With the 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival ending tonight, and the Venice and Telluride fests now firmly behind us, it is time once again to take the pulse of the nascent Oscar race. Surprisingly there were no total disasters in terms of who is expected to be in the running, but clearly, some did better…

The Toronto Film Festival gets things rolling tomorrow with the announcement of movies for its 2017 fest, and we are hearing that films with such stars as Jake Gyllenhaal, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Andrew Garfield, Frances McDormand, Margot Robbie, Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Woody…

Talent flows from God, or whatever mysterious force passes for such. But an artistic career is born of hopes, dreams, accidents and existential choices that conspire to make something special of the talented. For Barry Jenkins, the decidedly special writer-director of Moonlight, a controlling accident was the location…

EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions is closing a deal to acquire the U.S. and Canadian rights to Though The Wall, an Israeli comedy that just premiered at the Venice Film Festival and then made its U.S. debut at Telluride. The film got strong reaction at both fests, and it is a 2016 nominee for an Ophir, the Israeli…

Opening day at the 43rd Annual Telluride Film Festival was one for the guys, at least in terms of awards buzz for the Best Actor Oscar race. Sully had its first screening Friday night and immediately drew lots of talk for star Tom Hanks who was so unfairly passed over in recent years for superb, if subtle…

EXCLUSIVE: Among world premieres unspooling this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival is a harrowing new documentary Finding Oscar, which is produced by Frank Marshall and executive produced by Steven Spielberg in association with the USC Shoah Foundation. The docu directed by Ryan Suffern will have its first…

Word during last month’s Cannes Film Festival was that September’s upcoming Toronto International Film Festival had changed course about insisting — as it did last year — that all movies shown during the first four days of the festival be either World or North American Premieres. It appeared to be a dead policy going…

The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off this week, Telluride and Venice wrapped up and Fifty Shades of Grey got its leads. If you missed these and Deadline's other top film stories this week, here's your chance to check them out now: Toronto 2013: Will Deals Take Back Seat As Buyers Focus On Fest Oscar Hopef…

UPDATE: The Weinstein Company has confirmed Deadline’s scoop about the acquisition of U.S. rights to Tracks. Release has been added below original story. EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that the first major acquisition on the ground at the weekend festivals will be a Weinstein Company deal for U.S. rights to Tracks, the John…

I was interviewing Bradley Cooper yesterday and we talked about the emerging 2013 awards season. “I guess we’ll know by Toronto what it’s going to look like this year,” he said remembering he was in back to back World Premieres there last year with Silver Linings Playbook and The Place Beyond The Pines (which Focus…

After opening the 2011 Cannes Film Festival winning raves (and an eventual Oscar for Original Screenplay) for Midnight In Paris, Woody Allen and Sony Pictures Classics dialed it down a bit for the North American premiere of his latest, To Rome With Love. But in a coup for the Los Angeles Film Festival Woody and…