The September breeze still carries the heat and humidity of summer, but it is tinged with the coolness of early autumn and the crisp moisture of Lake Ontario, and the branches and leaves at the top of the treetops begin to dye in a colorful color.

Compared with the crowding of Peking and the busyness of the magic capital, Toronto has a relaxed idleness and freedom, and the old man walking his dog on the street is pacing happily, with a friendly smile on his face at any time.

Today's Toronto is particularly noisy, and the sight line is filled with crowds, and every corner is crowded with people, as if the residents of all North America have poured into the city overnight.

Maybe that's not the case, but it's not far off, because the annual Toronto Film Festival has kicked off.

While the Venice Film Festival is still in full swing at this time, Toronto's natural location has easily won the hearts of its neighbors, and almost all the productions that aim to win this year's awards season will not be missed.

The Toronto Film Festival is young, having only been held in 1976 and not as influential as it would have been, but after '09's Slumdog Millionaire, it gradually overtook Venice as the outpost of the North American awards season.

Canadians are world-famous for their politeness, even a little over-the-top, with "sorry" and "thank you" on the lips all the time, no matter what.

Americans always like to make fun of this, and the most famous meme is the annual "Black Friday" rush moment, when American shopping malls are completely battlefields, and before the malls even pull up the roller shutters, crazy customers will rush in, and the rush to buy can sometimes even be life-threatening.

But in Canada, all the staff lined up in two to greet them, and the customers applauded and saluted, and followed the queue into the mall in an orderly manner.

Even when they fight, they say "I'm sorry" and say that they are Canadians.

This tradition continues at the Toronto Film Festival, where even the worst films are shown with a standing ovation at the end of the show.

Compared with the arrogant, cold, and impersonal audiences of the three major European film festivals, Toronto is simply a paradise, and even the film critics here are particularly gentle, and most of the films screened in Toronto can receive "good reviews", as if they were praised.

Therefore, real professionals will know that the reference value of these reviews is limited, and it will not be known until the movie is released in the United States.

However, such an intimate environment is undoubtedly the best choice for a promotional strategy.

What's more, unlike the three major European film festivals that have attracted the world's attention, Toronto has never been based on awards, but is known for the large number of film screenings, mainly serving the market, it does not need to struggle between art and business, and has only one ultimate goal: to sell films.

This has also made Toronto a platform for major independent film studios, attracting more and more independent films to seek opportunities.

Although "Hijacking" is not an independent film, the investment of 40 million Chinese dollars seems to be a lot, but in fact, it is only less than 6 million US dollars when converted into US dollars, which is a proper low-budget film in North America.

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Xiao Fan led the team, Uncle Rong Guang, Teacher He Qing, Xiaomi and their respective agents, as well as the staff sent by Guangxian and Huaying, a group of 20 people, came to Toronto, more than half of them were staff members of the two families.

The main reason why the two attach so much importance is that they can participate in the sharing of overseas copyrights this time, and Guangxian and Huaying have exchanged 10% and 5% of the overseas share of "Hijacking" respectively on the condition of reducing the distribution fee.

is different from "500 Days in Midsummer", this time "Hijacking" Xiaofan is not short of financiers, and the two can only participate in investment because of their friendship, even Huaying has no advantages, you must know that without Huaying's theaters, there are still many theaters across the country, such as Wanda Cinemas, which had previously contacted Xiaofan.

In this time period of 07, although Wanda Pictures has not yet been officially established, in fact, they have begun to move this idea, after the real estate dividend, hot money will inevitably enter the entertainment industry.

Wanda, which has many theaters, will naturally reach out to the upstream of the film industry, but it has not yet found a good opportunity.

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A total of 4,157 works from 55 different countries and regions participated in this year's film festival, and the organizing committee selected 350 works for screening, of which 235 works were premieres, and "Hijacking" is one of them.

The day before yesterday was the first day of the festival, and only one work was released, and that was the opening film of the festival, the feature film "Scattered Fragments" directed by Jeremy Podswa.

This gentleman is not famous now, but in the future, he will become popular with the phenomenal American drama "Game of Thrones", yes!

The film tells the story of Jacob Bell, a nine-year-old Polish-Jewish boy who hid in a wall during a manhunt and was lucky enough to escape death under the clutches of the Nazis, saving his life by Greek geologist Arthurs Rossos.

Rossos adopted Jacob and brought him to Greece.

Jacob began learning Greek and English, but he found that these new languages were erasing his painful memories.

After the war, Roses was hired as a professor at a university in Canada, so he moved to Toronto with Jacob.

Growing up, Jacob became a poet, and at a record store he met Alex, a beautiful and cheerful master of philosophy, and the two fell in love and quickly married, but when Alex was too eager to make Jacob forget about his past, their relationship ended.

Jacob has never forgotten his sister Bella, especially when she played the piano.

It took Jacob a long time to undo Bella's influence in his life, and later, he met and married Mikla, and the two returned to Greece to live in the house where Jacob's adoptive father, Roses, had lived for generations.

To sum it up, this movie is one word - dull, of course, such movies are still very popular at film festivals, especially at film festivals like the Toronto Film Festival, where fans are older, after all, Jeremy Podsva is a native of Canada, isn't he?

What makes Xiao Fan have an impression of this movie is not the movie itself, but because this is the film debut of a big beautiful girl, Bulgarian-Canadian actor Nina Dobov, whose masterpiece is Alina in "The Vampire Diaries".