Focus Options is re-releasing their 3x Oscar winner Brokeback Mountain in celebration of the pic’s twentieth Anniversary. Particular showings begin on June 22 and 25.
Directed by Ang Lee and starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain grossed over $178 million on the world field workplace. The film made its world premiere on the Venice Movie Competition again in 2005 and was a right away awards contender that season, and a social barrier breaking film. Brokeback Mountain follows Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) and Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal), two younger cowboys dispatched to work as on the majestic Brokeback Mountain in the summertime of 1963. Throughout their expertise, Ennis and Jack are drawn into an surprising lifelong relationship, stuffed with love and loss.
Brokeback Mountain was nominated for eight Oscars together with Greatest Image. Brokeback Mountain delivered Ang Lee an Oscar win for Greatest Director, his second Academy Award after taking dwelling one in 2001 for Greatest International Language Movie for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Brokeback Mountain additionally gained an Oscar for Greatest Authentic Rating for Gustavo Santaolalla, and Greatest Tailored Screenplay for co-writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, who tailored from the brief story by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx. The film additionally landed a Greatest Actor nom for Ledger, Supporting Actor nom for Gyllenhaal and Supporting Actress nom for Williams.
Proulx’s brief story “Brokeback Mountain” was initially printed in The New Yorker in 1997, profitable the Nationwide Journal Award for Fiction. In 2000, a barely prolonged model was printed in Proulx’s brief story assortment Shut Vary: Wyoming Tales, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
There will likely be forthcoming merchandise and different linked initiatives linked with the anniversary of Brokeback Mountain.
Focus Options re-released Joe Wright’s 4x Oscar nominated Satisfaction & Prejudice final weekend to a notable $2.8M at 1,393 theaters. That film’s lifetime cume stands at $43.3M stateside.
