World Premiere & TIFF

Staff Writer: Samuntha Mackenzie

Well the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) began yesterday. TIFF will run from September 10th to 19th. Many great new films will be shown there. Tonight the World Premiere of Dorian Gray will take place:

Other film screenings include:

• Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing free public screening, Yonge–Dundas Square, noon
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea free public screening, Yonge–Dundas Square, 3 p.m.
• The Informant! premiere, Visa Screening Room, 6 p.m.
• OMDC party (guests include Hugh Hefner), Manyata Courtyard Café, 6 p.m.
• Suck showcase, featuring a free concert with the stars of the film, Yonge–Dundas Square, 6:30 p.m.
• The Men Who Stare at Goats premiere, Roy Thomson Hall, 6:30 p.m.
• Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars free public screening, Yonge–Dundas Square, 9 p.m.
• The Trotsky premiere, Ryerson Theatre, 9 p.m.
• Bright Star premiere, Visa Screening Room, 9 p.m.
• Suck world premiere, Varsity, 9:30 p.m.
• Dorian Gray premiere, Roy Thomson Hall, 9:30 p.m.
• Fang Bang party for Suck, Phoenix Concert Theatre, 10 p.m.
• The Trotsky premiere party (guests include Jay Baruchel, Colm Feore and Jessica Paré), Pravda Vodka House
• Artists for Peace and Justice 10th anniversary celebration (guests include Demi Moore, Naomi Watts, Peter Sarsgaard and Paul Haggis), Windsor Arms
• TChad Magazine party (hosted by Kim D’Eon, Cheryl Hickey and Rosey Eden), Rosewater Supper Club, 10 p.m.
• Biko Beauttah’s 4 Toronto by Toronto party, Lo’la, 9 p.m

If you are in attendance, please email us.

We want your report and photos for any of TIFF films' premieres or showings.

Source: TIFF

Dorian Gray World Premiere at TIFF 09

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

The film gods have listened, or read our articles. But now, OHG has the scoop. Dorian Gray will have its World Premiere at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival.

The Gala Presentation page has not been updated yet. When it is, we will list the dates and times for this movie.

Update 9/1:

Friday September 11

09:30PM

ROY THOMSON HALL

Sunday September 13

12:30PM

WINTER GARDEN THEATRE

So far the TIFF site has listed in its press release the following synopsis:

Dorian Gray Oliver Parker, United Kingdom World Premiere

In Victorian London, the handsome Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic and cunning Lord Wotton (Colin Firth). Immersed in the hedonistic pleasures of the city, Dorian vows he would give anything to keep his youth and beauty - even his soul. Based on the Oscar Wilde novel, Dorian Gray examines the destructive power of beauty, the blind pursuit of pleasure and the darkness that can result from both.

One for the OHG team. Way too go!

Here's the trailer: Dorian Gray

Check out our literature review: Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray

Source: TIFF