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Released in 2003 with North American grosses in millions
	$259 million NA of all 2003 Toronto films (2.9% of gross for all films in NA)
	How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days $105.8	Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey (New York)
	The Recruit $52.8	working title: The Farm Al Pacino, Colin Farrell
	Bulletproof Monk $23.0	Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott chase through Bloor Subway Station
	Cold Creek Manor $21.4	Sharon Stone, Dennis Quaid
	The In-Laws $20.4	Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks
	Wrong Turn $15.4	Eliza Dushku
	How To Deal $13.1	Mandy Moore, Trent Ford
	Spider $1.6	Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson Genie for director Cronenberg and prizewinner at the Toronto Film Festival
	Owning Mahowny $1.0	Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John Hurt, Minnie Driver
	The Gosepl of John $3.47	Henry Ian Cusick, Daniel Kash (script: Good News Bible) (Spain) Should have been bigger than Mel Gibson's!
	Blizzard $ .39	Whoopi Goldberg, Christopher Plummer (Quebec City)
	The Safety of Objects $.32	Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney
	Foolproof $.23	Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet
	Nemesis Game	Carly Pope (New Zealand)
	Crime Spree	Harvey Keitel, Gerard Depardieu (Chicago, Paris)
	(Gambling, God and LSD	3 hour documentary from Toronto to Las Vegas, Switzerland, and India)
	S.P.I.T.: Squeegie Punks in Traffic	mainly Montreal
	(Marion Bridge	Molly Parker won Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto Film Festival mainly in Cape Breton )
	(Deadend.com	travel NS to BC)
	Expecting	Valerie Bahaglar, Colin Mochrie
	Hurt	Terra Vanessa Kowalyk at the Carlton
	Past Perfect	Rebecca Jenkins, Daniel MacIvor
	Hollywood North	Matthew Modine, Jennifer Tilly
	Zombie Night	Bloor
	Nothing	David Hewlett, Gordon Pinsent
	Public Domain	Nicole de Boer, Mike Beaver
	My Own Private Oshawa	Jonathan Wilson at the Royal
	Cowards Bend the Knee	film installation at the Power Plant
	Kal Ho Naa Ho (Tomorrow May Never Come)	Hindi
	Supari	Hindi
	My Name is Tanino	(Italy)
	Avenging Angelo	to video Sylvester Stallone, Madeleine Stowe
	Detention	Dolph Lundgren to video (Hamilton)
	Hypercube: Cube 2	to video
	Spinning Boris	Jedd Goldblum to video
	My Tango With Porn	Feminist documentary


Released in 2002 with North American grosses in millions

	$662 million NA of all 2002 Toronto films (7.3%)
	My Big Fat Greek Wedding $ 241.4/ $ 115.1 int	Nia Verdalos, John Corbett Highest grossing film ever shot in Toronto! 5th top grossing film of the year!! Highest grossing independent film ever!!!
	Chicago $170.7/ 135.7 int	Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones Won Oscar for best picture and for great sound man David Lee and Set Decorator Gordon Sim Won 3 Golden Globes and is one of the top films of 2002 by votes at the imdb
	John Q $ 71.0	~~November~~ February Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, James Wood, Anne Heche, Ray Liotta
	Tuxedo $ 50.6/ $ 50.3 int	Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt on Ebert's worst list
	Undercover Brother $ 38.2	Eddie Griffin, Denise Richards The Beach waterworks becomes an island fortress
	K-19: The Widowmaker $ 35.2/ $ 26.6 int	Harrison Ford
	Jason X $ 12.6	~~October~~ April Kane Hodder, Leix Doig May be the funniest movie on this list this year.
	Knockaround Guys $ 11.6	~~August~~ ~~March~~ Van Diesel, Dennis Hopper (Alberta)
	Narc $10.5	Ray Liotta, Jason Patric
	Death to Smoochy $ 8.4	Robin Williams, Edward Norton crowd scene in Maple Leaf Gardens worst film of the year - Ebert
	Men With Brooms $ 4.2	Paul Gross, Leslie Neilsen gets big press promotion
	Ararat $ 1.55	November Elias Koteas, Charles Aznavour won Genie for best Canadian feature
	Bollywood/Hollywood $ 1.2	October
	(Resident Evil	Milla Jovovich filmed in Germany)
	(Blade 2	Wesley Snipes, Ron Perlman filmed in Prague)
	(The Adventures of Pluto Nash $ 4.4	Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid L.A., Montreal, N.Y.)
	Saint Monica	at the Carlton
	Corpus Callosum	at the Royal Michael Snow
	(Eve	at the Royal by Toronto Director Neil St.-Clair)
	Rub & Tug
	Perfect Pie
	I've Heard the Mermaids Singing	rerelease
	Between Strangers	Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino
	Damaged Goods	at the Bloor
	Washed Up	at the Carlton
	Global Heresy	Peter O'Toole, Alicia Silverstone
	Khaled	Michael D'Ascenzo at the Carlton
	On Their Knees	Anais Granofsky, Ingrid Veninger won Outstanding Canadian Feature award at the Reel World Film Festival, at SilverCity at Empress Walk
	Superbob	David Smith won Audience award at the Reel World Film Festival
	Red Green's Duct Tape Forever	Steve Smith, Patrick McKenna
	Drop Dead Roses	Transmitted from Toronto to satellite to theatre in Waterloo
	Cyberman	Steve Mann at the Festival Theatres
	Full Disclosure	Penelope Ann Miller, Fred Ward at the Regent
	Silver Man	Eugene Levy, Daniel Baldwin at the Regent


