Variety

‘Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors’ Review: Lav Diaz Delivers an Immaculate, Slow-Burn Period Drama of Rare and Restless Insight

Set almost a century after Magellan first landed on the Philippine Archipelago, and coming just a year after “Magellan,” director Lav Diaz’s last film, landed in Cannes, “Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors” is a description of bruised history rendered in the sharp, precise, scarring lines of a newly inked tattoo. In many ways a companion […]

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Variety

No, Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ Isn’t a Musical

Internet sleuths were convinced this week that Tom Cruise’s upcoming movie “Digger” is a secret musical, but unfortunately that isn’t the case. Variety spoke with two sources familiar with the production, who said “Digger” is not a movie musical, but both were amused by the sleuthing. The rumor started online after the film’s final trailer […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Toronto: Anti-Trumpists Are Suddenly Big Progressive Documentary Funders

Kino Lorber head Richard Lorber told a TIFF panel on Friday “civic-minded citizens” opposed to the current U.S. administration are allowing documentaries to get made and seen in theaters.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Faith’ Review: Erin Doherty and James McAvoy Excel in a Sensitive Drama That Goes Off the Rails in the Final Reel

The actors play working-class Brits navigating the early stage of a relationship in this TIFF premiere from director Paul Andrew Williams.

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Variety

‘Beef’ Creator Lee Sung Jin Pitched Charles Melton on the Show Over Dinner: ‘By the Third Appetizer He Said Yes’

Gold House celebrated its third annual One House Toast to the Emmys, honoring the achievements of Asian Pacific and multicultural creatives in entertainment. The man of the hour was “Beef” showrunner Lee Sung Jin, whose genre-bending Netflix anthology earned 16 nominations for its second season — the most of any limited or anthology series this year. […]

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Hollywood Reporter

‘High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam’ Review: Joel Kinnaman Plays the CIA Analyst Who Interrogated Saddam Hussein in TNT’s Clumsy Miniseries

Leslie Greif ('Hatfields & McCoys') steers the eight-part drama about the man who interviewed the former Iraqi president.

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Hollywood Reporter

Why Chase Infiniti and Christopher Briney Would Have Moved Heaven and Earth to Star in ‘The Julia Set’

Two of Hollywood's most in-demand young actors enter into a complicated relationship in Niki Byrne's TIFF-premiering coming-of-age story about brilliant student mathematicians: "I don't know if I can overstate it, but this movie is sort of all I've ever wanted to do."

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Variety

Sandra Bullock Rejected ‘Every Pervert’ in Auditions ‘Asking Me to Drop My Pants’ and Stopped Acting in Rom-Coms When ‘I Was Getting So Much S— For Them’

Sandra Bullock joined her friend and fellow actor Jennifer Aniston for a chat as part of the “Practical Magic 2” star’s Interview magazine cover and revealed that she made the intentional decision to step away from the romantic comedy genre in the mid-2000s because “I was getting so much shit for them.” Aniston asked Bullock […]

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Variety

Court to Hold Paramount-Warner Bros. Settlement Conference in Late October

A court will hold a two-day settlement conference in the Paramount-Warner Bros. antitrust case in late October. The conference is a standard part of civil procedure and does not indicate whether a deal is in the offing. A magistrate judge, Thomas Hixson, has been tasked with overseeing the settlement discussions and to determine whether it […]

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Human Centipede’ Director Tom Six Addresses Career Collapse, Impending Death: “These Are My Final Words” (Exclusive)

The provoc-auteur discusses the new documentary chronicling his seven-year fight to get 'The Onania Club' distributed and his struggles with MS, life as a "short, sadistic joke," and staring into the abyss with your hands on fire while your head is still full of ideas.

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Hollywood Reporter

CBS Argues First Amendment Protections in Bid to Dismiss ‘Matlock’ Writer Lawsuit Over Allegedly Racist Comments

The studio stressed that its decision to stop employing John Lowe is a creative choice.

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Hollywood Reporter

TIFF Flashback: Naomi Watts Cruised Into Toronto via ‘Mulholland’

The British star's career received a major jolt thanks to David Lynch’s mind-bending Hollywood noir.

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Hollywood Reporter

Paramount Settlement Talks With California Moving Forward

The two sides will sit down to discuss a deal resolving the case at the end of October.

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Variety

‘Back to Buenos Aires’ Review: Marco Bechis’ Return to the Screen Covers Similar Ground to Earlier Works but is Only Fitfully Effective

The return of Marco Bechis to filmmaking after 10 years is a welcome surprise, and the terrain he covers in “Back to Buenos Aires” is a familiar one for the veteran Chilean-Italian director who himself was caught up in the nightmare of Argentina’s military dictatorship. Set in the present, with frequent flashbacks, the film tells […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Dior and A24 Strike Two-Year Partnership Across Film and Theater

Dior will be the premier partner for A24’s Cherry Lane Theatre Off-Broadway. 

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Variety

After Taylor Frankie Paul’s ‘Bachelorette’ Scandal, ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Just Isn’t Fun Anymore

SPOILER WARNING: The following story contains plot details from Season 5 of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” From its very first moments, “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” has been inextricable from the toxic entanglement between #MomTok influencer Taylor Frankie Paul and her on-again, off-again boyfriend Dakota Mortensen. Two years ago, the show began […]

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Variety

‘Le Faux Soir’ Review: Fake News Tells the Truth in an Earnest, Slow-Paced Period Piece

“Le Faux Soir” sources its high concept — hijacking state media propaganda’s fake news to tell the truth — from Second World War history. In 1943, disgruntled anarchist and poet Marc Aubrion (Arieh Worthalter) is recruited by the Belgian Resistance, which publishes its own underground newspaper. Marc’s brainwave is to reach outside the bubble of […]

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Variety

Streaming Prices Continue to Balloon: Is ‘Streamflation’ at a Breaking Point?

Death. Taxes. Price hikes on Netflix, HBO Max and more. It’s become an inevitable part of modern life: The major entertainment streaming services have been regularly upping their fees — for some, the increases have come once a year. The average price of ad-free streaming services increased 54% from 2021 to 2025, according to research […]

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‘Like ‘Amores Perros,’ I Hope My Film Will Also Transcend Time in Some Way,’ Says Gael García Bernal of His Third Directorial Outing, ‘Hombre al Agua’

Gael García Bernal is best known for his breakout roles in two of Mexico’s most consequential films, “Amores Perros” (2000) and “Y Tu Mama Tambien” (2001) but he’s also been directing these past years. Proof of his cachet is having his third feature, “Hombre al agua” world premiere at the Venice Biennale and have its […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Why ‘La Gradiva,’ the Surprise Sensation of Cannes, Is Now the Essential Debut of the Fall

The spellbinding teen drama makes its North American premiere at TIFF on Monday, the beginning of an underdog awards run for Marine Atlan's auspicious first feature.

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