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Following his breakout turns in 'Cobra Kai' and 'Blue Beetle,' the 25-year-old is showing a new side of masculinity as Joey King's love interest in 'Practical Magic 2.'
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“Every Living Thing,” a Canada-India-U.A.E. documentary feature about the global water crisis, is making its international market debut at the Toronto Film Festival market, with VIBE (Visually Innovative Bold Entertainment) joining as strategic partner to the production. Directed by Uzair Merchant, the film is produced by BKreativ Prods. in Canada and Kleos Entertainment Group in […]
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Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “De Gaulle,” Antonin Baudry’s sprawling two-part historical epic that premiered out of competition at Cannes and was just shortlisted to represent France in the Oscar race. The distributor is planning a U.S. theatrical release in November or December 2026 for the €70 million ($82 million) production, […]
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Netflix has canceled “Ransom Canyon” after two seasons. The romantic drama was set in the Texas Hill Country and, per the official logline, followed “the intersecting lives of deep-rooted families in a town where your neighbors know everyone’s business.” Season 2 saw “rancher Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel) fighting to reclaim his legacy after being unseated […]
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In 2014, Laverne Cox made history as the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine under the headline “The Transgender Tipping Point.” The accompanying story, written by Katy Steinmetz, positioned the fight for trans rights as the next big civil rights movement “poised to challenge long-held cultural norms and beliefs.” It’s […]
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The two-time Oscar nominee found safety and support in the making of ‘Prima Facie,’ which offers an unflinching look at the aftermath of sexual assault. In her first interview about the film, she explains, “I would go too far and it would be hard to come back.”
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Norway’s Oscar submission “Growth of the Soil,” based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel, has already become a significant event in its native country. Even before premieres at TIFF and San Sebastián.  “After I finished the film, I went sailing for a couple of weeks and was off the coast,” says director Hans Petter Moland, downplaying […]
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“Dastur: Teris Bata,” the sequel to Kazakhstan’s record-breaking horror hit “Dastur,” has found an international sales partner in Bangkok-based Fearfolks, which has boarded world sales rights excluding CIS territories. The company is launching the title at the Toronto Film Festival market. The original “Dastur” (2023) — meaning “traditions” in Kazakh –—became the highest-grossing film in […]
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It is no wonder Belgian cinema has risen internationally in recent years. Cinema is, after all, a language, and Belgian filmmakers come from a country built on the need to understand language as a bridge—between its regions, its people, and its idioms. The country has three official languages—Dutch, French and German—and is divided both regionally […]
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Director Adrian Buitenhuis explores the extremes of a paraplegic athlete pushing himself to the limits of human endurance in a visceral film set for a Toronto Film Fest world premiere.
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Catherine Deneuve needed little convincing to play a “punk fairy godmother” in Léa Domenach’s “Peau d’Homme” (“A Man’s Skin“) the Venice-premiering medieval musical that reunites the famed French actor and up-and-coming director three years after “Bernadette.” “A punk fairy godmother — first of all, that idea alone would have been enough,” Deneuve told Variety in […]
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“At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?” Nobel Prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa famously asks at the beginning of “Conversation at The Cathedral.” In “Glaxo,” one of the most awaited of Latin American films this year, director Benjamín Naishtat charts what he describes as the whole of Argentina’s loss of innocence, which […]
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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched “Amazing Locations: From Scene to Scenic,” a campaign built to convert the country’s rising profile as a filming destination into lasting tourism, as productions ranging from “The White Lotus” to “The Challenge” Season 42 continue to draw international attention to Thai locations. TAT deputy governor Nithee Seeprae […]
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Is Venice still vibrating from all the rounds of applause? It’s become customary for audiences at the festival’s premieres to clap and cheer for a seeming eternity after the credits roll. (Often to the visible discomfort of the actors and filmmakers, who look like they don’t know what to do with themselves when the hurrahs […]
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The behind-the-scenes betrayals. The casting chaos. The simmering resentments. The itsy-bitsy bikinis. Turns out the set of this 70s TV phenomenon wasn't always heaven.
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The first-ever Toronto film market, running as part of the Toronto Film Festival, will have a robust contingent of African filmmakers, executives and industry professionals on the ground. Producers at TIFF: The Market look to capitalize on the festival’s historically strong position as a platform for some of the continent’s most diverse and exciting talents. […]
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A consortium of 23 industry groups warned the “ubiquity of global streaming services puts local stories at risk” as Netflix, Amazon and YouTube reshape the global TV market,
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Tyler Hagan of Experimental Forest Films has won the Canadian Media Producers Association’s (CMPA) 2026 Feature Film Producer Indiescreen Award. The plaudit was announced Sept. 10 at the Indiescreen Awards, held at a packed industry event and ceremony at the Sutton Place Hotel on the opening evening of the 51st Toronto Film Festival. The award, […]
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New Zealand is set to announce a first-of-its-kind Indigenous co-production initiative at the Toronto Film Festival, New Zealand Film Commission CEO Annie Murray tells Variety. The pact will bring together Māori filmmakers from New Zealand, Aboriginal filmmakers from Australia and Indigenous Canadian filmmakers in a program of collaborative storytelling that none of the three countries […]
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Def Leppard’s epic journey from Sheffield to global rock superstardom is getting the documentary treatment from filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig (“The Devil and Daniel Johnston,” “Author: The JT LeRoy Story”). “Long Live Def Leppard” is the first authorized feature-length documentary about the British band, which has sold more than 110 million albums worldwide and been inducted […]