Released in 2001 with North American grosses in millions
	$307 million NA of all 2001 Toronto films (3.8%)

	Down to Earth $ 64.2 # 39 top of 2001 $ 59 in video	working title: I was Made to Love Her Chris Rock on Ebert's worst list
	Don't Say A Word $ 54.9 /39 International # 46 $ 91 in video	Michael Douglas
	Exit Wounds $ 51.8 /25 # 49 $ 62 in video	Steven Seagal, Tom Arnold Stunt man unfortunately died in this one
	Serendipity $ 50.3 /18 # 53 $ 31 in video	John Cusack
	Driven $ 32.6 # 73 $ 34 in video	working title: Champs Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds racing car chase along University and at the Molson Indy
	(Riding in Cars With Boys $ 29.8	Drew Barrymore, filmed mainly in Ny and NJ)
	Angel Eyes $ 24.0 # 94	Jennifer Lopez
	Get Over It $ 11.6	working title: Getting Over Allison Kirsten Dunst
	On The Line $ 4.4 $ 7 in video	N'Sync on Ebert's worst list
	Glitter $ 4.3 $ 18 in video	working title: All That Glitters Mariah Carey wins a Razzie voted worst film of the year at imdb
	Left Behind $ 4.2	Kirk Cameron
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch $ 3.1	cult musical
	Focus $ 0.72	William H. Macy, Meat Loaf
	The Caveman's Valentine $ 0.69	Samuel L. Jackson
	Ginger Snaps $ 0.13	at time of Columbine school shooting, complaints rose about government funding of this rumoured-to-be teen slasher. Rated R for menstrual blood? It deserved a wide release in the US and did O.K. in U.K. and Hong Kong.
	The Art of Woo -	Sook-Yin Lee
	Treed Murray -	David Hewlett
	Century Hotel -	Colm Feore, Chantel Kreviazuk
	Apartment Hunting -	August
	The Uncles -	June filmed in Little Italy
	Love Come Down -	Deborah Cox won 3 Genies
	The Perfect Son -	Colm Feore
	Cornered -	at the Bloor
	Apocalypse IV: Judgement	Mr. T
	Tum Bin	India
	Prancer Returns	to video
	P.O.V.	to video
	Tart	to video
	True Blue	to video

$502 million NA of all 2000 Toronto films (6.6%)
… and there are even rumors, Miss Grey, of mutants so powerful that they can enter our minds and control our thoughts, taking away our God-given free will. Now I think the American people deserve the right to decide if they want their children to be in school with mutants —to be taught by mutants! Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is that mutants are very real, and that they are among us. We must know who they are, and above all, what they can do! — Bruce Davison (as Senator Kelly) in the X-Men
	X-Men $ 157.3	Patrick Stewart’s character's school's inside is Casa Loma. Commuters complained about the closing of one of the few roads over the Rouge Valley.
	Finding Forrester $ 51.8 $ 43 in video	Sean Connery
	Hurricane $ 50.7 $ 64 in video	Denzel Washington won a Golden Globe award. One of the few movies made in Toronto that includes scenes of Toronto!
	Frequency $ 45.0 $ 63 in video	Dennis Quaid Protagonists house near Jane and Bloor. Tree branch fell, crushing a parked Volkswagen Beetle picture car.
	The Skulls $ 35.0	Parents were driving girls around film sites hoping to meet Joshua Jackson of Dawson’s Creek.
	Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 $ 33.0 $ 34 in video	Jeri Ryan, Christopher Plummer
	Bless the Child $ 29.3 $ 40 in video	Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits
	Thomas and the Magic Railroad $ 15.9	Alex Baldwin, Peter Fonda
	Loser $ 15.6	Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari Suvari and director Amy Heckerling took home some Toronto kittens. song “Teenage Dirtbag” became # 1 in Australia
	Bait $ 15.3	Jamie Foxx Production got in trouble for loudly blowing a window out of the King Edward Hotel.
	American Psycho $ 15.0	Uncensored version shown in Canada. Scenes of several nightclubs. The announcement of the production was protested.
	The Ladies Man $ 13.6	Tim Meadows
	Gossip $ 5.1	Anyone heard anything about this one?
	The Virgin Suicides $ 4.8	working title: The Lisbin Sisters Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst Protagonist house in Forest Hill.
	(Snow Day $ 59.9	filmed mostly in Alberta)
	(The Sixth Day $ 34.6	filmed in Vancouver but has scene in the Eaton Centre)
	(Urban Legends: Final Cut $ 21.5	filmed in Peterborough)
	Komodo $ 12 worldwide	Jill Hennessy
	Turn It Up $ 1.24	Ja Rule
	The Third Miracle $ 0.74	starring Ed Harris, thumb up from Roger Ebert street prostitutes picketed for compensation for lost of business
	A Map of the World $ 0.55	Signourney Weaver
	Steal This Movie! $ 0.08	August in the U.S.? Vincent D’Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo about Abbie Hoffman. Filming of a scene of a student demonstration at Queen’s Park had to be paused while a rowdy U of T fraternity marched by.
	Barenaked in America $ 0.05	Barenaked Ladies rock band
	The Boondock Saints $ 0.03	(in U.S.) Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery
	Clutch	at the Carlton
	Two or Three Words	at the Bloor cinema
	Johnny	squeegee kids
	Fools Die Fast	at the Bloor Cinema in Feb.
	Rated X	to video
	Mercy	to video
	The Midnight Hour	to video
	Forever Mine
	The Bruiser
	Run the Wild Fields
	Seventeen Again
	The Spreading Ground
	Too Much Sex
	Top of the Food Chain
	Vinyl


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