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The Toronto Film Festival, North America’s largest festival, has unveiled its plan for this year’s edition to run September 10–19. As anticipated, the fest is going to look very different due to the coronavirus, which is likely to account for a 50% year-on-year downturn in revenue. Organizers say the 45th TIFF will be…

With the film festival calendar thrown into chaos by COVID-19, Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube are teaming up to present a 10-day streaming event drawing from 20 global fests, including Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Venice. The online showcase, dubbed We Are One: A Global Film Festival, will kick off on YouTube on May…

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Monday emailed Deadline that this month’s planned Board of Governors meeting, originally set for April 14, has now been delayed two weeks to Tuesday, April 28. Normally the April meeting is one that discusses the past Oscar show and analyzes it in detail with the…

EXCLUSIVE: Gunpowder & Sky has acquired U.S. rights to the Irish sci-fi thriller Sea Fever, the Neasa Hardiman-directed pic that had its world premiere this fall at the Toronto Film Festival. It will now get a U.S. release in early 2020 via G&S’ multiplatform sci-fi label Dust. Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Je…

UK writer-director Michael Winterbottom has taken aim at Sony for cuts he says the studio made to his new movie Greed, which debuted at Toronto and rolls out this fall and winter. The prolific UK filmmaker, well known for The Trip franchise and movies including The Killer Inside Me, expressed frustration in a frank…

EXCLUSIVE: ARRAY Releasing has acquired worldwide rights excluding Canada to the drama The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, expanding the company’s slate of inclusive films. ARRAY founder Ava DuVernay said Thursday that the company plans a release for the Canadian film later this fall. Written and directed by…

EXCLUSIVE: Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker Klaudia Reynicke, whose Love Me Tender screened in the Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery strand this year, has signed with Los Angeles management and production outfit The Gotham Group. The company plans to spearhead efforts to adapt the film into a TV series. Love Me Tender world…

Antigone, the drama from Québécois writer-director Sophie Deraspe that just won the Best Canadian Feature Film prize for its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has been selected to represent Canada in the 2020 Oscar International Feature Film race. The pic is hoping to become the ninth Canadian film to be…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is nearing the big deal of the Toronto Film Festival, acquiring for a sum nearing $20 million world rights to Bad Education, the Cory Finley-directed fact-based dark comedy that stars Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney as supervisors in the Roslyn, Long Island, school district who masterminded the largest…

Rather than being a full-on biopic, Sony’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood takes us into Mr. Rogers life through the eyes of a 1998 Esquire journalist played by The Americans Primetime Emmy winner Matthew Rhys in the Sony film. Rhys plays Lloyd Vogel, an investigative journalist who is given a small profile…

When it comes to movies about the heart-wrenching experience of divorce, one has to arguably go back to the 1979 Dustin Hoffman-Meryl Streep 5-time Oscar winner Kramer vs. Kramer. While that pic explored issues, still relevant today, about female empowerment and single fatherhood, Netflix’s Marriage Story, which was…

British journalist Caitlin Moran began writing for the rock press in the early '90s, at the age of 16, and her experiences in the field provided the basis for her second novel, How to Build a Girl, in 2014. A film version has been in the works ever since the novel was first published, and this year director Coky…