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TIFF backs down on film premiere demand, industry journal says
Wednesday June 17th 2015The Toronto International Film Festival is backing down on its controversial policy regarding the premiere status of hot new movies, an industry journal reports.
The Hollywood Reporter, in an exclusive story with no public confirmation from TIFF officials, said late Wednesday that the festival will relax a rule instituted in 2014 that forced filmmakers and distributors to choose between the Toronto and Telluride festivals to premiere movies.
Instead of the blanket insistence that all films screening during the fest’s high-demand first four days be either world or North American premieres, the edict will now apply only to screenings at the three top theatre venues: Roy Thomson Hall, Princess of Wales and the Elgin.
The change to the premiere policy, which affected the Toronto premieres last year of Oscar-nominated films The Imitation Game and Foxcatcher, amongst others, is seen as a compromise to quell concerns that TIFF was unfairly limiting the options of films and also beating up on the significantly smaller Telluride fest, which runs over Labour Day weekend in the Colorado mountain town.
But the Hollywood Reporter also warns that a new fight might be brewing, over TIFF’s plans to create a jury award similar to the Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other rival fests, among them the Venice Film Festival, could view that as unfair competition, the journal said.
Source: Toronto Star
Front Page, Industry News
TIFF backs down on film premiere demand, industry journal says
Wednesday June 17th 2015The Toronto International Film Festival is backing down on its controversial policy regarding the premiere status of hot new movies, an industry journal reports.
The Hollywood Reporter, in an exclusive story with no public confirmation from TIFF officials, said late Wednesday that the festival will relax a rule instituted in 2014 that forced filmmakers and distributors to choose between the Toronto and Telluride festivals to premiere movies.
Instead of the blanket insistence that all films screening during the fest’s high-demand first four days be either world or North American premieres, the edict will now apply only to screenings at the three top theatre venues: Roy Thomson Hall, Princess of Wales and the Elgin.
The change to the premiere policy, which affected the Toronto premieres last year of Oscar-nominated films The Imitation Game and Foxcatcher, amongst others, is seen as a compromise to quell concerns that TIFF was unfairly limiting the options of films and also beating up on the significantly smaller Telluride fest, which runs over Labour Day weekend in the Colorado mountain town.
But the Hollywood Reporter also warns that a new fight might be brewing, over TIFF’s plans to create a jury award similar to the Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other rival fests, among them the Venice Film Festival, could view that as unfair competition, the journal said.
Source: Toronto Star
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Front Page, Industry News
TIFF backs down on film premiere demand, industry journal says
Wednesday June 17th 2015The Toronto International Film Festival is backing down on its controversial policy regarding the premiere status of hot new movies, an industry journal reports.
The Hollywood Reporter, in an exclusive story with no public confirmation from TIFF officials, said late Wednesday that the festival will relax a rule instituted in 2014 that forced filmmakers and distributors to choose between the Toronto and Telluride festivals to premiere movies.
Instead of the blanket insistence that all films screening during the fest’s high-demand first four days be either world or North American premieres, the edict will now apply only to screenings at the three top theatre venues: Roy Thomson Hall, Princess of Wales and the Elgin.
The change to the premiere policy, which affected the Toronto premieres last year of Oscar-nominated films The Imitation Game and Foxcatcher, amongst others, is seen as a compromise to quell concerns that TIFF was unfairly limiting the options of films and also beating up on the significantly smaller Telluride fest, which runs over Labour Day weekend in the Colorado mountain town.
But the Hollywood Reporter also warns that a new fight might be brewing, over TIFF’s plans to create a jury award similar to the Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other rival fests, among them the Venice Film Festival, could view that as unfair competition, the journal said.
Source: Toronto Star
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