In today’s film news roundup, “The Hummingbird Project” will kick off the Vancouver Film Festival, SAG-aftra honors John Carter Brown, and Belva Davis and Gregg Sulkin has joined the cast of “This is the Year.”Film FestivalThe Vancouver International Film Festival will kick off its 16-day run on Sept.
27 with “The Hummingbird Project,” starring Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard.The duo are playing cousins intent on creating a 1,000-mile-long fibre-optic cable that will shave a critical millisecond off of stock transactions.
Kim Nguyen directed “The Hummingbird Project,” which also stars Salma Hayek as their former boss.
The film premieres Sept.
8 at the Toronto Film Festival.The Vancouver Festival will holds its BC Spotlight Gala on Oct.
6 with the world premiere of Robin Hays’ “Anthem of a Teenage Prophet,” starring Cameron Monaghan (“Shameless”) as a teenager that predicted the death of his best friend and spirals into more macabre premonitions.
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