Hollywood Reporter
In the National Geographic docuseries, Bill Spade, the sole survivor of Staten Island’s Rescue Company 5 crew, finally tells an NYPD officer’s sons about their father’s last moments.
Variety
On the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, YouTube serves as a fascinating time capsule for news coverage from that day, during which shocked anchors documented the national tragedy in real time. American Airlines Flight 11 was flown by a terrorist into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. ET on that […]
Variety
Touted as the most ambitious sci-fi pic ever made in Spanish, Gonzalo Gutiérrez’s “Pacific” (“Pacifico”) will make its European bow at the prominent Sitges Fantasy Film Festival in October and is selling fast to buyers worldwide. “We are proud of the response among top-tier theatrical buyers who are watching and immediately reacting to the film’s […]
Variety
The “Practical Magic 2” press tour might be taking over the world, but Tony Vahl’s impressive feature debut “Krux” also finds space for the supernatural. Set in the final days of the WWII and premiering at TIFF and San Sebastián, it portrays a German village waiting for the inevitable: the arrival of Soviet troops. Some […]
Hollywood Reporter
The former Canadian politician has found time away from partner and pop star Katy Perry to develop a scripted and unscripted slate alongside co-founder Katie Telford.
Hollywood Reporter
From King West to Yorkville, these five Toronto hotels become unofficial festival headquarters for industry meetings, late-night drinks, talent sightings and the occasional escape between screenings.
Variety
The dramatic drop in 2025 French TV export figures may have cast a shadow over this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous TV market in Le Havre. Yet, like the skies over the Normandy coast, the gloom proved fleeting. Local sellers, rather than disheartened, are already navigating the current challenges and discovering new opportunities in the process. Indeed, […]
Variety
As far as date movies go, “Everybody Wants to Fuck Me,” a wild London-based rom-com-meets-thriller-meets-horror-meets-thought-provoking-satire, could be either among the worst choices or the best. “I think it can be both!” says Jonathan Schey about his feature debut, premiering in Toronto, and a film he says was his attempt to “poke fun at performative nice […]
The Guardian Culture
The Centre of Chinese Contemporary Art closed in 2021 after a series of controversies. Now it’s been relaunched under a new name – and with a new missionIn March 2020, the visual artist JJ Chan was assembling video footage for a group exhibition scheduled at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester. Centred on family VHS tapes, and titled A New Constellation: Chinese Diaspora Now, the artwork was an exploration of Chan’s emotionally complex relationship to Hong Kong, their
Variety
Michael Dowse’s “The Stunt Driver,” starring Jay Baruchel as ’70s daredevil Ken Carter, who tried to jump a mile across the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, roars into its Toronto Intl. Film Festival world premiere offering warm-but-never-fuzzy retro visions of stunts and cross-border tension that resonate in the present moment. Dowse has premiered […]
Hollywood Reporter
The comedian and podcaster stars in the TIFF dramedy that takes inspiration from his own life: “I never thought we would honestly make a movie about it.”
Variety
Taika Waititi, who won an Oscar for the “Jojo Rabbit” screenplay, and Odessa Rae, the producer of Oscar winner “Navalny” and Oscar nominated “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” have come on board “A Bit of Light” as executive producers as the Ali Asgari drama heads into its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film […]
Hollywood Reporter
A year after a $750,000 horror movie became the biggest Toronto sale ever, can the fest’s first official market catch that lightning again?
Variety
Following its world premiere in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, director Sébastien Laudenbach has completed a Spanish-language version of “Viva Carmen.” He’s also behind “The Girl Without Hands” and co-director of “Chicken for Linda!” Flamenco singer Silvia Pérez Cruz is voicing the title character and performing new songs written for the Spanish edition. Pérez Cruz recently featured […]
The Guardian Culture
Royal Opera House, LondonThis revival of Kaspar Holten’s 2014 staging puts the focus on the Don’s psychology. Aigul Akhmetshina’s Elvira is a standout performance in a strong castPost #MeToo and #TimesUp, Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of a predatory sex addict feels more pertinent than ever. Kaspar Holten’s 2014 staging, revived here with care and clarity by Greg Eldridge, may not be played in modern dress – Anja Vang Kragh’s semi-stylised costumes and Es Devlin’s Escher-inspired revolving set loca
The Guardian Culture
A blue lady strides across the fourth plinth, Beryl Cook and friends gather in Bicester, and Spain repurposes a traffic junction – all in your weekly dispatchTschabalala Self
A rollicking triumph of a statue that spreads good feelings and smiles in the heart of the capital. Saucy genius.
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The Guardian Culture
Hating The Apprentice? Bored silly of House of the Dragon? Given up on your favourite soap opera after 50 years? Guardian readers share the shows they can’t bear to watchWe loved this show for the first four or five seasons. It had a really good mix of candidates, different ages and walks of life. I think it was after season nine that we started to feel the programme was losing its authenticity. Contestants started to look like homogenous Love Islanders, all the same demographic – 20-30 age brac
Hollywood Reporter
After 50 years, $2 billion in production and an Oscar for Chicago, Don Carmody is retiring — with one final gift to Canada’s next producers.
Variety
British comedy once dominated the small screen, spawning iconic shows and formats from “Monty Python” to “The Office.” But the last decade hasn’t been a bundle of laughs as sketch shows and sitcoms fell out of fashion, partly due to traditional broadcasters’ shrinking budgets while awards-hungry streamers were focused on prestige dramas that grabbed headlines […]
Hollywood Reporter
TIFF market boss Geoff Macnaughton on the festival’s new financing forum, why streamers are shifting how they buy, and building a market for film, TV and beyond.