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Bruce Greenwood attends the opening night premiere of Being Julia | |||
Bruce Greenwood attended The 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, which also served as the premiere of one of his movies - Being Julia. The opening night premiere along with various interviews, the press conference, articles and photos connected to the prestigious event are gathered together on this page:
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Bruce's comments Bruce's comments as he entered the premiere of Being Julia were capture on City TV and broadcast on two of their morning shows the next day:
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Captions for the photos at the top of the page: Left photo: Actor Bruce Greenwood (news) arrives at the gala screening of 'Being Julia' at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto Thursday Sept. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/CP, Aaron Harris);
Middle photo: Actor Bruce Greenwood attends the opening night gala screening of "Being Julia" during the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2004 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images);
Right photo: Susan Devlin and Bruce Greenwood. Photo: Rosemary Goldhar
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Being Julia, the opening gala of the Toronto International Film Festival was a star-studded affair Thursday night and gave festival-goers a taste of the glamour and celebrity to come.
The romantic comedy stars Annette Bening as an aging star of the London stage in the 1930s and was produced by Toronto's Robert Lantos. It co-stars Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon plus Canadians Bruce Greenwood, Maury Chaykin and Sheila McCarthy.
Bening arrived at the gala with her husband, actor Warren Beatty, who had high praise for his wife's performance in the film.
"I like to look to her and talk about her because I think she's the best actress that I know and she's great in this movie," Beatty told CTV's Jacintha Wesselingh down on the red carpet.
Bening is already generating Oscar buzz for her performance but says she's not focusing on that.
"What I'm thinking about now is opening the film and trying to get a sense of what people think of it. You know, we haven't shown the movie very much. So we're anxiously awaiting what people's responses are.
The film is directed by Academy Award-winner István Szabó and written by Academy Award-winner Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) and based on the novel Theatre, by W. Somerset Maugham.
Glitzy parties and red carpet galas are taking place every night during the festival. On Friday, David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees will debut and includes an A-list cast of Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Lily Tomlin and Mark Wahlberg.
Also screening Friday night is Clean, the new film from Festival favourite Olivier Assayas. It stars Don McKellar, Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte and Martha Henry.
Over the 10 days of the festival, 328 films from 60 countries will be shown, including low-budget shorts and homegrown feature and Hollywood blockbuster material. Nearly 100 of the films will be world or North American premieres.
The festival is said to deliver an annual economic boost of $67 million annually for the city and the province. Rod Seiling, president of the Greater Toronto Hotel Association, says the festival "generates positive results not just for the business it brings but for the attention it conveys on the destination."
"It is an international event and it garners international attention."
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