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Weinsteins Drop Seven Figures on TIFF’s Dirty Girl

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The second big deal of the Toronto Film Festival occurred today when the Weinstein Company acquired the road-trip flick Dirty Girl for a reported $3 million. Uh, wow. Abe Sylvia directed the ’80s-set film, starring Juno Temple as the title character who flees her high school (and possibly her bad reputation) with a gay classmate. Dwight Yoakam, Milla Jovovich and Willam H. Macy co-star; the purchase includes a theatrical-release guarantee, so save the shelf jokes for at least another six months if you don’t mind. [ Deadline ]

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5 Things Gossip Girl Should Do To Regain Its XOXO Mojo

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Spotted: A once zeitgeist-owning series relegated to the fringe of pop culture after a couple of seasons worth of mostly diminishing returns. The fourth year of Gossip Girl kicks off tonight, though if you didn’t realize that, you’re probably not alone. What was once a proud badge of cool (“I watch Gossip Girl !”) has turned into a Scarlett Letter of un cool (“Don’t tell anyone, but I still watch Gossip Girl “). Is there anything that can be done to stem this tide toward irrelevancy? Of course! Ahead, Movieline offers 5 quick and easy fixes to give Gossip Girl back her swagger.

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At TIFF: Brighton Rock Extends the Graham Greene Adaptation Curse

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In one of his sidelong memoirs, Graham Greene suggested that not only was the bullying he suffered as an English schoolboy the main reason that he became a writer, but that the character of Pinkie Brown, the anti-hero of his early novel Brighton Rock , was based on the scruffy ringleader who sent him running for the typewriter in the first place. Perhaps it’s a testament to just how much Greene loathed the punk he was modeled on that Pinkie is perhaps the least redeemed character in the author’s canon.

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