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3.8 The Time Being

So, you know what I said about last week being my favourite episode of this series? I may have jumped the gun on that one…

After the triumphant ending to last week’s episode, things seem to have gone a bit pear-shaped, Negatus double-crossed Debbie leading her right into the hands of Cuddly Dick and Pete is determined to sell the house and up sticks to Glasgow. With Debbie under the influence of a parasitic hairpiece it’s up to Elf to enlist the Time Being (a character with the power to control time) and save the day.

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Wes Bentley is good at keeping secrets. Case in point: he and wife Jacqui Swedberg welcomed their second daughter four months ago! The American Horror Story: Freak Show guest star's rep confirms to E! News that the couple's daughter, Brooklyn Bentley, was born in June. Married since 2010, they are also parents to son Charles Bentley, 4. Wes, who played Seneca Crane in 2012's The Hunger Games, has yet to mention his daughter's birth while promoting Interstellar, co-starring Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey. While promoting The Time Being in 2012, however, Wes revealed how fatherhood had changed him. "I was drawn to the story about trying to be an artist and have a...

Our International Sales Agent (Isa) of the Day coverage is back again for this year's Cannes Film Festival. We will feature successful, upcoming, innovative and trailblazing agents from around the world, and cover the latest trends in sales and distribution. Beyond the numbers and deals, this segment will also share inspirational and unique stories of how these individuals have evolved and paved their way in the industry, and what they envision for the new waves in global cinema.

108 Media is a new sales company out of Toronto. Founder Abhi Rastogi sees it as "a force that opposes the standards of the film industry, redefining boundaries of what is possible and achievable." 108 Media recently acquired the worldwide sales rights for The Insect King by Priscilla Cameron and will begin selling the picture at the Cannes Film Festival. 108 is also excited to bring titles like He Never Died, which stars Henry Rollins as a punk rocker cannibal and Camera Trap, a wildlife thriller about a film crew that pursues local sightings of a rare wildcat in Nepal.

Abhi Rastogi shares some of his history, sales and more about 108's Cannes lineup:

How did you start 108 Media?

I started the company two years ago. We looked at how sales and distribution was done for the last seven or eight years, and we looked at bringing something different to the independent marketplace. And so we've tried to stick to a certain model where you can expect not so regular things.

We are doing theatrical releases in North America. We've released seven films theatrically in the last one and a half years--some of the most high profile films being Midnight's Children, based on Salman Rushdie's book, The We And The I, based on Michel Gondry. We also act as a foreign sales company, so we're very excited to introduce new projects and new voices to the international market.

What's your background?

Prior to this, I was a managing director of a company called Cinesavvy. We produced films like Frankie & Alice, starring Halle Berry; I was an executive producer on the film. Lionsgate released it last month. Prior to that, I was a distribution manager at Cinemavault, which is a Toronto based sales company.

What will 108 bring to Cannes?

We're bringing first footage from the film He Never Died, which stars Henry Rollins as a punk rocker and a cannibal who never died. This was a film that I was introduced to in September. And as a sales agent, you also get involved with packaging a lot; we were able to package the film right after Tiff in record time. We shot the film in November, so we're bringing it to Cannes.

Then we're brining this amazing, stunning chiller that was made in Nepal called Camera Trap, produced by the very high profile Steve Christian of Pinewood Pictures from the UK. It was shot all on location in Nepal last year. It's about a crew that goes to look for a snow leopard and finds something else. What's amazing is that the filmmakers have done a lot of nature related visuals. The film is stunning, visually captivating, and very realistic.

How are sales?

The sales are doing very well, because we're realistic about what the market can bare. We want to bring exciting projects, but at the same time, we are very careful of what we are requesting from our buyers and what's needed on their parts to support these films. It's more about collaboration for us. We tend to do a lot of business with the same buyers.

Some territories are more challenging than others, but that's the nature of our business. Spain is challenging--there are fewer buyers that are chasing after much higher profile content. That's because there are just not enough outlets for independent films to be released there. France has been a bit more challenging because of the home video markets collapsing there.

At the same time, we're doing very well in Asia through our Tokyo office. We tend to sell well across the board, including Germany, the UK and Italy.

More about 108 Media:

Cannes Lineup:

Camera Trap

Honour

Replace

He Never Died

Case of Kyoto, Case of Schuichi

The Time Being

Fugly

Fanie Fourie’s Lobola

Shame The Devil

The Rescuers

Tough Bond

Overview

108 is an agitator – a force that opposes the standards of the film industry, redefining boundaries of what is possible and achievable.

The media industry is not what it used to be, it is untraditional and media is consumed differently, in an ever changing and increasingly diversified forms of delivery and interaction. 108 Media is as unpredictable, leading edge and flexible as today's media demands – we’re targeted, we’re quick to execute, and we give the audience what they want, where they want it, and when they want it!

