Last Five Years Film Adaption

I think it will be good but I highly doubt it will be an academy award contender. Maybe a Golden Globe contender but neither role is meaty enough for Oscar consideration if you ask me.

I think this is going to be one of those movies that magically just shows up on Netflix one day without much hoopla.

Do your research, as of right there is no distributer attached and it is being produced by independent film companies.

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This is more likely to take the same route as Hedwig and the Angry inch did several years ago. It will hit the film festivals, maybe pick up a couple festival awards and then show up on DVD and/or Netflix. I don't think we are likely to see this at many of the the local multiplex theaters.

After Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick in a movie musical will absolutely get picked up by a big distributor.

There's a difference between eligible (*ahem*) and viable. Without distribution (or a studio campaign that would come along with distribution) an independent movie has less than zero likelihood of scoring Awards.

I don't think it's guaranteed that this gets picked up out of a festival, but I don't think it's impossible. It could be Safety Not Guaranteed or Sleepwalk With Me and play a few festivals, get great word of mouth, get picked up for limited distribution and pick up enough acclaim to score well on Netflix. (Sleepwalk might ultimately be the best analogy, also being a critically-acclaimed small off-Broadway semi-autobiographical show made into a small film... though Birbiglia's career trajectory and JRB's aren't really similar, nor are the shows these films are based on.)

Also, it's worth pointing out that Richard LaGravenese has a higher profile in the industry and that should help the distribution chances compared to a similar production without his involvement.

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They're definitely going to go for the festival to distribution angle. The too small to succeed thing is too early to call at this point. No one could have anticipated (just in recent years) Winter's Bone, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Precious, or Little Miss Sunshine picking up Oscar nominations before the films were screened. They all went into festivals without a distributor and walked away with distribution deals and strong Oscar campaigns. A few indie films each year cause this kind of sensation and get a big push.

Now, that assuming The Last Five Years works as a film. It might not. It might be too slight a story or too theatrical in its conceit to translate to the screen. We'll see when it hits the festival circuit.

"And as far as nominations....how can anyone possibly have any sort of actual insight without seeing the darn thing?"

Well if the source material fits then its easy to maybe predict it for some awards. No one knows for sure obviously cause no one has seen it but take Les Mis for example: People had it in their Oscar line up the moment they knew Tom Hooper was directing it. The source material really screams oscars and the icing on the cake was all the hype about the live singing. It turns out many people were right to predict it for The academy awards cause it picked up several nominations. Just like many are predicting Streep's Witch to be very oscar baity. These are all just speculations and have no meaning but if you know what to watch for then it isn't impossible to predict films for Awards.

Another Example: At this point there are many Films that are "oscar bait" that we might see get nominations such as: Wolf of wallstreet, Momunments men, August osage county, Fruitvale station, Saving Mr.Banks, Blue jasmine and a couple others. Those types of films are almost tailor made to be Oscar contenders. The song "young and beautiful" from THE GREAT GATSBY will almost certainly get a nomination for song.

Its only speculation but most of the time Half of the guesses are usually right.

It's an almost exact paraphrase of Paul Rudd's "60% of the time, it works every time" from Anchorman. Only he seems to have actually meant it.

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You still read those rambling paragraphs?

Anyways, does anyone know If they're singing live for this film or if they're lip synching to prerecord tracks?

They'll be lip synching to the OBCR

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From the Daily Mail - It follows the characters over the five years of their marriage.

Not true, but it's the Daily Mail, so close enough

Something about Cathy's wardrobe so far is almost too quirky for my taste, especially in contrast to Jamie's t-shirts and jeans. Maybe they wanted that contrast, to show that they are really different people. Too much diference, and the audience is not as sympathetic and could think, "Well, they shouldn't have gotten married anyhow. They don't mix well."