Category: Screening venues

The Toronto International Film Festival today announced ticket details and screening locations for TIFF 2020, and although this is a dramatic change from previous years, the annual cinema celebration is taking place. continues.

The festival takes place this year from September 10 to 19, 2020 and features a creative mix of indoor cinemas, digital screenings, drive-ins and outdoor cinema experiences.

Indoor screenings, in accordance with public health protocols, will take place at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and Isabel Bader Theater, while drive-ins and outdoor cinema will take place at Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView, RBC Lakeside Drive -In at Ontario Place, and the West Island Open Air Cinema at Ontario Place.

David Byrne’s American Utopia, directed by Spike Lee, will open TIFF 2020, and the festival will feature 50 films in total, including Ammonite, with ate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan; Michelle Latimer adaptation of Inconvenient Indian; Shadow in the cloud, with Chloë Grace Moretz; Viggo Mortensen Fall; and Regina King’s One night in Miami.

Prices start at $ 19 and go up to $ 69, for drive-ins. Tickets will go on sale August 28 for members of the TIFF Patron Circle and September 5 for the public. Scroll down for all the details, including key dates.

“TIFF 2020 is a film festival for now: fresh, diverse and unique stories from around the world, brought together in venues across the city and surrounding areas, and a sophisticated and secure digital platform, now called Bell Digital Cinema , for home viewing, ”the festival announced today.

“In accordance with precautionary measures provided by the City of Toronto and Public Health Ontario, the capacity of the TIFF Bell Lightbox theaters and the Isabel Bader Theater will be reduced. The Bell digital cinema, drive-ins and outdoor cinema will also have a capacity limit. “

Full details on where you can see each movie will be announced on Tuesday, August 25, including details on special events. This year, all ticket sales will be online or by phone only.

Digital projection for the public on Bell Digital Cinema will only be available to people located in Canada for TIFF 2020. Projection options will allow people to watch movies on their TV using Chromecast, or for users from Apple, a new TIFF app will be available in the App Store on September 9. Anti-piracy measures will be put in place to protect the films, including the watermark.

“We are grateful to every filmmaker, company, donor, member and partner who joined us on this journey,” Bailey and Vicente said in the press release. “We’re here today because of our commitment to great programming, collaboration, bringing audiences together through a love of cinema and celebrating the amazing audiences we have here in our city of Toronto. We are really proud and excited to share this news today.

Learn more about the films showing at TIFF this year.

KEY DATES:

From August 24 to September 9: Call center open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day

August 25: Official program of the film announced on tiff.net

August 28: Individual tickets to be purchased à la carte from Members of the TIFF Patron’s Circle according to level

September 2: Contributors Circle pre-sale of individual tickets

September 3: Presale of individual tickets 365 Members

September 4: Presale of individual insider tickets

September 5: Sale of individual public tickets

September 8-9: Ticket office open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day

TICKET PRICES:

All prices include taxes and fees.

TIFF Bell Lightbox & Isabel Bader Theater
Regular movie screenings: $ 19
Premium movie screenings: $ 26

Bell Digital Cinema
Regular movie screenings: $ 19
Premium movie screenings: $ 26

Projections at the drive (Visa Skyline Drive-In at CityView and RBC Lakeside Drive-In at Ontario Place)
Car with 1 to 2 people: $ 49
Car with 3+ people: $ 69

Outdoor cinema screenings (West Island open-air cinema at Ontario Place)
Lawn pod for 2 people (pedestrian): $ 38

Visit TIFF for more information. Stay tuned for TIFF coverage of The GATE before, during and after the festival.

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TIFF continues to work closely with the Province of Ontario, the City of Toronto and public health officials on the safe running of the festival, with its number one priority being the health and well-being of moviegoers across the country. festival and residents from across the community. The province’s Stage 3 reopening guidelines currently cap a theater occupancy at 50 guests per theater based on the theater’s total capacity. Additionally, TIFF has partnered with Medcan, a global healthcare leader providing medical expertise, consultation and healthcare inspiration to achieve its mission of helping people “live well for life”. . Building on the pillars of evidence-based care, exceptional customer service and the latest technology, Medcan’s team of more than 90 physicians and specialists supports employee health care across the health continuum. , including its “workplace safety system” helping organizations navigate the pandemic.