The Why is the easy part, because it is required of a media company to do so or be left behind like print media. The How is the interesting part. 108 Media measures social, blog and web traffic and consumer patterns to fully understand its consumers' dynamics, location and tendencies, thereby building effective and timely strategies to maximize media exposure and consumption efficiency. Further, 108 Media controls the pipelines of delivery, creating a truly vertically integrated next-generation media company fully capable to producing, marketing, and distributing media to all major Digital VOD, Broadband VOD and Paid Cable platforms.

We cut the old mantras of advertising and media delivery and enable a truly cross-promotional and cross platform digital experience.

The Time Being

Directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain

Written by Nenad Cicin-Sain and Richard N. Gladstein

USA, 2013

A passionate starving artist is at the center of The Time Being, an overly portentous new drama that doesn’t see such a central figure as being too stereotypical. No, this is a movie about how Art is Serious, so serious, in fact, that focusing entirely on one’s work trumps trivial matters like work, family, friends, and more. Though the movie is packed with pretty images, thanks entirely to the skill and craft of its fairly overqualified cinematographer, The Time Being is a mostly limp portrait of the artist as inwardly selfish and ambitious.

Wes Bentley plays Daniel, so dedicated to his art—he paints based on photographs he takes of the world at large—that one could imagine this guy as being Ricky Fitts from American Beauty all grown up; this man...

Title: The Time Being Director: Nenad Cican-Sain Starring: Wes Bentley, Frank Langella, Sarah Paulson, Ahna O’Reilly, Corey Stoll, Gina Gallego A willfully muted chamber piece, “The Time Being,” co-written and directed by Nenad Cican-Sain, is a curious thing. Centering mostly around a struggling artist (Wes Bentley) and his mysterious new benefactor (Frank Langella), the film touches on themes of loneliness, family and social need, but doesn’t sketch out its characters in interesting or dynamic enough fashion to ever blossom into anything more than a meditative curio. Daniel (Bentley) is a struggling painter and young father whose frustration with his own lack of breakthrough success has pushed relations with his wife (Ahna O’Reilly) toward a breaking point. [ Read More ]

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A riveting mystery drama about living, dying, illusion and reality. In one of the most atmospheric films to come out of California in some time, debut director Nenad Cicin-Sain helms a screenplay by himself and Richard N. Gladstein in the film “The Time Being.” A film ostensibly about painters and painting, the story is more about obsession, self-knowledge and difference between artistic expression and ego. An exciting work by a first time director, this films portends greatness for Cicin-Sain. Wes Bentley plays struggling artist Daniel who is fighting a losing battle balancing his obsession with artistic expression with his relationship with his wife Olivia (Ahna O'Reilly) and his five year old son Marco (Aiden Lovekamp). There have been many...

Wes Bentley shot to fame at just 21 years old when he played mysterious boy-next-door Ricky Fitts in the Oscar-winning film, "American Beauty". After a series of personal setbacks throughout his twenties, the 34-year-old actor returned to the big screen — in a big way — as head gamemaker Seneca Crane in 2012's "The Hunger Games". (That beard, though.)

His newest release, "The Time Being", premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and will open in limited theaters July 26. Bentley plays Daniel, a struggling young artist who is given a slew of strange assignments — think: film children in a playground — by a quiet, reclusive millionaire named Warner (Frank Langella). Through this process, Daniel discovers the importance of balancing his personal relationships with his ambitions as an artist.

NextMovie chatted with Bentley via phone prior to the film's release to discuss "The Hunger Games" craziness, his celebrity doppelganger, and why he always seems to...

Premiering last year in the midst of the always busy and expansive Toronto International Film Festival, Nenad Cicid-Sain's directorial debut "The Time Being" may have a flown a bit under the radar. But the talent and premise are intriguing enough that it could be a good option against the emptier fare at your local multiplex this weekend. Starring Wes Bentley, Frank Langella, Corey Stoll and Sarah Paulson, the story follows Daniel (Bentley) an ambitious, struggling young artist whose work captures the interest of reclusive millionaire Warner (Frank Langella). When the man commissions Daniel for a piece, it instead turns out to involve a series of increasingly bizarre surveillance assignments. And as you'll see in this exclusive clip, Daniel is already wary of Warner's intentions from the start as they negotiate just what his work will involve.  Featuring a score by Academy Award winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, and shot by...

In Nenad Cicin-Sain’s moody debut feature, The Time Being, Frank Langella plays Warner, a wealthy art patron who after buying a painting at an art gallery hires the financially strapped artist behind the work (Wes Bentley) to do odd, artistically tinged jobs for him. Daniel, a dedicated painter who’s dour work isn’t exactly flying off the walls, struggles to support his family – to the increasing annoyance of his wife Olivia (Ahna O’Reilly). He is drawn to the reclusive and mysterious millionaire as a potential new benefactor, but when Warner’s assignments for Daniel become increasingly bizarre surveillance excursions, Daniel senses that he may …...

