- Almost ten years ago, we were lucky enough to see the “Dogma” world premiere at a more-than-packed house in Toronto, Ontario, where its stars descended for a special screening as part of the prestigious “Toronto Internation Film Festival”. Now, in 2008, View Askew’s comin’ back, baby!!! Today, it was announced that “Zack And Miri Make a Porno” will celebrate its WORLD PREMIERE at the festival, which runs from September 4th through the 13th in, of course, Toronto.
Canada’s National Post went as far to include the film’s title in their headline on today’s group of announcements:
Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Che among 20 films added to TIFF
Twenty films were added to the Toronto International Film Festival’s Special Presentations programme on Tuesday.
The announced films include the World Premiere of Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom, starring Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as a pair of con men who try and swindle a beautiful heiress played by Rachel Weisz; Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles, which stars Claire Danes and High School Musical’s poster boy Zac Efron; Kevin Smith’s already controversial Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as friends who turn to porn to make money; The Burning Plain, the latest from Guillermo Arriaga, who wrote 21 Grams and Babel; both parts of Steven Soderbergh’s epic retelling of the life of Ernesto “Che” Guevera; Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut of of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, which features an all-star cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine Keener, Dianne Wiest, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Emily Watson and Hope Davis; and The Wrestler from director Darren Aronofsky, whose last film was The Fountain.
TheStar runs a similar story this evening.
No further details on the screening venue, day, or time are yet available, but if this is anything like the “Dogma” screening, you can expect a few things – This will be the hottest ticket in town. It’ll be REALLY tough to get a seat. And finally, some or all of the film’s stars will arrive for the screening (along with heaps of paparazzi). We’re betting a bunch of you would LOVE to attend this thing, so we’ll do our best to let you know how to get in, when tickets become available.
Typically, seats at events like this first go to those who have festival tickets purchased well in advance, so we recommend you visit the TIFF official ticket site and look into a ticket package – Note that the film has not YET been classified as a “Gala screening”, but there are restrictions. Your best bet is to call the ticket office and ask for details. And of course, keep it tuned to News Askew where we’ll do our best to let you know the latest. We hope some of you can get in there!
Archive for August 13th, 2008
“Brtual Massacre” Winners? We Got ‘Em!
- News Askew, in conjunction with Starz and Anchor Bay, are pleased to announce our randomly selected winners from our “Brtual Massacre: A Comedy” contest. The horror/comedy stars View Askew legend Brian O’Halloran. To celebrate its new DVD release, we offered some fantastic prizes to you, our loyal readers, simply for sending us an e-mail.
Our GRAND PRIZE WINNER, David Graham, gets a copy of the film on DVD and an official poster, signed by a ton of the cast and crew!
Two other lucky winners, Ryan Paige and Jason Bischoff, will both get signed posters from the film as well.
Jesse Veldhuis, Ronald Short, A.J. Martinez, Pepper Hodge, Annette Smith, Mike Kopera, Michael Hansen, Ryan M. Maxwell, and Christian Lecomte are all getting a copy of “Brtual Massacre: A Comedy” on DVD.
Finally, Britt Schramm, Mike Sellari, Nicholas Phillips, Jimi Jamm, and William Krupinsky are all getting “Brutal Massacre” posters.
We’d like to thank all who entered the contest, and again congratulate all of our lucky winners. Brian O’Halloran joins a fantastic cast in the film, now available on DVD from Amazon.com at the fantastic price of just $9.99 for a limited time! Surf over to Amazon to watch a trailer from the movie.
Thanks again to Starz and Achor Bay for making this contest possible. And keep coming back to News Askew where we award our readers with goodies!
View Askew NewsBites™
- Yesterday, we announced that Kevin will receive the “Vision Award” from the Filmmakers Alliance on August 20th. They’ve now added the following details to their site:
Kevin Smith: 2008 Vision Award RecipientKevin Smith is, quite simply, an indie film icon – having helped spawn an entire generation of DIY filmmakers with his first feature, Clerks. And although its success has brought him uncomfortably close to Hollywood’s orbit, he has always maintained a defiant individuality and endearing unconventionality. However, his contribution to independent film extends beyond his own filmmaking work, including Executive Producing the documentaries, Reel Paradise and Small Town Gay Bar, as well as four $40,000 features, A Better Place, Drawing Flies, Big Helium Dog, and Vulgar.
Filmmakers Alliance is proud to recognize this outspoken iconoclast for his singular body of work and his commitment and contribution to truly independent filmmaking.
And we are very proud to send our heartiest congrats to Kevin for this outstanding honor. - Photos from a recent charity Bingo night event that Kevin hosted on behalf of the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer are up over at Flickr. Click and watch the caller and happy contestants.
- And of course, don’t forget SModcast, back on its regular schedule this week with Episode #61:
SModcast 61: “Bridge Beach!”In which our heroes dream of private tutoring, catalogue questionable laws, survive a star cros’t love affair, rally against lawn art, and unwittingly seduce a funny-book merchant.
Always a FREE DOWNLOAD from Quick Stop Entertainment, the exclusive home of SModcast. And while you listen, go buy something at ThinkGeek. Promotion code “SILENTBOB” saves you up to $10.