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    Focus Features takes on world sales for Lance Daly's Kisses

    2008-08-19T06:00:00Z

    Focus Features International has come on board to handle world sales on Lance Daly's festival crowdpleaser Kisses. The film, which won the Best Irish Film Award at the Galway Film Fleadh, screened earlier this month in competition in Locarno and will also show in Toronto.'The film had freshness and honesty. ...

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    TIFF adds 13 world premieres to Discovery, Vision and Vanguard

    2008-08-14T18:59:00Z

    The Toronto International Film Festival added a further 13 world premieres to an already impressive line-up, as it completed the slates for the Discovery, Visions and Vanguard programmes. Among the seven Discovery world premieres announced are Brian Goodman's What Doesn't Kill You, starring Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo as Bostonian ...

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    Martin-Smith's Stone Of Destiny to close Toronto

    2008-08-13T16:27:00Z

    Charles Martin Smith's Stone Of Destiny will be the closing night Gala at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF announced the title as well as an additional 20 Special Presentations, including 12 world premieres from major filmmakers.Among the debuts are Stephan Elliott's Noel Coward adaptation Easy Virtue, featuring Colin ...

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    TIFF announces Asian and Spanish-language titles

    2008-08-06T16:05:00Z

    The Toronto International Film Festival has added a raft of Spanish-language and Asian titles to its September line-up, including the world premiere of South Korean filmmaker So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain, the follow-up to her acclaimed 2006 debut In Between Days. Inspired by events in her own life, the new ...

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    Bavaria takes on Toronto world premiere Krabat

    2008-08-06T11:22:00Z

    Bavaria Film International has picked up international distribution rights for Marco Kreuzpaintner's $15.5m (Euros 10m) fantasy film Krabat which will have its world premiere in the official selection of the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival.Set in the 17th century, the story of Krabat, an orphan boy who is apprenticed to ...

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    TIFF unveils 20 world premiere documentaries

    2008-07-29T17:56:00Z

    The Toronto International Film Festival has announced 25 world premieres in its line-up of documentaries screening across various programmes. Among the debuts screening in the Real To Reel programme are An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud, a celebration of the electric guitar featuring three virtuosos, Led ...

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    JCVD to kick off Midnight Madness at Toronto

    2008-07-23T17:01:00Z

    Jean-Claude Van Damme's comeback contender JCVD will make its international premiere as the opening night film of the Midnight Madness programme at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Muscles from Brussels plays a down-and-out version of himself suddenly thrust into one of his own action films. The late-night cult sidebar ...

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    New films from Demme, Eyre get gala screenings at Toronto

    2008-07-17T22:35:00Z

    Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have boosted the line-up with gala presentations of Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married and Richard Eyre's The Other Man.Rachel Getting Married gets its North American premiere and stars Anne Hathaway as a sharp-witted drama queen who returns to the family homestead for ...

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    Focus: Countdown To Toronto

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Last week Cameron Bailey was in London. This week he is in Paris. Or maybe it is Brussels. Two months out from his September debut, the new co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) is in screening mode.'It's slightly more impossible than I expected,' he writes from wherever he ...

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    The Duchess, Secret Life Of Bees get TIFF gala screenings

    2008-07-10T18:03:00Z

    Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have added two gala presentations and seven special presentations to the line-up, as well as 13 additions to the Masters and Contemporary World Cinema strands.The gala screenings are the world premiere of Gina Prince-Bythewood's Southern States family drama Secret Life Of Bees ...

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    Match Factory to sell Somali supermodel film Desert Flower

    2008-07-09T10:31:00Z

    The Match Factory will be handling international sales on Sherry Hormann's adaptation of Waris Dirie's bestselling autobiography Desert Flower.The film is currently shooting in Berlin before being due to wrap in New York next week.Structured as a $17.4m (Euros 11m) European co-production by the 'single purpose' company Desert Flower Filmproductions ...

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    Toronto adds world premieres including Disgrace, Miracle Of St Anna

    2008-07-02T16:11:00Z

    The Toronto International Film Festival has added six films to its Special Presentations line-up for 2008.The films include four world premieres: Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Vicente Amorim's Good, Spike Lee's Miracle At St Anna, and Peter Sollett's Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist.North American premieres are Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes jury prize-winner Il ...

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    Toronto books best of Cannes in first programme announcement

    2008-06-26T18:10:00Z

    The Toronto International Film Festival announced its first tranche of titles, including Cannes competitors such as Atom Egoyan's Adoration, Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale, Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah and Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or winner The Class. All four will be North American premieres screening as Special Presentations. Kim Jee-woon's The Good, ...

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    Passchendaele to open Toronto Film Festival on Sept 4

    2008-06-17T17:56:00Z

    Paul Gross' WWI epic Passchendaele will open the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 4. Written, directed and produced by Gross, who also takes the lead role, the film is coproduced by Niv Fichman, Frank Siracusa and Francis Damberge. The film also features Caroline Dhavernas, Gil Bellows and ...

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    Noah Cowanmoves sidewaystoTIFF's Bell Lightbox

    2007-12-20T00:02:00Z

    Toronto International Film Festival co-director Noah Cowan is giving up his position to assume responsibility for year-round programming at the Toronto International Film Festival Group's (TIFFG) new headquarters, Bell Lightbox, with the title of artistic director. Cowan, who joined TIFFG CEO Piers Handling as co-director four years ago, will be ...

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    China Clipper to fly with China's Hengdian, Canada's Long Tale

    2007-09-11T09:00:00Z

    Vancouver-based Long Tale Entertainment has signed with Chinese production colossus Hengdian Studios for the $30m Canada-China co-production China Clipper.Long Tale's Harry Sutherland put the package together with US MoviePlus, the LA-arm of worldwide film finance entity set up by Stuart Little producer Steve Waterman and Chris Brough, founder of Vancouver's ...

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    Veneziano to leave GreeneStreet to head new partner Icon

    2007-09-11T06:08:10Z

    Ariel Veneziano is leaving GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) to head Icon Entertainment International (IEI) as part of a strategic alliance between IEI and GreeneStreet Films (GSF).Effective Sept 17, the Los Angeles-based Veneziano will acquire rights to select GSF films and library titles as IEI bulks up sales on third party ...

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    ContentFilm takes foreign sales for Coogan's Hamlet 2

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    ContentFilm International has come on board for foreign sales for comedy Hamlet 2, starring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. Coogan stars as a high school teacher who tries to save the school's drama department by writing his own sequel to Hamlet.Andrew Fleming (Nancy Drew, The Craft) will direct from a ...

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    Podell promoted in acquisitions for Weinstein Company

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Michal Podell has been promoted to senior vice president of acquisitions and business and legal affairs at The Weinstein Company.Podell, who formerly served as vice president of international business and legal affairs, is based in New York and will report to acquisitions heads Michelle Krumm and Maeva Gatineau and executive ...

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    Price starts Abraham's Point with Mackenzie Crook

    2007-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Writer/director Wyndham Price has started principal photography for Abraham's Point. The project is shooting for five weeks on location in Cardiff and the Pembrokeshire coast.Mackenzie Crook leads the cast and other actors include Joseph Millson, Mariah Gale and Harriet Walter.The film is about a antiques restorer who has strange hallucinations ...