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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 9/27/2008

Dustin Hoffman strolls into Oscar race with Overture Films' 'Last Chance Harvey' co-starring Emma Thompson

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There's a new Harvey in this year's Oscar race and it's not Weinstein. While uncertainty continues to hover over the prospect of the Weinstein Co. releasing "The Reader" in time for this year's awards eligibility, another 'Harvey' has just staked...

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Dustin Hoffman Enters the Oscars Race
Awards Daily — ... Pete Hammond reports that the Best Actor race needs to make room for Dustin Hoffman: Overture Films was supposed to release the new comedy/drama “Last Chance Harvey” on Jan. 23 — not exactly prime time for potential awards contenders. But buzz on this Dustin Hoffman/Emma Thompson romance has been so strong among those who have been given an early peek, the distributor has now decided to throw it into the heart of the holiday season and the Oscar race. Hoffman is ...

Harvey Bumped Up
Hollywood Elsewhere — ... and tell me what it tells you. I don't "know" anything, but I think it sounds a little forced, a little twee. In any case, The Envelope 's Pete Hammond reported last night that it's coming out on 12.26 rather than 1.23 because Hoffman "is said to be terrific in the role of a rumpled man who finds love when he travels to London for his daughter's wedding." Will this split Overture's time and expenditures as far their push for Best Actor contender Richard Jenkins , star of last spring's surprise art house hit, The Visitor ? ...