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'Riceboy Sleeps' Scoops Top Canadian Film AwardAnthony Shim's Riceboy Sleeps has won Canada's biggest film award, the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. The prize, decided by the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA), comes with a CAN$100,000 ($72,000) cash prize. Riceboy Sleeps beat nominees Clement…

EXCLUSIVE: Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to Baby Ruby, the TIFF thriller starring Noémie Merlant (Portrait Of A Lady On Fire) and Kit Harington (Game Of Thrones). The movie, which marks the feature directorial debut of playwright Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons)…

EXCLUSIVE: South Korean filmmaker Kim Hongsun has signed with WME following the launch of latest project Project Wolf Hunting in Toronto. The Korean action-thriller played in TIFF’s Midnight Madness program and was picked up by Well Go USA Entertainment. Deals also closed in a raft of international markets. The…

The Oscar race came into sharper focus at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, with actors like Brendan Fraser and Michelle Yeoh cementing their lead contender status, and big-budget studio efforts like The Fablemans and Glass Onion premiering to raves. The fall superfecta – Venice, Telluride, Toronto and…

Good afternoon Insiders. Max Goldbart here and as the world prepares for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, which has dominated headlines this week, I’ll take you through the past few days in international TV and film. Period Of Mourning A week like no other: As Insider writes, queues lasting at least several hours are…

Deadline's studio at the 2022 edition of the Toronto Film Festival continued with Day 4 by hosting fest-goers such as Mia Goth from Pearl; Zac Efron and Peter Farrelly from The Greatest Beer Run Ever; Ewan Mcgregor and Ethan Hawke from Raymond & Ray; Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree from Mo…

Rodrigo García's charming two-hander Raymond & Ray is the double-act we never knew we needed, an unlikely pairing — Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor — in a similarly unexpected comedy from a director better known for gentle female-fronted dramas. Truth be told, Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall was a little big for it (Sundance…

Today at TIFF, months before its Christmas Day theatrical opening, Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle came to show off the trailer of his Hollywood period opus, Babylon. It will drop tom’w. The pic is still in post. The trailer is non-stop party and rollicking jazz. It starts with Margot Robbie’s up and coming…

EXCLUSIVE: Audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival are about to get a treat: the world premiere of a nonfiction series starring and directed by the extraordinary South African artist William Kentridge. Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot defies easy encapsulation, but an attempt might begin with a description…

Deadline's studio at the 2022 edition of the Toronto Film Festival continued with Day 3 by hosting fest-goers such as Tilda Swinton from The Eternal Daughter; Daniel Craig from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; Jennifer Lawrence from Causeway; Olivia Coleman from Empire Of Light and Margaret Qualley from Sanctuary…

The Toronto International Film Festival, unlike the Euro film fests, isn’t known as a place for standing ovations. As soon as those credits roll, they need to jump into a post-screening Q&A, clear the theater and get into the next screening. But it was a different story tonight at the Royal Alexandra Theater as The Wha…

My favorite Toronto premiere memory was the one where eventual Best Picture winner Spotlight played to a raucous crowd reaction at the Princess of Wales Theatre, the emotion ratcheted up even further when the Boston Globe journalists who cracked the Catholic Church pedophile scandals took the stage and stood next to…