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Jojo Rabbit is the winner of this year’s Toronto Film Festival’s 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…

Hailee Steinfeld, the actor and pop singer who stars in and executive produces the Apple TV+ half-hour Dickinson, says her music career will play a significant role in the show’s sensibility and marketing appeal. At the show’s first screening at the Tribeca TV Festival on Saturday — the first time any Apple streaming…

Riverdale fans already know some crossover of characters is planned for the CW’s upcoming Katy Keene. But the spin-off’s exec producers and cast teased out a few more details at today’s Tribeca TV Festival panel and pilot screening. Expect a boxing match. And Pussycats. And Robin Givens. As for the boxing, one of the…

Friends will not be going the way of Will & Grace or Murphy Brown, say the creators of the classic ’90s sitcom. No reunions. No reboots. "We will not be doing a reunion show, we will not be doing a reboot," co-creator and executive producer Marta Kauffman said Friday night during a Friends 25th anniversary panel at Tri…

After writing the book of his life story, Born To Run, and producing his own theatre show, Springsteen on Broadway, it seemed that rock'n'roll legend Bruce Springsteen might have been ready to slip out of the media limelight for a little while. Not so: Springsteen came to TIFF this year with a brand new concert film…

James Spader recounted his experiences making films like Avengers: Age of Ultron and TV series like The Blacklist and Boston Legal in an hourlong chat with Whoopi Goldberg at the Tribeca TV Festival. “To sustain me over a period of time, I can't be doing this one thing. I will just lose interest quickly,” Spader…

The Toronto Film Festival has awarded Pietro Marcello's Martin Eden with its Platform Prize as the festival winds down its 2019 edition. Several winners were announced Thursday during a ceremony at the Bisha Hotel including the FIPRESCI Prize for the Discovery program, awarded to Heather Young for Murmur, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has closed a U.S. rights deal on Sound of Metal, the Darius Marder-directed drama that stars Nightcrawler‘s Riz Ahmed as a drummer in a band who most come to terms with a new reality of silence when he begins to lose his hearing. Pic also stars Olivia Cooke, Mathieu Amalric, Lauren Ridloff…

If you ever heard Bryan Stevenson speak, he stirs emotions. He delivers difficult-to-hear harsh truths but manages to line each word with a thread of hope — and his sentiment, although delivered with a mild-mannered even-handedness, is assertive and motivates change. A lawyer, activist and founder of the Equal Justice…

The Toronto Film Festival will not be holding a formal awards ceremony this year, instead announcing winners of its Grolsch People’s Choice Award and juried competitions via TIFF’s social media channels. The Grolsch has been an Oscar Best Picture bellwether in the past, with winners out of TIFF including Green Book, Th…

The organizer of a Facebook group that vowed to storm Nevada’s mysterious Area 51 military base later this month has said he’s backing out of a music festival designed to provide an alternative to the hairbrained plan. Matty Roberts, who came forward as the Facebook organizer and said the original idea was meant as a…

Deadline's studio at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival kicked off Day 4 by hosting fest-goers including Joaquin Phoenix of Joker, Meryl Streep of The Laundromat, Renée Zellweger of Judy and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. Stay tuned for more galleries and video interviews from the Deadline…