A week before the launch of the Toronto International Film Festival, Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired the opening-night film, screenwriter-director Deepa Mehta's "Water." Announced by Fox Searchlight president Peter Rice, the film marks the third project in Mehta's elemental trilogy, which includes "Fire" and "Earth." Doug Mankoff of Echo Lake Prods. and Mark Burton of Accomplice Films executive produced the film.

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