Friday, August 21, 2009

Leo's One-Two-Punch Rule, or How Shutter Island gets a 2010 release

Speculation about Paramount's decision to move Scorcese's Shutter Island from Oct 2009 (primed for Oscar season) to February 2010 (Oscar no-man's-land) range from idiotic ("it's no good!" - uh, hello, DiCaprio + Scorcese + crazy Patty Clarkson? Riiight) to industry-savvy ("it makes more sense financially to not spend $50M+ for an Oscar campaign") but I think I figured it out: Leo's just gotten used to having 2 big releases per year.

Don't believe me? Let's group Leo's biggest (post-Titanic) "hits" by year:

2008


2006


2004
(Okay one, but didn't it feel like TWO?)

2002


My theory fails me in 2000/2001
Noticeably absent or not grouped at all: The Beach (2000), cause... let's just forget about that one, shall we? and Don's Plum (2001) which I had never heard about before...

1998


This way, Leo can have Scorcese's Shutter Island nicely paired alongside Nolan's Inception and make 2010 another banner year where we'll probably be asking ourselves: "What film will he be nominated for...?"

3 comments:

J.D. said...

LMAO I completely forgot Body of Lies came out last year.

Vance said...

"didn't it feel like TWO" lol!

mB said...

Yes, well BoL was totally forgettable: any of you see it? And yes, The Aviator is a fucking long movie. I love me some Leo and Cate and Gwen but still...geez!