'Dead' sale reanimates Toronto market

September 12, 2007 Earlier in the day, North American rights for Tom McCarthy's "The Visitor" went to Overture Films, and Alan Ball's "Nothing Is Private" went to Warner Independent Pictures and Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment for more than $1 million each. [...] Sidney Kimmel Entertainment completed a three-picture distribution deal with Canada's Equinoxe Films that encompassed the warmly received Toronto premiere "Lars and the Real Girl," starring Ryan Gosling. The story of a 13-year-old Arab-American girl's adolescent awakening, "Nothing" stars Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello and newcomer Summer Bishil and also features graphic scenes involving menstruation, rape, racist language and an all too May-December romance.

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