BEST PICTURE
Release Date	Picture	Studio	Comment
Oct 5	Michael Clayton	WB	On its way to more than $40 million at the box office.
Nov 9	No Country For Old Men	Miramax	Looking like the high-minded choice of the season... but needs to watch Lumet in the rearview.
Dec 7	Atonement	Focus	Slipping, but still is The Romantic movie and The Period movie
Dec 21	Charlie Wilson's War	U	It's getting dangerously late all so early
July 20	Hairspray	NL	The strongest player amongst lighter fare... will New Line fight for it?
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Sept 21	Into The Wild	ParVan	Sliding... but Vantage stepping up
Oct 26	Before The Devil Knows You're Dead	Think	Heating up
Dec 21	Sweeney Todd	DW	Going the Munich route, with Entertainment Weekly cover amd NYT coverage seven weeks out...
Dec 26	There Will Be Blood	ParVan	It will find champions... and lots of resistance from less aesthetically oriented viewers
Sept 7	3:10 To Yuma	Lions	Looking a little more possible each week
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Dec 26	The Savages	FoxS	Blurry, in terms of Oscar... but otherwise brilliant
Dec 14	Juno	FoxS	The best movie your 17-year-old daughter will ever see!
Dec 17	The Diving Bell & The Butterfly	Mir	Next week, team Diving Bell comes to L.A.
Nov 2	American Gangster	U	Gonna be a commerical hit... but will questions of autheticity dog it to the end?
Dec 14	The Kite Runner	ParVan	Audiences seem to like it... but still a book-loving self-selected group
Oct 12	Lars & The Real Girl	MGM/Kim	It's not about a blow up doll... but no one seems to know that
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The Current Long Shots (in aphabetical order)
Nov 16	Beowulf	Par	I AM 3-DDDDDDDDDD-OWULF
TBA	The Bucket List	WB	waiting
TBA	Crossing Over	TWC	waiting
TBA-Dec	The Great Debaters	TWC	waiting
Nov 21	I'm Not There	TWC	Are they going to start selling it soon?
Nov 9	Lions For Lambs	UA	If it were a $3 million movie with just one name actor, it might have been something... but "good" would probably still not be one of that thing
TBA	The Lucky Ones	Lions	waiting
Sept 28	Lust, Caution	Focus	no, traction
Oct 26	Things We Lost In The Fire	DW	1. Enough of an audience to overcome a tough storyline
Dec 14	Youth Without Youth	SPC	Why won't they show the damned thing?
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Pretty Much Out Of The BP Race (by release date)
June 8	La Vie En Rose	PictH
June 22	A Mighty Heart	ParVan
May 4	Away From Her	Lions
July 13	Rescue Dawn	MGM
Aug 24	Ressurecting The Champ	Yari
Sept 14	The Brave One	WB
Sept 14	Eastern Promises	Focus
Sept 14	In The Valley Of Elah	WIP
Sept 29	The Darjeeling Limited	FoxS
Oct 12	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	U
Nov 16	In Bloom	Mag
Nov 16	Love In the Time Of Cholera	NL
Nov 16	Margot At The Wedding	ParVan
Dec 7	Grace Is Gone	TWC
Dec 7	His Dark Materials	NL

November 2, 2007
- by David Poland

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The Post-Toronto Chart - September 21, 2007
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The First Chart of The Season- June 21, 2007

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