After having paired with the Icelandic director on Jar City, IFC Films have bought the rights to Baltasar Kormakur's latest thriller, Inhale. Such as 2005's A Little Trip to Heaven, Kormakur worked with English-speaking actors in Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and a supporting cast that includes Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Perez and Jordi Molla.

There are still plenty of "to be announced" surprise films including Danny Boyle's 127 Hours that will be unveiled hours before they screen, but for the most part, this year's Telluride festival can claim the North American premiere status away from TIFF on a large number of Cannes items (this includes Michelangelo Frammartino's must see, still unsold, docu-essay Le Quattro Volte) and they can also claim first dibs on world preems for acquisition titles such as: Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal's Chico and Rita (see pic above), Justin Chadwick's audience tickler The First Grader, the Dmitry Vasyukov with Werner Herzog doc Happy People: A Year in the Tagia and Errol Morris' Tabloid.

Of all the films from down under, while Stuart Beattie's directing debut, With Tomorrow, When The War Began will likely grab the majority of the attention in the "market" portion at TIFF, this year there will be a half dozen Australian films featured at the film festival.

And here we have it - the top twenty acquisition titles that will be made available at the 2010 Toronto Int. Film Festival --- and that's only from the titles that are actually being shown. Looking at the list below, there is a little something for everyone: feel good films, offbeat comedies, specialty genre items, fact based thrillers and then probable award mention stuff that take up the top four spots.

As predicted in last week's post, both Eran Riklis (North American preem for The Human Resources Manager) and Avi Nesher were confirmed last Tuesday for TIFF's Contemporary World Cinema program -- Nesher's International Premiere goes by a different title now, and will know be known as The Matchmaker.

Oscar this. Oscar that. Oscar winning scribe makes his directorial debut, featuring Oscar winning (Jennifer Connelly) and nominated (Ed Harris) thesps could help, but what this really needs is more critical love at the fest.

I could see just about every head buyer having an interest in acquiring this title -- not only is it working from a great first, Black List nominated screenplay, but if Will Ferrell hits the right notes sort of like what he did in Stranger Than Fiction, then this will be the most hotly contested indie film at TIFF.

Period piece directed by American legend with a soild cast in James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood and Tom Wilkinson assures plenty of clout and if Fox Searchlight's Conviction tanks at the fest (both narratives feature someone who is set on proving someone else's innocence) then this could be the film fetching the biggest purchase price.

Before Angelina Jolie makes it fashionable, I see a major studio swopping up and taking the rights on this political thriller: definitely working in its favor, it has an Oscar-winning lead in Rachel Weisz and strong supporting cast in Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn and Monica Bellucci. Thriller elements in true story backdrop could also help film's cineplex cred.

There's no flawed logic in Keanu Reeves taking a rom com lead. Yes, it's been done before and though rare, still appears to work. This will need a big boost at the fest for serious offers.

Stylish. British. Crime mixed with sex. Helen Mirren. Good looking young thesps in Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough who will, or already have, broke out.

The market says that movies about backyard super-heros are dead, but awkward ensemble cast of Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon and Nathan Fillion could certainly make this the breakout specialty item of the festival. It's certainly the most sought after item from the Midnight Madness section, but the film's tone and buzz coming out of TIFF will make or break the film.

If we do the math: you've got cancer, plus senior coming out of the closest from the director who gave us Thumbsucker. If this dramedy packs an emotional wallop and McGregor brews up a magnifying performance, we could have something that gets mentioned during awards.

Not only TIFF bound, but a Venice film fest entry as well, the trailer sells the comedy as a potent concoction -- the terrible twosome of Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman looks zany, offbeat authentically good. Could be a sleeper hit.

With Venice, TIFF and NYFF as a Appears to be the most accessible - known cast led by Dano and Williams

Essentially this is Juno Temple's first time as top billing in a film, she is the next "it" actress if you look into 2011, and from what we can tell by the descriptive info we can assess from the film stills, and the fact that this was mentioned on the annual Black List (2007), means there is some spunk to this title and could work with a larger younger demo.

Unconventional love story could either fly or fizzle, one thing is for sure - love stories that are lensed by Christopher Doyle always look great. Will receive a number of bids, but this could receive generous offer from one suitor who believes in the project.

The internet predator/father feeling the guilt for not protecting his family already comes across as a dated story line, but if this digs deep enough into entire mental anguish,and the Clive Own and Catherine Keener pairing pull off strong perfs, then perhaps there'll be a market for this.

Thurman might be more "miss" than "hit" as of late, but if the boyish crush a la The Graduate hits the right notes, this could be TIFF's version of a Sundance hit.

A good indication of how this film can perform is by looking at this weekend's Takers numbers - Christensen and the horror element are the film's selling points, plus Anderson has a small fan base and has seen all of his films get a release.