TORONTO -- 12 Years a Slave was named the top audience prize winner at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. The Steve McQueen-directed film now numbers among previous TIFF audience award winners like Slumdog Millionaire, American Beauty and Silver Linings Playbook that received a lift in Toronto on their way to Academy Awards glory. Fox Searchlight will release 12 Years a Slave in theaters on Oct. 18. The film had its world premiere on September 6 at the Princess of Wales Theater. | Read More
TORONTO -- The 38th Toronto International Film Festival -- my seventh -- came to a close on Saturday night, following 10 days of wall-to-wall programming, with the world premiere of Daniel Schechter's Life of Crime. The crime-dramedy, which Schechter adapted from the 1978 novel The Switch, by the great novelist Elmore Leonard (who died just three weeks ago), stars Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Tim Robbins, Mos Def, Will Forte, Isla Fisher and Mark Boone, Jr. It was greeted with lots of laughs throughout its 90-minute runtime and warm applause at the end. And it will probably reach mainstream audiences next year, when Lionsgate/Roadside, which picked up its U.S. distribution rights during the fest, is expected to release it. FEINBERG FORECAST: With Dust From Toronto Still Settling, a Look at the New Landscape | Read More
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