Tiff has come and gone. Masses of Canadians attend the festival which is what gives it such a special atmosphere. In Cannes, only the industry attends the festival; the public sets up chairs and ladders to watch the red carpet galas and take pictures. But here the public is as much a part of the festival as the industry.Tiff Bell Lightbox
The industry action which consists of buying and selling of film rights takes place at the Hyatt Hotel on King Street West. The screenings for both public and industry are down the street at the Tiff Bell Lightbox and around the corner at the Scotia Multiplex. The dense mingling of public and industry at these venues and on the street itself which is closed to traffic for the first weekend but is open to pedestrians, photo-op spots, food trucks creates a festive bevvy of activity to the city.
The industry action which consists of buying and selling of film rights takes place at the Hyatt Hotel on King Street West. The screenings for both public and industry are down the street at the Tiff Bell Lightbox and around the corner at the Scotia Multiplex. The dense mingling of public and industry at these venues and on the street itself which is closed to traffic for the first weekend but is open to pedestrians, photo-op spots, food trucks creates a festive bevvy of activity to the city.
- 9/18/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
If you are a devotee of big screen/Hollywood movies, you already have heard about the Toronto Film Festival, formally known as the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff). A venue for film lovers from all over the world, the festival had its first gathering in 1976 and currently attracts nearly 500,000 viewers from around the world that meet in downtown Toronto. Public tickets for this year’s non-tiff members are a paltry $25 or so per screening, opening it up to virtually anyone. The idea started when three men, Bill Marshall, Dusty Cohl and Henk Van der Kolk, decided to collect the
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- 9/12/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival features one star-studded lineup!
On Tuesday, the prestigious festival unveiled its first slate of films for this year’s September 7 to 17 event, including movies directed by Angelina Jolie and George Clooney.
Jolie’s First They Killed My Father is set to hit the festival, a few months after the passion project about the Khmer Rouge genocide premiered in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Meanwhile, Clooney’s comedy Suburbicon will show along with Darren Aronofsky‘s Mother! (which stars his girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence).
Angelina Jolie and Kids Step Out for Movie Premiere in Cambodia
The festival...
On Tuesday, the prestigious festival unveiled its first slate of films for this year’s September 7 to 17 event, including movies directed by Angelina Jolie and George Clooney.
Jolie’s First They Killed My Father is set to hit the festival, a few months after the passion project about the Khmer Rouge genocide premiered in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Meanwhile, Clooney’s comedy Suburbicon will show along with Darren Aronofsky‘s Mother! (which stars his girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence).
Angelina Jolie and Kids Step Out for Movie Premiere in Cambodia
The festival...
- 7/25/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
Jeffrey Hayden, television director and husband to Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, has died at the age of 90. Hayden died peacefully after a year of cancer treatment on Christmas Eve at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by family, according to a statement released by his publicist on Tuesday. Born October 15, 1926 in New York, Hayden graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill before beginning his career at NBC in New York. Also Read: Bill Marshall, Tiff Founder, Dies at 77 Hayden’s many credits as a television director include “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Leave it to Beaver,” “Lassie,” “Dennis the Menace,...
- 1/3/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Bill Marshall, who co-founded the Toronto International Film Festival in 1976, passed away yesterday at the age of 77. Tiff — known back then as the Festival of Festivals and co-founded by Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl — announced the unforunate news in a statement, which included thoughts from Marshall’s family. He died early on January 1 from cardiac arrest.
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“In a very real way Bill was in the business of making dreams become reality and he continued doing so to the very end with several new projects in development,” reads a portion of the statement from Marshall’s family. “Now, as the house lights dim, friends and family will remember and honour Bill as a first rate raconteur, famous for his honesty, keen mind and wry humour.” Born in Scotland in 1939, Marshall made...
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“In a very real way Bill was in the business of making dreams become reality and he continued doing so to the very end with several new projects in development,” reads a portion of the statement from Marshall’s family. “Now, as the house lights dim, friends and family will remember and honour Bill as a first rate raconteur, famous for his honesty, keen mind and wry humour.” Born in Scotland in 1939, Marshall made...
