08.24.09 SHUTTER ISLAND SHUT OUT OF 2009 OSCARS
Martin Scorsese’s latest, Shutter Island (trailer below), was set for release October 2nd, but Paramount has decided to move it to February 19th, taking it out of contention for the 2009 Oscars (and a February release won’t help their chances in 2010 either). Via Nikke Finke:
An insider tells me. “It tested in the high 80s/low 90s and Scorsese even brought it down to 2 hours.” So what’s the problem? I hear that Paramount told the filmmakers it doesn’t have the financing in 2009 to spend the $50M to $60M necessary to market a big awards pic like this. [...] I’m also told that, among the many reasons for the move, Leo [DiCaprio] wasn’t going to be available to promote the pic internationally. So the studio settled on the release date of February 19th because “that’s when Silence Of The Lambs came out” back in 1991 and it won the Oscar.
Now Paramount can throw their full weight behind their other two big Oscar contenders, GI Joe and Transformers 2.
~ robopanda
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SHUTTER ISLAND SHUT OUT OF 2009 OSCARS
Does anyone else think that Leo will be just like Jack Nicholson in 20 more years?
PS my friend said that he liked GI Joe better than Transformers. It’s not exactly glowing praise but…
WTF movie people? Every damn movie I want to see is being shifted further and further back. So what your telling me is that this is going to come out AFTER Nightmare on Elm St which Jackie Earle Haley filmed AFTER he filmed this?
Fawk.
Shutter’s full!!
They had to dump the shutter.
In related news, I call the messy counter in the center of my kitchen “clutter island.”
Has this movie already been made? TV show/special maybe? Or do I just need to quit dreaming on Ambien?
Uproxx employee #1: There. This site now looks like a retarded 7th graders final project in web design. It’s practically unusable!
Uproxx employee #2: Huahhrgh! [eats handfull of past]
[ogwump dribbles jism on head of UE#1]
UE#1: Oh yeah…[attaches mouth to mogwump cock]
UE#2: [points, laughs like down's syndrom kid taking a dandy of a dump] Yeeeargh!!
Shutter Island is so named because everyone is always walking over each other’s graves.
Shutter Island sounds like a resort for abusive husbands.
*The ghost of Ike Turner slaps Immortal 9 upside the head.*
Imagine Martin and Quentin having a conversation, it would sound like two tweekers talking about their favorite episode of Banana Splits.
Shutter?! Don’t hardly know h…
[suffocation ninja jumps through window, tosses Crappy into closet, chokebates him to death, jumps back out window}
Upon hearing this sad news, Shutter Island was devastated and relocated to Cutter Island.
S-s-s-s-tt-stut-stutter I-I-island is abou-bou-bou-about a g-g-g-g-ggggggggg-guy who f-f-f-f-fffff
FUCK THIS! I SUCK AT THIS GAME ANYWAY!
Shutter Island sounds like the name of a fancy porn site.
Jennifer Love Hewitt frequently visits Butter Island for EXTENDING (get it?) vacations.
Shutter Island is the name of a book that they’re basing this movie off of.
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