Director quartet will don Lab coats at Toronto fest
TORONTO -- Helmers Paul Haggis, Brian De Palma, Phillip Noyce and Mary Harron will mentor young Canadian filmmakers at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, organizers said Thursday. Other creative mentors participating in the Talent Lab include film producer Jan Chapman and Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje, whose novel The English Patient was adapted by Anthony Minghella and Ondaatje into an Oscar-winning movie. Also Thursday, Toronto unveiled its Discovery program lineup, led by a world premiere for U.S. filmmaker Ed Stone's Griffin and Phoenix, a romance starring Dermot Mulroney and Amanda Peet.
- 8/3/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Israel tapped Lesher's No. 2 at Par Classics
The Paramount Classics overhaul continues as Amy Israel has been tapped to fill the executive vp production and acquisitions post, the specialty film label said Thursday. Paramount Classics, a division of Paramount Pictures, recently laid off four executives, and Israel had been considered a front-runner to become president John Lesher's No. 2 (HR 12/20). The former acquisitions executive at Miramax Films joins Paramount Classics from visual effects and animation house the Orphanage, where she was head of production and a producer since 2003. She recently produced Griffin and Phoenix, directed by Ed Stone and starring Amanda Peet and Dermot Mulroney, which is in postproduction.
- 1/6/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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