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Friday, October 12, 2012

Toronto 2012: IATSE Launches Protest Outside Festival Headquarters Over Out-Sour


Toronto 2012: IATSE Launches Protest Outside Festival Headquarters Over Out-Sour

dispute that follows contracting out of digital file revisions has led to a peaceful information picket by the projectionists union in front of Bell Lightbox in Toronto.

TORONTO – The Toronto International Film Festival faces an information picket by IATSE Local 58 outside Bell Lightbox, the fest's year-round headquarters, on the eve of its 37th edition.

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The festival is looking to resolve the dispute over out-sourcing of digital revision work to Deluxe Toronto through arbitration to avoid any major disruption when Hollywood and the rest of the international film world descends on Toronto from September 6.

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"The collective agreement provides for a process for handling disagreements like this through an arbitration hearing, which we are in the process of scheduling," TIFF spokeswoman Jennifer Bell said Friday in a statement.
"This is the process that IATSE and TIFF have agreed to, and this is the way that the issue will be resolved," she added.

The IATSE local is at odds with TIFF after it contracted work to check and prepare digital film files ahead of the festival screenings running from September 6 to 16.
In the past, the revising of celluloid film ahead of the annual September film festival was done in-house.
But with TIFF like most festivals increasingly employing digital projection technology, Toronto organizers insist revising digital files cannot be done in-house.
IATSE Local 58, meanwhile, is looking to protect its turf with the information picket outside Bell Lightbox.

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"They somehow seem to think that the fact that it can't be performed in-house somehow takes away our jurisdiction. It does not," IATSE president Jim Brett told the Globe and Mail newspaper.
IATSE Local 58, which represents TIFF projectionists and revisors, filed a grievance on the contracting out of work to Deluxe Toronto.
The festival maintains the action has so far been "peaceful" in the run-up to TIFF, and within the right of IATSE Local 58.

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Nearly 40 films sold at Toronto...



Nearly 40 films sold at Toronto
Robust tally, announced day before fest ends, includes 29 sales to U.S. distribs

Nearly 40 films have been sold at the Toronto International Film Festival, including 29 to U.S. distributors.
The festival made the announcement Saturday, the day before the event closes.

"We're pleased that the Festival continues to provide opportunities for buyers to see films in a strong environment which facilitates film sales," said Justin Cutler, senior manager of TIFF's sales and industry office. "It had been a particularly robust year for sales and we're happy that the Festival's official selection will reach film lovers across the world."

Focus Features' acquisition of cop thriller "The Place Beyond the Pines" on Sept. 8 has been the largest deal so far at an estimated $3 million for U.S. distribution rights. That deal appeared to lead to other acquisitions closing in the subsequent week.

Lionsgate and its partner Roadside Attractions have been the biggest buyers, snapping up U.S. right to historical drama "Emperor" on Friday night to go along with four other acquistions -- Sarah Polley's doc ''Stories We Tell,'' Joss Whedon's ''Much Ado About Nothing,'' Stuart Blumberg's ''Thanks for Sharing,'' and Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman's ''Imogene.''

IFC picked up a quartet of projects -- Neil Jordan's vampire thriller "Byzantium," Mira Nair's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha" and Jamie Babbit's thriller "Breaking the Girls."

Millennium Entertainment acquired U.S. rights on two high-profile films: Josh Boone's comedy-drama "Writers" and Julianne Moore-Alexander Skarsgard starrer "What Maisie Knew." Buyers for significant titles have included Anchor Bay ("Jayne Mansfield's Car"), newly launched Outsource Media Group ("Great Expectations") and 108 Media/Paladin ("The We and I").

HBO Films also snapped up the U.S. television rights on a pair of feature docs -- Liz Garbus' Marilyn Monroe vehicle "Love, Marilyn," beating out bids from Sony Pictures Classics, IFC Films and Magnolia Pictures; and Tom Donahue's casting directors project "Casting By."

Late acquistions closing Friday included Samuel Goldwyn Films' buying Michael McGowan's romancer "Still," starring James Cromwell and Genevieve Bujold; Magnolia Pictures' snagging North American rights to Ramaa Mosley's fantasy-satire "The Brass Teapot"; and Cinedigm buying horror project "Come Out and Play."

