Attendees of the Wrap-hosted foreign-language awards contender screening series at the Landmark aren’t often asked to put on their 3D glasses before the subtitles commence. Neither have many (if any) of the previous films in the series been produced with IMAX in mind.
But Russia’s “Stalingrad”ย heralds a different breed of international Oscars submission — one that would do Michael Bay proud, TheWrap managing editor Josh Dickey informed the crowd before Thursdayย night’s showing of the $30 million World War II epic.
Since being released in its homeland less than two months ago, “Stalingrad”ย has already become the biggest-grossing Russian movie of all time, and there may be some American action buffs reading a fully subtitled movie for the first time in their lives when the film opens in America next year, regardless of how Oscar voters take to it.