Assange film premieres in Toronto

THE new Hollywood thriller about Julian Assange and how he built WikiLeaks into an online powerhouse that has exposed governments and corporations around the globe has received a long ovation at its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

Assange originally described The Fifth Estate as "a mass propaganda attack" against WikiLeaks after reading a leaked script, but he softened his stance against the film before Thursday's debut in Toronto.

The 42-year-old Townsville-born former computer hacker is masterfully played by English actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who speaks with an authentic Australian accent and will likely firm as a favourite for an Oscar nomination.

The film received a 15-second ovation at the premiere.

"I've wanted to make a political movie for a very long time and I thought this was a very rich area to explore," the film's US director, Bill Condon, whose past credits include Chicago, Kinsey and two Twilight films, said before the premiere.

"We are trying very hard to present all sides of a very complicated subject."

The Fifth Estate offers insight into Assange's childhood and teenage years in Australia and follows him as he builds WikiLeaks into a website designed to protect whistleblowers.

Assange took issue with an earlier draft of the script dealing with Iran, but on August 27 during an interview with AAP at the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he has been holed up since June 2012, he said the publicity surrounding the DreamWorks film will benefit WikiLeaks.

"Cumberbatch has been personally supportive of me and the struggles that WikiLeaks is going through".

"Our view is that a $US40 million advertising budget promoting WikiLeaks around the world, and actors like Cumberbatch speaking about it, is a good thing for the popularisation of WikiLeaks," Assange said.

"But people need to understand that this is a Hollywood movie and it has sections which are fictitious in order to increase the drama."

While Assange is played by an Englishman, there are plenty of A-List Australian actors in Toronto for the festival, including Hugh Jackman who is promoting his thriller Prisoners, Nicole Kidman for her drama The Railway Man and Chris Hemsworth in Rush.

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