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Egoyan set to shoot new film in September

Last Updated: Monday, July 16, 2007 | 2:55 PM ET

Toronto filmmaker Atom Egoyan's next film will be a teen drama called Adoration, to be shot in the city in September.

Robert Lantos, the head of Serendipity Point Films, is executive producer for the feature, which is now being cast.

Lantos has worked with Egoyan on six earlier films, including 1997's The Sweet Hereafter and 2005's Where the Truth Lies.

Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, which also centred on a group of teens, was nominated for two Academy Awards.

Adoration is about a high-school student who pretends to be a famous figure and examines how teens redefine themselves through the internet.

"What's interesting is that [the kids] have a different relationship to each other in a classroom than they do in this virtual stage," Egoyan said in an interview with Playbill.

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