Dorian Gray Listed for Acquisition

Staff Writer: Samuntha Mackenzie

TIFF listed movies that are available for distributors to buy. Since the US is one of the markets still unsold perhaps this notice will give the industry a heads up. Genre fans are waiting for this film to be released in the US- and not against the Twilight Saga's New Moon as it is in other countries.


". . . the list of works available for distribution includes: Baaria, Chloe, Cracks, Creation, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Dorian Gray, The Front Line, The Good Heart, Hadewijch, How to Fold a Flag, Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, The Joneses, Kirot, Leaves of Grass, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Mao's Last Dancer, Micmacs à tire-larigot, Mother and Child, Ondine and Le Refuge, among many others listed below. Details for previously announced films can be found at tiff.net/thefestival under Films & Schedules."

According to the AP: "This year, the Sept. 2-12 Venice film festival is a week later than usual, bumping up against the much-larger Toronto Film Festival, showing some 80 films in contrast to the more than 300 at the Sept. 10-19 Toronto festival.

About 20 films making their world premiere at Venice will travel on to Toronto, where most of the dealmaking for the North American market is made."

January might be an appropriate time for the states since it's usually quiet and the Underworld franchise did well during this lull in blockbuster releases.

Source: TIFF and Yahoo!News