At long last, Serena will get its first public screening at the London Film Festival in October, two and a half years after filming began. First international trailer and poster after the cut.
Serena trailer with Jennifer Lawrence & Bradley Cooper
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Release it already and just take the money and run. All the waiting is just digging an even bigger grave for it.
The release strategy screams cowardice, which makes a whole lot of sense given how atrocious it’s said to be. They’re holding off until some time in the first half of 2015 so they don’t have to make excuses when it doesn’t feature in any year’s awards race. Releasing it among the major contenders in the final stretch of the year would only increase the embarrassment.
Maybe Jennifer shouldn’t be in “period” movies. She looks horrid in that makeup & fashion.
Bier is a very adept director when it comes to both melodrama and comedy, but I wonder if this is the kind of material that is her forte? From what Ryan points out (I haven’t read the book), it’s ultimately a gritty drama. I don’t know, maybe she can pull it off, it just seems to me that her flair for melodrama always wins out in the end. And maybe that sits uneasily with this particular story?
This looks horrendously bad and reminds me that Jennifer Lawrence is not a trained actress. Bradley Cooper gives off the Jodie Foster I am uncomfortable with heterosexual sex vibe. The Homesman on the other hand looks good.
Regardless, I will have to see this movie. They both are way too beautiful!
Speaking for myself: I didn’t feel connected with *this trailer (*embedded here at time of this comment being made). Usually, no matter how good or bad a film turned out in its feature form, if the trailer was good (to me), then I felt for it more or less. But for some reason the overall ambience in this trailer feels somewhat listless to me.
Hoping, though, that I’m wrong.
It’s just so weird that someone hasn’t cashed in on the whole Cooper/Lawrence teaming. Even if it’s the worst film of the decade, shouldn’t it have been released somewhere between Silver Linings and American Hustle? Why not cash in on Lawrence winning an Oscar? Why let it wait till their heat might disappear? The last two films they starred in together both made well over 100 million dollars. Not saying this would even break 50 million dollars in any way, but the longer they wait releasing it, the less it will end up making. Especially when you know all the critics will talk about is the stigma of how it just sat on the shelve forever.
Release it already and just take the money and run. All the waiting is just digging an even bigger grave for it.