Toronto Deals: Paladin and 108 Media Acquires Michel Gondry's 'The We and the I'
Paladin and 108 Media have snapped up the domestic rights to Michel Gondry's latest film "The We and the I," the two companies announced in Toronto on Saturday. Directed and co-written by Gondry...
View Article'Possession' Giving Lionsgate 4th Straight Box-Office Win
A weak weekend box office remained in the clutches of "Possesson," the exorcism thriller from Lionsgate. Last week's No. 1 film took in just under $3 million Friday and is on track for between $9.5...
View ArticleToronto Deals: Mike Newell's 'Great Expectations' Gets Distribution by...
In an ongoing flurry of deals at the Toronto Film Festival, director Mike Newell's "Great Expectations" was bought for North American distribution on Saturday by a new distributor, Outsource Media...
View ArticleToronto Deals: 'Dangerous Liaisons' Sells to Wellgo USA Entertainment...
The Chinese remake of "Dangerous Liaisons," screening at the Toronto Film Festival, has sold for U.S. distribution to Wellgo USA Entertainment, TheWrap has learned. Starring Zhang Ziyi ("Crouching...
View Article'Pieta,' 'The Master' Win Top Venice Prizes - Jury Shifts Votes
A South Korean film, "Pieta," took the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday while Paul Thomas Anderson took the Silver Lion for "The Master" as the awards got underway amid shifting...
View ArticleSean Bean to Star in 'Scorched Earth' for '24' Director Brad Turner
Sean Bean will star in "Scorched Earth," a post-apocalyptic action movie from Emmy-winning director Brad Turner. Bean, the "Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones" star, will play Atticus Gage, a...
View ArticleToronto Deals: Tom Wilkinson Cast in Joel Edgerton Thriller 'Felony'
Two-time Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson has joined the thriller "Felony," starring opposite the previously cast male lead Joel Edgerton, it was announced in Toronto on Saturday by The Solution...
View ArticleToronto Film Fest: Johnny Depp Bonds, Gets Tattoo With 'West Memphis 3'...
Johnny Depp claimed "brotherly love" for his friend, the wrongly convicted Damien Echols, ahead of a screening on Saturday that the Arkansas ex-jailbird nearly missed because of a visa denial to the...
View ArticlePhoto Slideshow: Behind the Scenes at Stand Up to Cancer
The stars came out in support of "Stand Up to Cancer," the live fundraiser for cancer reasearch, that took place Friday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The event, which is held every two...
View ArticleFocus Features Picks Up U.S. Rights to Toronto Favorite, 'The Place Beyond...
Focus Features has picked up U.S. distribution rights to the Toronto-favorite, "The Place Beyond the Pines," an executive with the company told TheWrap. The deal closed early Sunday morning. The film...
View ArticleToronto Film Fest: "Place Beyond the Pines" Mixes Star Power With Storytelling
Of the movies up for acquisition at the Toronto International Film Festival, there may be none with as high-octane a cast as "The Place Beyond the Pines," starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper. The...
View ArticleToronto Film Fest Day 3: 'Silver Linings Playbook' Is an Instant Contender,...
David O. Russell may not want to have this announced publicly, but Saturday's Toronto International Film Festival brought us a new heavyweight in the Oscar race. "The Silver Linings Playbook,"...
View ArticleCorsan Launches $100 Million Fund in Toronto
The Belgium production and finance company Corsan, which recently released details on its new Paul Haggis film "Third Person," announced a new production fund to invest in up to five new films a year,...
View ArticleToronto Deals: Elizabeth Banks Joins Amy Berg's 'Every Secret Thing'
Elizabeth Banks has joined Amy Berg's "Every Secret Thing" and will star opposite Diane Lane in the big-screen adaptation of Laura Lippman's book of the same name, it was announced in Toronto on...
View Article'Possession' Wins Weekend as Box Office Goes to Hell
In the worst box office weekend of the year, Lionsgate's exorcism thriller "Possession" repeated as the No 1 movie taking in just $9.5 million. The No. 2 film, 'Lawless," in its second week, finished...
View ArticleToronto Deals: Buyers Warm to Icelandic Drama 'The Deep'
As U.S. studios circle Baltasar Kormakur's "The Deep," U.K. rights for the film have sold to the Metrodome Group, and BAC Films has taken French rights to the Icelandic drama, it was confirmed in...
View Article'Raiders of the Lost Ark' Outperforms Box-Office Whipper-Snappers
How bad a weekend was it at the box office? Really bad -- as in the lowest since the week after 9/11, And so bad, the 31-year-old "Raiders of the Lost Ark" outperformed everything else in wide...
View Article9/11 Anniversary: 11 Years Later, Coverage Quiets Down
There were ceremonies and speeches, but 11 years after the Twin Towers crumbled in a horrifying cloud of smoke, taking with them the lives of more than 2,600 Americans and leaving deep scars on the...
View Article'Sunday Night Football' Has Highest-Rated Episode Ever
Sunday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos was the highest-rated episode of "Sunday Night Football" ever on NBC and tied the 2010 "NFL Kickoff" opener on a Thursday for the...
View Article2012 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
Six authors -- four British, one Indian and one Malaysian -- will compete for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, one of the highest honors in literature, worth about $80,000 (or £50,000), it was announced...
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