directors. In the end, I suspect, The Hurt Locker will look like a movie that overcame considerable obstacles en route to inevitably landing on many critics’ ten best lists.
by Anne Thompson, posted to Awards, Oscars, Box Office, Summer, Directors, Kathryn Bigelow, Festivals, Toronto, Genres, Drama, Thriller, Independents, Summit, Video, Interviews on July 30, 2009 at 1:22pm PDT | Permalink | Comments (1)
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