Time Crime: Cicin-Sain’s Debut an Empty Trinket

On a positive note, the benefit of watching Nenad Cicin-Sain’s directorial (and screenwriting debut) could definitely serve as a testament for the necessity of a well-written screenplay in the filmmaking process. Co-written with producer Richard N. Gladstein (also a feature screenplay debut), The Time Being is an underwhelmingly written piece of cinematic sod, made all the more disappointing for sporting a dazzling visual scheme and fantastic original score. An elaborate set-up moonlighting as a mystery thriller morphs into a confoundingly stagnant familial drama.

A struggling artist, Daniel (Wes Bentley), pursues his artistic endeavors to the detriment of his family’s economic well-being. A recent art exhibit of his work doesn’t result in any sales, but a possible commission is called into Eric (Corey Stoll), who has funded the exhibition space. A man named Warner (Frank Langella) has requested that Daniel...

Why are painters such downers in the popular imagination? Is it van Gogh's bloody ear? Soutine's reeking ox carcasses? The abstract expressionists drinking themselves to accelerated graves? In The Time Being, director Nenad Cicin-Sain and co-screenwriter Richard N. Gradstein give us Daniel (Wes Bentley), a depressionist—to coin a movement—who paints black-and-white pictures of rotting fruit. Despite his unappealing subject matter, he complains about poor sales and becomes estranged from his wife, who is fed up with Daniel's moony lassitude. (His roomy studio and their spacious California digs won't win him sympathy from struggling New York City artists.) A mysterious patron, Warner (Frank Langella), summons him to film sunsets and playing children, and Daniel soon re...

If you're trying to make your living as a painter, you're going to be struggling enough that you'll take most any job that comes your way, right? What if that job seems suspicious-- and doesn't require painting at all? That's the situation that Wes Bentley's Daniel finds himself in, in this exclusive clip from The Time Being. Bentley plays the struggling young artist in question, and when a reclusive millionaire named Warner (played by Oscar-nominee Frank Langella) buys one of his pieces, he's hoping for the kind of benefactor relationship that can keep an artist afloat. Instead, as you see in this clip, Warner starts giving him a series of increasingly bizarre assignments, leading Daniel to unravel a series of secrets that lead him to believe Warner might actually be out to ruin his life. The Time Being is arriving today on VOD and iTunes via Tribeca Film; in...

With summer in full swing, what better to do during this hot month than stay inside a cool air conditioned space and catch up on some must see indies available on VOD? To help you figure out what to watch, we've compiled a list of the 10 best indies to watch on VOD this month. "The Time Being" (July 23) A young artist named Daniel (Wes Bentley) encounters a mysterious and eccentric benefactor (Frank Langella) who offers to fund his art as long as he is willing to take on some strange assignments. Daniel must find the balance between the need for money and the desire for personal and artistic integrity. The fragile moral relationship between a young and corruptible man in need and a mysterious patron has been trodden before on paper ("Great Expectations," "The Picture of Dorian Gray"), but this big screen exploration seems to hold just as much drama,...

The Time Being Trailer. Nenad Cicin-Sain‘s The Time Being (2012) movie trailer stars Wes Bentley, Frank Langella, Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Allen White, and Corey Stoll. The Time Being‘s plot synopsis: “The Time Being, the multi-layered mystery starring Wes Bentley and Academy Award Nominee Frank Langella, will be released in the Us [...]

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"Love for yourself, not for your family." Today's trailer is for a rather interesting indie thriller called The Time Being, from filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain, co-starring Wes Bentley and Frank Langella (last seen in the fantastic indie Robot & Frank). The premise for this is actually quite compelling - an abstract painter is hired by a wealthy man to start filming various people, places and things. Why? You'll have to see it to find out. But this trailer does give quite a big hint as to what's going on, though I'm still curious to check it out at some point anyway. Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Allen White & Corey Stoll also star. Give it a look. Watch the official trailer for Nenad Cicin-Sain's The Time Being, in high def from Apple: Daniel (Bentley) is a struggling young artist whose ambitions have pushed his marriage to the brink. When a reclusive millionaire named Warner...

Check out the first official trailer (and poster) for Nenad Cicin-Sain‘s upcoming drama The Time Being, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Wes Bentley as a struggling artist who sells a painting to inscrutable billionaire played by Frank Langella, the movie was inspired by personal struggle and as you’re about to see – doesn’t look bad at all… Cicin-Sain and Richard N. Gladstein stand behind the script which revolves around a struggling artist named Daniel who meets a mysterious and wealthy benefactor. Pic explores the murky relationship between two men, along with the uncertainties of marriage, parenthood and friendship....

