All Toronto articles – Page 146
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Axiom strikes UK deals for Goodbye Solo, Sugar, The Sea Wall
UK distributor Axiom Films has picked up three titles from Toronto to add to its growing slate. They are Goodbye Solo, Sugar and The Sea Wall.Memento is selling Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo, which won the Fipresci prize at Venice Critics Week. The story follows an African-born cab driver who befriends ...
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Summit picks up Hurt Locker, IFC Films gets Che at Toronto
Summit Entertainment has picked up US rights to Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker in the second significant domestic deal of the festival. The distributor closed the deal late on Tuesday night and plans to release the film in 2009. The deal follows a successful North American premiere for the war ...
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Palisades Tartan extends Fortissimo library deal
Palisades Tartan UK, the Palisades Pictures subsidiary formed with the takeover of the library of the now-defunct Tartan Films, has struck a deal to extend its UK distribution rights to Fortissimo Films titles.The library includes more than 30 films including Mysterious Skin, Capturing The Friedmans, 2046, Super Size Me, The ...
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Buyers look into Carlos Sorin's Window
Bavaria Film International has continued more sales here on Toronto titles. Carlos Sorin's The Window (La Ventana) has been sold to Benelux (Cinemien) and Brazil (Imovision). There are several French offers in play and a deal is expected by the end of TIFF.The Patagonia-set film about an elderly man and ...
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Maximum takes six films apiece from Fortissimo, Cinetic
After an earlier TIFF deal for Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Canadian distributor Maximum Film Distribution has taken on a package of six films from Fortissimo's current slate.Maximum has also taken Canadian rights to six titles from New York-based Cinetic Media as part of an exclusive output agreement between the two companies ...
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Newton heats up next projects after Three Blind Mice
Australian actor/writer/director Matthew Newton, here with Three Blind Mice, has two new scripts in development.People People is about a 40-year-old married couple trying to stay together. 'It's about comfort versus freedom,' Newton says. 'It's like an anti-rom-com, about how we relate to each other.'He also has LA-set genre piece about ...
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Ole Christian Madsen plans sex addiction drama
Ole Christian Madsen, here at TIFF with Danish smash hit Flame & Citron (The Match Factory has sold to 25 territories including IFC for the US), has several new projects in the works. The first to shoot will be a film about sex addiction to shoot in Denmark in December ...
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Arclight, Escape Factory and Infinity team up for Altitude
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films, Vancouver-based Escape Factory and Infinity Features will produce the supernatural thriller Altitude.Short film-maker Kaare Andrews will direct the story of a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends who battle a malevolent force when their plane malfunctions. Paul A Birkett wrote the screenplay.Principal photography is set ...
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Martin McGartland settles with Fifty Dead Men Walking producers
The producers of Fifty Dead Men Walking have settled with Martin McGartland, whose autobiography provided the basis for the film. McGartland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary mole who infiltrated the IRA and survived two attempts on his life, had taken issue with the film's misrepresentation of true events. Since viewing a ...
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Rotterdam 2009 to examine Asian horror, post-cinema screens
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is planning two special programmes for its 2009 edition: Hungry Ghosts, devoted to Asian horror; and Size Matters, about the omnipresence of multiple screens in the post-cinema age.The festival's director Rutger Wolfson, confirmed in March for a four-year term after a temporary helming of ...
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Reviews$9.99
Dir. Tatia Rosenthal.Israel/Australia, 2008. 78 mins.Dealing with such lightweight issues as ‘the meaning of life’ and ‘happiness’ may seem a bit excessive for a stop-motion animated film weighing in at less than 78 minutes. But the film doesn’t take itself that seriously after all, defusing some ...
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ReviewsThe Other Man
Director: Richard Eyre. UK/USA. 2008. 90mins.Richard Eyre is fast becoming the new master of unhealthy obsession. After Judi Dench’s creepily predatory school teacher inNotes On A Scandal, it is now the turn of Liam Neeson to play a fool for love inThe Other Man.Well-heeled literary adaptation ...
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ReviewsThe Stoning Of Soraya M
Dir. Cyrus Nowrasteh. US. 2008. 116mins.This harrowing, if cinematically flawed, account of a male mob’s murder of a young wife and mother according to Shariah law in an Iranian village in 1986, just a few years after Khomeini took power, takes on particular relevance today. Exposes ...
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ReviewsUncertainty
Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel. US. 2008. 101 minsRegular collaborators McGehee and Siegel have hit what is called in baseball a double-a compliment, that—with Uncertainty. In the past, their provocative films have veered toward the academic, as with the study of amnesia in the modern Cain-and-Abel ...
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Mongrel, Sienna, Foundry launch screenwriting lab
Two Toronto production companies are banding with boutique distributor Mongrel Media to launch The Writers Unit (TWU), a screenplay development lab. Mongrel president Hussein Amarshi, Sienna Pictures' Julia Sereny and Jennifer Kawaja, producers behind such films as How She Move and A Touch Of Pink, and Danny Iron of Foundry ...