Toronto lesson: War is swell?

September 10, 2008 A pair of deals for two ambitious but challenging films were sealed Wednesday in Toronto, as IFC and Summit each picked up a pic set in war-time. IFC nabbed all North American rights to Steven Soderbergh's twin-bill, four-hour "Che," the two-part story of the revolutionary icon's campaigns in Cuba and Bolivia in a low seven-figure deal. The IFC deal, which closed Tuesday night, took many in Toronto by surprise, since there had been rumors that Magnolia was negotiating for rights to the pic, which debuted to a mixed reponse at the Festival de Cannes.

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