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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #17. David M. Rosenthal’s Janie Jones
A lighter version of Coppola's Somewhere, the distributor who'll grab this item will be looking for heart warming, fuzzy reunion films between estranged father and young daughter.
TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #18. John Carpenter’s The Ward
Legend filmmaker returns to the ring - old school formula of young girls trying to escape Psychiatric Hospital. Huge fan base already in place for horror maste, plus All the Boys Love Mandy Lane's Amber Heard toplines.
TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #19. Steven Silver’s The Bang Bang Club
Suited for a distributor looking to grab the moviegoer segment who are inclined to read/watch the world news and would have paid to have seen Hotel Rwanda or The Devil Came on Horseback.
The Buyer’s Club: Top 20 Films for Sale at TIFF 2010
If you happen to be at a world premiere screening at the Toronto Int. Film Festival for a film that is going into the fest with available domestic rights, there is a distinct chance you might run into the VIPs of the acquisitions world: the Weinsteins, Focus' James Schamus, Fox Searchlight's Ray Strache, IFC's Arianna Bocco, SPC's Michael Barker & Tom Bernard, Magnolia Tom Quinn and Summit's Michael Schaefer.
Clip: Winterbottom’s The Trip Featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as Woody Allen
Without any info on the run time, I'm not entirely sure how much Michael Winterbottom will strip away from The Trip. The six episode BBC sitcom starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon will be shown at TIFF probably in a two-hour form, allowing it to be shopped to the same territories that may have picked up Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.
