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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #1. John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole
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.
TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #2. Dustin Lance Black’s What’s Wrong With Virginia
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.
TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #3. Dan Rush’s Everything Must Go
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.
TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #4. Robert Redford’s The Conspirator
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.
TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #5. Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower
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.
