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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that A24 has acquired North American rights to Rose Glass’ psychological horror film Saint Maud, which made its world premiere in TIFF’s Midnight Madness program. In addition, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) nabbed all international rights for Saint Maud, excluding the U.K…

Deadline's studio at the 2019 Toronto lnternational Film Festival kicked off Day 3 by hosting fest-goers including Jennifer Lopez of Hustlers, Eddie Murphy of Dolemite Is My Name, Christian Bale of Ford v Ferrari and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. Stay tuned for more galleries and video…

Deadline's studio at the 2019 Toronto lnternational Film Festival kicked off Day 2 by hosting fest-goers including Kristen Stewart of Seberg, Taika Waititi of Jojo Rabbit, Jamie Dornan of Synchronic and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. Stay tuned for more galleries and video interviews from…

Justin Kurzel had set the indie film world alight with his debut feature Snowtown, and its follow-up, Macbeth, seemed to confirm the arrival of a director whose vision was unique and stunning. That director returns to his brand of cinema this year with True History of the Kelly Gang, which adapts Peter Carey's novel…

It was a big day Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival, with World Premieres from Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig and Chris Evans, Eddie Murphy , Jennifer Lopez, and Dreamworks Animation. How’s that for a full plate? Of course, at TIFF it just wouldn’t be a normal day without at least six or seven big premieres…

EXCLUSIVE: Jaeden Martell, who is having a busy weekend between It Chapter Two opening and Knives Out making its world premiere here at TIFF, has just joined the Highland Film Group feature Tunnels opposite Oscar winner Susan Sarandon. Directed by John Krokidas (Kill Your Darlings) and written by Victoria Rose, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Vikings’ Travis Fimmel has boarded Culmination’s Die in a Gunfight alongside previously announced Olivia Munn (who is in talks), Alexandra Daddario and Diego Boneta. Die in a Gunfight is the story of a young guy (Boneta) who falls for the daughter (Daddario) of his father’s nemesis in New York City.  Fimmel…

Amazon-owned Withoutabox, the dominant indie film festival submission platform for the last decade, has decided to end its service. In a letter to users, the service – run through IMDbPro – said it would “phase out” the service over the next year. Withoutabox was the official platform for Sundance and had been used by…

Cutting Edge Group, the largest independent film music publisher, is expanding its role in the financing of indie films, advancing funds for music rights in the pictures. The latest is a just closed deal for the Bart Freundlich-directed drama After The Wedding, starring Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore. Cutting…

As festivals around the world continue to come to terms with the rise of serial television and new viewing platforms, TIFF hosted a special premiere this year of the first two episodes of Sorry For Your Loss, a 10-episode, half-hour drama from Facebook Watch. Directed by James Ponsoldt, it stars Elizabeth…

The rise and fall of John DeLorean, the automotive kingpin brought down by a cocaine scandal in 1982, is—surprisingly—the basis of one of the more purely entertaining films to screen at TIFF this year. Played for laughs, but with a core seriousness that notes the FBI's nefarious involvement in DeLorean's undoing, Nick…

Like many directors at TIFF this year, Annabel Jankel was inspired by a book, in this case Fiona Shaw's 2009 novel Tell It To The Bees, about an illicit love affair between two women in 1950s Britain. "I think [the attraction] was the sense of the outsider," mused Jankel when she arrived at the Deadline studio with…