Strand, which specializes in foreign titles, bought three films for U.S. distribution -- Pablo Trapero's "White Elephant," "In the Fog" and the "Paradise" trilogy.

Tribeca Films acquired "How to Make Money Selling Drugs" and "Fitzgerald Family Christmas," and MPI Pictures bought U.S. rights to "Therese Desqueyroux," the final film of French director Claude Miller and the closing night film at Cannes this year.

Two days before Toronto started, one of the more intriguing purchases went through, when Annapurna Pictures bought the U.S. distribution rights to Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers," starring James Franco - even though Annapurna does not yet have a distribution arm.

Some of the unsold titles include Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder," Rola Nashef's "Detroit Unleaded," Deepa Mehta's "Midnight's Children," Sally Potter's "Ginger & Rosa" and Ariel Vromen's "The Iceman."

The festival accredited 4,280 industry delegates, up 9% growth over 2011 and representing 2,563 companies from 81 countries (up from 77 in 2011). TIFF said attendance from Asia increased by 40% from Japan, China, India and South Korea.

"With the Festival's inaugural Asian Film Summit and Mumbai as the focus of the City to City programme, our goal was to attract more interest from delegates in Asia this year and we're very happy with the results," said TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey.

Sales to international markets included "7 Boxes," "Come Out and Play," "The Deep," "The Deflowering of Eva Van End," "The Fifth Season," "A Hijacking," "Lore," "Out of the Dark," "Reality," "Something in the Air" and "Stories We Tell."

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Toronto 2012: Robust U.S. Film Sales Reported as Fest Draws to a Close...


TIFF organizers point to 29 indie titles finding U.S. distribution this year as acquisition titles like "Place Beyond the Pines," "Imogene" and "What Maisie Knew" secured buyers.

High-profile deals during the Toronto International Film Festival had organizers on Saturday touting a robust film market this year.

In all, TIFF reported that 29 of its film titles sold into the U.S. market.
That included The Place Beyond the Pines selling to Focus Features, Millenium Entertainment grabbing Writers and Julianne Moore's What Maisie Knew, and Samuel Goldwyn taking the James Cromwell-starrer Still.

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Also selling at Toronto's unofficial film market is Thanks for Sharing, Imogene, the historical epic Emperor and Much Ado About Nothing going to Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions, Dangerous Liaisons landing with Well Go U.S.A., Roadside Attractions taking Stories We Tell for itself, and The End of Time going to First Run Features.

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, which bowed in Venice before screening in Toronto, went to Annapurna, and IFC Films busily picked up Neil Jordan's vampire pic Byzantium, Something in the Air and Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist for North America.

Other Toronto titles nabbing U.S. distribution included the North American rights to The Brass Teapot going to Magnolia, Magnet taking John Dies at the End, and Love, Marilyn going to HBO Doc Films.
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In all, 40 TIFF titles this year sold internationally, and more agreements are expected in the lead-up to AFM, as Toronto fest organizers touted the gains of its film market over the last nine days leading up to Sunday, when the festival wraps its 37th edition.

"It's been a particularly robust year for sales and we're happy that the festival's official selection will reach film lovers across the world," Justin Cutler, senior manager of TIFF's sales and industry office, reported Saturday.

Toronto will next hand out its audience and jury awards on Sunday afternoon.
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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Toronto 2012: FilmDistrict's Peter Schlessel on the Fest -- 'It's My Favorite Ac


The movie vet talks to THR about nabbing "Looper," leaving Sony and the future for upstart film labels.

