+ Érik Canuel, director of all-time top-grosser Bon Cop, Bad Cop, has lined up his next project, My Oma, with actress Marianne Sägebrecht (Baghdad Café) in the lead. Julia Rosenberg of Toronto-based January Films set up the project as a Canada/Germany coproduction with Germany’s Andro Steinborn, who recently left Berlin-based X Filme International.

+ The Toronto International Film Festival Group has now reached 80% of its fundraising goal for its new headquarters, the Bell Lightbox, thanks to a $10 million grant from the Ontario government. Efforts to date have raised $157 million of the $196 million budget.

+ Tim Brown has again picked up the U.S. and international sales rights to Suck, though this time the TIFF sensation will be handled through his new company, Joker Films. The same rights for Suck (directed by Rob Stefaniuk) were previously held by Insight Film Releasing. Brown worked at Insight at the time and was attached to Suck, though he has since struck out on his own, founding Toronto-based Joker two months ago.

+ C.R.A.Z.Y. auteur Jean-Marc Vallée is reteaming with producer Pierre Even for his next directing project, Café de Flore, on a budget between $7 million and $8 million. Vallée hopes to land a major French actress for the main role, and met with potential French coproduction partners during TIFF to that end.