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Partial Lineup for the Toronto Film Festival Announced

A preliminary list of films to be screened at this year’s Toronto Film Festival have been announced on its official website. Some of the most anticipated screenings include The Conspirator, a Robert Redford drama based on Lincoln’s assassination, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, which features Natalie Portman playing the role of a ballet dancer, and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s feature directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating....  read more

Hilary Swank, Mira Nair team up for Amelia Earhart biopic

The director who brought us Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake and Vanity Fair is making a biopic of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic who mysteriously disappeared in 1937. Amelia will star double Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don't Cry). Swank has a history of playing strong women in film, and her cinematic choices of late have ranged from award-caliber films to horror and romantic comedies. The script for the film was written by Oscar-winner Ron Bass (Entrapment, Snow Falling on Cedars, What Dreams May Come, Rain Man), who used several...  read more

The Reaping

You'd think the result would be a popcorn-devouring hit...  read more