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Sundance Selects Dig Moretti’s ‘We Have a Hope’
It's double announcement day for Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam. This morning it was among the first batch of North American premiere titles announced for this year's TIFF and in the afternoon, the church bells chimed once again, as Sundance Selects announced their pick-up of the comedy with a pinch of drama.
Tom Hardy Switches Identities in ‘Hummingbird’
Since the Nicolas Winding Refn arty biopic (Bronson), nothing has thwarted Tom Hardy's rise to leading (muscle) man status. Upcoming 2011 and 2012 releases in Warrior, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, This Means War, The Wettest County in the World, The Dark Knight Rises and eventually Mad Max: Fury Road prove that bulking up can reward one with top commodity status in Hollywood. TTB reports that Hardy has added one more action-thriller project to his workload - Hummingbird could begin production as early as 2012, somewhere between when Nolan is finished with the actor and when George Miller begins the four film in the Mad Max franchise.
2011 Venice Days: Lou Ye, Amigorena, Vallée, Youssef, Elkabetz and Frederick Wiseman
Now that we're done salivating over the unveiling of the Gala and Special Presentation screenings for 2011 Toronto Int. Film Festival, we now put our attention on the official selection of the Venice Film Festival sidebar know as Venice Days. Director Giorgio Gosetti has mounted an edition that includes some gem auteurs and newbie filmmakers we've been keeping tabs on for the better half of 2010/2011.
TIFF Lands World Preems for 360, Rampart, Twixt, Salmon Fishing, Elles, The Oranges, Butter, Pearl Jam and Hick
TIFF's co-directors Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling have got us salivating with the smorgasbord list of world premiere offerings for next September. Opening film comes as a surprise, as we've haven't heard much about it, but seeing that doc filmmaker Davis Guggenheim has a great relationship with the festival, From The Sky Down a doc about U2 (20 or so years after Phil Joanou's U2: Rattle & Hum) will take centre stage. Doc-programmer guru Thom Powers makes sure that the fest will be a rocking good edition by also adding Pearl Jam Twenty from fanboy Cameron Crowe.
2011 TIFF Predictions: Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist Leads Audience Award Contenders
Today co-directors Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling of the Toronto International Film Festival announce the first batch of titles that are the make-up of the 36th edition. Today's the pair will read off mostly Gala screening mentions (our Blake Williams will be LIVE tweeting), which in turn give us a strong indication as to what will be shown in Venice and what Telluride, NYFF and BFI London Film Festivals might salvage/lasso as their own.
