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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…

Jojo Rabbit is the winner of this year’s Toronto Film Festival Grolsch People’s Choice Award. First runner-up was Netflix’s Marriage Story, and the second runner-up was Neon’s Cannes winner Parasite. The trophy is considered a bellwether of sorts for the awards-season race even if it is selected by festival moviegoers…

After writing the book of his life story, Born To Run, and producing his own theatre show, Springsteen on Broadway, it seemed that rock'n'roll legend Bruce Springsteen might have been ready to slip out of the media limelight for a little while. Not so: Springsteen came to TIFF this year with a brand new concert film…

The Toronto Film Festival has awarded Pietro Marcello's Martin Eden with its Platform Prize as the festival winds down its 2019 edition. Several winners were announced Thursday during a ceremony at the Bisha Hotel including the FIPRESCI Prize for the Discovery program, awarded to Heather Young for Murmur, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has closed a U.S. rights deal on Sound of Metal, the Darius Marder-directed drama that stars Nightcrawler‘s Riz Ahmed as a drummer in a band who most come to terms with a new reality of silence when he begins to lose his hearing. Pic also stars Olivia Cooke, Mathieu Amalric, Lauren Ridloff…

If you ever heard Bryan Stevenson speak, he stirs emotions. He delivers difficult-to-hear harsh truths but manages to line each word with a thread of hope — and his sentiment, although delivered with a mild-mannered even-handedness, is assertive and motivates change. A lawyer, activist and founder of the Equal Justice…

The Toronto Film Festival will not be holding a formal awards ceremony this year, instead announcing winners of its Grolsch People’s Choice Award and juried competitions via TIFF’s social media channels. The Grolsch has been an Oscar Best Picture bellwether in the past, with winners out of TIFF including Green Book, Th…

Deadline's studio at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival kicked off Day 4 by hosting fest-goers including Joaquin Phoenix of Joker, Meryl Streep of The Laundromat, Renée Zellweger of Judy and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. Stay tuned for more galleries and video interviews from the Deadline…