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Well, how are you supposed to know what kind of scenes this film includes? 
Ok guys, here's the news about the awards buzz, problems and whatnot (I'm just gonna post everythig, I'm too tired to screen):
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Despite the early awards season -- Oscar ballots are mailed out Dec. 26, before some would-be nominees even open -- the count of specialty pics rolling out between the weekend prior to Thanksgiving and New Year's continues to rise. This season, 38 films will roll out in an exclusive or limited platform. MGM alone will roll out nine films, including "Rocky" and "Home of the Brave." Many of its pics, including "Miss Potter," "Factory Girl" and "Bobby," come from MGM's output deal with the Weinstein Co.
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Unfinished Film Has Oscar Written All Over It
Harvey Weinstein is famous for campaigning earlier, harder, and more successfully for Oscars than any of his filmmaking peers. But the "For Your Consideration" ads for Factory Girl that ran this week in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter may represent a new benchmark for claiming award-worthy status for a film that is, to all appearances, still very much in production.
With entire new scenes—not reshoots—still being shot in New York, most critics have still seen only limited footage of the movie, and the window for getting even a rough cut in front of them is rapidly closing. "You'd really better have a screening by the first week of December, or you're risking a lot of critics not being able to see it in time" for Golden Globe nominations, says Anne Thompson, deputy film editor of the Hollywood Reporter.
A spokeswoman for Weinstein, however, notes some critics have already "seen an early cut of the movie and given it high praise, especially Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce's performances. We don't think it's premature to start promoting the film for awards consideration."
Based on the story of Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, Factory Girl has been dogged by delays and rumors of dissatisfaction on the part of its producers. But Thompson says the ongoing tinkering is not an automatic red flag as long as it is only "pickups" being shot and nothing more substantial. "Harvey knows what he wants, and he'll know what's missing, especially if he's aiming for the Oscars. And the Weinstein Co. has been known to play these things out very late in the day."
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In Sienna Miller news, which we bring you because we know how much you care about her, it seems that her movie "Factory Girl," on '60s Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, is in a bit of trouble.
Word is that Sienna's performance is great and has generated some Oscar buzz. But she's been recalled to the U.S. -- not Pittsburgh, thankfully -- to do some re-shoots to make the movie more compelling, according to The Sunday Times of London.
Re-shoots don't bode well for any movie, and the ones for "Factory Girl" are pushing the film right up against the deadline for Oscar contention.
We know how much Pittsburgh will be pulling for Sienna to get an Oscar nomination.
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This year, there are several obvious Oscar contenders, based on their casts and directors alone. Films like Robert De Niro’s “The Good Shepherd,” which stars Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon; “The Good German” - in all it’s black-and-white glory - starring Clooney and helmed by Steven Soderbergh; the musical “Dreamgirls”; and biopics like “Factory Girl” and “Miss Potter.”
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“Factory Girl,” Dec. 29
Sienna Miller plays Andy Warhol’s muse, Edie Sedgwick. She starts out a rich party girl who drops out of college in the 1960s and moves to New York, where Warhol promises to make her a star. But she eventually learns stardom isn’t all its cracked up to be.
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Radar's Jeff Bercovici (i.e., "Fresh Intelligence") scans the "half-baked" Factory Girl Oscar-heat situation. My understanding is that the extra shooting was done in early to mid November, and that it's not that much of a problem to insert new scenes into an already- constructed feature. Still, Harvey Weinstein and director George Hickenlooper need to get cracking.
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(Note: They refer to the 2nd article I posted)
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Globe voters will see 'Factory Girl,' but SAG voters?
Kudos snoops have wondered lately: will "Factory Girl" really get out of the gate in time for the derby?
Studio chief Harvey Weinstein announced late this year that the Edie Sedgwick biopic would make a last-minute dash into the best-actress race, but production got stalled as Harvey demanded reshoots that were still going on weeks ago.
Reportedly, lovely Sienna Miller is so dazzling as Andy Warhol's doomed party brat that kudos seers believe she could pose a strong challenge to the many, ahem, mature gals leading that matchup now — like Helen Mirren ("The Queen"), Judi Dench ("Notes on a Scandal") and Meryl Streep ("The Devil Wears Prada"). After all, The Babe Factor — as you read here often at Gold Derby — is a major one at showbiz awards and could be a big factor with "Factory."
But as of early this week the movie still wasn't on the schedule for Golden Globe voters to see it before the early-December deadline for their nom ballots. Considering Globe voters saw "Apocalypto" and "Letters from Iwo Jima" over the past few days, the only major films still left unseen are "The Good Shepherd" (which they'll see on Monday) and "Factory Girl."