The global health crisis has affected everyone working in the cultural industries, and TIFF has been severely affected. His role in the film industry ecosystem has been the impetus to move forward, to deliver a film festival that inspires and engages audiences, and to serve as a beacon of hope for Toronto, for filmmakers. and for the international film industry. TIFF is the cornerstone of a $ 2 billion per year film industry in Toronto, generates over $ 200 million in annual economic activity for the City of Toronto and the Province of Ontario, and is the primary market to launch Canadian film content into the global market.

Films such as Grease, Joker and Toy Story will be shown in large car parks, including those at Birmingham Airport and Edinburgh Zoo.

The films will be preceded by animations such as bingo, stand-up comedy, family games and a silent disco car.

Meanwhile, separate drive-in event promoters are in talks with a stately home in Scotland for a week-long drive-in festival.

Drive In Events hopes to host a socially distanced event at Hopetoun House in South Queensferry, Edinburgh.

It could accommodate up to 300 vehicles if it gets the green light.

The company will also look to host other events across the UK, including comedy shows, concerts and raves.

Tom Ketley of the Fly Open Air music festivals in Scotland, and part of the team behind the plans, said: people while ensuring strict social distancing.

“People need something to look forward to, they need access to social interactions and entertainment.

“Many people who have been locked up alone suffer from mental health issues and once lockdown laws are relaxed the government will need to ensure there is no mass for all with people descending into crowded pubs. , then a second wave of the virus to hit.

“I don’t see how a socially distant drinking culture can safely exist.”

Keltey said other locations could host a “drive-in fringe” in August as well.

The Drive In Events team looked at successful events in Germany and Denmark, such as road raves, and how the venues have been successful in keeping social distancing restrictions in place.

Co-promoter Steffan Chelland, who runs Bristol-based Time Warp events, said the goal is to bring some normalcy back to uncertain times.

He said: “It has been difficult not only for the music industry itself, but the average person has lost the sense of weekend outings, whether it is musical events, shows. live or just socialize with your friends – we’re trying to build a safe bridge to this. ”

The Berlinale has found other alternative screening venues for the next edition (February 20 – March 1) following the recent closure of the CineStar Sony Center and the IMAX cinema.

The festival will now occupy the nine screens of CineStar CUBIX, near Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, with a total capacity of 2,442 seats to screen the films of its general public program.

CUBIX has been an official Berlinale venue since 2007, showing films from sections such as Panorama, Forum, Generation, Culinary Cinema and NATive.

Addressing the artistic program of the 3sat television channel Kulturzeit, Berlinale Managing Director Mariette Rissenbeek suggested that the festival could have “a Berlinale lounge” set up at CUBIX to create more “a Berlinale feeling”.

In addition, the studio of the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in the Tiergarten district of Berlin will again serve as a screening location for the festival.

The Academy’s exhibition space and screening room was traditionally a venue for the Forum’s program until the Berlinale moved the activity center to Potsdamer Platz in 2000.

In 2015, the Forum Expanded program had moved to this venue – which is close to the Bellevue S-Bahn station – but then moved last year to the Silent Green arts venue in the Wedding district.

The new festival management has been forced to seek alternative screening venues for part of the program and the European Film Market (EFM) after the owners of the eight-screen CineStar Sony Center complex and the neighboring IMAX announced that they would cease their activities at the end. from 2019.

As previously reported, the EFM was able to find alternative venues for market screenings in the Delphi Lux miniplex – near the Zoo Palast – as well as two screening rooms at the Staatsbibliothek, the 50-seat Dffb workshop studio and the Russian House of Science and Culture cinema with 188 seats in Friedrichstrasse.

While festival organizers may have now solved the issue of where to screen their films, festival guests – and especially those from abroad and less familiar with Berlin’s geography or transport system – will likely need to spend more time traveling between screening locations.

Berilnale’s European Film Market (EFM) has added four additional screens to its list of screening facilities for replace the loss of eight screens from the Sony Center Cinestar complex and the neighboring IMAX screen for the February 2020 event.

