TIFF 2023 Has 50 Acquirable Films & Few Stars To Promote Them; Will Hungry Distributors Pounce?
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deadline.comAsk buyers and sellers at Toronto what they expect for the festival acquisitions marketplace that opens today, and they’ll say either boom or bust.
Even though there are almost 50 available titles here. The uncertainty that twin strikes has wrought brings uncertainty to what, on paper, should be the most robust Toronto in a long time.
There will be far fewer stars on display; many backers have decided not to sign up for SAG-AFTRA’s Interim Agreement, because it means turning off the streamers that have been the most prolific buyers of festival films for years.
The optics of them acquiring a film now and accepting the guild terms they are fighting, are too daunting. The strikes hung over Venice and Telluride like a metaphorical black cloud.
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