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I wrote the script for Paul Giamatti. Luckily, I won a screenplay competition at the Nantucket Film Festival in 2006 and by a strange coincidence meet Paul in person, who was there to present an award to Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. I told him about the dream. He got intrigued. Few days later he read the script and accepted the role. This never happens. It was beginner’s luck.

TIFF have added eight more titles, and with the news we get the confirmation that highly anticipated titles from Werner Herzog and Michael Moore will be heading off to Venice before making the quick back trip to Toronto, and the latest from the Coen brothers and Danis Tanovic will be receiving their world preems in Toronto.

From an outsiders point of view, you'd think that winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for 2007's No Country for Old Men and winning Best Actor and Best Cinematography for There Will Be Blood would be a sign of better things to come, but at the end of the day, it's not the number of Oscars you win, but the plus and minus on the balance sheet.

This July (2009), we are keeping tabs on Paul Scheuring's Americanized remake of the German film Das Experiment, Trent Cooper's third outing as a director with the comedy Father of Invention, David O. Russell puts Nailed behind to concentrate on The Fighter, Harold Becker starts filming Uma and Abigail in Michigan and David Gordon Green directs his second straight studio film in part of the U.K/Ireland.

Nicolas Winding Refn, who brought us the criminal insanity of the Pusher trilogy, is moving from the drug world to the old world with his next film Valhalla Rising, currently shooting in Scotland.