How to Choose the Right Festival to Premiere Your Movie

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It’s fall festival season! Matt is joined by Peter Kujawski, the chairman of Focus Features, to discuss the science of premiering a movie at a film festival. Peter provides his expertise on why you bring a certain movie to a certain festival, the risk involved, and which specific festivals are best suited for certain types of films. They also discuss the politics of these festivals jockeying to attain the world premieres of splashy titles, and which festival award is the most coveted (02:51). Matt ends the show with an opening weekend box office prediction for ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ (26:10). For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Peter Kujawski Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.9	It is Friday, September 6th. We are right in the middle of the fall film festivals.
1:31.4	Right after we record this show, I'm taking off for TIF, the Toronto Film Fest, which began last night.
1:36.8	And it comes on the heels of Venice and Tellurai, which are generally considered the start of the annual award season.
1:42.9	You probably know this if you're listening to this show,
1:45.0	but what you might not know is the strategy behind taking certain films to certain film festivals.
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