All Toronto articles – Page 157
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Venice Film Festival confirms permanent date change
The 65th Venice Film Festival artistic director Marco Muller has confirmed that next year's festival will open later, on September 2. More significantly, he said that the shift to the first Wednesday in September would be a permanent one. That means that, while the next two years will not see ...
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Generator stirs up Ghost Machine in Belfast
New UK genre production outfit Generator Entertainment continues to build its busy slate with principal photography starting yesterday (Friday) on Chris Hartwill's debut feature Ghost Machine.The supernatural thriller stars Sean Faris, Rachael Taylor, Luke Ford and Richard Dormer.Anchor Bay Entertainment has US distribution rights and worldwide sales are being handled ...
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ReviewsGhost Town
Dir: David Koepp. USA. 2008. 103 mins.A minor studio comedy notable as the first Hollywood starring vehicle for UK comic Ricky Gervais, Ghost Town takes a formulaic story about a curmudgeon learning to love and spices it up with some Gervais-style sarcasm and smartass dialogue. Making ...
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ReviewsSauna
Dir: Antti-Jussi Annila. Finland. 2008. 83mins.Finnish director Antti-Jussi Annila (Jade Warrior) invokes slavishly two masters, Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick, with this intensely baroque and religion-inflected period horror movie. The severely grotesque atmosphere and mannered style suffocate the promising ideas and results in a dramatically incoherent ...
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ReviewsThe Secret Life Of Bees
Dir: Gina Prince-Bythewood. USA. 2008. 110 minsInspirational life lessons abound in The Secret Life Of Bees, a wholesome, heartwarming version of the Sue Monk Kidd bestseller. The mixture of personal heartache and social history is handled with tender loving care, but is so sentimental and sermonising ...
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Celluloid kicks off Toronto with busy sales for Venice titles
Celluloid Dreams has closed a number of deals on Venice/Toronto titles Achilles And The Tortoise and Mark Of An Angel, plus a number of key deals on Venice title Birdwatchers.Safy Nebbou's French thriller Mark Of An Angel has sold to the UK (Metrodome), Greece (Odeon), Canada (Seville), and Switzerland (Xenix). ...
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BackUp launches new funding scheme with indie distributors
French film financing agency BackUp Films has created a new funding scheme intended to co-acquire distribution rights alongside independent distributors. The venture, entitled Districup, will share risk with distributors while the distributors will have the opportunity to own all of the co-acquired rights following the first exploitation cycle.In its first ...
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Memento adds sales on Goodbye Solo to Benelux, Switzerland
Memento Films International has generated strong buzz on Venice Horizons title Goodbye Solo with sales to Imagine in Benelux and Xenix in Switzerland. Following its premiere in Venice, the film is also being pursued with offers from France, Portugal, Greece and Italy among others.Ramin Bahrani's third feature will hit Toronto ...
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Anna Marsh joins StudioCanal as VP of international sales
StudioCanal has employed Anna Marsh as vice president of international sales in charge of English-speaking territories, Scandinavia and Latin America. Toronto will be her first outing with StudioCanal.Marsh, formerly of TF1 International, will be based in both Paris and London and report to StudioCanal international sales executive vice president Harold ...
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ReviewsRockNRolla
Dir/scr: Guy Ritchie. UK. 2008. 114mins.RocknRolla returns Guy Ritche precisely to the world that made his name; the low-level underworld of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1999) and Snatch (2000) which were in turn the inspiration for a UK geezer subgenre (Sexy Beast, Layer Cake, ...
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Plastic City set for new edit after Venice, Toronto screenings
Celluloid Dreams has confirmed that the version of Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City screening here in Toronto Special Presentations is an 'unfinished' version.After the post-production was rushed for the world premiere in Venice, the sales company will work with the film-makers after Toronto to recut the film.Gordon Spragg, Celluloid Dreams' director ...
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Fifty Dead Men Walking author holds legal fire against TIFF
The author of Fifty Dead Men Walking is holding his fire. Martin McGartland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary mole who infiltrated the IRA and nearly paid for it with his life, has decided to see the film for a second time. The film, which screens as a gala on Sept. 10, ...
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Sunshine Barry boogies with Baltics, Benelux, India
Sola Media has sold 3-D animation Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms to more territories including the Baltics (AMCE), Benelux (Independent Films) and India (VMI).Thomas Borch Nielsen's film has its world premiere here in with public screenings starting Sept 7. Sola previously booked sales for 40 countries including Brazil (Imagem), ...
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The Works on board for Rachel Ward's feature debut Beautiful Kate
The Works International has taken on world sales for Rachel Ward's Beautiful Kate. Ward's feature directorial debut is based on the novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg.Beautiful Kate is a story of dark family secrets in the Australian outback - told in parallel strands of past and present ...
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Venice dates move: A storm in a teacup'
Reports that the Venice Film Festival is contemplating moving its start date into September next year will not affect Toronto, which itself moves back a week to start on Sept 10 in 2009.Toronto's dates traditionally shift with the calendar (the first Thursday after North American Labour Day). Venice's dates this ...
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UK minority film-makers join Toronto Talent Lab
The UK film industry has selected Juliet Ellis and Robert Samuels as its two black, Asian or minority ethnic film-makers to participate in Toronto's Talent Lab (Sept 3-6).Samuels is currently developing The Amazing Labours of Arthur Glass with Film4.This marks the second year that UK training body Skillset has partnered ...