In Monday’s round-up of news briefs, a quick look at weekend pick ups at the Toronto International Film Festival including The Place Beyond the Pines , Aftershock , Great Expectations and more that will head to a theater (hopefully) near you. Also Beasts Of The Southern Wild takes a top prize at the Deauville Film Festival in France. Focus Features Takes Toronto’s The Place Beyond the Pines The new drama starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes will be released in the U.S. via Focus Features. Directed by Derek Cianfrance ( Blue Valentine ). A World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film explores the consequences of motorcycle rider Luke (Mr. Gosling)’s fateful decision to commit a crime to support his child. The incident renders him targeted by policeman Avery (Mr. Cooper), and the two men become locked on a tense collision course which will have a devastating impact on both of their families in the years following. Toronto’s Great Expectations Heads to U.S. Theaters The Toronto Gala starring Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeremy Irvine, and Holliday Grainger, will head to theaters in North America via Outsource Media Group. Directed by Mike Newell, Great Expectations is a retelling of the classic and beloved Charles Dickens story of the young orphan Pip, who is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Moving through London’s class-ridden world as a gentleman, Pip uses his newfound position to pursue the beautiful Estella, a spoilt heiress he’s loved since childhood. Michel Gondry’s The We and the I Heads to N. American Theaters French director Michel Gondry’s Cannes Directors Fortnight opener The We and the I , which is having its N. American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, will open in theaters in the U.S. and Canada in early March. Distribution partners 108 Media and Paladin acquired the rights to the film that follows a group of Bronx high schoolers who board a city bus on their way home. With summer break ahead of them, and feeling more liberated than usual, this broad array of kids–the cool ones, the outsiders, and everyone in between–act out as only teenagers can and, in the course of one afternoon, their friendships, rivalries, ambitions, and anxieties are revealed. Strand Nabs In the Fog U.S. rights to Sergei Loznitsa’s In the Fog are headed to Strand Releasing. The film follows three men three men who find themselves deep in a forest during World War II and face a moral conflict. It received a FIPRESCI prize in Cannes. The film is currently playing Toronto. Leviathan Heads to Cinema Guild The doc by Lucien Castaing-Taylor will open theatrically in early 2013. The film takes a look at the commercial fishing business in the North Atlantic. It is having its North Americna premiere in Toronto and will have its U.S. debut at the upcoming New York Film Festival. Around the ‘net… Beasts of the Southern Wild, Una Noche Win Top Deauville Prizes Benh Zeitlin’s debut film won the Grand Prize at France’s Deauville Film Festival as well as the Cartier Revelation Award, while Lucy Mulloy’s “day in the life Cuban drama” took the Jury Prize. The International Critics Prize went to Michel Gondry’s The We and the I , THR reports . Dimension Scores Eli Roth’s Aftershock and Clown Dimension picked up rights to Aftershock , which is screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film is an earthquake thriller scripted by Roth, Nicolas Lopez & Guillermo Amoedo. The label headed by Bob Weinstein also picked up rights to Eli Roth’s Clown , which is based on a fan-made trailer that grabbed Roth’s attention after it went viral, Deadline reports .
