Ask a number of awards prognosticators around town: If they had to make a bet in Las Vegas on a surefire Oscar contender right now, it would be Lionsgate’s La La Land, which just won the awards-bellwether People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival. Lionsgate just announced that instead of debuting the Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone musical in limited theaters on December 2, they’ll now step back to December 9. As originally planned, the wide break for the Damien…
