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27 Debuts From Around The World In TIFF’s Discovery Programme

Toronto –The Toronto International Film Festival continues to shine a light on the works of up-and-coming filmmakers with this year’s Discovery programme. A group of 27 titles make up the diverse Discovery selection, showcasing provocative feature films by new and emerging directors. As well, TIFF announces the addition of the World Premiere of Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower to its line-up of Special Presentations.

DISCOVERY PROGRAMME

Girlfriend Justin Lerner, USA
World Premiere

When an unexpected financial windfall affords a young man with Down syndrome some freedom, he decides to pursue the object of his high school crush, Candy. The decision brings him into conflict with her volatile ex-boyfriend, and the three find themselves involved in a complex, unpredictable triangle of love, aspiration and dreams. Stars Evan Sneider and Jackson Rathbone.

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In addition, Jackson (along with the other main actors/filmmakers of Girlfriend) is scheduled to attend TIFF.

Troix magazine shot Jackson last Thursday for the upcoming October 2010 debut issue. They have an exclusive behind the scenes video of Jackson that they will post on their YouTube channel once they reach 1,000 subscribers. So suscribe away! Thanks to their staff for letting us know.

No.43: Jackson Rathbone
Age: 25
Single? Despite a rumoured relationship with Rachel Curtis, this is one Twilight star who still seems to be on the market.
See Him Next: Playing a young man with Down’s Syndrome in Girlfriend, out later this year.

I’m sure we agree he should be way higher

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We were VERY LUCKY to be granted another interview with Jackson this year. If you’ve been following us from the start, you’ll remember that we were also lucky to have one in the year 2008! So, with a lot of new questions and a load of projects that were once upcoming, now in the past, we thought it was time for another! Enjoy!

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Vampire star Jackson Rathbone on his family ties to legendary swashbuckler

TWILIGHT star Jackson Rathbone has revealed how big-screen spills and thrills are in his blood.

The Hollywood hunk stars as soulful vampire Jasper Hale in the smash hit series of Twilight adventures.

Now he’s about to be seen as one of the superheroes of the big budget family fantasy, The Last Airbender.

And Jackson, 25, reveals how all this action is practically second nature to him because he’s related to movie legend Basil Rathbone.

Best known for his Sherlock Holmes films, Rathbone, who died in 1967, was also famed as the greatest swordsman ever to grace the silver screen.

One of his most memorable big screen sword fights, of course, was with Errol Flynn in The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Naturally, Jackson is delighted to have this connection with one of the greats of the golden age of cinema.

He said: “I have a close bloodline to Basil Rathbone, who is my grandfather’s third cousin several times removed. I don’t like to talk about how many times removed.

“He taught Errol Flynn how to use a sword and he is one of the greatest swordsmen in Hollywood history.”

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Caps from the Vegas 5W interview have been added. Enjoy!

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Though it performed respectably at the box office, grossing nearly $130 million since its July 1 release date, M. Night Shyamalan’s fantasy flick “The Last Airbender” received an icy reception from critics — a reaction that star Jackson Rathbone says is undeserved.

“The critics in the U.S. … I just don’t think they really like M. Night Shyamalan anymore,” Rathbone told MTV News while on the blue carpet for the 2010 Teen Choice Awards. “I don’t know why. It’s sad because he’s such an amazing director and an amazing person.”

The film, written and directed by Shyamalan, is a live-action remake of the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and the first installment in a proposed trilogy. It received mixed reviews from critics, many who said the film emphasized style over substance. Nonetheless, Rathbone stands by the film’s box-office performance, adding that Shyamalan’s popularity is stronger than ever in foreign markets.

“It was interesting, the reception with ‘The Last Airbender,’ because they did extremely well with the U.S. domestic box office and even better than expected overseas,” he said. “Overseas, internationally, they still love him and think his work is genius.”

In the end, Rathbone believes it’s just a matter of taste. “It’s just one of those things,” he said. “Art is subjective.”

Shyamalan’s mettle will next be tested with September’s stuck-in-an-elevator horror-thriller “Devil,” a story he conceptualized, while Rathbone will begin work on the two-part “Breaking Dawn” film this fall.

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I’ve added scans from Jackson’s interview with One Magazine into our gallery. Thank you so much to The Lost World of Lola for these. Also, you can read the interview below.

Jackson Rathbone: Things are finally going a good way for me. It was time!
I don’t do the same thing twice.
Aside from the character he plays in The Twilight saga, Jasper Hale, Jackson Rathbone is currently on the poster of The Last Airbender from M. Night Shyamalan. A role that allows him to show the whole extent of his talent in the field of martial arts.

One magazine: In the United States Eclipse and The Last Airbender are out at the same time. What movie do you want to see at the number one spot in the box office?
JR: To be honest, I consider myself lucky just to be in two movies at the same time! Before that, I enjoyed a quantity of projects that nobody went to see in theaters. Things are finally going a good way for me. It was time!

ON: How did you land the role of Sokka?
JR: When I met M. Night Shyamalan, the film director, three years ago, we immediately got on. Initially, I auditioned for the role of Prince Zuko and he told me he was thinking of another role for me. Then I never heard of the film for a year. Then he got back to me and asked me to play Sokka and I was hired. I’m a fan of the animated series, I’ve always loved fantasy stories with such rich mythology. And with this role, I finally have a chance to show that I can do more than just to play a vampire. It also gives me the opportunity to be much less serious than Jasper, as Sokka has many comic scenes.

ON: Are you tired of the role of Jasper?
JR: No, but I try to play very different characters from film to film. I don’t do the same thing twice. I gravitate naturally towads to projects in which the public don’t expect to see me.

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I’ve also added pics from 100 Monkeys’ visit to Vegas 5W.

Well, he’s always on the go! Here are some first images from The Last Airbender photocall. This time in Berlin, Germany! More as I find them!

Edit from Viv here: We’ve added some more HQ pictures from this event!

You’re Southern like your character, yet we didn’t hear much of the accent until this movie.

”In the first films he doesn’t have much dialogue, so we pulled it back since he’s supposed to be a high school kid in Washington and you can’t have a Texas accent. It’s only when he’s barking orders and leading an army that he’s comfortable and the accent comes out. It was definitely fun to be able to let down the blocks that Jasper puts up to keep himself sane in the vegetarian vampire way of life. I finally let the accent go a little bit.”

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Thanks to our wonderful affiliate jrsource we now have two more pictures from an unsorted photoshoot.

I’ve added more pictures from yesterday’s Eclipse convention. Big thanks to @iceangel34 for these!

I’ve also added some pictures from the Eclipse Press Conference which took place yesterday as well. Enjoy!