All Toronto articles – Page 156
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Millennium comes on board Norton-starrer Leaves In The Grass
Millennium Films has boarded the $9.5m Edward Norton comedy Leaves InThe Grass after the financing deal set up through New York-based Barbarian fell apart in the summer.Tim Blake Nelson will start shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, on September 22 to take advantage of state tax incentives and Millennium's facility in the ...
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Carmody plans 3-D project Evil Dead: The Musical
Producer Don Carmody and partners are in negotiations with Spidermandirector Sam Raimi to bring to the screen the musical version of the formerhorror meister's Evil Dead films, Evil Dead: The Musical.Conceived by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris, the camp stage interpretation of Raimi's cult classic horror ...
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K5 on board for world sales of zomcom Wasting Away
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has acquired Matthew Kohnen's Wasting Away for worldwide sales.The US 'zomcom' feature, uniquely presented from the zombies' perspective, has picked up awards at ScreamFest, New Beijing, Festivus and Zompire.K5 spotted Wasting Away at Sci-Fi London and K5's Bill Stephens, Daniel Baur and Oliver ...
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Films Boutique takes on sales for Woschitz's Universalove
Berlin-based fledgling sales agent Films Boutique has picked up international rights for Austrian filmmaker Thomas Woschitz's Universalove which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last night.The co-production by Austria's Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production (KGP) with Luxembourg's Red Lion, Serbia's Art & Popcorn and the donaufestival.at was shot ...
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JCVD director El Mechri recruits Paradis for Midwife Crisis
As Gaumont racks up major sales on TIFF Midnight Madness opener JCVD, that film's director Mabrouk El Mechri is finalising the original script this month for his next project, offbeat romantic comedy Midwife Crisis.Gaumont will again produce, with New York's Forensic Films also on board. Vanessa Paradis is attached to ...
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ReviewsHeaven On Earth
Dir. Deepa Mehta.Canada 2008. 106 min.The yearnings and travails of an Indian emigre bride, a subject recently given a pictorial, naturalistic treatment inBrick Lane, gets a grittier, more mystical workout in Deepa Mehta’s slow-burning and quietly potentHeaven on Earth.The seventh feature of the Toronto-based director opened ...
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ReviewsNick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Dir. Peter Sollett. US. 2008. 89mins.The highly anticipated second feature of the New York-based independent Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas) valiantly attempts to both enliven and subvert the tendencies and predictability of the teenage romantic comedy - although the whole never quite registers as forcefully as ...
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ReviewsRain (Lluvia)
Dir: Maria Govan. The Bahamas. 2008. 93 mins.One of the first indigenously produced films to come out of the Bahamas, Maria Govan’s Rain shows a different side to Nassau where, in the shadows of luxury resorts and ocean liners, lives a subset of islanders battling the ...
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Match Factory closes Swiss, Italy deals on Venice winner Teza
The Match Factory has sold Venice award winner Teza to Switzerland (Trigon) and Italy (Ripley's Film). On Saturday, Haile Gerima's feature won Venice's Special Jury Prize and the Osella for Best Screenplay (also by Gerima). On Friday, it also won the SIGNIS Award special mention and Cinema for UNICEF commendation ...
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ReviewsDean Spanley (2008)
Dir. Toa Fraser. New Zealand/UK. 2008. 99mins.New Zealand director Toa Fraser’s Dean Spanley overcomes an uncertain and sketchy opening section to register as a moving and visually wondrous evocation of magic and imagination. The movie’s tonal shifts are fairly abrupt and the first third is frustratingly ...
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Lionsgate UK buys Caine-starrer Harry Brown from HanWay
Lionsgate UK has acquired the distribution rights to Harry Brown, being produced by Matthew Vaughn and Kris Thykier's MARV Films.HanWay Films is selling the project worldwide and handled the Lionsgate deal for MARV.Michael Caine has come on board to play the title role, opposite Emily Mortimer. Gary Young wrote the ...
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Fortissimo strikes Gigantic French deal with La Fabrique De Films.
Fortissimo Films has closed an all-rights French deal for Toronto title Gigantic to La Fabrique De Films.Matt Aselton directed the Killer Films and Epoch Films production, which has its world premiere Monday in Discovery.The surreal love story stars Zooey Deschanel, Paul Dano and John Goodman.Fortissimo EVP of International Sales Nicole ...
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Burns gets CTV backing for My Canada feature series
Toronto-based producer Michael Burns has teamed with Canada's largest private broadcaster CTV in the development of My Canada, a series of director-narrated documentary features after the fashion of Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg. Burns, who envisioned the series and commissioned Maddin, has enlisted top Canadian directors to create their own personal ...
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Media Luna adds five titles including Katia's Sister
Sales company Media Luna Entertainment has added five new titles to its Toronto lineup, including Mijke de Jong's Katia's Sister (Het Zusie Van Katia) which will have its North American premiere in Toronto tonight.De Jong's intimate portrait of a 13-year-old girl living in Amsterdam who loses her Russian mother and ...
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Magnolia takes North American rights to Julia from StudioCanal
StudioCanal has announced a North American sale on Erick Zonca's Julia. Magnolia Pictures has taken the film which stars Tilda Swinton. Julia was released earlier this year by StudioCanal in France and has sold to some 23 territories including Germany's Kinowelt, Spain's Verigo and the UK's Curzon Artificial Eye. In ...
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The Works rocks with UK rights to Anvil!
The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Sacha Gervasi's rockumnetary Anvil! The Story Of Anvil.The deal was sealed by the Works UK Distribution's managing director Mick Southworth and director of marketing Laurence Gornall, and CAA's Micah Green and Brian Kavanagh-Jones.The film is about Toronto-based metal band Anvil, ...