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Toronto Previews Future Home

By Etan Vlessing
Publication: The Hollywood Reporter
Date: Wednesday, September 10 2003
The Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the architectural model for its future home, which will include four cinemas in a 150,000-square-foot multimedia complex.

Festival director Piers Handling and filmmaker Ivan Reitman, a partner in the cinema

and condominium development, took to a stage at the Sutton Place Hotel to explain how the 1,300-seat festival multiplex will operate.

The Festival Centre, set to open in 2006, was designed by Toronto-based architectural firm Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg and will be developed by the King & John Festival Corp., a partnership between Ivan Reitman, his sisters Susan Michaels and Agi Mandel and real estate developer the Daniels Corp.

Bruce Kuwabara, founding partner of KPMB, did an extensive presentation on the proposed Festival Centre and said that "an oasis for film lovers in the heart of the theater and entertainment district" in Toronto is anticipated.

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