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Fashion struts at Calgary fest

Scenes from the runway front and center in new program. Tom Green and Grant Harvey to debut sci-fi comedy Freezer Burn

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TIFF 2008: Indie market a success

Although business was more conservative than in past years, buyers and sellers will leave Toronto satisfied with the deals they made. Canuck feature Nurse.Fighter.Boy goes to Mongrel Media and France’s REZO Films

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Another cut of Blindness opens AFF

Fernando Meirelles’ Canadian copro feature opened the Atlantic Film Festival Thursday in yet another re-edited version

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Summer box up 3% in Canada

Thanks to Batman and Indy, and despite Speed Racer and Eddie Murphy, the domestic box office managed to beat last year’s record haul, coming in at $388 million

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TIFF 2008: TIFF shows off future home

Organizer Noah Cowan talks up everything from the cinemas to the bathrooms in walking tour of Bell Lightbox-to-be site

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TIFF 2008: Steep climb for Canadian films

Subject matter doesn’t travel well to other territories, panel hears. Gross recalls budget scramble for Passchendaele

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TIFF 2008: The branding of Che Guevara

The face of the famed guerilla is everywhere, but is harder to put on a movie poster than you’d think, says Soderbergh

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TIFF 2008: Skogland recalls ‘secret meetings in dark places’

Cast and crew of Fifty Dead Men Walking got up close and personal with former members of the IRA while shooting in Belfast

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Maple grabs Goats

Distributor secures Canadian rights to Clooney project about military and the paranormal

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TIFF 2008: Maximum signs outputs with Fortissimo, Cinetic

Separate, six-picture deals include Michael Caine-starrer Is There Anybody There?, Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles and Matt Aselton’s debut feature Gigantic

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TIFF 2008: Mills wins Pitch This! with quirky comedy

Toronto filmmaker hopes to turn short Don’t Talk to Irene into feature with $10,000 prize

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TIFF 2008: ‘Difficult’ road of Pride and Glory

Cop drama became a ‘problem film’ following New Line’s absorption by Warner Bros., says director