“If you’re doing a post-apocalyptic theme, Detroit fits the bill,” helmer Brad Anderson said at Monday’s Cinema Society preem at the IFC Center. “Even if they didn’t have a 41% rebate, that town works for this movie thematically. It’s a place that really is suffering a vanishing of people and we didn’t have to do a lot to create that reality there.”

Hayden Christensen agreed: “There were so few people around, which worked well for our movie. Usually passersby come by and see you — and there was nobody.”

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Hayden Christensen, Eve and Russell Simmons were in the house for a Cinema Society party.

Although Cinema Society’s Vanishing on 7th Street’s screening afterparty at Beauty & Essex was not the official start to Fashion Week, it had the blessing of the God of Going Out himself, Russell Simmons.

Star of the film, Hayden Christiansen, was happy to have a quick chat about his latest vacation to Barbados with his family.

Looking very dapper in a Burberry suit and skinny tie he told us about the best restaurant on the island, called Chicken Rita’s. “It’s the best fried chicken you’ve ever had in your life. All Rita makes is fried chicken and friend fish. Source

More pictures will be added as they become available

Just confirmed: Hayden Christensen and Chloe Sevigny will be attending the #HUGO Show tomorrow #MBFWB #BFW

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Pictures are coming in via Twitter of Hayden at The Rally For Kids.
Cody_Hock Just met Hayden Christensen @RallyForKids event in #toronto! Here is pic-

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Eva Longoria and Hayden Christensen co-Chair the @RallyForKids in Toronto and raise 2.5 million $ for the sickkids hosp.. Thank you so much!

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Honoured to be hosting Saturday’s “Jeans and Jewels” Gala for the @EvaLongoria’s Rally for Kids for Cancer.Hayden Christensen attending too.
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The Rally for Kids with Cancer Scavenger Cup is ignited by the desire to help end kids’ cancer. The Rally is an exclusive two-day event designed for participants who share a passion for exotic cars, meet celebrities and raise funds for kids with cancer.

This event features a schedule of pit stops at some of the most exclusive establishments in Toronto. Rally Drivers and Celebrity Navigators are given a task, clues and trivia as they navigate their way from one pit stop to another.
“The Scavenger Cup provides participants the experience of a lifetime while giving kids the experience of life,” says Joel Hock, president of Solutions with Impact and founding director of The Rally for Kids with Cancer Foundation.


Designed for participants† who share a passion for exotic cars, exclusive access to Celebrities and raising funds for an incredible cause! This exciting event will be taking place in Toronto on September 24th – 25th, 2010 and will also continue to expand across North America throughout the year.

All participating Rally Drivers must agree to fundraise a minimum of $25,000 each to qualify and draft their Celebrity Navigator. The higher the funds raised, the better draft position earned. This event will feature several well-known Celebrities and attract huge media attention.

The Rally for Kids with Cancer Scavenger Cup provides hope that one day we will celebrate the end of cancer! Read More at the official site- Rally For Kids

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Director Brad Anderson was joined onstage by stars Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, and Jacob Latimore before and after the screening, along with Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes.

Read more and check out the pictures at Flickr

My thanks goes to Maria for sending these in!


I’ve also added a bunch more from the premiere.

Thanks to Mariana for a some!

Video has also been added.

Film shot in Detroit debuts at Toronto film festival
Toronto (WXYZ) – Hollywood traveled to Toronto for the 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival and Sunday night it was all about the cast of ‘Vanishing on 7th Street’.

Parts of the movie were shot at Channel 7!

Everyone came out for the big night, including actors Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and Jacob Latimore.

Director Brad Anderson was thrilled to have shot the movie in Detroit.

He says, “The fact that we were able to close down entire blocks of the city and empty it of people and it’s cars and make it feel like an empty city, I don’t think we could’ve done that anywhere else.”

The movie is scheduled for an early 2011 release date. Story and Pictures by Erin Nicole at the Source

Pictures can be seen in the gallery, along with a few new HQ additions.

Toronto Notebook: Thandie Newton & Hayden Christensen, All Pumped Up for Horror
Though they’re stalking the red carpet for Toronto’s Midnight Madness program with the creepy Vanishing on 7th Street, Thandie Newton and Hayden Christensen both have happy memories of Toronto.

