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The People's Choice Award (presented by Rogers) from the just-wrapped 2024 Toronto International Film Festival has gone to The Life Of Chuck,  First Runner-Up is Emilia Perez, Second Runner-Up is Anora. The Documentary Award goes to The Tragically Hip: No Dre…

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off September 5 with a multi-move opening night that included David Gordon Green’s family comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller. It kicked off a slate of world premieres and buzzy movies across 11 days for the 49th edition of one of North America’s biggest film…

With the goal of making a big-screen Australian musical in the vein of movies like Muriel’s Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert that made such an impression on her growing up, Rebel Wilson has in many ways measured up to the delights…

In 2008, Faiza Ahmad Khan made a documentary, Supermen Of Malegaon, that focused on the making of a parody-style movie by amateur director Nasir Shaikh who found success with his friends in the poor small Indian city of Malegaon, where they used their hometown to copy popular movies, and by doing so gave…

The 20th Camden International Film Festival in Maine – one of most highly-anticipated annual gatherings for the documentary community – has kicked off with some major news. Elise McCave, head of film at Kickstarter, was announced Thursday night as the new executive director of the Points North…

It is a deceptively simple premise for a two-hour feature film. A married couple who had planned their retirement in a B&B are, due to dire financial circumstances and bum luck, forced out of their home at a point that is, on the surface at least, completely devastating. With their kids now off at school…

EXCLUSIVE: Nutcrackers opened the Toronto Film Festival and now is poised to become the first splashy acquisition deal on the ground since the festival began. Hulu is in final talks to pay eight figures for the family comedy directed by David Gordon Green and starring Ben Stiller, Linda Cardellini, Edi…

UPDATED with producers’ response: The Toronto Film Festival said Thursday that it has paused upcoming screenings of Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova's documentary Russians at War “effective immediately” after learning about “significant threats to festival operations and public safety.”…

The world premiere of Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 will close the 38th edition of AFI Fest on Oct. 27 at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Warner Bros. has also set a limited theatrical release of the movie for Nov. 1. The premiere of Juror #2 continues a long relationship between Eastwood and AFI as the…

Beyond Fest, the biggest and highest-attended genre film festival in the U.S., on Thuesday unveiled its complete slate of programming for 2024. At the 12th edition, taking place across Los Angeles from September 25th – October 9th, you can expect 82 features, including 16 World Premieres, 4…

After months of proposals and site visits, Sundance has whittled the swath of contenders for a potential new home for the festival down to three. Among the trio, there is a bit of the old, a bit of the new, and a bit of WTF? To that end, with a possible relocation set for 2027, the united Utah…

The American French Film Festival (TAFFF) is returning after last year's Hollywood strikes hiatus and has unveiled its opening and closing films. The 28th edition, running October 29 to November 3 in the Director's Guild of America Theatre Complex, will open with Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez and…