It was screened again days later at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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"We're in more of a fitness-obsessed Hollywood, an extreme-fitness-obsessed Hollywood, " says Colin Geddes, a martial-arts-movie expert and programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Academy members flipped for the thriller at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, but then went on a serial infatuation bender with almost every other eventual Best Picture player.

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The 202-room Shangri-La Toronto opened in August 2012, just in time to host the stars and starlets in town for the annual Toronto International Film Festival, which takes over the city each September.

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While still small in comparison to marquee film festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival, which draws about 400, 000 attendees each year, attendance at the New Orleans festival has more than doubled to 17, 000 in the past three years.

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At a moderated conversation between Mehta and Sir Salman in the previous edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, the two key figures behind the film revealed that they had originally approached A-list Bollywood stars for the key roles.

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