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What we do know from the list below is that along with Black Swan, we have Barney's Version, The King's Speech, Potiche and The Town heading to Venice. The Debt is likely to debut there as well, joining Helen Mirren in The Tempest, but for some reason I'm seeing it more as a Telluride item. Among the world premieres that will service the Toronto public well, we have a pair of buyer titles in Little White Lies and The Conspirator and we have the shot in the streets of Toronto, Casino Jack (no longer being called Bagman). Among the off the radar selections, I'd say not many were expecting Emilio Estevez's The Way, Barry Blaustein's Peep World, David M. Rosenthal's Janie Jones.

Here's this morning's press conference where Toronto Int. Film Festival co-directors Cameron Bailey & Piers Handling introduced the majority of the titles that will make up this year's stellar Gala and Special Presentations section.

You'd think a festival with 300 + film title offerings would pretty much covers all bases, but I think there'll be more broken hearts than usual as a result of the unbalanced production year that was 2009. Like a vintage year for wine, Toronto International Film Festival co-directors Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey should see in 2010, a significantly higher number of World and North American premieres (loads from Cannes and Venice) than previous years for the 35th edition.

Fantasia, North America's largest genre film festival, is back and bigger than ever for its 14th edition, which kicks off in Montreal on July 8th with the Canadian premiere of Disney's The Sorceror's Apprentice and bows out a full three weeks later with another Canadian premiere, the Sundance and SXSW hit Tucker & Dale Vs Evil, a horror film satire that has had audiences spilling their guts with laughter.

Much in the same way Summit took The Brothers Bloom off the AFM table just prior to the fest/market unfolding, they've made an important pre-buy, grabbing the Cannes-selected title from Doug Liman before it has a chance to play-out to the studios and remaining indie divisions looking for an easy political drama grab. Along with Jodie Foster's The Beaver, Fair Game would probably be set in the Fall-Holiday season - many, including this site, see the title with award seasons glitter.