August
28
Toronto Watch: Movies like Che Seek Attention, Home
The NYT's Michael Cieply takes the measure of the Toronto Fest lineup, from fall releases that need all the media help they can get--such as Iraq-themed The Lucky Ones and former WIP police pic Pride & Glory--to new pics for sale, like Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke as a broken fighter.
One film that is negotiating a final distribution deal is Steven Soderbergh's four-hour-plus, two-part Che, which debuted to mixed response at Cannes. While I still think Che's ideal home would be HBO, where smart audiences who would best appreciate the movie could settle down with its full running time on their own terms, I'm betting that the film will wind up in the hands of 2929 Entertainment moguls Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, who backed Soderbergh's 2005 day-and-date experiment, Bubble. Why not take Che and give it the old Magnolia Ultra VOD treatment?
One way or the other, expect a Che distrib announcement soon.




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