Van Damme's 'JCVD' to hit Toronto

Festival's Midnight Madness to feature film Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer "JCVD" will launch Toronto's popular Midnight Madness program. Section programmer Colin Geddes called helmer Mabrouk El Mechri's pic, in which the martial artist/action thesp plays a downtrodden version of himself, "the best film I saw at Cannes this year." No longer a latenight ghetto, Midnight Madness has grown in the past few years to become the hot spot for the biz to find movie jolts and one of the most prominent platforms to launch an adrenaline pic. Geddes cites "Cabin Fever" (2003) as a case in point. "It was one of the biggest sales of the festival and was the last film screened at the festival to boot," he said, adding, "The botched 'Borat' screening (in which the projector broke down) is now legendary and created an instant viral campaign."... [read full story]