‘Battle in Seattle’ will be premiering at the Sedona International Film Festival in February 2008. The festival runs from February 27 – March 8, 2008, with opening night previews on February 25th and 26th, in Sedona, Arizona. For more information and to purchase tickets to the festival, please visit sedonafilmfestival.com.

Charlize Theron has heaped praise on her “incredible” boyfriend Stuart Townsend after watching him toil over his first movie script. The Oscar-winning actress reveals Townsend wrote the screenplay for Battle in Seattle at the home the couple shares in Los Angeles – and suffered the rejections and nerves as her partner attempted to shop his script around Hollywood. She says, “The amount of passion, of time and effort that he committed to writing that script really blew me away. “When you love somebody and you’re that close somebody, we always expect the worst because he had never written a script before, but we’re very good at kind of separating our work from our relationship so, …

On December 10, 2006, singer-actor André Benjamin of Outkast fame donned a cardboard turtle suit and joined a group of fellow “protesters” on the streets of Seattle. Seven years before, tens of thousands of real demonstrators had descended upon the Seattle Convention Center and surrounding hotels to protest the actions of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The turtle-clad demonstrators — whose costumes highlighted the plight of turtles killed by shrimp nets — joined other anti-globalization vocalists and rallied against the leaders of the WTO, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank in sometimes violent clashes with police. Benjamin’s participation in the re-enactment of the events of November 30, 1999, was for Battle in Seattle, …

ThinkFilm has won the battle for “Battle in Seattle,” acquiring all U.S. rights for about $2 million.
“Battle,” which sports an all-star ensemble led by Charlize Theron, had its world premiere Saturday night at the Toronto International Film Festival and marks Stuart Townsend’s directorial debut. The film is set amid the protests and riots that surrounded the World Trade Organization’s 1999 meeting in Seattle.
The deal was ThinkFilm’s second buy at Toronto this year. It scored the biggest sale of the fest’s opening days when it picked up “Then She Found Me,” Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, taking U.S. distribution rights for slightly less than $2 million.

I finally found the ‘Battle in Seattle’ portraits from the Toronto Film Festival on September 9th and they are now available in the gallery (please be sure to register/log in to view). I’m sure you’re probably all seen them somewhere online by now, but if not, you have to check them out because they are gorgeous.

Photos of Charlize, Stuart and Woody Harrelson at the ‘Battle in Seattle’ press conference the Toronto Film Festival yesterday have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

Photos of Charlize at the ‘Battle in Seattle’ premiere at the Toronto Film Festival earlier today have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!