It’s still way too early place any importance to a film’s release date nine months from now, but if you go by this tidbit of news, Derek Cianfrance’s impressive debut Blue Valentine will receive the potentially fatal December 31st release date – a
day that has plagued other Weinstein titles in the past decade if you look at the post-December 25th/26th releases of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Matador, Factory Girl and Miss Potter. If the company wants to highlight the excellent performances from the film’s leads, they might want to get this in a bit earlier – by one or two weeks at least.
I’m sure there’ll be several showing at major festivals, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if it has a repeat showing at Cannes or some of the Fall fests, but my thinking is The Weinstein Co. will be positioning themselves as
the last “Ryan Gosling” performance of the year. Remember, the company “dropped” All Good Things after holding onto it during their rough patch and essentially they’ll be competing against a former title depending when Andrew Jarecki’s future distributor releases the film. My bet is on Apparition being the next suitor.
Written by Cianfrance with Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis, Blue Valentine is the story of love found and love lost told in past and present moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship, Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) use one night to try and save their failing marriage.
