THE KING’S SPEECH takes Toronto #TIFF
Director Tom Hooper (The Damned United) saw his period drama The King’s Speech take the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival today. If you’re watching Oscar, that means you now only have 9 other spot to fill on your Best Picture predictions card. With People’s Choice Award’s history as an Oscar precursor and stars Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush being buzzed, you can bet that the anglophiles in the Academy will line-up behind this UK production. (The Weinstein Company backing helps, too.) So what’s it about? The King’s Speech tells the story of the man who would be King George VI overcoming a speech impediment to address British citizens during WWII. Firth stars King George VI, while Rush plays his speech therapist. Helena Bonham Carter co-stars as George’s Queen Elizabeth. The King’s Speech will be released...
Read MoreRABBIT HOLE to Lionsgate, DC gets a boost at WB, Fuller’s PINOCCHIO, more – NEWS LINKS
Lionsgate has picked up John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole at the TIFF. The third feature from the Hedwig helmer stars Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart. Lionsgate may have its eye on Oscar for the pair as it plans a release later this year year. (indieWire) Warner Bros. is banking on its DC Comics properties as the Harry Potter franchise winds down. The studio plans a reorganization around DC and will unveil a “spread sheet” (Super Excel!) with plans for its heroes next month. (THR’s Heat Vision) Bryan Fuller, the man who gave us Pushing Daisies, has been tapped to write a live-action adaptation of Pinocchio for Warner Bros. (The Wrap) Glee creator Ryan Murphy and 24 executive producer Howard Gordon are teaming up for an untitled drama at Fox. Just a reminder: Glee returns on Sept. 21. (THR)...
Read MoreSofia Coppola’s SOMEWHERE takes top honors at Venice
Sofia Coppola’s fourth film, Somewhere, took home the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The film about a Hollywood star whose 11-year-old daughter shows up on his doorstep and forces him to reconsider his life of excess was a surprise winner at the lackluster fest. Complete list of winners (via IndieWire): GOLDEN LION for Best Film: Coppola’s Somewhere SILVER LION for Best Director to: Alex de la Iglesia, Balada triste de trompeta SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing COPPA VOLPI for Best Actor: Vincent Gallo, Essential Killing COPPA VOLPI for Best Actress: Ariane Labed for Attenberg OSELLA for Best Screenplay to: Alex de la Iglesia, Balada triste de trompeta MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD for Best Young Actor or Actress: Mila Kunis, Black Swan OSELLA for Best Cinematography to: Mikhail Krichman, Silent Souls SPECIAL LION FOR AN OVERALL WORK to: Monte...
Read MoreKelly McGillis in STAKE LAND – IMAGE
Kelly McGillis is back, and no she’s not battling a Supergator. The Top Gun star plays Sister in Jim Mickle’s Stake Land, which is in the Midnight Madness program at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Entertainment Weekly nabbed the above first look of McGillis in the vampire flick. From EW: The former Top Gun star returns to the big screen for the first time in nearly a decade for Stake Land, a bleak vampire flick premiering Sept. 17 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Kelly McGillis plays a nun caught in a crisis of faith who joins forces with vicious vampire-hunters Martin (Gossip Girl‘s Connor Paolo) and In the Cut‘s Nick Damici. More… You can also see a Stake Land slideshow on the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival...
Read MoreCIFF 34 Preview: HIPSTERS
I don’t remember where I discovered Hipsters. (It probably came through on my “awesome Russian musicals” Google Alert.) Let’s just say when I watched the trailer above the first time a few months ago, I knew I would have to see this Russian Hairspray. I just didn’t think it would ever happen in a theater. Not so, thanks to the Cleveland International Film Festival, which has two more screening of Hipsters to go before the festival’s end. From CIFF: A smash success in Russia and winner of top NIKA Awards including Best Film, Best Sound, Best Art Design, and Best Costume Design, Hipsters is a candy-colored musical set in the drab Soviet Union of the 1950s. Hipsters, directed by Valery Todorovsky, screens at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival tonight at 7 p.m. (on Stand By) and tomorrow at 10...
Read MoreCIFF 34 Preview: NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL OF ALLEN IVERSON
On Valentine’s Day 1993, a brawl between white teenagers and black teenagers broke out in a Hampton, Virginia, bowling alley. Four young men were arrested, all black. One high school basketball superstar and now pro ball player Allen Iverson. Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson tells the story incident, Iverson’s infamous trial, and the racial tension in a Virginia city. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson screens today at 4:10 p.m. at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival. Standby tickets are currently...
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