From Tragedy to ‘Everest’: Inside Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s Most Ambitious Film Yet
Summiting the North Side of Everest and skiing down was a feat. So was filming it. In the NatGeo documentary "Everest: The Other Side," we not only witness…
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‘I Play Rocky’ Review: Sylvester Stallone’s Wild Hollywood Underdog Story Gets a Punchy Crowdpleaser
TIFF: Peter Farrelly continues his reign of making audience-delighting hits for the TIFF crowd, but this one pulls its punches a bit.
Chris Rock Says Scott Rudin’s ‘Hard Coaching’ Made Him a Better Filmmaker: Some Creatives Don’t ‘Respond to a Hug’
Chris Rock believes that tough love from one of Hollywood’s most notorious, half-cancelled figures helped make him a better filmmaker. Following a triumphant…
‘Mr. Irrelevant’ Trailer: David Corenswet Toughs and Smiles His Way to the NFL as Last Draft Pick John Tuggle
Jonathan Levine directs the inspiring sports story that opens in theaters from Paramount and Skydance Sports on Christmas Day.
‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ Review: Mahershala Ali Is The Glue That Binds A Dour Texas-Set Action Drama – Toronto Film Festival
Everything and nothing seems to happen in this curiously inert action drama, which stars Mahershala Ali as a philosophical Black Muslim hitman trying to raise…
Hollywood Ventures Group, Canada’s Big Picture Cinema Group, and Morocco’s Pink Sheep Team on Casablanca-Set Thriller ‘The Final Bet’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Hollywood Ventures Group (HVG), Canadian film finance and production outfit Big Picture Cinema Group, and Morocco’s Pink Sheep Productions are teaming up…
Box Office: ‘Practical Magic 2’ Fizzles With $30 Million Debut
Whatever spell conjured by the witchy Owens sisters, played onscreen by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in two “Practical Magic” movies, wasn’t powerful…
‘Practical Magic 2,’ the Sequel to a 28-Year-Old Box Office Bomb, Opens to Lackluster $30 Million
Hey Hollywood, stop giving us sequels we didn't ask for to movies that opened way too long ago for us to care.
How Susanna White Brought Lauded One-Woman Play ‘Prima Facie’ to the Big Screen (Casting Cynthia Erivo Helped)
TIFF: The director tells IndieWire that turning the celebrated one-woman play into a feature film with multiple locations, characters, and some extremely…
‘Severance’ Producer Nicholas Weinstock Boards Indian Fantasy-Horror ‘Tongue’ Starring Sayani Gupta (EXCLUSIVE)
Nicholas Weinstock, executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” has boarded “Tongue,” an Indian fantasy-horror feature written and directed by…
‘Union Town’ Review: Barbara Kopple’s Labor Rights Documentary Is Both Aptly Angry and Optimistically Community-Minded
Across the harrowing financial realities of late capitalism, an indisputable global fact is the injustices faced by countless workers who deliver everything we…
‘The Remotes’ Review: John Torres’ Sci-Fi Noir is an Unshakable Film About a Sinister Navigation App
The Philippine New Wave filmmaker's first narrative feature is a gorgeous, frustrating, addictive mediation on grief and national history.
Josh Hartnett Talks About How Important Newfoundland Was To Telling the Story For His New Netflix Series ‘Below – TIFF Studio
BELOW Director: Jamie Childs Writer/Creator: Jesse McKeown Logline: Something monstrous lurks off the coast in this suspenseful, Newfoundland-set limited…
‘Angh’ Cinematographer on How He Captured the Film’s Challenging Nighttime Sequences
Cinematographer Adam Pietkiewicz has been dealing with patchy internet over the past few days. He and his crew have been sailing on the Baltic Sea and have…
Jodie Comer And Harry Melling Discuss Their Singing Debuts In The Body Horror Musical ‘Stuffed’ – TIFF Studio
STUFFED Director: Theo Rhys Screenwriter: Theo Rhys and Joss Holden-Rea Logline: In an inventive feature debut, director and co-writer Theo Rhys simultaneously…
Bertil Nilsson’s TIFF Film ‘Masc’ Explores Intersectionality Of Queer, Biracial, Autistic Experience — Clip
In Bertil Nilsson’s feature directorial debut Masc, the writer/director teams up with co-writer and star Joshua Griffin to share a story of intersectionality…
Ali Asgari Doesn’t Believe in a Bright Future After Iran’s January Massacre – Just ‘A Bit of Light’
Iranian director Ali Asgari has no desire to repeat clichés about great expectations for things to come. “In Iran, we don’t have high hopes for the future…
TIFF 2026: 20 International Titles to Track, From Feng-I Fiona Roan’s Shuhua Starrer to a Taxidermy Musical and a John Madden Parkinson’s Rom-Com
Helen Mirren, Laura Linney, Rhys Ifans, Erin Doherty and James McAvoy star in three of the biggest U.K. titles world premiering at Toronto and making Variety’s…
Vertical Saves Lily James & Pierce Brosnan Starring ‘Cliffhanger’; Spring 2027 U.S. Release Eyed – TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: After the hot new distributor at TIFF last year, Row K, imploded, many films that the label scooped up at the fest were left homeless; one of the…
Midnight Madness! A Caped Canadian Prime Minister Stars In ‘Ladies And Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney’ – Toronto Film Festival
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, attended the opening of the Toronto Film Festival last year, helping introduce the documentary John Candy: I Like Me…