Posted on 09/14/2016 6:26:35 AM PDT by simpson96
TORONTO — The Jackie Kennedy biopic “Jackie,” starring Natalie Portman, has been acquired by Fox Searchlight, which plans to push the film directly into the Oscar season.
Searchlight announced the acquisition early Tuesday shortly after the Pablo Larrain-directed film played at the Toronto International Film Festival. Though the market has been quiet in Toronto, “Jackie” has been the most hotly pursued film since its Venice Film Festival debut last week. The film cuts between the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and other moments in the first lady’s life.
Fox Searchlight will release the movie Dec. 9, and it’s widely expected to catapult Portman into the best-actress Oscar race. Fox’s specialty division is an awards season regular that has ushered many films into the Academy Awards, including best-picture winners “12 Years a Slave” and “Birdman,” as well as Portman’s own “Black Swan,” which won her best actress.
Searchlight’s other fall release, Nate Parker’s Nat Turner slave revolt drama “The Birth of a Nation,” had been seen as the studio’s horse in this year’s Oscar race. But that film’s awards hopes have been badly damaged by a rape accusation from Parker’s past. In Toronto, Parker deflected questions about the case in a press conference.
“Pablo Larrain’s ‘Jackie’ is a daring, one-of-a-kind cinematic portrayal of a beloved icon,” said Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula.
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Wonder if Carolyn Kennedy had to pay to play for her Ambassadorship or if it was just because of her name.
The KENNEDYS just won’t STAY DEAD. Hope this is a huge flop.
If there were ANY WAY to get it on the screen’s before Hillary’s coronation in November, they would have done it.
What I always love about a Natalie Portman thread is we get to see her with Hillary.
I have never understood the fascination over Jackie.
I always thought she was an air head. I am struck by how similar her vacuous comments like “This portrait was done by....” sounded just like Marilyn Monroe would describe it reading a line.
She was as much an enabler as Hillary in disgracing the White House allowing his bimbos access.
I don’t remember exactly and don’t care enough to look it up, but as I do remember, didn’t she graduate from some flu-flu colledge with a degree in Elegant Walking and Talking or Interior Design? Maybe with a Major in how to be “Furniture”.
I would readily admit that they were head and shoulders above the current occupants of the White House.
Natalie Portman is one of the best actresses OF ALL TIME.
She makes it look effortless and natural. Always completely believable.
If she played Hillary Clinton, I would watch it.
Jackie Kennedy’s famous White House tour in 1962 should have cemented her reputation as an airhead.
The Vaughn Meader parody from that same year is worth a listen.
“This is the Blue Room, and we are going to leave it just as it was when President Blue was in office.”
Agree. Natalie Portman is a talented actress, but she lacks the finesse to portray Jackie. Just IMHO.
JFK didn’t seem all that fond of her either with all the sleeping around he did. I never found hey attractive either but that’s just me.
She was the original Hillary Clinton imho.
I’ve never understood going around in public with your nips popping out like that.
Nope , BLM owns the Oscars now
I dunno.
That outfit has probably “exposed” her to countless folks that would have never heard of her otherwise.
Not a bad publicity move.
The one I want to see is a biopic of Ted and Joan Kennedy. The boozy fights between them. Her screaming at Ted about groping a waitress in front of her and throwing a lamp at him. Both of them taking digs at each other about their drinking. The cold, silent mornings at the breakfast table the next day when both of them are trying to remember what they said the night before. That is one that I’d watch. Another canonization of Jack and Jackie, not so much.
Uh, no. She was a phony. I don’t know anyone who loved her.
+1
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