Yesterday the Weinstein Co. scheduled a screening next week with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Just in time. But what about "the shut-ins"? Legend has it that five or six senior members of HFPA aren't well enough to attend screenings, so must view everything at home on DVD. Considering that there are only 90 voters, 5 or 6 can make a big difference. They will not see "Factory Girl," "Good Shepherd," "Apocalypto" and a few other leading contenders. Tomorrow (Friday) Globe nomination ballots get mailed out.
So do SAG ballots. Harvey's Oscar soldiers are booking screening rooms madly to accommodate members of the nominating committee on both coasts, but there are more than 2,000 of them. Will enough see it in time? Ballots aren't due till Jan. 2, but showbizzers who vote for awards tend to vote early, usually within two weeks of receiving their ballots. Noms will be announced on Jan. 4.
Meantime, forget about the possibility of Sienna winning the New York or L.A. film critics's awards. Most of those voters will probably not see "Factory Girl" before balloting on Dec. 10 and 11. Those groups are too large, with widely scattered members, to get organized in time. The National Board of Review reveals winners on Dec. 6. That group is small enough for Harvey to hornswaggle into seeing it, but I don't know if his minions managed to set up a screening in time.
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On the other hand, Harvey Weinstein is so convinced that "Factory Girl," and particularly its British star Sienna Miller, could get a real kick from the BAFTAs, that he bent every sinew to squeeze the movie under the wire. Last week, the Weinstein Co. guaranteed a Feb. 9 release to BAFTA even before it had finalized a U.K. distribution deal.
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What's up with the Feb 9th release? 
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Two late entries, Sienna Miller for "Factory Girl" and Renee Zellweger for "Miss Potter," see their films debut in late December, so they may not show up on the critics' lists yet still compete for Oscars, the experts said.
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Steph, here's the NY part:
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The last-minute, going-totally-crazy efforts of the Weinstein Co. team to get additional shooting done on George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl (Weinstein Co., 12.29) only a few weeks ago and then hurriedly screen the film for all the year-end critics groups for possible awards consideration...the entire breathless bandwagon (Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick! Don't count us out! We're in the game!) has suddenly devolved into an east-coast farce.
"What?"
I'm speaking of an hours-old decision to suddenly cancel the just-scheduled New York press screenings in lieu of a decision by Weinstein Co. distribution honchos to bypass the 12.29 release and not even open Factory Girl in New York theatres until sometime early next year, possibly as late as February.
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WARHOL FLICK SNUBS NEW YORK
December 9, 2006 -- "FACTORY Girl" - the hotly anticipated movie about 1960s "It Girl" Edie Sedgwick and the Andy Warhol scene - is having such a hard time getting off the assembly line, it won't even be released in New York until sometime next year.
The Weinstein Company had invited New York critics to a screening of the unfinished movie this week, but then disinvited them when the producers learned they wouldn't be eligible for awards from the New York Film Critics Circle.
Only pictures released in New York are eligible for the local honors, and Weinstein is rushing to open "Factory Girl" in Los Angeles before the end of the year to qualify for the ultimate goal - the Academy Awards.
"I feel somewhere between angered and dis-invested," movie industry blogger Jeffrey Wells said. "I've been feeling something genuine for this film for the last four months, but the handling of it over the last 24 to 36 hours has been erratic and close to embarrassing."
The movie, which stars Sienna Miller as the drug-doomed Edie and Guy Pearce as the platinum-wigged Warhol, has been vexed by so many problems and delays that director George Hickenlooper has been pushed aside, sources say.
Page Six previously reported that the crew was forced to reshoot some of the Pittsburgh scenes (or as Miller fondly called it, "S - - - sburgh") in New York.
One New Yorker who was asked to appear in the film said he was shocked it's already being screened because shooting hasn't even wrapped: "They've got me on hold for more scenes next week."
Scott Pellegrino, who promotes events through Popdebate.com, attended a "Factory Girl" screening on Thursday and said it was "well-received." Another viewer said Miller's performance is "brilliant." Pellegrino's one complaint was that "uber-WASP" Hayden Christensen was cast instead of a Jewish actor as the Bob Dylan-based character.
Weinstein Company rep Sarah Rothman told us New Yorkers will finally get to see the movie in February when it opens nationwide - unless it gets delayed.
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What's this nonsense about Hayden being "WASP"?
I'm really sorry about the long post, I realize it may be hard to read but try to get the necessary info out of it anyway. 
I'll post other news soon, I don't wanna drag out this post any longer. 
Last edited by Cereal Killer; 12-14-2006 at 04:45 PM
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