The Toronto International Film Festival played hardball with films hitting the fall festival circuit this year, but the results didn’t have much impact on a time of year when prestige movies are unveiled and Oscar campaigns are launched.
Toronto still booked far more movies than all the other festivals, with an opening weekend of nonstop premieres for the thousands of media, buyers and industry heavies who make the trek to Canada immediately after Labor Day every year.
The Telluride Film Festival, which just ended, still booked a strong lineup, despite the fact that Toronto denied first-weekend slots to any film that stopped in Telluride first.