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Following a late summer trickle of new Specialties, distributors are releasing a torrent of limited releases just as the Toronto Film Festival heads into its finale this weekend. Roadside Attractions/Saban Films have teamed on psychological thriller Lizzie with Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart based on the famous New…

In the Paul Weitz-directed Bel Canto, Julianne Moore plays a famous soprano who heads to South America to perform at a swanky birthday party for a wealthy Japanese industrialist (Ken Watanabe). But the fancy gathering is rudely interrupted when the house is taken over by a guerrilla rebel group demanding the release…

Julianne Moore has been set to star alongside Ken Watanabe and Demian Bichir in Bel Canto, the long-in-the-works movie adaptation of Ann Patchett’s bestselling 2001 novel that Paul Weitz is directing. Weitz also adapted the screenplay with Anthony Weintraub, and Bloom will kick off sales on the pic at the upcoming Toro…