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Clooney is casting himself and adding Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood to the already mentioned Ryan Gosling in what will be among next year's juiciest studio pics. The Idles of March will perhaps ready in time for next year's Film Festival and political talk heavy Fall season, with production pegged for February in Michigan and Ohio, the politico, sharp knifed project full of mad men/women was a Black List script favorite that was slightly dormant when Leo DiCaprio was involved.

There's no question as to which section Magnolia Pictures' Tom Quinn was checking out during TIFF last month. Fresh from a world preem in the Midnight Madness section in Toronto last month, Magnet Releasing have grabbed the rights to Brad Anderson's Vanishing on 7th Street and are setting it up for a February release.

An ode to last year's big winner Kathryn Bigelow, the 20th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced this afternoon and Debra Granik’s backwoods drama “Winter’s Bone” leads all the nominations with a total of three, while Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) and Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) each end up with a pair of noms reminding us that there is some definite indiegrrrl power rising to the occasion this year.

This is not some kind of subjective filmmaking experience like Cloverfield, for Reichardt never calls to attention her use of perspective. There’s no “high concept” here. She only uses the point of view camera work when it serves a purpose, and it’s never one of those shaky handheld situations meant to simulate the character’s eyes.

You'd be partially right if you thought that Thom Powers would simply do a "copy and paste" job of shuffling films from TIFF's Reel to Real programme to the first edition of the DOC NYC festival. Powers, the fest's Artistic Director has loaded the inaugural edition of the New York City based documentary film festival with U.S preems of several titles from TIFF -- it includes a pair of galas for Herzog's 3D docu and Errol Morris' Tabloid, but DOC NYC will also include a dozen selected films...