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The Road added to already amazing Tiff lineup

13 August 2009 10:17 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Yes there are other films we're excited to see in this final Tiff line-up announcement - Alejandro Amenábar's Agora, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done by Werner Herzog - but let's face it the chance to see John Hillcoat's adaptation of the The Road two months early is just so damn cool that we had to give it top billing here.

You can check out the full Galas and Special Presentation line-ups after the break, or learn more about the entire festival over at the official Tiff site.

Galas

Agora Alejandro Amenábar, Spain

North American Premiere

In the fourth century, while Egypt was under the Roman Empire, violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city’s famous library. Trapped inside its walls, the brilliant astronomer Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) and her disciples fight to save the wisdom of the ancient world. Among »

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Jim Sheridan Joins the Mob

14 January 2009 11:06 PM, PST | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Jim Sheridan (In America, In the Name of the Fathe) is developing a film based on notorious Boston mobster and FBI informant Whitey Bulger, report the trades. Sheridan will direct a script he and partner Nye Heron are penning based on "Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob," a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. Bulger rose to prominence in Boston as a feared enforcer and built the Winter Hill Gang into an enterprise that did everything from selling drugs to procuring guns for the Irish Republican Army. His rise was helped by John Connolly, a childhood pal who became an FBI agent. Bulger disappeared 14 years ago, creating a major law enforcement scandal. Michael Cerenzie, Christine Peters and Brian Oliver (Trapped, Auto Focus) are producing. Cerenzie and Peters are also developing a Steve Mcqueen biopic, »

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