With a career spanning nearly 50 years, and spreading through film, television, and the stage, veteran actor Frank Langella has found success and acclaim in every medium. Any project he is involved in thus garners a certain level of interest simply due to his presence, and the same held true for The Time Being, the debut feature of Nenad Cicin-Sain. Cicin-Sain directed and co-wrote the film with Richard N. Gladstein, and Langella is joined onscreen by Wes Bentley, Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, and Ahna O’Reilly. Following the film’s debut at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, the first trailer has now been released, and can be seen below.

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Pixar producers Kori Rae and Darla K. Anderson are the married lesbian couple behind Monsters Inc. and its new sequel Monsters University. They talked with The San Francisco Gate about the Doma news, where they found out about it in Japan. Here's a cute story:

We got together (during) the last year of Monsters Inc. in 2001. I figured I’d have to leave the show, and I was willing to leave the company at that point. We had talked about it. But they were completely great. They said “Of course not. You’re such a great team, a producing team. We’d love for you to keep working together.” They were nothing but supportive, and have been the whole time. We’ve chosen since Monsters Inc. to not (work together). … I think it’s...

Tribeca Film has acquired the domestic distribution rights to "The Time Being," Nenad Cicin-Sain's film about a struggling artist (Wes Bentley) and his relationship with a reclusive millionaire (Frank Langella), the company announced on Friday. Tribeca will release the film via video-on-demand first, beginning July 23, before it hits select theaters on July 26. Bentley stars as Daniel, who after selling one of his paintings to Werner (Langella), seeks additional commissions. Werner gives him a strange assortment of assignments instead, which raises the question of whether Werner wants to help or...

It.s been a couple of months since any word on Canadian director Philippe Falardeau.s next project, the inspired-by-true-events drama The Good Lie, passed by our eyes and ears, though Reese Witherspoon.s involvement was enough to keep this one floating around even if nothing became of it. Well the cast just added four more members, and two of them aren.t at all what you.d expect. The most well-known of these actors, Deadline reports, is Corey Stoll, who was most recently seen as the vice-friendly councilman on the Netflix original House of Cards, as well as in the mystery drama The Time Being and The Bourne Legacy. He.ll next be seen in Liam Neeson.s thriller-in-the-air flick Non-Stop, and recently joined the cast of the star-studded adaptation of This is Where I Leave You. The Good Lie has also added Sarah Baker to its cast. Baker...

Things People Do – make sure you remember this title, because some seriously good cast is on board for the whole thing! We’ve just learned that Wes Bentley and Vinessa Shaw are set to lead us through the upcoming family drama, which comes from director Saar Klein and revolves around a family man who loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. Sounds promising? So, at this moment we know that Saar Klein will direct the project from a script he co-wrote with Joe Conway, which will center on Bentley’s character – a family man who turns to a life of crime after...

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Let’s get the story straight or at least as straight as I can remember it. One cold winter’s eve I sat down with a four pack of Burton Baton from Dogfish Head and drank the whole damn thing plus an Insanely Mad Elf and probably some vodka. Maybe more beer. In fact I find it highly unlikely that in the time where I was a freak booze hound with a penchant for micro brews with an abnormally high amounts of alcohol and sugar that I wasn’t pouring at least one more six pack down my gullet. Why do I “confess’ this? Because when I was imbibing the spirits of the season I was watching Silent Night, Deadly Night parts 3, 4 and 5 for the very first time and while I enjoyed 4 and 5 (you know how I feel about 3), part 4 has come to be somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine.

Joaquin Phoenix is at his extreme best as a fractured World War II vet in epic The Master Paul Thomas Anderson’s (PTA) challenges recent audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) audiences as well as art-house fans who packed select cinemas in New York and Los Angeles this weekend with his epic movie The Master, an adult drama every bit as visually stunning and dramatically complex as one expects from PTA. Boosted by gorgeous camerawork by up-and-coming cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. (Tetro, Twixt and The Time Being), PTA tells the story of Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an alcoholic and violent-prone World War II seaman who returns home from service and develops a friendship with the mysterious self-help leader Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a character based upon Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The Master is a movie of extremes and Joaquin Phoenix delivers an extreme performance as Freddie,...

Joaquin Phoenix is at his extreme best as a fractured World War II vet in epic The Master Paul Thomas Anderson’s (PTA) challenges recent audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) audiences as well as art-house fans who packed select cinemas in New York and Los Angeles this weekend with his epic movie The Master, an adult drama every bit as visually stunning and dramatically complex as one expects from PTA. Boosted by gorgeous camerawork by up-and-coming cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. (Tetro, Twixt and The Time Being), PTA tells the story of Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an alcoholic and violent-prone World War II seaman who returns home from service and develops a friendship with the mysterious self-help leader Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a character based upon Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The Master is a movie of extremes and Joaquin Phoenix delivers an extreme performance as Freddie,...

