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PEOPLE: Toronto Diary: Who's Got Oscar Buzz?

In a Toronto International Film Festival diary entry, People Magazine's Leah Rozen offers her take on this year's festival and shares a few early Oscar prognostications:After a winter, spring and summer of mostly lousy, forgettable, pea-brained movies (Little Miss Sunshine, Superman Returns, Thank Y...

NYT: Le Romantique

In The New York Times, Lynn Hirschberg profiles filmmaker Michel Gondry, director of the upcoming "The Science of Sleep":Much of Gondry's work is peculiarly autobiographical in a nonliteral way. His films, and even the videos he has directed for musicians like Bjork and the White Stripes, capture the emotions that swirl around personal events in his life. Some of these feelings are evoked in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," in which the protagonists, two former lovers, scrub their memory banks in order to forget each other. In "The Science of Sleep," which Gondry wrote as well as directed, the central character, Stephane, who is playe...

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TORONTO '06 DAILY DISPATCH: "Bella" Shines With Audience Prize; Fest Anticipates 40 U.S. Deals from

While some industry insiders bemoaned the lack of deal-making midway through the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, organizers at the festival are confident that when all is said and done the event will see a record number of acquisitions of new films by U.S. distributors. Toronto festival co...

Winners Announced at 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

Today, Saturday 16, 2006 as the Toronto International Film Festival comes to a close awards were announced in the following categories:

IFP MARKET '06: With a New Conference and 186 Projects, Indie Film Market Set to Begin

In recent years, as the independent film business has morphed and matured, so to has the IFP Market, the leading program of the Independent Feature Project. Now under the Independent Film Week umbrella, the event will officially kick off with the New York City premiere and party for Dito Montiel's "...

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Picturehouse Makes "El Cantante" Deal

Picturehouse has closed a deal for North American rights to Leon Ichaso's "El Cantante," starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. The story of famed salsa performer Hector Lavoe, the film debuted earlier this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. The company is eyeing a Summer '07 release for the film. "El Cantante is a vibrant and heart-wrenching film full of outstanding performances and glorious music," said Picturehouse president Bob Berney, in a statement. "Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are amazing and share a chemistry rarely seen on film. We are proud to be working with Leon Ichaso and look forward to bringing this movin...