EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics is closing a deal to acquire On Swift Horses, the Daniel Minahan-directed romantic drama that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last month as a Special Presentation. The film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva and Sasha Calle. SPC bought…

Its been clear for months that Rebel Wilson was going to formally hit back against the litigating producers of her film The Deb with a lawsuit of her own, and now she has. Just more than a week after the musical drama had its world premiere on the closing night of the Toronto Film Festival, Deb…

The anti-war documentary Russians at War screened yesterday at the TIFF Lightbox theater after the Toronto International Film Festival paused screenings due to “significant threats” last week over the Anastasia Trofimova directed film. In the documentary, the Russian Canadian filmmaker embeds…

The work of Black South African photographer Ernest Cole is being rediscovered, more than 30 years after his death at the age of 49. Part of that resurgence is due to the documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, directed by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck. It screened at the Toronto…

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…

For her fifth feature as director, Angelina Jolie has gone so far back to basics that Without Blood could quite easily be her debut. That isn't a criticism, rather an observation about how hard it is, even for A-list talent, to make films about the brutality…

All too often, a Toronto Film Festival premiere is seen as an audition for a U.S. release, when the end result is more like sending a manned space flight into the sun. The Penguin Lessons is a case in point, being a peculiarly British movie that takes a very…

The TIFF People's Choice Award is usually a bellwether to the Oscars, but this year the prize reflects rather more deep-seated global concerns among the voters than just the race to Best Picture. Based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King…

The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 2024 Toronto Film Festival has gone to The Life of Chuck, first runner-up is Emilia Pérez, and second runner-up is Anora. The Documentary Award goes to The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, and the Midnight…

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…

YOUNG WERTHER Section: Special Presentations (World Premiere)Director: José Avelino Gilles Corbett LourençoLogline: Alison Pill and Douglas Booth star in this adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 18th-century novella The Sorrows of Young Werther, relocated to modern-day Toronto in the form of a…