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Shudder, AMC Networks' premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, is thrilled to release the first trailer for the Shudder Original Good Madam ahead of the film's debut on the platform on Thursday, July 14. The film is the fourth feature from celebrated South African writer/director Jenna…

After three years with the Toronto Film Festival, Diana Sanchez has exited her role as Senior Director, Film. While the reasons behind Sanchez’s departure were not immediately made clear, they appeared to be personal in nature. She wrapped up her time with TIFF on December 31. “Three years ago Diana joined us…

The Board of Directors for the Toronto International Film Festival today has appointed Jeffrey Remedios, the Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Canada, as Chair of the film festival’s Board. Jennifer Tory, who has held the role since 2016, has completed her term. Remedios has served on the TIFF board for the past…

The Toronto International Film Festival, the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) have named their award winners for work screened at TIFF 2021. "We are thrilled to announce that Anatolian Leopard has received the 2021 FIPRESCI Jury…

EXCLUSIVE: Following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, UK horror film A Banquet has sold to Signature for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The deal was negotiated between Signature's Elizabeth Williams and Hanway's Nicole Mackey. Release is set for 2022. A Banquet follows widowed mother Holly…

When a studio is looking to get traction on their awards season contender, there’s no better start at this early point in the fall than the Toronto International Film Festival’s Grolsch People’s Choice Award. The top prize at the Great White North cinema fest has often been a predictor of Oscar’s Best Picture, or…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s an arresting first clip from Senegalese supernatural thriller Saloum, which will get its world premiere in TIFF’s Midnight Madness strand. Written and directed by Congolese filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot (Netflix's Dealer), the kinetic genre-shifting feature follows a legendary trio of on-the-run…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first clip for animated film Charlotte, which is getting its world premiere today at the Toronto Film Festival. Two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley leads cast alongside Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn, Oscar winner Jim Broadbent, Sam Claflin, Henry Czerny, Eddie Marsan, the late Helen McCrory…

The female-driven crime drama Cadejo Blanco has unveiled a clip in advance of its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival's Industry Selects section. Cadejo Blanco is reminiscent of Maria Full of Grace and Miss Bala, addressing timely issues of lack of opportunities for women, youth violence, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's your first clip for TIFF Midnight Madness selection You Are Not My Mother. Inspired by the ancient mythology of the changeling, a creature that takes on human form, in You Are Not My Mother, when a mother returns home after disappearing the week before Halloween, her daughter notices that her…

EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone and Fifty Shades franchise actor Luke Grimes has signed on to star in the sci-fi-thriller Hello Stranger, with April Mullen (Wander) slated to direct from a screenplay penned by Ryan Christopher Churchill. In Hello Stranger, a woman attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan (Grimes)…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first footage of Oscar winner Barry Levinson’s anticipated boxing drama The Survivor [previously known as Harry Haft], starring Ben Foster, Vicky Krieps, Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Danny DeVito, Dar Zuzovsky and Saro Emirze. Unspooling at the Toronto Film Festival, the…