This story first appeared in the Sept. 14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

Known in the film world as a sharp and savvy consigliere, Peter Schlessel spent 21 years at Sony -- including a stint as president of Columbia Pictures -- before leaving in 2010 to launch FilmDistrict, the domestic distribution company backed by financier-producer Graham King and oil billionaire Tim Headington. Schlessel, who discovered and acquired rights to a string of hits including District 9 while at Sony, continued his winning streak with the low-budget horror pic Insidious, the inspirational Soul Surfer and the Ryan Gosling vehicle Drive. But FilmDistrict hit a speed bump in fall 2011, when experienced execs Bob and Jeanne Berney exited. In an Aug. 27 interview in his Santa Monica office -- bursting with sports, movie and music memorabilia, along with pictures of daughters Stevie, 18, and Sammy, 16 -- the energetic executive discussed how the company has bounced back, growing from a staff of seven to more than 40, including newly installed marketing president Christine Birch. A key milestone for FilmDistrict comes Sept. 6 when Looper, a sci-fi thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, opens the Toronto International Film Festival.

The Hollywood Reporter: How did you acquire distribution rights to Looper, which you are releasing with TriStar/Sony?

Peter Schlessel: I'd started chasing the script during the early days of FilmDistrict. I love sci-fi movies, and this one had so many layers and the story had such great characters, but what really sold it was meeting with [director] Rian Johnson (Brick) and hearing his vision. I told Jim Stern, a friend who produced and financed the movie through his Endgame Entertainment, that he had to sell me this movie, and I slipped the script to Marc Weinstock [Sony's president of worldwide marketing].

THR: How important has Toronto become in terms of launching a fall film?

Schlessel: It's more important than both Telluride and Venice in terms of the North American market. That's not to take away from either, but more people pay attention to what happens in Toronto, both for awards movies and for films opening in September and October. Look at what happened last year with The Descendants. The drumbeat started at Toronto.

THR: Will you bid on any movies during the festival?

Schlessel: We have no space the rest of this year, but we have room next year. Toronto is my favorite acquisitions market for different reasons. It has bigger available movies -- our focus. We found Insidious there in 2010, when it played in the Midnight Madness section. We made our offer at 2 a.m. after the screening and closed the deal at 4:30 a.m.

THR: What does the near future look like for companies like yours as the major studios cut back on the number of films they make?

Schlessel: I don't know if studios have ceded any ground, but clearly they are concentrating on bigger tentpoles. It was clear to me watching what was happening in the marketplace that theater owners wanted more movies. And with all the new equity money coming into Hollywood, I realized you could run a smart business and figure out how to get these movies to the marketplace in a cost-effective way.

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THR: Why did you decide to pick up MGM's Red Dawn remake after many of your competitors passed?

Schlessel: I wrote a memo to myself two years ago after I saw an early version saying the movie was good but the cast wasn't known. Then I saw the movie six or seven months later, and all of a sudden the cast was great, between Chris Hemsworth of Thor and Josh Hutcherson of The Hunger Games. It was like buying a good bottle of cabernet and letting it sit on the shelf.
THR: Will there be some heat because MGM changed the villains from the Chinese to the North Koreans?
Schlessel: No, but I think people will talk about it. It's a villain who people won't disagree is a villain.
THR: Why did you decide to leave the protection of a Hollywood studio for a more risky upstart?
Schlessel: I didn't look at it that way. It was time to take the next step. There wasn't room to create my own label, and my personal satisfaction had plateaued. I thought long and hard and had a lot of dinners with Amy [Pascal]. If ever I was going to leave, this was the time. To stay would have felt like a capitulation.
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While still heading Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, the exec snapped up U.S. rights to District 9, a tiny South African film that went on to gross north of $115 million in North America, one of the most profitable movies of 2009.
The piece hanging behind Schlessel's desk in his Santa Monica office is from pop illustrator Burton Morris, who designed the poster for the 76th annual Academy Awards.

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Toronto 2012: European Film Promotion Backs Sales of Toronto Titles...


"Great Expectations," "Hannah Arendt," "Paradise: Love" and "A Hijacking" are some of the European films benefiting from the EFP's film sales support program.

BERLIN – 54 European films from 19 different countries screening at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival will receive support from the European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support program, which provides cash to European companies and films to support their international distribution.

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A total of 30 different sales and 11 production companies will benefit from the $275,000 (€200,000) in funds earmarked for promotional campaigns of European films. Some of the titles that will receive support include Margarette von Trotta's Hannah Arendt, which The Match Factory is selling in Toronto; Hanway Films' Great Expectations from director Mike Newell; Cannes Competition title Paradise: Love from Ulrich Seidl, which the Coproduction Office is selling internationally; Michael Winterbottom's Everyday, sold by Bankside Films; and A Hijacking from Danish director Tobias Lindholm, which TrustNordisk is selling worldwide.

