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Kate Middleton Completes Chemotherapy Treatment, Says She Has Entered a “New Phase of Recovery”
Kate Middleton has shared that she has completed her chemotherapy treatment. In a video shared on Monday, the Princess of Wales shared that she is entering a “new phase of recovery” after completing her treatment amid her cancer diagnosis she revealed in March. The video featured Middleton alongside Prince William and their three children. “As […]
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Succession Plan Challenged by Hedge Fund
Rupert Murdoch’s transition of power at News Corp. to his son Lachlan is being challenged by a major shareholder in the media company. Hedge fund Starboard Value went public with a letter addressed to shareholders of the newspaper giant, owner of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, calling on the company to eliminate […]
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‘The Brutalist’: Venice Winner Brady Corbet Opens Up About the Tireless Seven-Year Journey Behind His Buzzy Epic
A monumental triumph of independent filmmaking is coming to a cinema near you. Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour-long, seven-years-in-the-making historical epic The Brutalist finally secured a U.S. distribution deal over the weekend. The movie, which won Corbet the Venice Film Festival’s best director prize Saturday, will be released by indie tastemaker A24 sometime later this year with […]
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Max Minghella Sees a Lot of ‘Look Who’s Talking’ in ‘Shell,’ His Second Feature as a Director
Shell is Max Minghella’s second feature film as a director. Dubbed a “dark comedy and body horror about society’s obsession with youth and good looks,” it stars none other than his The Handmaid’s Tale colleague Elisabeth Moss as a struggling actress opposite Kate Hudson as the CEO of a mysterious, and potentially monstrous, beauty company. The […]
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TIFF: Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Amy Adams Add Star Wattage at Post-Strikes Toronto Fest Tribute Awards
Cate Blanchett thanked Knix, the underwear maker, for sponsoring her TIFF Tribute Award on Sunday night, which was ironic because the Elizabeth and Carol actress apparently went bottomless to the glittering festival event. “I’m not actually wearing any underwear,” Blanchett revealed, jokingly or not, while wearing a long party dress on stage at the Royal […]
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TIFF According to Sky Original Film’s Julia Stuart
Julia Stuart, the director of Sky Original Film, heads up a team that acquires exclusive rights and commissions original feature productions for Sky Cinema’s platform as well as theatrical release. Stuart and her team have brought several major titles to Sky, including Michael Mann’s Ferrari, May December starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, and The […]
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Elisabeth Moss on Playing Opposite Kate Hudson in ‘Shell’ and the Stress of Auditions
Elisabeth Moss has long been a fan of Kate Hudson’s work. So playing opposite her in the Toronto-premiering genre bender Shell, directed by Max Minghella, was a treat for her, she told THR. But the female stars of the genre movie that tackles such issues as age and the importance of looks had a different […]
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Film Academy, BAFTA, Grammys Heads on Diversity Progress, AI, and Modernizing Awards Shows
How to handle and regulate AI, how to continue making awards shows more appealing to a broader audience, and how key improving diversity is to ensuring relevance and revenue were just some of the questions discussed by the heads of the organizations behind the Oscars, BAFTA Awards and Grammys in Toronto on Sunday morning. Bill […]
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Rising Star Drew Starkey on ‘Queer’ and How U.S. Audiences “Can Be Very Uptight” About Sex Scenes
Drew Starkey was a day into rehearsals for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer when he found himself rolling around the floor in a sweaty clinch with Daniel Craig. “We jumped into it, just grabbing and throwing our bodies on top of one another, rolling around, getting intermingled,” Starkey recalls, “I think it unlocked something subconsciously, gave us […]
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A24 Buys Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ for U.S.
A24 has won the bidding war to acquire U.S. rights to Brady Corbet’s buzzy Venice Film Festival winner The Brutalist. A24 announced the deal, brokered with CAA Media Finance, on Sunday, ahead of the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10. Adrien Brody stars in the historical epic as László […]
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Toronto First Look at Time Travel Romance ‘Fate’ With Harvey Keitel and Faye Dunaway (Exclusive)
Harvey Keitel (Bugsy, Pulp Fiction), Faye Dunaway (Bonnie & Clyde, Chinatown) and Cheech Marin (Nash Bridges) feature in an exclusive first-look image from the time travel romance movie Fate. Directed by Jonathan Baker (Lionsgate’s Inconceivable, starring Nicolas Cage, Gina Gershon, and Dunaway), the film, which recently wrapped production in Vancouver, also stars Andrew McCarthy (The […]
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Toronto: Actress-Centric ‘The Room Next Door’ and ‘Nightbitch’ Premiere, Face Different Awards Paths
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door and Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch, the two most highly-anticipated films that screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday night, are in some ways very similar: both are adaptations of novels by filmmakers who have been bringing quality films to TIFF for years, and both center on complex female […]
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