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.
Mandate might not be a supplier of films for Cannes' competition, but they supply tons of stuff: not only for Lionsgate, but in Grant Heslov's debut The Men Who Stare at Goats, Drew Barrymore's roller derby film Whip It! and Tarsem's third feature film in the soon to be shooting War of Gods.
Hipster indie house Mandate Pictures, who brought us last year’s 'it' flick Juno, have optioned the Carolyn Parkhurst novel and tapped Irish stage and screen director John Crowley to helm the project.
At nearly sixty, Richard Gere is still making the 'pretty women' swoon, despite his most recent gig as Clifford Irving in The Hoax, complete with blackened hair and a fake nose.