Here’s a little positivity for your evening! Two points away from defeat, Serena shook off the funk and upped her game!! Finally tested at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams turned things around just in time. …Williams came back to win the last four games and beat No. 1-ranked Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 on Sunday night for her fourth championship at Flushing Meadows and 15th Grand Slam title overall. Williams improved to 26-1 since a first-round exit at the French Open in late May, winning Wimbledon and the London Olympics. It was the first three-set women’s final in New York since 1995, and Williams came through with a late charge. She is the first woman to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same season since she did it a decade ago. If you weren’t watching, Serena made a great comeback and we’re pumped from the amazing year she’s had! Congratulations Serena!! Source Images via WENN
The Toronto International Film Festival is off and rolling. TIFF’s official opening night is Rian Johnson ‘s Looper with Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt… and all kudos to them, but Toronto is sharing the opening spotlight with Walter Salles’ On The Road , a “surprise” event for Dredd , Rust & Bone — starring Gordon-Levitt’s The Dark Knight Rises co-star Marion Cotillard — and others. As TIFFers arrived in town, the tradition of a slow opening night ended. It was full tilt as events, traffic, schmoozing and gossip about what movie is good, what is less so, was well underway. One prognosticator even had the Best Female Actress Oscar noms already lined up (at least in his mind) — and one is Rust and Bone ‘s Cotillard, pictured here with Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard Thursday evening at a dinner hosted by Moet & Chandon Champagne at Michael’s in downtown Toronto. Of course no stranger to Oscar, the French actress won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for La vie en rose . She turns out another stunning performance in Rust & Bone , by French director Jacques Audiard, in which she plays a beautiful — naturally — woman who meets a club bouncer played by Bullhead actor Matthias Schoenaerts. Their chance meeting turns into a stronger bond that takes flight after an accident. “I was very excited after reading the script,” Cotillard said about her role playing Stephanie in Cannes in May . “When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.” Read more from the Toronto Film Festival. Follow Brian Brooks on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Ben Affleck ‘s look at a hidden story from the Iranian hostage crisis, Bill Murray as FDR, Marion Cotillard playing a woman whose life is dramatically altered in an instant, as well as a pair of acclaimed foreign language films are just a few of the most buzzed about movies coming out of this year’s Telluride Film Festival . Over the course of just four days here in this Colorado mountain town, attendees got a head start peek at some of the best movies of the year. Films and performance that will have moviegoers talking this fall. Marion Cotillard Saturday night here in Telluride, French actress Marion Cotillard sat at a small dinner alongside director James Gray. Directors Alexander Payne and Sally Potter were among those wishing her well at the intimate gathering after her on stage tribute. Cotillard is starring in Gray’s upcoming movie, Nightingale and Gray was here in Colorado to salute her on stage as she received a festival tribute. While the night included a five minute clip from Nightingale , the Cotillard movie that had festival goers buzzing was Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone . Marion Cotillard, Photo by Eugene Hernandez Set on a grittier side of the South of France than is typically pictured in the gossip magazines, Audiard’s Rust and Bone is the story of an animal trainer at the local Marineland who fights back from a dramatic setback. It would be an unfair spoiler to detail the nature of Cotillard’s character’s devastating journey but it’s safe to say that as she comes to grips with her future she also finds love in an unexpected place. Cotillard’s performance has been hailed since the film’s debut at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and there’s little doubt that the Oscar winner will be high atop year end lists of the best performances of the year. While it’s rare for an acting Academy Award to go to a lead in a foreign film, Cotillard already broke that barrier, winning the award for Ma Vie En Rose in five years ago. Rust and Bone opens in theaters on November 16th. Bill Murray While the best acting category will surely have some big names all vying for attention, the Telluride festival also showcased a male actor sure to turn heads. Comic legend Bill Murray plays it pretty serious in Roger Michell’s latest, Hyde Park on Hudson . He was a surprise attendee here in Telluride, walking on stage to cheers as he introduced Saturday’s screening of the 20th Century American historical drama. FDR had secrets, Michell’s film reiterates. The beloved U.S president who got the country through the Great Depression and took it into World War II was able to keep his paralysis from polio hidden from the American public. Even more buried at the time were the details of his apparent romances with numerous women, including a distant cousin near his rural upstate New York home. Uniquely, Bill Murray on Saturday