Scalpers Hijack TIFF Screenings With $400 Resale Tickets: ‘It’s Genuinely Insane’
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy Editor The Toronto International Film Festival is using Ticketmaster to book seats this year, and even though opening night is more than a week away, tickets for high-profile films are already going for more than ten times their face value.
Festivalgoers are not happy about the high resale prices already popping up. Opening night film “The Boy and the Heron” from Hayao Miyazaki is sold out on TIFF’s ticketing site via Ticketmaster, but tickets are going for up to $388 Canadian ($285) on ticket reselling site Stubhub.
Taika Waititi’s “Next Goal Wins” is going for even more, at $416.50 CAD on Ticketmaster. The premiere of Sylvester Stallone’s documentary “Sly” on Sept.
15 still has tickets available directly for $88 CAD, but Ticketmaster is also reselling others for up to $178.50 CAD. Writer and filmmaker Siddhant Adlakha brought attention to the high resale prices Monday, tweeting, “Ticketmaster is a scourge and using it as an official ticketing platform for a film festival is incredibly bizarre.
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