After having paired with the Icelandic director on Jar City, IFC Films have bought the rights to Baltasar Kormakur's latest thriller, Inhale. Such as 2005's A Little Trip to Heaven, Kormakur worked with English-speaking actors in Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger and a supporting cast that includes Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Perez and Jordi Molla.

There are still plenty of "to be announced" surprise films including Danny Boyle's 127 Hours that will be unveiled hours before they screen, but for the most part, this year's Telluride festival can claim the North American premiere status away from TIFF on a large number of Cannes items (this includes Michelangelo Frammartino's must see, still unsold, docu-essay Le Quattro Volte) and they can also claim first dibs on world preems for acquisition titles such as: Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal's Chico and Rita (see pic above), Justin Chadwick's audience tickler The First Grader, the Dmitry Vasyukov with Werner Herzog doc Happy People: A Year in the Tagia and Errol Morris' Tabloid.

Directly after the Sundance labs in June, Durkin got ready on his feature length film debut titled, Martha Marcy May Marlene. The make-up of the cast has been revealed, with Borderline entrusting the film's lead to Elizabeth Olsen and filling out the cast we find: indie vet John Hawkes (who shifts to Soderbergh's Contagion next), Sarah Paulson (mostly television work but also in The Spirit), Hugh Dancy (most recently from My Idiot Brother - which we'll see next year) and Brady Corbet.

Film Movement have made their second Cannes pick-up. Jury Prize winning A Screaming Man (receiving a release next April) is joined by Olivier Masset-Depasse's prize-winning Illegal - the only picture that has been selected for both premium European film festivals: Cannes (Director's Fortnight) and Venice (Venice Days) section.

Documentary specialist Icarus Films have grabbed the rights to Patricio Guzmán's latest - a Cannes preemed documentary film, that is heading to TIFF next week and will be set up with a 2011 theatrical release.

Cool It is heading to TIFF next week, and the producers behind Ondi Timoner's latest documentary film won't have to sign a deal in the wee small hours in the morning, as Roadside Attractions have preemptively grabbed the rights to the "eco-docu" and are setting it with an eventual Fall release.

You can call IONCINEMA.com the "all things Attenberg channel." We profiled Athina Rachel Tsangari in our special American New Wave 25 series, we've updated you with films stills, we've highlighted how her film was selected at Venice and TIFF, and now in preparation for Venice (which officially begins today with the Black Swan reviews) we have the poster one sheet for Attenberg.

For the remainder of the 2010 film year, you might have a trio of possibilities to see actress Jessica Chastain in action. There's the Terrence Malick film that the the whole world is waiting for, there's John Madden's The Debt (a late December release) and finally, eOne has saved Dan Ireland’s Jolene from obscurity.

Across the pond, I'm liking the sound of the new Michelle Williams' film - a take on Marilyn Monroe while on a 1957 set with Laurence Olivier to be played by Kenneth Branagh. Weinstein Co. is onboard My Week with Marilyn, which should begin shooting soon in the U.K. Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights still needs its Heathcliff and supporting cast. I imagine that long list is a short list by now, and that we should hear some casting news probably during TIFF with filming, at best, beginning at the very end of the month.

With All Good Things and Biutiful confirming their December dates, Tree of Life apparently falling back into this "calender" year and Peter Weir's The Way Back looking at a Telluride opening, there are a batch of films (ten listed below) that are not entirely ready and we are not entirely sure why.

The Bakery Girl of Monceau & Suzanne’s Career make of a pair of films that are simply heartbreaking. Circa 1963, Rohmer displays why women don’t trust men as best as has been done on film. Not to be dismissed because they are short films, along with the other Moral Tales, these are some of his best works.

Of all the films from down under, while Stuart Beattie's directing debut, With Tomorrow, When The War Began will likely grab the majority of the attention in the "market" portion at TIFF, this year there will be a half dozen Australian films featured at the film festival.

And here we have it - the top twenty acquisition titles that will be made available at the 2010 Toronto Int. Film Festival --- and that's only from the titles that are actually being shown. Looking at the list below, there is a little something for everyone: feel good films, offbeat comedies, specialty genre items, fact based thrillers and then probable award mention stuff that take up the top four spots.

Matilda is a woman created from my imagination, Bogdan’s imagination, from other characters reactions towards her and, also, from Marius Panduru’s look, from the constant development of the story and from our solutions we found with each step in order to build our ideas. Matilda is a tired person, aged before her time, who doesn’t trust anybody and whom nobody trusts either.

Last Train Home, the directorial debut of documentary filmmaker Lixin Fan, has had an impressive streak at the past year's major film festivals. An official selection of Sundance Film Festival, and winner at several festivals including the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, and top tier docu festival IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), this chronicles two years in the lives of the Zhengs, a working-class Chinese family who are separated for economic reasons.

As predicted in last week's post, both Eran Riklis (North American preem for The Human Resources Manager) and Avi Nesher were confirmed last Tuesday for TIFF's Contemporary World Cinema program -- Nesher's International Premiere goes by a different title now, and will know be known as The Matchmaker.

Oscar this. Oscar that. Oscar winning scribe makes his directorial debut, featuring Oscar winning (Jennifer Connelly) and nominated (Ed Harris) thesps could help, but what this really needs is more critical love at the fest.

I could see just about every head buyer having an interest in acquiring this title -- not only is it working from a great first, Black List nominated screenplay, but if Will Ferrell hits the right notes sort of like what he did in Stranger Than Fiction, then this will be the most hotly contested indie film at TIFF.

Period piece directed by American legend with a soild cast in James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood and Tom Wilkinson assures plenty of clout and if Fox Searchlight's Conviction tanks at the fest (both narratives feature someone who is set on proving someone else's innocence) then this could be the film fetching the biggest purchase price.

Before Angelina Jolie makes it fashionable, I see a major studio swopping up and taking the rights on this political thriller: definitely working in its favor, it has an Oscar-winning lead in Rachel Weisz and strong supporting cast in Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn and Monica Bellucci. Thriller elements in true story backdrop could also help film's cineplex cred.