The Toronto Film Festival market continued to heat up on Wednesday.
Harvey Weinstein showed his bidding war skills, buying two films. The first was the highly praised double feature "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Him/ Her." The movies stars Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy as two lovers whose relationship falls apart. Deadline reported that the Weinstein Company acquired the movie for $3 million and that it was planning on releasing it in 2014.
The second acquisition of the day for the Weinstein Company was Jonathan Teplitzky's "The Railway Man." The film, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, tells the story of a British Army officer who sets out to get revenge on a Japanese interpreter after being tormented at a POW camp. The movie was sold for $2 million and is slated for a release in 2014.
Prior to the two buys on Wednesday, the company had also acquired John Carney's "Can a Love Song Save Your Life" starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo.
Other acquisitions that took place included "Proxy" by Zack Parker. The film was acquired by IFC Midnight and it was announced that the company would do a theatrical VOD day and date release for the film.
Meanwhile, Breaking Glass Pictures took home the rights for the SXSW film "Unhung hero," while Film Movement bought "Le Dematelement," which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema section.
Several films are still searching for a distributor at the festival, including "The Double," "Enemy," "Horns" and "The Devil's Knot."
The Toronto Film Festival is known as one of the biggest markets in the world and brings thousands of filmmakers, films and distributors together.
The festival runs through Sept. 15.
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