Christensen also has a strong affinity for Toronto. “I grew up here, so this is home. I don’t get to spend an awful lot of time here, but I feel like I’m a true Torontonian at heart, so it’s nice that we have such a great festival here. The city really comes alive for it.”

Alive is good. Which brings us to the two stars’ film, Vanishing on 7th Street, where remaining among the living is a tricky business. A creepy low-budget horror film from director Brad Anderson, Vanishing is a spooky end-times scenario where nearly everyone has disappeared, shadows move with a life of their own and darkness comes on ready to kill.

As Christensen says, “I enjoy a good scare. But [Vanishing on 7th Street], for me, sort of goes beyond the genre and allows an audience to not be so overly manipulated and really kind of think about what they’re watching. This is my type of horror film.”

How do Newton and Christensen maintain their energy for extensive freak-out scenes of emotional intensity and terror? Newton laughs: “Emergen-C packets.” Christensen, linking motion and emotion, explains his method for madness: “Lots of pushups right before you shoot.” Newton agrees: “I was always jogging up and down on the spot. It helped.” Read All ?

Upon arriving the Press Conference for the film, the handsome actor told Fans-in-waiting that he’d come out to greet them after. He could also be seen slowly nursing a Tall-sized Coffee from Starbucks during breaks and finally came out after finishing work to take a generous round of photos and do autographs for everybody. Although I did get an invite to his party Saturday at Ultra Supper Club, I had other engagements so it was wonderful meeting him today. Credit for story and pictures by: Mr. Will-W

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Hayden and Tove Christensen light up TIFF with new flick, Vanishing on 7th Street.
Moet and Belvedere vodka were flowing and the music was pumping as party goers mingled and sipped on bevies in celebration of Hayden’s new thriller flick, Vanishing on 7th Street. Hayden and his brother Tove also served as producers on the film with their production company Forest Park Pictures — clearly talent runs in the fam. Clad in grey denim, combat boots, a blue and black plaid flannel shirt and a plaid scarf, we rubbed shoulders with Hayden in the VIP section as he casually chatted with friends and chilled with Tove.

Hayden Christensen at his Official TIFF Party
Hayden Chrsitensen Christensen describes the movie as a combination between a traditional thriller and a thinking man’s film that explores some big ideas. He also says that, as a Torontontian, he’s proud to see the direction TIFF has gone in as one of the premier festivals in the world.

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Verifiably real at the TIFF hot spot was Hayden Christensen, who calmly socialized in the lounge, and his Vanishing co-star Thandie Newton, who looked like a million in a loose magenta top and matching sequined skirt. Ladies at the party were swooning over the newly single Christensen, who built his dream home in Uxbridge with his now ex-fiancée Rachel Bilson. “He looks like James Dean!” a woman in her mid-40s gushed as she watched Christensen smoking outside. Great—now we have a James Dean imposter! Source

Hayden Christensen used the force (of his celebrity) to give Ultra’s DJ a break at his party on Saturday night. At the 29-year-old Thornhill-raised actor’s request, Toronto hip-hop artist K-Os commandeered the turntables until the actor made an early exit around 1 a.m.

With a cardboard cut-out of Darth Vader looming in the window of the Adidas store across the street, the real(-ish) Anakin Skywalker and his 37-year-old brother Tove hoisted Belvedere vodka bottles at a party for their production company, Forest Park Pictures.

The Brothers Christensen hung out in a roped-off VIP section with Thandie Newton, Hayden’s co-star in his TIFF flick Vanishing on Seventh Street, and The King’s Speech co-star Geoffrey Rush. Source

Still to come are such titles as Brad Anderson’s black-out tale “Vanishing on 7th Street,” starring Hayden Christensen; “John Carpenter’s “The Ward,” the director’s first movie in nine years; James Wan’s ghostly “Insidious”; Julien Carbon and Laurence Courtiard’s French thriller “Red Nights”; and Dao Jian Xiao’s martial arts revenge movie “The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman.” Source

Thanks Lauren!

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HQ promotional stills from Takers. I’ve also replaced a few with the higher quality.