Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Nicole Kidman, Robert P Niro Put into Toronto Selection
TORONTO -- Robert P Niro, Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Rob Fiennes, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman and James Gandolfini on Tuesday became a member of the star-studded selection for that approaching Toronto Worldwide Film Festival.Fest coordinators introduced British Author/director David Hare's "Page Eight" will close TIFF having a Roy Thomson gala following a debut only at that year's Edinburgh Worldwide Film Festival.Hare's spy thriller stars Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Rob Fiennes and Judy Davis.As Toronto ongoing Tuesday to create its Roy Thomson selection with another eight galas revealed, French director Christophe Honor's "The Beloved" was handed a higher-profile gala here following a Cannes bow for that sixties Paris and contemporary London drama that stars the actual-existence mother and daughter Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni.And Jennifer Hudson and Terence Howard will walk the red-colored carpet with director Darrell J. Roodt into Roy Thomson Hall for any world premiere of "Winnie," the Canada/South African co-created biopic about Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela.Toronto also reserved Roy Thomson Hall slots for "The Awakening," from British director "Nick Murphy," a mental thriller that stars Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton, and director Tanya Wexler's "Hysteria," an intimate comedy top-lined by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett and Felicity Johnson.Additionally, there are star-driven world debuts for Gary McKendry's "Killer Elite," a globe-trotting action film starring Jason Statham, Robert P Niro and Clive Owen looking for a September 23 theatrical release Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher," which stars Gerard Butler within the true-existence role of criminal-switched-kidnapped child saving idea Mike Childers and Joel Schumacher's "Trespass," which stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman.Another 18 game titles were put into the Special Presentations sidebar Tuesday, including Italian director Ermanno Olmi's "The Card board Village," which stars Michael Lonsdale and Rutger Hauer U.S. filmmaker Whit Stillman's "Damsels in Distress," the Greta Gerwig-starring comedy which will close Venice and Irish author/director Ian FitzGibbon's "Dying of the Super hero," which stars Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster and is dependant on Anthony McCarten's novel.Additionally, there are world bows for "The Very First Guy," by Italian director Gianni Amelio, an adaptation of Albert Camus' autobiographical last novel Agnieszka Holland's "In Darkness," a Holocaust drama starring Robert Wiekiewicz and Benno Frmann already acquired by The new sony Pictures Classics and "Burglars," by The spanish language director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and starring Clive Owen.Toronto also reserved a United States premiere within the Special Presentations sidebar for Hong Kong director Johnnie To's "Existence Without Principle," a drama around three figures in desperate necessity of money which will screen competing in Venice.Also Toronto-bound for any United States debut is "Low Existence," by French company directors Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval, which just tested in Locarno, while there is a world premiere for Indian director Pankaj Kapur's "Mausam" (Seasons of affection), a turbulent love story starring Shahid Kapur, Sonam A Kapoor and Anupam Kher.Other world premieres: Anne Fontaine's "My Worst Nightmare," starring Isabelle Huppert fellow French director Mathieu Kassovitz' "Rebellion," and U.S. director Geoffrey Fletcher's "Purple & Daisy," a movie about two women plus some guns that stars Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel and James Gandolfini.Toronto also reserved United States bows for Hong Kong director Ann Hui's "An Easy Existence," which reunites Asian screen star Andy Lau together with his godmother Deanie Ip because they perform together while watching movie camera the very first time in 23 years, and Australian director Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty," which stars Emily Browning and Rachael Blake.Fest developers also gave an worldwide premiere to "Terraferma," from Italian director Emanuele Crialese and United States bows to Philippe Garrel's "That Summer time," which stars Monica Belluci and also the French director's boy, Louis Garrel the epic film "Players from the Rainbow: Seediq Bale," from Taiwanese director Wei Te-Sheng and Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Levels," which stars James Howson and Kaya Scodelario.Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema section added another 51 game titles, including world bows for that latest films by Nancy Savoca, Xiaolu Guo and Nacho Vigalondo.And there is United States bows for brand new films by company directors Andrey Zvyagintsev, Gerardo Naranjo, Sono Sion, Asghar Farhadi, Karim Ainouz, Ole Christian Madsen and Cristin Jimnez.U.S. director Joshua Marston brings "The Forgiveness of Bloodstream," an Albanian family feud drama to Toronto following a Berlin bow and French director Vincent Garenq brings the justice drama "Presume Coupable" (Guilty) following a Venice debut.And there is world premieres for Italian director Stefano Chiantini's "Islands" "Juan from the Dead," by director Alejandro Brugus, in regards to a zombie outbreak in Cuba "Always Brando," by Tunisian director Ridha Bhi, and "Bloodstream of my Bloodstream," by Portuguese director Joo Canijo.The Near Future Forecasts sidebar of moving image installation features a collaboration by James Franco and Gus Van Sant, titled "Reminiscences of Idaho (1991 2010 and 2011)," and artworks by Peter Lynch, Nicholas and Sheila Pye, Mr. Brainwash and David Lamelas.And also the Visions program of avant-garde films features a United States premiere for Julia Loktev's "The Loneliest Planet," as well as an worldwide premiere for Darlene Tucker Green's "Random."The Toronto Worldwide Film Festival is placed to operate from September 8 to 18. The Hollywood Reporter
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