At Box Office Mojo, a list of theater counts for the upcoming weekend:

Halloween (2007) (MGM (Weinstein)) / 3,472
Balls of Fury (Rogue Pictures) / 3,052
Death Sentence (Fox) / 1,822
Ladron Que Roba A Ladron (Lionsgate) / 340
Self-Medicated (ThinkFilm) / 16
The Nines (Newmarket) / 2
Exiled (Magnolia) / 1
Freshman Orientation (Regent Releasing) / 1

"Owen Wilson's emergency hospitalization and recovery are throwing a major monkeywrench into production of two movies and causing marketing headaches for two more," reports Variety, "The Sunday incident, which several news services claimed was a suicide attempt, is also the latest -- after Lindsay Lohan's summer troubles -- to pose the question of insurability for top-tier stars."

Announced this morning in Toronto, the entire 349 film lineup for the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, available here in a complete 17 page PDF document.

349 films from 55 countries are set for the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, organizers are revealing this morning in Canada. "There is a lot of soul-searching and a lot of extremely gifted, overwhelmingly passionate cinema in the festival this year, TIFF co-director Noah Cowan told indieWIRE in a conversation yesterday. "These are filmmakers who are out to transform the way we see the world, they are out to make a difference"

The full story is available now at indieWIRE.com.

HBO has announced the renewal of both "Entourage" and "Flight of the Conchords," returning in 2008. The complete press release is available below.

At Box Office Mojo, a list of theater counts for the upcoming weekend:

Superbad (Sony / Columbia) / 2,948
The Invasion (Warner Bros.) / 2,776
The Last Legion (Weinstein Company) / 2,002
Death at a Funeral (MGM) / 260
7 Dias (Xenon Pictures) / 8
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Picturehouse) / 5
The 11th Hour (Warner Independent) / 4

In the Hollywood Reporter tonight, a report on financing for Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's revitalized United Artists, "Completing a long-gestating deal, United Artists has secured $500 million in financing through Merrill Lynch to produce 15-18 films over the next five years."

Veteran agent Ed Limato, who recently left ICM, will join William Morris, according to Variety, which reports today, "In a move that significantly bolsters its talent roster, the William Morris Agency is finalizing a three-year deal that brings Ed Limato and most of his clients to the agency. Limato, who’ll join WMA as an agent, and not in a management role, had been expected to land there since he was stripped of his co-president’s title last month by ICM, and had his lawyers set an Aug. 1 arbitration date to end a 32-year association with the agency. On Monday, an arbitrator freed him from an ICM contract that ran through 2010."

Variety tonight is calling the summer of '07 "one of the best on the books," noting that, "The total number of summer admissions (May 4-Aug. 12) is 526.5 million, up 6% over the same frame last summer." Adding, "All of this is helping to boost year-to-date numbers at the box office, with 2007 running 7% over 2006 and 6% over 2004, the previous record-holder."

AMPAS has re-elected Sid Ganis the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The full press release is available below, directly from AMPAS.

The Toronto Internaional Film Festival announced a list of 73 international films that will screen in various sections of this year's upcoming festival.

The full list of films, directly from the festival's press release, is available below, including a list of films by country.

More coverage is available in indieWIRE's special section.

Twenty-eight films will be showcased at the 45th New York Film Festival, taking place September 28 - October 14. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which organizes the annual event, announced Wednesday that Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's animated coming-of-age Cannes '07 jury prize-winner "Persepolis" will close the festival, joining previously announced opener "The Darjeeling Limited" by Wes Anderson and Centerpiece film "No Country for Old Men" by the Coen Brothers. Among the other films hailing from Cannes are Gus Van Sant's 60th anniversary prize-winner "Paranoid Park," Julian Schnabel's French-language "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Palme d'Or winner "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu as well as "Secret Sunshine" by Chang-dong Lee, which received the best actress prize in Cannes for Do-yeon Jeon. [Brian Brooks]

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Less than a year ago, IFC Entertainment publicly touted a strategic change within the company, saying that IFC Films' preemptive acquisition of John Dahl's "You Kill Me" in Toronto marked a move to release bigger-budget movies. Now, the company is calling that move an experiment and instead pushing a different segment of their business. It has all but abandoned plans to acquire and distribute bigger movies. A theatrical release of Mark Palansky's "Penelope," the Toronto '06 premiere starring Reese Witherspoon which had been scheduled to open this Friday, was recently dropped. With no larger- budget releases on its longterm slate, IFC is instead focusing on its emerging IFC First Take label that simultaneously releases independent and foreign language films in theaters and via cable TV video-on-demand services. [Eugene Hernandez]

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Exiting ICM agent Ed Limato can take his clients with him and set up shop at another agency, Variety reports this evening, citing the ruling of an arbitrator. "The decision ends Limato's 32-year run at the agency, and permits him to find a new place to work as a talent agent," says the Hollywood trade paper, "He will be able to take signature clients Denzel Washington, Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal and Liam Neeson with him."

Thirteen titles have been announced for the Discovery section at the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival, running September 6 - 15, 2007, joining one previously announced Discovery film. The complete list of fourteen Discovery films is included at indieWIRE.com and a festival rep indicated that no additions to the section are expected. Last year, the section included some twenty films. [Eugene Hernandez]

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