Latest in TIFF

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…

Hello Insiders. It’s getting colder in Europe, but the news in TV and film has been hot and spicy in the week Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris. Jesse Whittock here taking you. Let’s go, and don’t forget to sign up here. TIFF’s Russia Doc…

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.”…

TIFF isn’t a festival known for its standing ovations, but it’s arguable that tonight’s Canadian premiere of Sony’s behind-the-scenes SNL movie Saturday Night came close with arguably the most rapturous response here at the 49th edition, which included the audience clapping rhythmically through the…

I have to confess I don’t know much about William Tell, the legendary 14th century huntsman who we were told as school children took his bow and arrow and heroically shot an apple off the top of his son’s head. And there is also the infamous “William Tell…

Hugh Grant has been doing a lot to dismantle his dashingly disheveled '90s rom-com image in the past 15 years or more, but Heretic might be the film to blow it all to kingdom come. Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, a key part of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to writer-director Nick Hamm's medieval action-drama William Tell, which has its world premiere tonight in Toronto. Starring are Claes Bang (The Square), Connor Swindells (Sex Education), Golshifteh Farahani (Extraction), Jonah…

Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova's doc Russians at War makes its North American debut in Toronto this week, following a world premiere in Venice, amid calls from Ukrainian diplomats in Canada for the festival to pull the film. The two-hour work, for which Trofimova embedded with Russian…

In one of the most explosive documentary premieres in TIFF history, a film sharply critical of Benjamin Netanyahu bowed before a packed house in Toronto Monday night, despite a last-ditch effort by the Israeli prime minister to block it. The Bibi Files, produced by Alex Gibney and directed by Alexis…

David Mackenzie is full of deceit. His movies, not him. Mackenzie can lure you with the cunningness of an illicit couple, played by Tilda Swnton and Ewan McGregor, in his 2003 drama Young Adam. "Give us a come-hither look," I remember him instructing Swinton on a barge berthed on the Forth and Clyde…

This summer the Coen Brothers’ ripoffs have been out in force including the August release of Greedy People and the Apple Original Films streaming attraction The Instigators. You might call these, and many others in recent years, Coens-light. But then again…