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EXCLUSIVE: Former Creative Circle COO and Co-Founder Dennis Masel’s new film production company Camera Ready Pictures will kick off their launch with their first feature The Giant which will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Based in New York City and Los Angeles, Camera…

Saudi Arabia’s first film festival, the Red Sea International Film Festival, is set to take place in the city of Jeddah between 12 – 21 March, 2020. With a focus on the ‘global south’, the festival’s program will also showcase Arab and international cinema across several sections. Festival director and CEO is Mahmoud…

TIFF has made some staff moves. Diana Sanchez has been appointed to the newly created role of senior director, film, effective April 15, 2019. She will oversee the programming strategy for the Toronto International Film Festival; TIFF Cinematheque; Film Circuit (the organization's nationwide film network); and…

The Toronto Film Festival has revealed its annual list of top ten Canadian films. Compiled by TIFF's team of programmers in collaboration with Canadian critics, the ‘Canada’s Top Ten’ list includes TIFF titles Freaks, which scored a significant deal with Well Go, and Giant Little Ones. Scroll down for the full…

Director Stella Meghie isn’t giving up on the romantic comedy genre, giving it a “fresh spin” with her latest film, The Weekend, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. “For a while, people were saying it was out of fashion but I’m like ‘how?'”  said Meghie about the debate over the status of the rom-com. “I…

“I never lost the feeling that I had when I first read the book. I never lost the feeling that it was such a redemptive story and a story from a broken human spirit and that journey through and into the light, ” said A Million Little Pieces director Sam Taylor-Johnson despite the controversy surrounding the film’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Music icon Annie Lennox has written and recorded an original song entitled “Requiem For a Private War” for the Aviron Pictures film A Private War which will make its World Premiere as a Gala Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 14. David Dinerstein, President of Aviron Pictures…

“At this time when journalism is under attack, it's quite an important story to be told,” said director Matthew Heineman speaking with Deadline about his narrative directorial feature film, A Private War, a biopic on famed American-born British war correspondent Marie Colvin. “It spoke to me in a way that I just felt…

After premiering at Sundance earlier this year, Bleecker Street’s family drama, What They Had made its way to the Toronto Film Festival for its international premiere screening. Written and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, the film stars Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Blythe Danner, Robert Forster, Taissa Farmiga, and…

Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins made a stop at the Deadline Studio ahead of the Toronto Film Festival premiere of If Beale Street Could Talk, his adaptation of the 1974 novel by James Baldwin. The story follows a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover's innocence while pregnant…

Fox 2000's adaptation of Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give is a tragic and familiar story of the unlawful murder of an African American man and the following impact it has on a community. Starring Amandla Stenberg, the film, centers on Starr Carter, whose world is shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her…

Gemma Arterton and Rupert Penry-Jones discuss marriage and gender politics in this first clip of period drama Vita & Virginia, based on the love letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. The film tells the true story of socialite Sackville-West (Arterton) and literary icon Woolf, played by The Night Manager's…