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TIFF: PETA Activist Disrupts Pharrell Williams Biopic Premiere in Toronto
A protester with PETA, the animal rights group, stole the limelight on Tuesday night as Pharrell Williams talked about his animated biopic Piece by Piece at the Princess of Wales Theatre during the Toronto Film Festival. The PETA activist approached the stage as Williams held a post-screening Q&A and slammed the singer and producer […]
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Toronto: Jude Law Shines as a Haunted Lawman in ‘The Order,’ Could Land First Oscar Nom in 21 Years
On the heels of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 31, Aussie filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s The Order arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. And, as was the case on the other side of the ocean, the film — which King Richard Oscar nominee Zach Baylin adapted from Kevin […]
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Documentary ‘Russians at War’ Sparks Protest, Heated Debate in Toronto
Russian-Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova has responded to a protest at the Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday against her controversial Russians at War documentary ahead of a North American premiere on Friday. Trofimova tells The Hollywood Reporter her first-person film has her talking to ordinary Russian soldiers over seven months in Ukraine to get a perspective no one […]
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Toronto: Brazilian Pic ‘I’m Still Here’ Pops at Fest, Could Strongly Contend for International Feature Oscar
With the possible exception of the animated feature The Wild Robot, no film that has had its world premiere or North American premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival has been more warmly received than I’m Still Here, Walter Salles’ deeply moving portrait of one family’s experience under the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil […]
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‘Bliss (Hemda)’ Director Talks Israeli Film Backlash by Major Festivals: “They Don’t Want Us Anymore”
Israeli novelist and director Shemi Zarhin is set to screen his latest movie, Bliss (Hemda) at the Toronto Film Festival with virtually all the certainties in his life and work scrambled by the current war in Gaza that followed the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on southern Israel. “I can’t explain my people. I can explain […]
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Daisy Edgar-Jones and Will Poulter on the “Hopeful” Depiction of Queer Life in 1950s America in ‘On Swift Horses’
Daisy Edgar-Jones cites admiration as her first draw to the buzzy TIFF film On Swift Horses. “I loved the producers behind the film. I love Call Me By Your Name and Nomadland so I was so excited about them taking this project on,” she says of Peter Spears and Mollye Asher while seated alongside her co-star Will Poulter in the […]
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Box Office Milestone: ‘It Ends With Us’ Is Top-Grossing Romantic Drama Since 2018’s ‘A Star is Born’
It Ends With Us continues to make history at the global box office. The film adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s bestselling book about a woman whose fairy-tale marriage turns abusive has amassed more than $309 million in global ticket sales to become the top-grossing romantic drama since 2018’s Oscar-nominated A Star is Born, which earned $436.4 […]
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John Cassaday, Artist on Joss Whedon’s ‘Astonishing X-Men’ and Co-Creator of ‘Planetary,’ Dies at 52
John Cassaday, the artist who co-created the influential turn-of-the-century comic Planetary and then drew an award-winning X-Men comic written by Joss Whedon for Marvel, has died. He was 52. His sister Robin Cassaday announced his death Monday on Facebook. She previously wrote that he had been admitted to the intensive care unit of Mount Sinai […]
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Dave Bautista Is Finally Getting His Rom-Com: After Viral Comments, “I Started Getting a Lot of Phone Calls”
After Dave Bautista’s public comments last year wondering why he’d never been offered a rom-com, it seems the tides are finally turning. In January 2023, Bautista told Page Six that he’d love to be in a romantic comedy but had never gotten the opportunity, and wondered, “Am I that unattractive? Is there something that unappealing […]
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Bad Bunny Joins Adam Sandler in ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ (Exclusive)
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasió — also known as the musical artist Bad Bunny — has found his next onscreen role, joining the cast of Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore sequel. Kyle Newacheck, who directed Sandler in the Netflix comedy Murder Mystery, is helming the Netflix sequel to the 1996 comedy about a wannabe professional hockey player who discovers […]
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The Oldenburg Film Festival’s Quest to Save Indie Cinema
When Torsten Neumann launched the Oldenburg Film Festival back in 1994, setting up the event as Germany’s answer to Sundance, it was near the peak of the ’90s indie film boom, when the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Kevin Smith and Robert Rodriguez were starting to hit the mainstream. 31 years later and indie […]
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Oscars: Hungary Submits ‘Semmelweis’ for International Feature Race
Hungary has picked Lajos Koltai’s biopic Semmelweis as its contender for the 2025 Oscars in the best international feature category. The feature traces the life of Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures who became known as “the savior of mothers” for his efforts in fighting deadly infections following childbirth. Set […]
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TIFF Film ’40 Acres’ Facing Claims by IATSE Over Alleged Unpaid Crew, Vendors
Producers of 40 Acres, a dystopian thriller starring Danielle Deadwyler that had its world premiere at TIFF, have addressed cost overruns during the movie’s production a year ago that led to some local crew and vendors being left unpaid, according to the U.S.-based union IATSE. “We had cost overruns on the production. It’s a big, […]
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Shailene Woodley to Star in Janis Joplin Biopic
The elusive Janis Joplin biopic is closer to reality, as Shailene Woodley has received a commitment for a $2.49 million tax credit from the California Film Commission for the film, it was announced Tuesday. “I have a feeling Janis would be smiling ear to ear, zipping down the PCH in her psychedelic Porsche knowing her […]
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‘The Apprentice’ Trailer: Roy Cohn Teaches Donald Trump His Rules to Win
Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice released its first trailer on Tuesday ahead of the much-discussed movie’s October release. The film, from director Ali Abbasi and writer Gabriel Sherman, follows Sebastian Stan as a young Trump under the mentorship of Jeremy Strong’s Roy Cohn. In the trailer, Trump and Cohn are shown meeting, with Trump saying […]
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Erotic Infidelity and Berlin S&M Feature in Trailer for Oldenburg Opener ‘Traumnovelle’ (Exclusive)
This is not your father’s Traumnovelle. Florian Frerichs’ new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s famed erotic novella — the work that inspired Stanley Kubrick‘s Eyes Wide Shut — promises to be a much more explicit version of the story. The trailer for the film, which opens this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival on Sept. 11, is heavy on the hot and […]
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