compared playing FDR to performing at Carnegie Hall and cleaning out his garage. Things he never imagined doing in his life. However he said he wasn’t against giving it a shot. “I knew it would be hard,” Murray explained but added, “If I worked really hard and really tried I’d get something out of it.” In the film, scheduled to open in theaters in early December, Murray’s FDR navigates his private relationships even as his wife Eleanor tends to her own quiet affairs and his relationship with distant relative Daisy (Laura Linney) coincides with a weekend state visit by the King of England seeking the American presidents’s help on the verge of war. A Royal Affair Marital indiscretions and a monarchy collide head on in another film seen by American audiences for the first time here in Telluride, Nikolaj Arcel’s A Royal Affair . Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen stars as an aide to a mentally unbalanced King. Along the way he and the young Queen of Denmark develop a forbidden relationship. Domestic audiences will remember Mikkelsen for his turn as a villain in the recent James Bond movie, Casino Royale . This weekend’s he was also an acting honoree at the Telluride Film Festival, Mads Mikkelsen, Photo by Eugene Hernandez A Royal Affair depicts a scandal familiar to Scandinavians that doesn’t require that an audience have a detailed knowledge of European history to appreciate its universal themes. Nikolaj Arcel, writer of the original film version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , has created an engrossing costume drama that follows Mikkelsen’s insightful doctor who betrays a mad king by taking up with his wife. It opens on November 9th. Mikkelsen also stars this year in Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt , a Cannes competition entry that also screened here in Colorado and for which Mikkelsen won the best actor prize at the French festival. Amour The big winner in Cannes this year, anchored by stunning lead performances from legendary French actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, had Telluride audiences buzzing all weekend. Extra festival showings were added to meet demand here. Delicately directed by Austrian Michael Haneke, Amour is an end of life love story set amidst a devoted couple’s battle to gracefully navigate the natural disintegration of their union. Michael Haneke’s tender touch in this new movie surprised many who are fans of his films The White Ribbon , Cache , and Funny Games . Meanwhile those who were turned off by his previous work have been won over by this film. Witness the Cannes jury. President Nanni Moretti apparently wasn’t a Haneke fan but his group of jurors gave Haneke the best picture prize in Cannes. At the aforementioned dinner on Saturday night in Telluride, Cannes juror Alexander Payne was still praising the movie. Buzz this weekend was that it may just be a surprise contender for best picture when the Oscar nominations are announced. Amour opens in theaters on December 19th. Argo Speaking of golden statues, Ben Affleck’s Argo , is clearly an early awards season contender. Local attendees speculated that Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master or Terrance Malick’s To The Wonder might get a sneak peek slot here but it was Argo that secured the sole surprise sneak preview in Telluride this weekend. Ben Affleck, Photo copyright Pamela Gentile A suspense-filled look at a secret plot that rescued some of the Americans captured in Iran in 1979, Affleck’s Argo was immediately buzzed about as a viable Oscar contender. The plot involves a fictitious movie project that was created as the cover for a covert plot to free U.S. Embassy employees who secretly sought asylum in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran. Hollywood and the U.S. government quietly conspired to create the fake movie and successfully freed the would be hostages. More than one high profile Academy member praised the film this weekend. They rejoiced in the positive portrayal of the movie business afforded by Affleck. At a festival that loves movies as much as Telluride, Affleck’s Argo was beloved. At the height of the film’s tense climax, the Telluride audience burst into applause. Of course, it’s way too early to say — awards season is a marathon and this is just the first mile — but persistent talk throughout the weekend was that Argo is clear cut contender for an best picture nod. “This is one of the few festivals that really about seeing movies, rather than walking around and just talking about [them],” gushed Ben Affleck on stage this weekend here in Telluride. Argo will open on October 10th 3 More to Watch Three films that probably won’t see American screens until sometime next year were among the best that Telluride had to offer this year. Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha starring Greta Gerwig as a Brooklyn twenty-something was a sheer joy to experience. Actress turned director Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell , a surprising documentary about her family secrets, was a moving and powerful tribute to her parents. Finally, Gerard Barrett’s first feature, Pilgrim Hill , was a quietly powerful portrait of an Irish farmer that will resonate in this time of economic insecurity. The Telluride Film Festival takes place August 31-September 3. Follow Eugene Hernandez on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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