- 1/2/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The producer and Canadian film industry pioneer died of a heart attack on Sunday in hospital in Toronto. He was 77.
Marshall was born in 1939 in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated to Canada in 1955. He co-founded the festival in 1976 with Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl.
Marshall was a former president of the Canadian Association Of Motion Picture Producers and notched up numerous documentary and narrative feature credits.
He also produced for stage, including the Toronto production of Hair. He received the Order Of Canada for his contribution to the arts.
Outside of the arts, he served as campaign manager and chief of staff for three Toronto mayors and was a journalist, novellist, and speechwriter for royalty.
In a statement his family said, “Now, as the house lights dim, friends and family will remember and honour Bill as a first rate raconteur, famous for his honesty, keen mind and wry humour.”
Toronto Mayor John...
Marshall was born in 1939 in Glasgow, Scotland, and emigrated to Canada in 1955. He co-founded the festival in 1976 with Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl.
Marshall was a former president of the Canadian Association Of Motion Picture Producers and notched up numerous documentary and narrative feature credits.
He also produced for stage, including the Toronto production of Hair. He received the Order Of Canada for his contribution to the arts.
Outside of the arts, he served as campaign manager and chief of staff for three Toronto mayors and was a journalist, novellist, and speechwriter for royalty.
In a statement his family said, “Now, as the house lights dim, friends and family will remember and honour Bill as a first rate raconteur, famous for his honesty, keen mind and wry humour.”
Toronto Mayor John...
- 1/1/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Bill Marshall, a founder of the Toronto International Film Festival, has died. He was 77.
Marshall passed away Sunday in a Toronto hospital after a cardiac arrest, the festival said. Marshall and two friends, Henk van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl, launched the then Festival of Festivals in 1976 to bring American stars and the best of European cinema to a sophisticated Toronto audience.
Their first year saw 35,000 film lovers attending to watch 127 features from 30 countries. Tiff, which today is a familiar launching pad for Hollywood Oscar campaigns, annually features A-list talent such as Matt...
Marshall passed away Sunday in a Toronto hospital after a cardiac arrest, the festival said. Marshall and two friends, Henk van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl, launched the then Festival of Festivals in 1976 to bring American stars and the best of European cinema to a sophisticated Toronto audience.
Their first year saw 35,000 film lovers attending to watch 127 features from 30 countries. Tiff, which today is a familiar launching pad for Hollywood Oscar campaigns, annually features A-list talent such as Matt...
- 1/1/2017
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Bill Marshall, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival, died today, his family announced. He was 77 and suffered a heart attack while in the hospital. A Scottish immigrant to Canada, Marshall, who was later awarded the Order of Canada, Marshall co-founded Tiff, originally called Toronto Festival of Festivals, in 1976 with Dusty Cohl and Henk Van der Kolk. Though at first avoided by Hollywood, the festival, which changed to its current name in 1994, would…...
- 1/1/2017
- Deadline
Toronto International Film Festival founder Bill Marshall died early Sunday morning in a Toronto hospital after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 77. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and Tiff Chair Emeritus Bill Marshall,” festival director and CEO Piers Handling said on Sunday. “He was a pioneer in the Canadian film industry and his vision of creating a public festival that would bring the world to Toronto through the transformative power of cinema stands today as one of his most significant legacies.” “Without his tenacity and dedication, the Toronto International Film Festival would not be among the.
- 1/1/2017
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
The event led by Toronto International Film Festival founder Bill Marshall is set to run from June 19-22.
Gala premieres include the world premiere of Restrung, Mike Enns’ portrait of Disney animator Randall Wyn Fullmer, the North American premiere of Felix Herngren’s Swedish Blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared and animation Ribbit featuring the voices of Sean Astin and Russell Peters.
The roster includes Emilio Aragon’s A Night In Old Mexico starring Robert Duvall, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl and Ira Sachs’ gay-marriage drama Love Is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina.
