“Zack And Miri Make a Porno” To Screen At Toronto Film Fest!

August 13th @ 10:34 pm | 1 Comment » | Scooped by Brad & Chris, Julien Chabot

  • 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!

Here's What You Said: (1 Comments)

  1. tracas
    August 23, 2008 at 10:11

    Gooot em….!
    Dear Festival Attendee:
    Thank you for your recent purchase.
    Order # 9####
    EVENT DATE & TIME SEATING CHARGES
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno 09/09/2008 03:00pm (3) General Admission

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