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Coen Brothers Folk Music Movie Gets Co-Financing, Title

Remember that folk music movie Joel and Ethan Coen were working on back in June? It has co-financing and a title. Variety reports that StudioCanal will co-finance the film, now titled Inside Llewyn Davis , with Scott Rudin set to produce. The film — which will reportedly feature “live music” — is inspired, in part, by the life of famed musician Dave Van Ronk, an important figure in the growth of the folk music scene in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960s. [ Variety ]

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And They’re (Almost) Off: The Preliminary 2011-12 Oscar Index

Ready or not, the Oscar Equinox is upon us: The Venice Film Festival is underway, the Telluride Film Festival launches this weekend, and the Toronto International Film Festival commences a week from tomorrow. Amid that crop of movies will be the bulk of this year’s awards-season contenders, which will compete against an elite class already having opened in theaters and another fistful yet to come this winter. Same game, new players. And Movieline’s redoubtable Oscar Index has the preliminary breakdown of who to watch.

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And They’re (Almost) Off: The Preliminary 2011-12 Oscar Index