The Canadians-At-Cannes shorts curated by Danny Lennon include Kyle Thomas’ The Post, Moira Sauer’s The Provider and Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael’s The Sparkling River.
The line-up includes two shorts films from the 1950s starring Peter Sellers – Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You.
“Just as Tiff...
Gala premieres include the world premiere of Restrung, Mike Enns’ portrait of Disney animator Randall Wyn Fullmer, the North American premiere of Felix Herngren’s Swedish Blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared and animation Ribbit featuring the voices of Sean Astin and Russell Peters.
The roster includes Emilio Aragon’s A Night In Old Mexico starring Robert Duvall, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl and Ira Sachs’ gay-marriage drama Love Is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina.
The Canadians-At-Cannes shorts curated by Danny Lennon include Kyle Thomas’ The Post, Moira Sauer’s The Provider and Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael’s The Sparkling River.
The line-up includes two shorts films from the 1950s starring Peter Sellers – Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You.
“Just as Tiff...
- 4/23/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The event led by Toronto International Film Festival founder Bill Marshall is set to run from June 19-22.
Gala premieres include the world premiere of Restrung, Mike Enns’ portrait of Disney animator Randall Wyn Fullmer, the North American premiere of Felix Herngren’s Swedish Blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared and animation Ribbit featuring the voices of Sean Astin and Russell Peters.
The roster includes Emilio Aragon’s A Night In Old Mexico starring Robert Duvall, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl and Ira Sachs’ gay-marriage drama Love Is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina.
The Canadians-At-Cannes shorts curated by Danny Lennon include Kyle Thomas’ The Post, Moira Sauer’s The Provider and Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael’s The Sparkling River.
The line-up includes two shorts films from the 1950s starring Peter Sellers – Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You.
“Just as Tiff...
Gala premieres include the world premiere of Restrung, Mike Enns’ portrait of Disney animator Randall Wyn Fullmer, the North American premiere of Felix Herngren’s Swedish Blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared and animation Ribbit featuring the voices of Sean Astin and Russell Peters.
The roster includes Emilio Aragon’s A Night In Old Mexico starring Robert Duvall, Stuart Murdoch’s God Help The Girl and Ira Sachs’ gay-marriage drama Love Is Strange with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina.
The Canadians-At-Cannes shorts curated by Danny Lennon include Kyle Thomas’ The Post, Moira Sauer’s The Provider and Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael’s The Sparkling River.
The line-up includes two shorts films from the 1950s starring Peter Sellers – Dearth Of A Salesman and Insomnia Is Good For You.
“Just as Tiff...
- 4/22/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
By the time of his death in April of this year, Roger Ebert had firmly established himself as being, among other things, the most famous film critic of all time. For decades, filmmakers and film fans from all over the world relied on Ebert’s writings and television broadcasts to not only illuminate us on what treasures the film world had available for us that we might not have already seen, but also to deepen our understanding and appreciation for the great works that we had. He was one of the voices who helped elevate the world of movies from being viewed as a commercially-driven entertainment racket to being to seen as a legitimate art form as worthy of dissection and discussion as any other, and because of that the film industry has taken every opportunity over the last few months to pay tribute to the man as often as possible. The...
- 9/4/2013
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This year's Tiff, which kicks off September 5, will open Thursday night with a film tribute to Roger Ebert (1942-2013). Toronto credits Ebert's presigious attendance in helping the festival grow from "a bootstrap operation to the unofficial opener to Academy Awards season."Tiff director and CEO Piers Handling stated that “Roger was a huge presence at the festival for over 30 years. He was one of the key people who put the Toronto International Film Festival on the map, and we feel it is only fitting that we pay tribute to Roger in the way we would hope he would have wanted -- in a cinema surrounded by friends, family and the Toronto audience, which was so close to Roger’s heart.”The 8pm tribute precedes the world premiere of Bill Condon's “The Fifth Estate,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in Roy Thomson Hall, which seats approximately 2,000. The...
