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Noah Cowan, former co-director of the Toronto Film Festival and executive director of SFFILM in San Francisco, died Wednesday of cancer in Los Angeles, Deadline has confirmed. He was 55. Cowan died of glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive form of brain cancer he was diagnosed with in December…

Jordanian director Darin J. Sallam and producers Deema Azar and Ayeh Jadaneh have accused Israel of mounting a disinformation campaign against their film Farha and also rebuked the country for attempting to get it removed from theaters and Netflix. The film is set in 1948, in the early days of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is giving an Oscar-qualifying run to the psychological thriller Alice, Darling on December 30 before the pic’s nationwide release in 2023. The film, which made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival where it notched a near 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, stars Oscar nominee…

There is an abundance of Black dramas that chronicle trauma without the care it deserves. Rife with anti-Black stereotypes, the cinematic elite often celebrates these big budget narratives while independent films (that are usually 10 times better) are thrown to the wayside and forgotten. Clement Virgo’s…

Apple Original Films and A24 have dropped the trailer for Causeway, the movie from first-time filmmaker Lila Neugebauer that stars Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry and just had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The streamer, coming off its Oscar Best Picture winner CODA, is…

Nothing has illustrated the current turmoil in British politics quite as starkly as the recent tanking of the pound against the dollar, a puzzle even to the ruling party whose prime minister and chancellor caused it. Richard Eyre's fitfully funny Allelujah reflects this schism in more ways than one…

EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Amenta, whose debut feature Soft just had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has signed with M88 for representation. Soft revolves around three adolescent queer friends (played by Matteus Lunot, Zion Matheson and Harlow Joy) who become enraptured in the Toronto nightlife scene over a…

Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 32nd episode of its video series Take Two (formerly known as Two Shot), in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hope…

Ben Kingsley shows a different side to his screen persona with his performance in Dalíland, in which he plays the mercurial Surrealist artist in the last decade or so of his life. When he came to Deadline's TIFF studio, the actor praised his young co-star Christopher Briney, who plays James, a young Manhattan gallery…

Director Mary Harron brought first-time actor Christopher Briney into Deadline's TIFF Studio to discuss Dalíland, a film that explores the final stretch of the Surrealist art superstar Salvador Dalí's life, leading up to his death in 1984. As Harron explained, "It shows the last years of Dalí and his wife Gala's crazy…

UPDATED, 9:45 AM with Steven Spielberg statement: Here is Steven Spielberg’s full statement upon winning the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice award for The Fabelmans. "As I said on stage the other night, 'Above all, I'm glad I brought this film to Toronto!.'  This is the most personal film I've ever made…

As the Toronto Film Festival comes to its official closing night we say goodbye to the re-energized fest for another year, but not before we say “Hello Dali,” or actually the final world premiere of the festival, Daliland, which picks up the celebrated artist’s life in its later years focusing on the odd relationship…