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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.

Having been in the biz for about half a decade now, you'd think by Brooklyn based Costume Designer Erin Benach's film credits that she got her start because she was an owner of a thrift store. Beginning as an assistant costume designer (sometimes uncredited) on contempo indie dramas such as The Baxter (2005), Laurie Collyer's Sherrybaby and Todd Field's Little Children, it is surely her couture work in Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson that gave Benach her first "big league" start.

Tom Hardy's portrayal of Charlie Bronson propels the film from a simple curiosity to a must-see film. It's a crime that he hasn't received more recognition for his portrayal.

In many ways, Tony Kaye's shot in New Orleans production was rattled by its own "wrath" of unforeseen events and circumstances and by the looks of it, the clean up crews are out by this Hollywood Reporter mention assessment of the damage. By the gist of the article, it looks like a rob Peter to not pay Paul type of situation - where the fate of Kaye's film is not necessarily in better hands, but is closer to seeing the day of light at a theater or festival setting.

Paul Rudd will reteam with Role Models co-star Elizabeth Banks and a trio of other ladies (Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Rashida Jones) in the Anthony Bregman's Likely Story and Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub's Big Beach produced comedy. In what now appears to be, on paper, director Jesse Peretz's breakout hit (until today, he had forgettable titles in 2001's The Chateau and The Ex), with lensing due to begin next month in the multi-class friendly backdrop of New York, The Idiot Brother should be readied for a Sundance showcase, only the overbearing mother is left to cast -- it should be significant role that could make, break, shake the tone of the picture.