NEWS TORONTOBRIEFS
Buyers mash for Spud The Little Film Company has closed deals on its family film Spud, led by Universal acquiring all UK rights. Pinnacle has taken rights for Australia, Another World for Scandinavia and Front Row for the Middle East. Based on the South African children’s bestseller, Spud stars John Cleese and newcomer Troye Sivan.
eOne takes two from Stealth eOne has picked up UK, Scandinavia and Australia/ New Zealand rights to Devil’s Bridge and UK rights to Hooligans from Stealth Media Group. Chris Crow’s psychological thriller Devil’s Bridge is about friends hunted in Wales. Directed by Donal MacIntyre, Hooligans takes an uncompromising look at corruption in football.
Revolver gets 7 Lives UK distributor Revolver has taken all UK rights to urban thriller 7 Lives from Stealth Media Group. Danny Dyer and Martin Compston star.
Greenberg backs fest films Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund will support four Canadian feature films through its new marketing programme. They are: I’m Yours, Amy George, Doppelganger Paul and The Odds.
Damsels In Distress moves screening The press and industry screening of Whit Stillman’s Damsels In Distress will be held on Sunday at 12:15 at Scotiabank 2, not at 16:30 as previously listed.
Winslet joins Labor Day
BY JEREMY KAY Kate Winslet will star in Jason Reitman’s Labor Day for Para- mount Pictures and Indian Paint- brush. The partners wi l l co-produce, Paramount will dis- tribute and Indian Paintbrush will co-finance the project. Winslet will play a single
mother who shelters an escaped convict (Josh Brolin) over a long
mount on Up In The Air and Young Adult, due out in December. Lianne Halfon and Russell
Jason Reitman
weekend. Reitman adapted the screenplay from Joyce Maynard’s book. He collaborated with Para-
Dogwoof makes sales consulting move; closes Girl Model deals
BY WENDYMITCHELL UK distributor Dogwoof is branching out to offer interna- tional sales consultation. The company is representing
David Redmon and Ashley Sab- in’s Girl Model, which is premier- ing here at TIFF. With Girl Model, which counts
POV and CBC as funders, the first two deals Dogwoof has done are UK TV rights with BBC Storyville and Danish TV rights with DR. Discussions are underway for Europe and Australia. “We’ve found recently that more and more film-makers are
asking us to help with interna- tional plans,” Dogwoof head of distribution Oli Harbottle told Screen. “We’re not positioning ourselves as traditional sales agents, it’s more consulting. We will take on a handful of films per year on a commission-only con- sultancy.” To grow this side of the busi-
ness, Dogwoof has now hired Vesna Cudic (formerly of Tasko- vski Films) and Ana Vicente (for- merly of EastWest). Two new UK projects are
expected to join the sales service by the end of September.
Smith of Mr Mudd Productions are producing Labor Day along- side Reitman and Helen Estab- rook of Right Of Way Films. Indian Paintbrush, Mr Mudd
and Right Of Way Films also pro- duced TIFF title Jeff, Who Lives At Home.
Distributor CCE unveiled
BY JEREMY KAY Multiple Media Entertainment and Pacific Northwest Pictures have launched distributor Cross Country Entertainment (CCE). Based in Vancouver and
Toronto, CCE will seek to acquire all rights to theatrical titles and will distribute through its Cross Country Releasing (CCR) unit. CCE presidents are Multiple
Media CEO Michael Taylor and Pacific Northwest president Zanne Devine. Multiple Media SVP of sales and acquisitions Jennifer Graham will also take on the role of CCR VP of sales and acquisitions.
Afghan Luke
VMI shoots for Afghan Luke
BY JEREMY KAY VMI Worldwide has picked up international sales on war jour- nalism film Afghan Luke, starring Nick Stahl, ahead of its world pre- miere here tomorrow. The film tells the story of an
investigative journalist who heads to Afghanistan to investi- gate rumours that Coalition snip- ers are committing atrocities. Alliance holds Canadian rights. Afghan Luke marks a change of
pace for director Mike Clatten- burg following his work on hit comedy series Trailer Park Boys. VMI has also signed on to rom-
com Valley Of The Sun, starring Johnny Whitworth, and will screen footage here from the upcoming documentary Another Man’s War: The Machine Gun Preacher Story.
Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? will be Lebanon’s submission for the foreign-language Oscar race. Her previous film, Caramel, was Lebanon’s entry in 2007. Where Do We Go Now? has its North American premiere at TIFF today, with Labaki in town to present it. Pathé is handling international sales.
SCREENINGS AT TORONTO 2011
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INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE TODAY 19.30h
Scotiabank Theatre 3
FURTHER SCREENINGS Sun, Sep 11 12.00h AMC 4
Festival Screening Sun, Sep 18 21.30h Scotiabank Theatre 3 Festival Screening
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