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So Where’s the Buzz About Sam Worthington and Keira Knightley’s TIFF Drama Last Night?

Posted on September 17, 2010 by | Leave a comment

According an official count just released by the Toronto International Film Festival, this year’s event spawned nearly two dozen U.S. distribution deals for selections including Super , Rabbit Hole , Cave of Forgotten Dreams , The Conspirator and Beautiful Boy — with more to come in the days and weeks ahead. But one high-profile title in particular — currently idling on Miramax’s shelf — has yielded exactly no industry buzz and a surprising dearth of discussion since its first screening nearly a week ago.

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Unauthorized Harvey Weinstein Doc Lands Distribution

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Rejoice! Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project — a documentary about exactly what it sounds like — has found a theatrical taker in IFC Films. It’s the distributor’s third deal of the week after TIFF acquisitions Super and Cave of Forgotten Dreams . According to a press release just over the Movieline transom, director Barry Avrich’s film is “a powerful, uncensored, no-holds-barred account that traces Weinstein’s path from concert promoter on the cold streets of Buffalo to his first trip to the Cannes Film Festival, where he arrived with one pair of pants and closed his first movie deal, to winning an Oscar, and breaking the bank with his first $100 million film.” Swoon. [ IFC Films ]

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Distributors go on Shopping Spree at Toronto

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After a relatively slow start, distributors at the Toronto Film Festival have started buying films like it’s pre-recession Sundance. There’s something for everyone in the latest batch of acquisitions: an offbeat coming of age story, an ultra-violent serial killer movie, a 3-D cave documentary and more! Read on to see who picked up what and when you can see it.

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9 First Impressions of Nicole Kidman’s Oscar-Ready TIFF Drama Rabbit Hole

Posted on September 14, 2010 by | Leave a comment

I don’t know where these rumors start, but no sooner had Rabbit Hole concluded its Toronto Film Festival premiere Monday night than the talk had begun: Is John Cameron Mitchell’s adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play — featuring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as an affluent married couple grappling with the accidental death of their 4-year-old son — worth adding to the 2010 Oscar shortlist? Honestly, I think it has more immediate concerns. A quick survey of first impressions follows the jump.

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James Gunn on His TIFF Hit SUPER, Sidekick Sex and Blending Art House with the Grindhouse

Posted on September 14, 2010 by | Leave a comment

James Gunn just spent one of the most successful weekends of his life in Toronto, premiering his new superhero-splatter-comedy SUPER to Midnight Madness raves before selling it off to IFC Films in the festival’s first distribution deal. In the end, though, Gunn’s biggest triumph may have come in writing and directing the film he wanted to make exactly how he wanted to make it, with Rainn Wilson’s nobody Frank adopting the crimefighting persona the Crimson Bolt after his wife (Liv Tyler) is all but kidnapped by a local drug baron (Kevin Bacon). It’s a lot harder than it sounds in an age of indie-market turbulence, comic-book genre saturation, and even Gunn’s own creative apprehensions following his 2006 debut Slither . He spoke to Movieline about these and other subjects — from Joe Strummer to God — over the weekend.

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Weinsteins Drop Seven Figures on TIFF’s Dirty Girl

Posted on September 13, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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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IFC is SUPER

Posted on September 12, 2010 by | Leave a comment

As predicted after its raucous, well-received Toronto premiere, James Gunn’s SUPER emerged from a bidding war this weekend with a new distributor. Not quite as predicted, that buyer was IFC Films, which will release the twisted, Rainn Wilson-starring, hero-with-a-wrench splatter-comedy via its new IFC Midnight banner. It’s the first sale of a film this year during the festival proper, with more expected to follow in the days ahead. Stay tuned here for details as events warrant… [ IFC Films ]

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Sarah’s Key, Casino Jack Get Picked Up at TIFF

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Let the deals begin ! At the Toronto International Film Festival, The Weinstein Company has just purchased the U.S. distribution rights for Sarah’s Key , a decades-spanning Holocaust drama based on the best-seller by Tatiana De Rosnay. Meanwhile, ATO Pictures announced that they’ll be distributing Casino Jack , the George Hickenlooper film starring Kevin Spacey as disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Look for that one to hit theaters in December. [ Deadline , MCN ]

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Watch Megan Fox Spread Her Wings for Mickey Rourke in Passion Play

Posted on September 10, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Bummed you won’t be in the audience for tonight’s world premiere of Passion Play at the Toronto International Film Festival? Here’s some consolation. The first clip of Mitch Glazer’s Southern-set drama has appeared online and it answers this question: What would Mickey Rourke’s face look like if he saw Megan Fox sprout wings? Click ahead to find out.

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Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls Gets a Title Makeover

Posted on September 9, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Maybe Tyler Perry got tired of having to constantly say, ” Precious: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire “? Whatever the reason, Movieline has confirmed that Lionsgate shortened the title of Perry’s award season ensembler For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf to just For Colored Girls (the new title just got its debut in these character posters ). First 5nal Destination goes bland , now this! [ Yahoo ]

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