It’s a rough couple of days for Wes Bentley. The Hunger Games actor has reportedly been denied entry to Canada due to a four-year-old drug bust. As a result he will be unable to attend the Toronto Film Festival and promote his latest film, The Time Being. Bentley’s life took a wrong turn following his career making performance in the classic American Beauty, and by the mid 2000s he was addicted to drugs and alcohol and eventually filed for bankruptcy to dig himself out of a six-figure credit card debt. He was even homeless for a period, and hit low when arrested for possession of heroin back in 2008.

He has since recieved treatment and gotten clean of drugs, but his past caught up with him when trying to gain access to Canada.”Wes really wanted to go to the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of his movie and...

The Time Being

Directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain

Written by Nenad Cicin-Sain and Richard N. Gladstein

USA, 2012

It seems like Wes Bentley is stuck in some kind of inauspicious circle. In 1999, he, like every other benefactor in the film, was elevated to instant recognition when Sam Mendes’ American Beauty burst onto the scene (at Tiff no less). Playing the dodgy camcorder shutterbug Ricky Fitts, Mr. Bentley has been hard pressed to find a notable role since, until his performance as Seneca Crane in the 2012 movie adaptation of the popular book, The Hunger Games.

Seemingly back on form, Nenad Cicin-Sain’s The Time Being, however, has Mr. Bentley play a similar character to his breakout role in American Beauty, and one has to wonder if his career arc is again on the decline; especially considering the fact that this movie isn’t nearly as incisive.

In The Time Being, Mr. Bentley is Daniel,...

Ever since his breakout role as Ricky Fitts in 1999′s American Beauty, Wes Bentley has always been an actor worth looking out for. The same can be said for veteran stage and screen actor Frank Langella, who has always proved a compelling presence regardless of the quality of any given project. At Tiff 2012, one movie that has had relatively little buzz features both these actors. Titled The Time Being, the film marks the directorial debut of Nenad Cicin-Sain, and co-stars Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, and Ahna O’Reilly. Cicin-Sain also co-wrote the script with Richard N. Gladstein, the feature film writing debut for both, and the first clips from this film has now been released, and can be seen below.

With the first big weekend at Tiff out of the way, there is still an exciting week of movies and premieres to come, and among the titles big and small still looking to make a splash is Nenad Cicid-Sain's directorial debut "The Time Being." Starring Wes Bentley, Frank Langella and Corey Stoll ("Midnight In Paris"), the mystery follows Daniel (Bentley), a struggling artist who encounters an eccentric would-be benefactor (Langella), who commissions him to shoot a series of specific, but enigmatic videos, for reasons that are kept secret. Adding to the prospects of the film is an incredible array of talent lending their skills to the film including a score by Academy Award winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek ("Finding Neverland"), and it was shot by Dp Mahai Malaimare Jr. who recently earned his stripes on "The Master." "The Time Being" premieres at Tiff at the Winter Garden Theater on September 11th.

Here is an exclusive clip for The Time Being, an acquisition title that premieres here at Toronto tomorrow at 4:30 at the Winter Garden. The film stars Frank Langella and Wes Bentley and is directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain. That newcomer wrote the script with Richard Gladstein. Latter makes his screenwriting debut after a producing resume that includes The Cider House Rules, Pulp Fiction, Finding Neverland and The Bourne Identity. Click here to view the embedded video.

Above: Ernie Gehr's Auto-Collider Xv.

The vast bulk of Tiff's 2012 has been announced and listed here, below. We'll be updating the lineup with the previous films announced, as well as updating links to specific films for more information on them in the coming days. Of particular note is that the Wavelengths and Visions programs have been combined to create what is undoubtedly the most interesting section of the festival. Stay tuned, too, for our own on the ground coverage of Tiff.

Galas

A Royal Affair (Nikolai Arcel, Demark/Sweden/Czech Republic/Germany)

Argo (Ben Affleck, USA)

The Company You Keep (Robert Redford, USA)

Dangerous Liaisons (Hur Jin-ho, China)

Emperor (Peter Webber, Japan/USA)

English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde, India)

Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch)

Great Expectations (Mike Newell, UK)

Hyde Park on Hudson (Roger Michell, UK)

Inescapable (Ruba Nadda, Canada)

Jayne Mansfield's Car (Billy Bob Thorton, USA/Russia)

Looper (Rian Johnson,...

Exclusive: Frank Langella is in negotiations to play the role of Father Tucker in Grace Of Monaco, alongside Nicole Kidman as the title character and Tim Roth as Prince Rainier. Father Tucker is the priest and chief advisor to Princess Grace and Prince Rainier III. This comes as Langella’s Sundance sensation Robot And Frank opens this weekend. That was his followup to stellar work in Frost/Nixon. He will also be seen in the HBO film on Muhammad Ali and in The Time Being, which will play in Toronto. Langella is represented by ICM Partners.

