Weinstein takes rights to 'A Single Man'

September 15, 2009 Harvey Weinstein on Tuesday provided a wake-up call at the Toronto International Film Festival, which has been in an acquisitions slumber, buying Tom Ford's "A Single Man" the morning after its debut screening. The film, which looks at the day in the life, in 1962, of a Los Angeles English lit professor grieving for his recently dead lover, is the first major acquisition at a festival in several years for the Weinsteins. Adding to the cautious approach taken by buyers at the fest, there was hesitancy about releasing the movie this year, which was important to the filmmakers and their reps, CAA for domestic rights and IM Global for foreign.

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