In addition to the seven screens of the Delphi Lux – near the Zoo Palast and Delphi cinemas – the EFM has secured the Russian House of Science and Culture in Friedrichstrae which has an 189-seat cinema. It is two U-bahn stops from Potsdamer Platz and a short walk from Stadtmitte train station.

Additionally, closer to the festival activity center at Potsdamer Platz are two screening rooms located at the Staatsbibliothek (State Library) – immortalized in Wim Wenders’ 1987 film. Wings of desire – with seating for 400 and 80.

A second studio-category cinema – the new “dffb 2” – was installed in the basement of the Filmhaus next to the Arsenal cinema with 50 seats, to complement the cinema school of the film school with 65 seats on the ninth floor , which is also used for EFM market projections.

The EFM also has a new screening venue to present VR content. The EFM VR cinema is at a new address – Am Park 4 – near the Berliner Freiheit and the Marriott Hotel.

In addition, the Generation box of the festival is moving from the Maison des Cultures du Monde this year due to renovations.

Urania was the main venue for Kinderfilmfest, as the section was called before Kosslick took over, until 1999 and can seat 866 and 320 people in Humboldt-Saal and Kleist-Saal respectively.

The battle between theater operators and Netflix over the streamer’s refusal to respect traditional theatrical windows spread to the Toronto International Film Festival, where the owner of one of the event’s largest venues , the Scotiabank Theater, a multiplex owned by one of Canada’s largest chains⁠ – told the festival it would not show any films distributed by a streaming service during the festival’s 10 days.

“Cineplex has been a great partner of TIFF for many years,” festival co-directors Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente said in a statement. “This year, new restrictions were put in place in our use of their Scotiabank Theater during the Festival. As a result, we have scheduled movies from streaming services in other locations. “

Amazon declined to comment. Cineplex, meanwhile, provided this statement to IndieWire: “There are hundreds of fantastic films showing at this year’s festival and with all of these options, we’ve asked our screens to feature titles from studios that include and appreciate the importance of the theatrical release model. We have a strong and long-standing partnership with TIFF and are proud of our role in creating memorable theater experiences for festival goers, now and for years to come.

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The first to note the lack of Netflix titles was Globe and Mail editor-in-chief Barry Hertz. With 14 screens and 4,500 seats, Scotiabank is the main venue for non-premiere screenings at TIFF. On Saturday, these included hot movies like “Parasite”, “Pain and Glory” and “Waves”.

So here is a curious # TIFF19 observation: Cineplex and Netflix do not get along. There are 9 Netflix movies showing at TIFF (including top contenders for MARIAGE STORY, THE LAUNDROMAT, THE TWO PAPES). Not * a * is screened at the Scotiabank Theater in Cineplex, a major festival center 🤔

– Barry Hertz (@HertzBarry) September 6, 2019

The Netflix and Amazon non-premiere screenings are instead scheduled at the Bell Lightbox, which has six screens with seats ranging from 522 to 41 per theater.

The films distributed by Amazon absent from the Scotiabank Theater are “Les Misérables”, winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, “Honey Boy” by Shia LeBeouf, “The Report” by Scott Z. Burns and “The Aeronauts”. One notable exception is “The Goldfinch”, co-funded by Amazon, which is distributed by Warner Bros.

Among the eight Netflix titles at TIFF are “Marriage Story”, “The Two Popes”, “The Laundromat” and “My Name Is Dolemite”.

The exclusive 90-day theatrical window has become a life and death battleground between streamers and exhibitors. More recently, Netflix has tried – and failed – to get big show chains like AMC, Regal and Cinemark to screen Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” offering the compromise of a 45-day window. The channels have said they cannot go below 75 days, and “The Irishman” will now get an exclusive limited theatrical release on independent screens on November 1 before moving to Netflix on November 27.

After following traditional exhibition windows with earlier releases, Amazon has moved to a model closer to Netflix with films like “The Report” and “The Aeronauts,” both of which will receive theatrical releases two weeks before. to upgrade to Amazon Prime.

This is a developing story. Check back for more updates.

Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson contributed to this report.

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