'March' to Toronto

Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor.Viggo Mortensen, Michael Barker, David Cronenberg and Tom Bernard chat at Sony Pictures Classics cocktail party.Paul Giamatti, Kate Mara and Max Minghella juggle three "Ides" events. Cee Lo Green performs at Alliance Films Press Party at South of Temperance during the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. Alliance Films Press Party - Toronto International Film Festival South of Temperance ToPaul Haggis and Jon Hamm Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin unveil "The Artist." EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE * EXCLUSIVE * (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Rhys Ifans and Jamie Campbell Bower at Columbia Pictures "Anonymous" Premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival at The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Center on September 11, 2011 in TAlliance's Victor Loewy and Sony's Amy Pascal meet at Alliance bash; Cee Lo Green performs "Crazy." Sony Corporation Chairman, CEO and President Sir Howard Stringer and actor George Clooney attend "The Ides of March" party.Unsuspecting Canucks might've been double-checking their calendars as the city buzzed about "The Ides of March," George Clooney's political drama that was a centerpiece at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday.No less than three parties championed the cast, including a pre-show event at Soho House and a late-night soiree at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, but that didn't explain the near 45-minute delay of the pic's unspooling at Roy Thomson Hall."Sorry we're so late. You know, blame Brad Pitt," Clooney joked as he introduced the film, noting his friend's "Moneyball," which screened earlier and slowed auds getting to their seats.The rest of the night went off without a hitch at the Alliance Films party where cast members of "Ides," including Ryan Gosling and Evan Rachel Wood, joined the Canadian distrib to toast its 21 films at the fest.Wood downplayed the political side of "Ides.""It asks the questions of who we want to be as people, rather than what party or candidate is better," she said. "There are no heroes or villains in this film."The Alliance event featured a surprise mini-concert from Cee Lo Green, who had the crowd belting out his Gnarls Barkley hit "Crazy.""Usually you expect a corporate event to be cold and coarse, but tonight was an exception," he said.Friday also saw the annual fundraiser for Artists for Peace and Justice, at Ame restaurant.Paul Haggis hosted along with Gerard Butler, with Jon Hamm in attendance. The helmer is proud of the org's community outreach work in Port-au-Prince. "APJ built a state-of-the-art cholera center that has treated over 10,000 people and just opened the first free high school in Haiti, with a permanent structure going up now," said Haggis.APJ's fundraising continued Saturday when Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder performed. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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