I now have to accept the fact there will be several films showing at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival that I simply won't be able to see. I have gone to Cannes three straight years and this will be my third year in Toronto and of the six festivals I've never seen a line-up packed with so many highly anticipated films and today the fest added even more. Sending out the complete line-up today the fest has added three films to their Galas selection and 18 Special Presentations along with several Contemporary World Cinema selections, the latter of which includes James Ponsoldt's Smashed which is said to feature a performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead that may be up for Oscar consideration. The announcement confirmed Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master will be part of the Special Presentations selection as will Brian De Palma's Passion, a remake of Love Crime...

The past few years have seen a much-deserved resurgence in Wes Bentley’s career since his breakthrough performance in American Beauty back in 1999, and we couldn’t be happier.

Having starred in The Hunger Games earlier this year, by far one of the year’s most successful films at the box office, he’s got a slew of films on his slate, and heading to the Toronto International Film Festival with its world debut will be The Time Being.

Following the line-up announcement this afternoon, we’ve now got our first look at Bentley in the lead, and a handful more new images.

Co-starring alongside Bentley will be the great trio of Frank Langella, Ahna O’Reilly, and Sarah Paulson.

“In this suspenseful drama from first-time writer-director Nenad Cicin-Sain, a struggling young artist (Wes Bentley) accepts a series of bizarre commissions from an eccentric, dying millionaire (Frank Langella) who may...

Jayne Mansfield.s Car

Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, made the first announcement of films to premiere at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. Films announced include titles in the Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The announced films include 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations, including 38 world premieres.

Toronto audiences will be the first to see the world premieres of films from directors Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Maiken Baird, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Stuart Blumberg, Josh Boone, Laurent Cantet, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Lu Chuan, Derek Cianfrance, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Costa-Gavras, Ziad Doueiri, Liz Garbus, Dustin Hoffman, Rian Johnson, Neil Jordan, Baltasar Kormákur, Shola Lynch, Deepa Mehta, Roger Michell, Nishikawa Miwa, Ruba Nadda, Mike Newell, François Ozon, Sally Potter, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, Eran Riklis, David O. Russell, Gauri Shinde, Ben Timlett & Bill Jones & Jeff Simpson, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski,...

Terrence Malick. Mateo Garrone. Rian Johnson. Noah Baumbach. Joss Whedon. Neil Jordan. Francois Ozon. Joe Wright. Thomas Vinterbeg. Derek Cianfrance. All of these filmmakers, plus loads more, will be among those presenting new feature films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 6th to 16th. Of the 61 films announced this morning, Rian Johnson’s sci-fi actioner Looper will open the fest (a clear upgrade from Score! A Hockey Musical, to be sure), while the others are divvied up between Gala and Special Presentation screenings. Of note: rumors of Terrence Malick’s swift return to the big screen have turned out to be well-founded (barring some last-minute delay); his To the Wonder has been confirmed, along with a raft of well-received Cannes exports like Pablo Lorrain’s No and Mateo Garrone’s Reality. The most insane part of today’s already-stellar announcement is that there’s loads more to come,...

The films screened at this year's Toronto film festival – as the programme release is staggered, this will be updated as more information comes in

The 37th Toronto Film Festival runs September 6 - 16 2012. This article will be updated as official announcements detailing the full line-up are released.

Opening night film

Looper, Dir: Rian Johnson

World premieres

Argo, Dir: Ben Affleck

Byzantium, Dir: Neil Jordan

Capital, Dir: Costa-Gavras

Cloud Atlas, Dir: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski

The Deep (Djúpið), Dir: Baltasar Kormákur

Dreams for Sale, Dir: Nishikawa Miwa

End Of Watch, Dir: David Ayer

English Vinglish, Dir: Gauri Shinde

Foxfire, Dir: Laurent Cantet

Frances Ha, Dir: Noah Baumbach

Free Angela & All Political Prisoners, Dir: Shola Lynch

Ginger and Rosa, Dir: Sally Potter

Great Expectations, Dir: Mike Newell

Hannah Arendt, Dir: Margarethe von Trotta

Hyde Park on Hudson, Dir: Roger Michell

Imogene, Dir: Robert Pulcini

The Impossible, Dir: J.A. Bayona

In the House,...

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller “Looper” will open the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, it was reported on Tuesday in Variety.

Johnson made splashes at Tiff with his previous films – the high-school-set film noir “Brick” and the quirky con caper “The Brothers Bloom.” But “Looper” finds him working with major Hollywood talents Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the story of an assassin (Gordon-Levitt) who eliminates criminals sent back through time to our present day. Troubles arise when Jgl’s next target is himself (Bruce Willis), from a not-so-distant future.

The first wave of Tiff programming reads like a laundry list of can’t-wait-to-see features for the upcoming awards season. Ben Affleck’s back with the political drama “Argo.” We’ll get our first look at “Cloud Atlas,” from Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis. David O. Russell, Derek Cianfrance, Mike Newell, David Ayer,...

