For my money the early looks at holiday releases TheRevenant, Joy and The Martianwere real highlights. Gianopulos pointed out the very impressive feat of Fox Searchlight and New Regency’s back-to-back Best Picture wins for 12 Years A Slave and Birdman, so all eyes are going to be on this one, which was shot (and is still shooting) in completely natural light by double Oscar winner Emmanuel Lubezki. With Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy it looks intense and kind of breathtaking, if very dark. One wag said, “It’s like a Terence Malick movie that actually moves.” David O. Russell’s Joy, loosely based on a true story of the housewife who created a best selling mop (Fox says it is definitely NOT a biopic), reunites many of his Silver Linings Playbook stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper among others and looks far more dramatic than I was expecting, at least from the quick montage the director put together.

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