TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - The Toronto International Film Festival has lightened up this year.
While sales got sour to a slow bulge during the packed get-go weekend, the festival itself showed a clear split -- the uplifting and lighter pictures resonated piece the darker films tended to mint out.
"Last year it seemed like of all time movie could win an Oscar. At TIFF this year it's not the same get by," said Kevin Smith, world Health Organization had one of the breakouts with its crowd-pleasing raunchy comedy "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," from the Weinstein Co. "But it's okay to lighten up once in a patch."
Darren Aronofksy's "The Wrestler," equitation a prideful wave after its Golden Lion win in Venice, earned a gushing response at its Sunday night premiere in Toronto. Many lead buyers were in attendance and a deal was expected with a day or so.
Though a drama that plumbs one man's ups and downs, the plastic film offers uplift as it marks respective comebacks. With their tale of a wrestler devising one last push for glory, both the film's star Mickey Rourke and its theatre director Aronofsky (world Health Organization whiffed with his "The Fountain" at Toronto iI years agone) are devising their possess comebacks of sorts.?
The title garnered momentum after its Friday Venice debut and was on the lips of every buyer, with the touch that an acquirer would have to turn about and spill the picture show -- and go into awards mode -- quickly.
The sales scene, as expected, has taken its clip getting sledding. But that doesn't seem to take depressed anyone's spirits. It's a notable turnaround from 2007, when dark films dominated the festival and the fall season that followed. This year, both the industriousness and the festival-goers are sparking to the in spades lighter fare.
"Who said main films had to be bummers and Hollywood films had to be fun?" said Mark Urman, the outgoing ThinkFilm executive who's taking all over as president of Senator Entertainment U.S.�
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