By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: Earlier, we brought you a snapshot glance at the first wave of programming announced for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Shortly after, the fest released a thorough breakdown of the Galas and Special Presentations for this year’s event, which kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 6.

So far, 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations have been announced, including 38 world premieres. Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Maiken Baird, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Stuart Blumberg, Josh Boone, Laurent Cantet, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Lu Chuan, Derek Cianfrance, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Costa-Gavras, Ziad Doueiri, Liz Garbus, Dustin Hoffman, Rian Johnson, Neil Jordan, Baltasar Kormákur, Shola Lynch, Deepa Mehta, Roger Michell, Nishikawa Miwa, Ruba Nadda, Mike Newell, François Ozon, Sally Potter, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, Eran Riklis, David O. Russell, Gauri Shinde, Ben Timlett & Bill Jones & Jeff Simpson, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski, Margarethe von Trotta, Joss Whedon and...

This years line-up for the Toronto Internation Film festival has been announced and yet again the festival is full of heavy-hitters, none moreso than Rian Johnson’s Looper starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. A total of 61 Gala’s & Special Presentations have been confirmed to screen at the festival and we have the full organised list courtesy of Movie Knight.

Opening Night Film

Rian Johnson’s Looper

Gala’s

Ben Affleck’s Argo Billy Bob Thorton’s Jayne Mansfield’s Car Liz Garbus’ Love Marilyn Shola Lynch’s Free Angela and All Political Prisoners David O. Russell’s Silver Lining Playbook Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines Deepa Mehta’s Midnight Children Roger Mitchell’s Hyde Park on Hudson Mike Newell’s Great Expectations Rubba Nadda’s Inescapable Sergio Castelitto’s Twice Born Gauri Shinde’s English Vinglish Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist Robert Redford...

Has the summer movie season gotten you down? Did some of those hopeful-looking blockbusters disappoint you? Well, we have some good news for you. Today we learned the date of the start of fall movie season: September 6, the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival.

This year, the Tiff line-up is heavily skewed toward world premieres, instead of relying on repeats from Cannes and Sundance. Among the high-profile bows scheduled for the fest are Terrence Malick's "To The Wonder," the Wachowskis' "Cloud Atlas," and Rian Johnson's "Looper," which will open Tiff.

Read more about the line-up and check out the full list after the jump!

There's a lot to digest here, and every time we take another look at the list, we catch another surprise. There's "The Place Beyond The Pines," Derek Cianfrance's follow-up to "Blue Valentine" with Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower...

Organizers for September’s Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) announced a slate of movies guaranteed to please cinephiles. The festival will open with Rian Johnson’s time-twisty thriller Looper, and will also include the world premiere of the mysterious Wachowski/Tykwer collabo-adaptation of Cloud Atlas, Ben Affleck’s true-life thriller Argo, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, and Joss Whedon’s shot-in-a-fortnight adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The festival will also feature the next movie by auteur Terrence Malick, the Ben Affleck/Rachel McAdams headlined To The Wonder. (That makes two Terrence Malick movies in two consecutive years — a new record!

The line-up for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival has been officially announced across the Atlantic this morning – local time, and it is simply amazing.

Opening the festival will be Rian Johnson’s hotly-anticipated Looper, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and joining it are a slew of fantastic films, many of which making their world / North American premieres, with highlights including Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Ben Affleck’s Argo, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines, Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers’ Cloud Atlas, Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, David Ayer’s End of Watch, Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, Stuart Blumberg’s Thanks for Sharing, and Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder.

That suggests that Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives with Ryan Gosling is almost certainly going to be debuting at Venice, as expected.

Variety are the ones to officially confirm the line-up, which...

The fact this is only the start of the films announced for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival is staggering. I don't even think someone's wishlist could have matched what we're looking at and there is still more to be announced. But we'll worry about what's to come soon enough, let's have a look at what will be arriving. First taking a look at the World Premieres we see the opening night film, Rian Johnson's time travel feature Looper starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt followed by the highly anticipated Wachowski sibling feature Cloud Atlas; Ben Affleck will bring Argo to the fest just as he did The Town; David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook will have its premiere; Blue Valentine helmer Derek Cianfrance will premiere The Place Beyond the Pines starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes; Mike Newell's Great Expectations will also...

With the fall movie season swiftly approaching, it’s not a stretch to say that many of the potential nominees for the Oscars and other end of year awards will finally be seeing a release. This year is no different. Though we have had a couple of films previously released that may be considered as possibilities in the awards race (Moonrise Kingdom, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and my personal favorite, The Grey), there’s a lot more right around the corner. Some of these very films that many have high hopes for will first be seen by those living in Canada. Variety has released some of the upcoming films that will be making their debut at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Or one can simply say just Tiff. Of those films announced, quite a few of them will have genre fans like myself quite giddy.

