The Toronto Film Festival has selected the lineup for this year’s Midnight Madness sidebar that includes seven world premieres. The pics, whether they’re slashers, comedies or hard-R action titles, close out each of night of the festival with 11:59 p.m. screenings at the Royal Alexandra…

UPDATED with official trailer: Lionsgate on Wednesday dropped the official trailer for Good Fortune, its comedy written and directed by Aziz Ansari that just set its world premiere for September’s Toronto Film Festival. It hits theaters October 17. Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen and Ansari star in the…

The Man in My Basement, the first feature from Nadia Latif, starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe, has been announced as part of the Discovery lineup at this year's Toronto Film Festival.  TIFF released the Discovery lineup this morning. Other high-profile titles include Cato Kusters' Julian…

Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants' feature Steve, starring Cillian Murphy, has been added to the Platform lineup for this year's Toronto Film Festival.  Steve was among nine titles added to the Platform competition Tuesday morning. Those titles are: Farnoosh Samadi's Between Dreams and Hope, Orian…

It’s a big news week for the 50th Toronto International Film Festival starting with this morning’s announcement of their full Galas and Special Presentations section including world premieres of Aziz Ansari's Lionsgate Keanu Reeves & Seth Rogen comedy Good Fortune, Maude Apatow’s feature directorial…

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The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival added several world premieres by prolific filmmakers including Netflix’s Rian Johnson threequel Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Sony Pictures Classics’ Nicholas Hytner title The Choral, Miramax/Paramount’s Derek Cianfrance caper The R…

EXCLUSIVE: "We are all about celebrating Canada right now," TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey explains on a Zoom call with us ahead of his festival's latest lineup announcement this morning. "But only in the sense that I'm very focused on how Canadian stories speak to the whole world. There is a thriving…

The 50th Toronto International Film Festival has set its first five World Premiere Special Presentation titles in the Official Selection: Alejandro Amenábar’s The Captive, Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers, Sung-hyun Byun’s Good News, Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, and Chandler Levack’s Mile End…

The Toronto International Film Festival is opening its 50th edition on Sept. 4 with a look back at one of the Great White North’s own: legendary SCTV comedic actor-turned-comedy superstar, John Candy in the Colin Hanks directed, Ryan Reynolds produced new documentary, John Candy: I Like Me…

Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger has become a hero to Democrats for turning on Donald Trump, but it's come at great personal and political cost. In a new interview for Deadline's Doc Talk podcast, Kinzinger reveals he, his wife, and their toddler have become the target of constant…

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…