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Bankside takes on sales for Shake Hands With The Devil
Going into the Toronto International Film Festival, UK-based Bankside Films has acquired Roger Spottiswoode's Shake Hands With The Devil. The film screens as a Special Presentation in Toronto. Michael Donovan (Bowling for Columbine) produces with Laszlo Barna.Shake Hands With The Devil is based on the autobiography of Lieutenant General Romeo ...
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France and Italy acquire Mongol ahead of Toronto world premiere
Beta Cinema has closed deals with France's Metropolitan Filmexport and Italy's BIM Distribution for the distribution rights to Sergei Bodrov's Genghis Khan epic Mongol ahead of its world premiere as a special presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept 8. Beta had already presold the title to more ...
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Wild Bunch boosts strong Toronto slate with addition of $22m Terra
Wild Bunch has acquired worldwide rights outside English-speaking territories to the $22 million animated project Terra, which will screen in a gala world premiere at Toronto. The film is directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas and has a voice cast including Luke Wilson, Evan Rachel Wood, Danny Glover, Dennis Quaid, Rosanna Arquette, ...
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Rezo boosts Toronto slate with Sayles' Honeydripper
Following its success with Julie Delpy's 2 Days In Paris , France 's Rezo Films will handle international sales on another English-language film, John Sayles Honeydripper. The film will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this month and is a 'rock-n'-roll fable' about a 1950s juke joint ...
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Match Factory adds second Wayne Wang film to sales lineup
Cologne-based sales company The Match Factory has added a second Wayne Wang film - The Princess Of Nebraska - to its sales lineup to join Wang's A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers which will have its international premiere in Toronto's Masters section and screen in competition at San Sebastian. The ...
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THINKFilm takes world sales for Babenco's The Past
THINKFilm International has taken worldwide sales rights (excluding Latin America and Italy) to Hector Babenco's The Past (El Pasado). The film will have its world premiere in the Masters section of the Toronto International Film Festival. Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a young translator going through a divorce, whose former ...
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Fortissimo takes on Schnabel's Lou Reed film Berlin
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding North America, to Julian Schnabel's Berlin, a concert film featuring Lou Reed. Waterboy's Jon Kilik produced with Tom Sarig and Reed. Executive producers are LM Media Gmbh, Stanley Buchthal and Maja Hoffmann. Berlin will world premiere at this week's Venice International Film ...
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Toronto unveils 73 international titles
World premieres of new work from UK film-makers Nick Broomfield andSarah Gavron, Argentina's Hector Babenco and India's Rituparno Ghoshare among 73 international films unveiled for next month's TorontoInternational Film Festival.The line-up includes the North American premiere of Ang Lee'sShanghai-set wartime thriller Lust, Caution, as well as Ken Loach'ssocial drama It's ...
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Van Sant's Paranoid Park and Bernal's Deficit added to TIFF line-up
Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park and Gael Garcia Bernal's Deficit will have their North American premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. The two films, both screening in the Vanguard programme, were announced today along with the balance of the Real to Reel documentary programme and additional Midnight Madness titles ...
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Toronto shoots for Cronenberg premiere, closes with Emotional Arithmetic
Paulo Barzman's Emotional Arithmetic will be the Closing Night Gala at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, sources told Screen Daily. David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (pictured) will also have its world premiere at the event.Emotional Arithmetic, a $5.8m production, features Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer and ...
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Toronto adds eight titles including Gilroy's Michael Clayton
The Toronto International Film Festival has added eight titles to its line-up of Gala and Special Presentations for the September event. TIFF has declined to claim premiere status on the titles, although Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell And The Butterfly competed in Cannes.The new Gala titles are:Michael Clayton, the debut ...
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Toronto to open with premiere of Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces
The 32nd Toronto International Film Festival will open Sept 6 with the world premiere gala presentation of Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, organisers have announced. Stephen Dillane stars as a man who was orphaned in the Second World War and saved by a Greek archaelogist. Years later, he discovers true love ...
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Tribeca attendees talk tough about Oscars documentary rules
As could have been anticipated, a heated debate broke out as the independent documentary film-making community got a chance to debate the Oscar eligibility rules with two of the Academy's governors, Michael Apted and Rob Epstein.In a outreach programme at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...