- 9/4/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
"Remember When" was not at all what I expected it to be. For some reason, I imagined a fun and bubbly walk down memory lane, but what I watch was the gritty reality that brought our girls and guys to the Lancer Hellcats. The shock comes in the form of Alice, perhaps showing, for the first time, her true colors. She is a Hellcat, and when it comes to loyalty, there is no contest. Hellcats win every time.
When Jake threatens the Hellcats for the video Alice and Marti stole from Bill Marshall's office last week, she goes into protection mode. That allegiance even covers Marti, and to show her what it truly means to be a Hellcat, she arranges for the induction she never had.
Alice, Lewis and Savannah all came to the squad in a less than cheerful light. Each of them were literally saved by the Hellcats.
When Jake threatens the Hellcats for the video Alice and Marti stole from Bill Marshall's office last week, she goes into protection mode. That allegiance even covers Marti, and to show her what it truly means to be a Hellcat, she arranges for the induction she never had.
Alice, Lewis and Savannah all came to the squad in a less than cheerful light. Each of them were literally saved by the Hellcats.
- 2/9/2011
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVovermind.com
It was revealed last year that Peter Jackson's effects house Weta was developing an updated CGI animated version of the classic childrens novel The Wind in the Willows.
The film is being directed by Ray Griggs, off of a script written by Bill Marshall. Weta's Richard Taylor is handling the films effects. He is the same guy that was behind the effects in films such as The Lord of the Rings, District 9, King Kong, and several other movies.
It's been reported that Ricky Gervais has joined the voice cast of the film, and is set to play the character Mole. Variety reports that the film will start shooting this year, and that the rest of the cast will be announced shortly.
There's no doubt this movie is going to look great. The films will be shot using a mixture of animatronics and CGI effects. The film has a budget of $30 million dollars,...
The film is being directed by Ray Griggs, off of a script written by Bill Marshall. Weta's Richard Taylor is handling the films effects. He is the same guy that was behind the effects in films such as The Lord of the Rings, District 9, King Kong, and several other movies.
It's been reported that Ricky Gervais has joined the voice cast of the film, and is set to play the character Mole. Variety reports that the film will start shooting this year, and that the rest of the cast will be announced shortly.
There's no doubt this movie is going to look great. The films will be shot using a mixture of animatronics and CGI effects. The film has a budget of $30 million dollars,...
- 1/6/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
In addition to the announcement of 44 new films today, the Toronto International Film Festival also set an extensive industry program, and plans for a 35th anniversary celebration. The latter will involve a series of free public screenings showcasing films from the festival's past, all of which will take place at the new Tiff Bell Lightbox. “When our founders Dusty Cohl, Bill Marshall and Henk Van der Kolk started the Festival ...
- 8/17/2010
- Indiewire
Hey gang! A couple months ago it was announced that Peter Jackson's special effects company Weta was developing a new a new live-action/animatronics film adaptation of the classic Kenneth Grahame children's novel Wind in the Willows.
The movie is being directed by Ray Griggs, off of a script written by Bill Marshall. Weta's Richard Taylor is handling the films effects. He's the same guy that was behind the effects in films such as Lord of the Rings, District 9, King Kong, and several other films. Needless to say that this movie is definitely going to look good.
Synopsis:
When Mole ventures out of his lonely home for the first time, he finds a world of new friendships, gentle wonders and breathless adventure waiting for him in the land of the Willows. From the joys of boating on the River, to Mr. Toad's unbelievable antics at Toad Hall... from...
The movie is being directed by Ray Griggs, off of a script written by Bill Marshall. Weta's Richard Taylor is handling the films effects. He's the same guy that was behind the effects in films such as Lord of the Rings, District 9, King Kong, and several other films. Needless to say that this movie is definitely going to look good.
Synopsis:
When Mole ventures out of his lonely home for the first time, he finds a world of new friendships, gentle wonders and breathless adventure waiting for him in the land of the Willows. From the joys of boating on the River, to Mr. Toad's unbelievable antics at Toad Hall... from...
- 7/16/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
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