Ever since 2009, unlike 99% of actors, he is overexposed, he got a career revival from ,it seems, THe Devil Wears Prada, reminding people how diverse he can be,not just playing dry stiff guys like in the Terminal or Shall We Dance perhaps, but sharp,quick-witted,hilarious and completely serious while doing it,sarcasm and self-awareness to it.
Since 2009 he has been in either 3 or 4 films a year,and many have a fatigue of him,despite knowing he is good. He did 1 or 2 movies a year prior to 2009, with 2004 and 1996 being exceptions due to scheduling of the studios.
In part its due to scheduling these last 5 years,since lovely bones for ex had been filmed in 2007,but only came out in dec 2009 or so. In the last 10 years,last 5 years especially,hollywood has made it into a neat package of dull sterile predictable formulaic release schedules,where independence day weekend and last weekend of may and first weekend of summer movie season(early may), and lately mid-late april has become a prime target weekend due to fast and furious and clash of the titans etc, and since alice in wonderland and watchmen it is a specific weekend in march, for battle:Los Angeles, Hunger Games and an animation movie etc. thanksgiving,christmas weekends too obviously. Also mid-july has been a longstanding sweet spot for blockbusters to come out,due to most profit coming from releasing it then,like inception,batman,wolverine,captain america,pacific rim, etc
Stanley tucci is being part of films that the studios often decide to delay a year or so in order to get an optimal release date with minimum competition, and some of his movies like percy jackson, hunger games saga, transformers, captain america, jack the giant slayer - all tentpole films,and so they will not be released in a certain month if that month has too much competition,this is why they moved GI Joe 9 months later,to edit it,and find a slot that had less competition,not june 29th,where there was too much competition before,during and after it,before ice age 4, spiderman, batman , and after prometheus,men in black 3, brave etc. So he has overexposure due to being part of films that are just all released within a few months of each other,even if he filmed them 1 year apart etc.
And you posted on june 26th 2012, just 3 days before jack the giant slayer was slated to open originally. And then a few months before,even after marketing started,they realized it wasnt competition worthy for that summer date,and so they moved it to march 1st 2013, so Tucci has 6 movies within 9 months,that is overkill,his face everywhere,and no matter who the actor is,tom hanks, daniel day lewis,marlon brando, gary oldman ,seymour-hoffman(R.I.P) or tucci, overkill is overkill, just become numb to his appearances,havent yet gotten to shake off his last gig,and here he is in another movie,filmed 1 year earlier for him,but coming out all at once. Jude Law had the same problem in 2004,with 6 films within a few months. 2004-the Jude Law year. 2013- the Stanley Tucci year.
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