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Director Atom Egoyan found inspiration from a very different field of work when he was writing Guest of Honour. David Thewlis’ character Jim is a health inspector in this story of a father and daughter trying to connect after the latter is imprisoned. “I opened a bar here in Toronto about 15 years ago called Camera…

EXCLUSIVE: David Thewlis has been set to star in Oscar nominee Atom Egoyan's latest feature, Guest Of Honour. Thewlis will be joined by Laysla De Oliveira and Luke Wilson in the father-daughter drama. From a script by Egoyan, filming begins on November 5 in the Toronto area. The Film Farm's Simone Urdl and Jennifer…

The Toronto Film Festival has revealed the lineup of titles that will make up its Canadian offerings next month. Running the gamut from documentaries to dramas, biographies, thrillers and animation, the roster includes veteran filmmakers and emerging talent. Among the world premieres are docs The River Of My Dreams…

UPDATE Friday noon: Remember opens today in NYC. In Los Angeles, it opens next Friday, March 18, at the Laemmle Royal. EXCLUSIVE: Atom Egoyan’s Remember, a revenge drama you won’t easily forget, opens Friday in limited release. The film builds to its powerful climax on the strength of Christopher Plummer and Martin Lan…

Eighty-six-year-old Oscar winner Christopher Plummer ages up a bit in Remember as a 90-year-old World War II Auschwitz concentration camp survivor named Zev. He’s hell-bent on avenging the death of family members when he discovers the Nazi commandant responsible is still alive and living somewhere in America…

Last night brought another 10-minute standing ovation to the Venice Film Festival, accompanying the screening of Atom Egoyan’s Remember. The title is one of the last to play in Competition here as the final films bow today and the jury deliberates for the last time ahead of tomorrow night’s prize ceremony. Remember…

UPDATED with more details: A24 is launching its Cannes campaign early by acquiring rights to Remember, the Atom Egoyan-helmed thriller that stars Christopher Plummer. This is one that has Oscar bait potential, and could see Plummer make a run at a second Oscar (he won Supporting Actor for Beginners in 2012). Deal is…

Oscar-nominated Atom Egoyan (Exotica, Where the Truth Lies, Chloe) has a new psychological thriller to untangle in The Captive (formerly Queen Of The Night), starring Ryan Reynolds and The Killing’s Mireille Enos as a couple plagued by the unsolved disappearance of their young daughter Cassandra. Years later, mementos…

Atom Egoyan‘s The Captive is screening today in Competition here in Cannes. In the second domestic deal this week on a Competition title after Sony Pictures Classics acquired Saint Laurent, the film has been picked up by A24 in partnership with DirecTV. A24 will release in the U.S. this fall. Egoyan directs and…

Devil’s Knot is the story of three teenagers accused of the brutal 1993 murder of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark. — two of them sentenced to life imprisonment and one to death even though there was not a shred of physical evidence. The film explores the lives of deeply misunderstood outsiders, their…

Jonathan Demme’s ‘Fear Of Falling’ To Premiere At Rome Fest Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme‘s Fear Of Falling will have its world premiere at the eighth annual Rome Film Festival in November. The film is based on a theater production — performed only a few times to friends — created for the stage by the…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Durand worked with helmer Atom Egoyan on the West Memphis 3 feature Devil’s Knot and they are reuniting for the kidnapping thriller Queen Of The Night, which already stars Ryan Reynolds, Mireille Enos, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson and Alexia Fast. In the pic co-written by Egoyan and David Fraser, a…