In total nearly 140 European titles will screen at various sections at the Toronto festival this year. TIFF is the flagship partner of the Film Sales Support program, which is backed by the European Union's Media Programme.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Toronto 2012: Festival Director Piers Handling Expects Strong Film Market...


Hot TIFF titles for U.S. buyers include the latest works by Robert Redford, Brian De Palma, Terrence Malick, Harmony Korine, Derek Cianfrance and Liz Garbus.

TORONTO - After lengthening its red carpets to help star-driven titles debut to foreign buyers, Toronto International Film Festival organizers are pumping up the volume on their unofficial market.

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"I don't think it's just going to be OK. I think it's going to be a very strong year," TIFF director Piers Handling told The Hollywood Reporter about the slew of sales companies headed to Toronto to close deals with key distributors from around the globe.

Robert Redford's The Company You Keep and Brian De Palma's Passion will both arrive in Toronto for a North American debut without U.S. distribution, and, as things stand today, so too will Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond The Pines and Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers.

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Despite a flat economy, Handling expects an exceptional year for film sales in Toronto, which is well on its way to recovering from the deep market trough experienced in 2008-09.
"There's no question the industry has become more healthy. It certainly went into a deep drought and I don't think it has come back out entirely," Handling said.

As in past years, TIFF programmers are front-end loading the festival with sales titles, many of which are star-driven to boost buyer appeal.

These include: What Maisie Knew, by directors Scott McGhee and David Siegel; Shola Lynch's Free Angela and All Political Prisoners; Liz Garbus' Love, Marilyn, To the Wonder, by Terrence Malick; and Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing.

Handling insisted mid-range indie titles with budgets of between $20 million to $40 million, the range in which most international filmmakers screening in Toronto work, remain the most challenged in finding buyers.

"They're not working with the big budgets, the tentpole summer films. And they're not making the low-budget $10-million-dollar pictures. They've done that, been there, seen it. So they're in the mid-range," Handling said of mid-budget indie filmmakers.

Other hot films for U.S. buyers include Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children, Sally Potter's Ginger and Rosa, Mike Newell's Great Expectations and Thanks for Sharing, by Stuart Blumberg.

U.S. distributors will also have their pick of Ramaa Mosley's Brass Teapot, the tennis doc Venus and Serena by Maiken Baird, Kon-Tiki, by directors Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, Chinese director Hur Jin-Ho's Dangerous Liaisons and Ariel Vromen's The Iceman.

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Toronto 2011: IM Global and Penny Black Team on New Financing Fund

Joint venture will focus on developing entertainment properties that have the potential for success in multiple media formats.

Powerhouse sales and financing company IM Global and New York-based investment firm Penny Black are teaming on The 1840 Fund, which will focus on developing entertainment properties that can play across multiple media platforms, whether movies, live events or digital media.

The combination of IM Global's eye for commercially viable content and Penny Black's financial resources and entrepreneurial edge is an exciting one. We're looking forward to sourcing some great projects together," said IM Global CEO Stuart Ford in announcing the joint venture with Penny Black executive chairman Lawrence Salameno.
The amount of the fund wasn't disclosed; nor was the first project.
Penny Black is the business of financing early stage innovation across multiple industries. We see content consumption commanding higher degress of flexibility, driven primarily by technology options," said Salameno.
Among its ventures, Penny Black has provided strategic financing for Kristin Hanggi's production company Wonder Falls Entertainment. Hanggi is the Tony Award-winning director of Rock of Ages, which is now being adapted for the big screen by Warner Bros.
We see content consumption commanding higher degrees of flexibility, driven primarily by technology adoption. At the same time, capital efficiency is accelerating the time and lowering the cost of bringing new ventures to market. Networks are essential to our thesis, strong resources, talent, and capital is critical and exemplified by top-tier partners like Stuart and IM Global," Salameno continued.
The 1984 Fund will look for properties such as Rock of Ages that can translate across different platforms. Another example is IM Global and parent company Reliance ADA's big-budget feature Walking with Dinosaurs, based on the wildly successful BBC television series and live event, and which they are making in partnership with BBC Worldwide and Evergreen Films.
The deal was negotiated on behalf of IM Global by executive vice president of motion picture finance Michael Roban and on behalf of Penny Black by managing director Eliot Durbin.
News comes on the eve of the Toronto Film Festival, where Ford will continue to sell foreign rights to Madonna's W.E., among other titles.

