Speaking of Barbenheimer, the moniker’s namesakes, Barbie and Oppenheimer, just blew up the box office this summer, both far exceeding individual expectations with $356M and $180M globally, respectively. A24 won its second Best Picture Oscar this last season with Everything Everywhere All At Once (after 2016’s Moonlight) and NEON struck gold with 2019’s Parasite. NEON and A24, the two top tier indie studios in Hollywood are mounting what looks to be the Barbenheimer of the festival circuit this season with NEON’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall and A24’s Cannes Prize winner The Zone of Interest riding side by side at both Telluride and Toronto this September. Venice looks to outshine TIFF with very high-profile titles like Bradley Cooper’s Maestro (Netflix), Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla (from A24 and is also the NYFF Centerpiece film, where Todd Haynes’ May December (Netflix) will open the fest), Michael Mann’s Ferrari (NEON), Origin (Netflix, formerly titled Caste) from Ava DuVernay and Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures) from Yorgos Lanthimos (which, incidentally, was just moved from its September berth to a new early December opening in the U.S.). distribution) and NYAD (Netflix) from Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. Wolfe’s Rustin (Netflix), Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers (Focus Features), Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat (which has yet to secure U.S. distribution) and Pain Hustlers (Netflix) from David Yates, it will have a handful of titles that, based on premiere designation, we’ll see at Telluride first, like George C. Toronto will see world premieres of the long-delayed Next Goal Wins (Searchlight Pictures) from Taika Waititi, Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money (Sony Pictures), Lee from Ellen Kuras (which has yet to secure U.S.

And in fact, Luca Guadagnino’s tennis drama Challengers did just that MGM yanked the film from its Venice Film Festival opening night slot and volleyed it all the way to April 2024. With Toronto and Venice lineups announced and Telluride in a month’s time the fall festival season is taking shape in the midst of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes as rumors fly about studios pulling 2023 releases to avoid the lack of star promotion for their films.

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