Deadline: Here’s one of the most coveted grabs out of Toronto: Viacom’s Paramount Pictures will distribute Academy Award-nominee Stephen Frear’s Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. The film is a Pathe and BBC Films presentation with the participation of Canal Plus and Cine Plus of a Qwerty Films Production. Paramount will distribute the film in the U.S., and Pathe will release the film in the U.K. and France. This was one of the films that Deadline identified as the hottest Toronto titles, despite it not being in the festival. It screened privately Friday morning at 9 AM. With a lack of must-see fest titles here because so many were pre-bought, this likely won’t be the last film to make a major deal. Others include the Sean Penn-directed The Last Face with Javier Bardem and Charlize Theron, the Richard Gere-starrer Oppenheimer Strategies, the Ewan McGregor-starrer Our Kind of Traitor, the Michael Apted-directed Unlocked with Noomi Rapace, and Hush, a genre title that had a rousing private screening last night.
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