Submitted for your approval: Few shows plant a flag in the public imagination the way CBS’ anthology drama did. And more than four decades after his death, its creator, host, producer and social conscience clearly is a man in demand.
The destiny of WWE's superstars will be determined during a two-night draft taking place live on Friday Night SmackDown on October 11 at 8 pm ET on the Fox broadcast network and Monday Night Raw on October 14 at 8 pm ET on USA Network.
On both nights of the draft, superstars from Raw and SmackDown will appear along…
UPDATE; writethru: New Line/Warner Bros' It Chapter Two had its second reading at the global and international box office this weekend, after screaming to the 2nd highest worldwide opening ever for a horror movie last session. With the sophomore frame's extra balloons, the franchise has now crossed $1B worldwide. The…
Terminal illness was a theme that cast a long shadow over this year's TIFF, but Maria Sødahl's film Hope came at the subject from a rather different perspective—from the Swedish director's own experience, in fact, when she was diagnosed with brain cancer several years ago. Nevertheless, the film is not in any way a…
Documentary director Ben Lawrence came to TIFF with his feature debut, in which an Australian photojournalist (Hugo Weaving) and a South Sudanese refugee (Andrew Luri) are forced to confront the horrors of war together. The story had been with Lawrence for a long time, he said—since 2002, in fact, when the director…
Tim Winton's fiction has served the Australian film industry well over the past few years, notably his short stories, but Dirt Music is the first of his novels to reach the big screen. Helmed by Gregor Jordan, last feted at TIFF for 2001's anarchic Buffalo Soldiers, it stars Garrett Hedlund in a torrid tale of love…
Aisling Chin-Yee came to TIFF with her feature debut, an unusual story about a love triangle involving two women and their daughters— as she explained when she came to the Deadline studio. "It's about a woman named Cami [Heather Graham]," she said, "who's a single mother who takes in her ex-husband's wife Rachel [Jodi…
The specialty box office was fairly quiet this weekend, with a handful of releases and holdovers that were, at best, mild.
Neon and Participant Media‘s Monos hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on a total of five screens. Directed by Alejandro Landes, the Red Dawn-esque dramatic thriller starring Julianne…
There were quite a few films about cults at this year's TIFF, and one of the more provocative meditations on human manipulation came from Finland. Titled Maria's Paradise, Zaida Bergroth's film was inspired by the true story of Maria Ã…kerblom, who ran a cult in rural Finland that caused a major scandal back in the…
Controversial wide receiver Antonio Brown took the field today with the New England Patriots in their game against the Miami Dolphins. How many more times that will happen is unclear.
Brown has been accused of assault and rape by former classmate and personal trainer Britney Taylor, charges that he denies…
In the wake of a summer where Disney IP steamrolled over movies big and small, the industry wondered if we were truly living in a hell of haves and have-nots at the box office. Was it just all about event films succeeding on the big screen, with anything that was low-to-mid-budget counter-programming intended for…
​Controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota made her first Sunday news show appearance on CBS’s Face The Nation, addressing comments made last week by the son of a 9/11 victim, who accused her of not understanding the outrage caused by her previously dismissive comments on the attack.
Show moderator Margaret Brennan…
Jojo Rabbit is the winner of this year’s Toronto Film Festival Grolsch People’s Choice Award. First runner-up was Netflix’s Marriage Story, and the second runner-up was Neon’s Cannes winner Parasite.
The trophy is considered a bellwether of sorts for the awards-season race even if it is selected by festival moviegoers…