I’ve marked my personal favorites in red below.

Couple of hours before Tiff is set to announce their 60 plus title announcement (loads of Cannes items), Variety breaks the news that some of our most highly anticipated titles such as Terrence Malick’s “To The Wonder“, Derek Cianfrance “The Place Beyond The Pines” and Ramin Bahrani’s “At Any Price” will be the make-up of both Toronto and Venice. What we hope might trickle thru below are mentions today for the world or international premieres for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, Brian De Palma’s Passion, Manoel De Oliver’s Gebo Et L’Hombre, Olivier Assayas’ Something In The Air, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin, Bahman Ghobadi’s Rhinos Season, Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, Susanne Bier’s Love Is All You Need, Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths,...

2012′s Toronto International Film Festival is set to officially announce its initial line-up later today, but Variety let the cat out of the bag, at least partially; and it’s quite astounding. Most of our most-anticipated films of the year will be premiering at the Canadian festival, notably Terrence Malick‘s To the Wonder, Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer‘s epic-sounding Cloud Atlas, Rian Johnson‘s Looper (which will open the fest), Ben Affleck‘s Argo, Dereck Cianfrance‘s The Place Beyond the Pines and much, more more.

Coming from Sundance, the only mentioned film was Ben Lewis‘ John Hawkes-starring The Sessions, while Cannes premieres include Matteo Garrone‘s Reality, Thomas Vinterberg‘s The Hunt, Pablo Larrain‘s No and Jacques Audiard‘s Rust and Bone. One of the biggest surprises is a new film from Noah Baumbach, starring Greta Gerwing titled Frances Ha. There’s also The Avengers director Joss Whedon...

As expected, The Hunger Games easily topped the North American box office for the third weekend in a row. Gary Ross' dystopic adventure tale collected $33.5 million according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. That represents a 43% drop from last weekend, whereas early estimates published on Friday — Deadline had the film earning $40 million over the weekend — implied a drop-off rate of only 30-35%. [Image: Alexander Ludwig as Cato.] For comparison's sake: although both The Hunger Games and Catherine Hardwicke / Robert Pattinson / Kristen Stewart's original Twilight dropped 62% on their second weekend out, The Hunger Games had a softer drop-off rate on its third weekend, as Twilight was down 50.5%. I should note that good business on Good Friday, when many schools and businesses were closed, helped The Hunger Games quite a bit. The film was down only 31% compared to the previous Friday, whereas it was down an estimated 47% on Saturday compared to the previous week,...

Kate Winslet as Rose, Titanic 3D The Hunger Games will easily top the North American box for the third weekend in a row. Gary Ross' dystopic adventure tale collected $12.9 million on Friday, April 6, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The film will likely earn somewhere between $35-$40 million over the Easter weekend. If so, it will be down around 30-35% compared to a week ago — or about half its 62% drop-off rate last (non-holiday) weekend. The Hunger Games should cross the $300 million mark at the domestic box office on Sunday. Its current total is $282.23 million. Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg's American Reunion landed at no. 2 on Friday. At 3,192 locations, the R-rated comedy took in $9.2 million — including $660,000 earned at Thursday midnight screenings. Its weekend total could reach $25 million. If those estimates are correct, Universal will claim that American Reunion far surpassed the $18.7 million earned by the original...

Gary Ross may still come back for Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games, reports Deadline.com. Yesterday, an "exclusive" by indieWIRE/The Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth asserted that Ross had "officially exited the franchise and will not direct the sequel, formally giving Lionsgate and Summit his notice earlier this week, that he will not be coming back." The article went on to claim that Ross had left the movie franchise-to-be not because of money (despite a "lowball salary offer"), but because "the burning desire simply isn't there to spend another couple of years with Katniss in the Capitol." Be that as it may, Deadline's Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming say they've heard "from multiple sources close to Catching Fire that director Gary Ross has not formally withdrawn from The Hunger Games sequel. Ross is off on a family vacation and couldn’t be reached, but these internet reports that...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Titanic The Hunger Games will easily top the North American box office once again this weekend — its third time as no. 1 — according to Deadline.com's "sources." As per Deadline's early, rough estimates, The Hunger Games is expected to collect $12-$14 million on Friday, and could reach $40 million over the Easter weekend. If so, Gary Ross' movie would be down close to 30% compared to last weekend — or less than half its drop-off rate last (non-holiday) weekend. It seems that Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg's American Reunion will be the no. 2 movie on Friday, with somewhere between $8-$10 million at 3,192 locations, and an estimated $25 million by Sunday evening. That includes $660,000 earned at Thursday midnight screenings in North America. If those estimates are correct, Universal will claim that American Reunion far surpassed the $18.7 million earned by the original American Pie at 2,508 sites in 1999. There is, however, a pesky little thing known as inflation,...