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Now more than ever it feels like content creators across the film and television sectors are expected to do "more with less" as budget-crunching, global inflation and less investment from major players and streamers have had a huge impact on the global marketplace. That said, there are some bright spots…

Toronto has long been a popular destination for major productions thanks to its solid and skilled crew base, competitive tax credits, extensive studio space and growing tech sector. Projects such as Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, Amazon's hit show The Boys and Netflix comedy Ginny & Georgia are just…

A man was badly wounded in an overnight drive-by shooting outside hip-hop star Drake’s home in Toronto, police said Tuesday. The Toronto Sun reported that the victim was a 48-year-old security guard who was struck multiple times, including a wound to the upper chest. He was in surgery at Sunnybrook…

EXCLUSIVE: Cord Jefferson’s feature directorial debut American Fiction is changing up its release plan, shifting from a November 3 limited opening to December 15. The MGM/MRC theatrical release, which stars Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross and Skyler Wright and just…

Pop the cork and celebrate Haley Bennett in Widow Clicquot, a fast-paced and sexy biopic of the woman known as Madame “Veuve” Clicquot, or by her actual full name, Barbe Nicole Ponsardin-Clicquot, who triumphed over all odds to become the force that created…

UPDATED with latest: The Toronto Film Festival began September 7 in Ontario with opening-night movie The Boy and the Heron, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. It kicked off a lineup for the fest’s 48th edition that included world premieres of GameStop pic Dumb Money, Netflix's Pain Hustlers…

Backspot Section: Discovery Director: D.W. Waterson Story by D.W. Waterson /Script by Joanne Sarazen Logline: Riley, a mid-level cheerleader, is given an opportunity to cheer with the All-Star team Thunderhawks. With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her crippling anxiety, her…

Stamped From The Beginning  Section: TIFF Docs Director: Roger Ross Williams Writers: Adapted from Ibram X. Kendi’s book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  Logline: Williams' documentary adaptation uses an innovative animation process that…

American Fiction Section: Special Presentation / People's Choice Award Winner Director: Cord Jefferson  Writers: Cord Jefferson Logline: American Fiction is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous…

The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 2023 Toronto Film Festival has gone to Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction. First Runner-Up is Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Second Runner-Up is Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron. The Documentary Award…

A new trend on the fall festival circuit this year is the biopic of the unknown hero, something that seems unthinkable now in the digital age. There's One Life, about the Schindler-like achievements of Nicholas Winton, who saved nearly 700 Jewish children…

ROYAL HOTEL Section: Gala Presentations Director: Kitty Green Screenwriter: Oscar Redding, Kitty Green Logline: Two American girls (Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) run out of cash while backpacking around Australia. To get home, they take a job in a rowdy pub in a remote mining…