Saturday, September 14, 2013

Latest News: TIFF: The Acquisitions Wrap-Up Report

The 2013 Toronto International Film Festival is almost over with the awards to be announced later today, but its status as a film market has been solidified by a number of acquisitions reported over the past few days as some of the festival's premieres have been scooped up by a variety of distributors.

Ned Benson's two-part work-in-progress film The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him/Her , starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, essentially two movies telling the male and female perspective on a marriage on the skids, was picked up by The Weinstein Company shortly after its TIFF premiere.

The Weinstein Company also picked up distribution rights to Jonathan Teplitzky's historic drama The Railway Man , starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, and Can A Song Save Your Life?...

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