“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and with June being a major production month we’ve got a slew of projects that we feel are worth signaling out. Music appears to be a common narrative theme surrounding several items – we find it infused in Once‘s John Carney’s U.S. production debut – a 10 million dollar production about a dejected music business executive forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan. Scarlett Johansson was formerly attached to Can a Song Save Your Life?, now Knightley appears to be on board. Rock documentary filmmaker Stephen Kijak (Stones in Exile) is looking to make his second fictional feature based on the true story of a The Smiths fans who lost his bearings when the group announced its break-up. Shoplifters of the World...
- 6/5/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
TORONTO -- Departing from tradition, the Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday chose the homegrown drama Emotional Arithmetic, starring Susan Sarandon and Christopher Plummer, to close its 32nd edition.
Toronto, which has previously chosen lighter movies, often from major studios, as closing-night films, this year tapped Paolo Barzman's drama about three Holocaust survivors separated by the Nazis reuniting 35 years later on a bucolic Quebec farm.
Rounding out the cast for the Canadian movie is Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis and Max von Sydow.
Emotional Arithmetic was touted as a possible opener for Toronto but was beaten by another homegrown Holocaust-themed movie, Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces.
The movie will receive a high-profile gala at Roy Thomson Hall before Toronto's closing-night party Sept. 15.
"We are proud that the festival now opens and closes with vibrant and high-profile Canadian films," festival co-director Noah Cowan said. "The inclusion of this powerful film reflects the robust nature of our industry."
Producing credits on Emotional Arithmetic go to Suzanne Girard of BBR Prods.
Toronto, which has previously chosen lighter movies, often from major studios, as closing-night films, this year tapped Paolo Barzman's drama about three Holocaust survivors separated by the Nazis reuniting 35 years later on a bucolic Quebec farm.
Rounding out the cast for the Canadian movie is Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis and Max von Sydow.
Emotional Arithmetic was touted as a possible opener for Toronto but was beaten by another homegrown Holocaust-themed movie, Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces.
The movie will receive a high-profile gala at Roy Thomson Hall before Toronto's closing-night party Sept. 15.
"We are proud that the festival now opens and closes with vibrant and high-profile Canadian films," festival co-director Noah Cowan said. "The inclusion of this powerful film reflects the robust nature of our industry."
Producing credits on Emotional Arithmetic go to Suzanne Girard of BBR Prods.
- 7/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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