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Toronto 2011: Canadian and European Producers Chase Buyers at Film Market

As Hollywood stars strut the red carpet in Toronto, local and foreign producers will be active behind velvet ropes beating the ferns for film buyers.

TORONTO -- Like paparazzi with their "Hey guys! Over here! Over here!" calls this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian and international producers will be battling for attention in Toronto amid the Hollywood glare.

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Cedric Jeanson of New York-based Filmbox, which is selling Matthew Goode's Burning Man internationally after its world premiere at TIFF, has just laid on another private screening Friday at Bell Lightbox.
"Lots of distributors have tracked the film. People have seen the footage, read the screenplay, they want to ensure the film works emotionally as a whole,"Jeanson explained.
Burning Man, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, features Goode playing an English chef in Australia trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back together after a family illness, while surrounded by beautiful women.
CAA is repping the emotionally-driven drama for domestic rights.
"We'll see. The festival has been very supportive of the film. We're pretty hopeful that good distributors will respond strongly to it," Jeanson said.
Also hoping for an emotional reception from Toronto audiences and film buyers is Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, who is bringing her latest film, Where Do We Go Now?, to the festival after a Cannes bow.
"You never know how it happens. Sometimes it's completely unexpected. Until now, wherever we have screened the film, we've had positive reactions," Labaki said of the Lebanese village drama set against the backdrop of civil strife.
"People are surprised by the emotions they feel, as they go from laughter to tears. A normal audience who let themselves go to these kinds of emotions will respond positively," she added.
Labaki's debut film, Caramel, screened as a gala at TIFF in 2007.
Pathe' International will be shopping the international rights to Where Do We Go Now? in Toronto.
Indie maven Casian Elwes will be working U.S. distributors in Toronto to secure a theatrical release stateside for Edwin Boyd, Nathan Morlando's theatrical drama about a Canadian bank robber-turned-Toronto folk hero that stars Scott Speedman.
The indie pic, which stars Speedman as a gentleman bandit who rose to 1950s media fame in post-war Toronto for dramatic bank hold-ups and two prison breaks, was initially shopped to foreign buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.
Then a movie trailer was shown to distributors in Cannes.
"Buyers will see the film for the first time at TIFF, and sales will begin in earnest," Edwin Boyd producer Allison Black of Euclid 431 Pictures said Thursday, ahead of a Saturday night bow in Toronto at Bell Lightbox.
Kirk D'Amico of Myriad Pictures is selling Edwin Boyd internationally.
Also on the Canadian front, there's U.S. buyers' heat around the National Film Board of Canada's highly-anticipated TIFF documentary, Pink Ribbons Inc., which exposes the North American-centered "pink ribbon" industry around breast cancer fed by corporations like Avon and pharmaceutical giants that have women and men walking, biking and running for a cancer cure as they are sold products with pink ribbons on them.
Pink Ribbon Inc., directed by Lea Pool, is a slow-build from an opening scene in San Francisco as thousands of mostly women prepare to run to raise money for a breast cancer cure, to cynical corporations awash in fund-raising proceeds talking about all they do to cure cancer.
"I felt the need to go from something not so bad to something I had to denounce," Pool said of the film's story arc.
Ravinda Din, who produced Pink Ribbon Inc., said the NFB documentary aims to start a new conversation about breast cancer after a pink ribbon campaigns that urge cancer sufferers to be bright and optimistic about a cure have produced no significant changes in mortality rates over the last 60 years.
"The film is not just about making the audience angry. Anger is the beginning of something, about changing things," Din said.
The Toronto International Film Festival continues through Sept. 18.

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