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The Toronto Film Festival has tapped Joana Vicente as its new executive director & co-head. She joins Cameron Bailey, who was previously announced as TIFF’s artistic director & co-head. Together they will report to TIFF’s board of directors. Vicente starts November 1, while Bailey begins on October 1. This year’s…

In the new teaser trailer for Gaga: Five Foot Two, Lady Gaga gives us a peek behind the curtain of her pop star life. From getting kicked out of Wal-Mart to rehearsing for her big Super Bowl halftime performance to a visit to her grandma’s house, the Netflix documentary is giving the global pop star a Truth or Dare…

In the exclusive new teaser trailer of Stephen McCallum’s 1%, we are treated to some seriously gritty motorcycle gang action and drama. The Australian crime thriller marks the directorial debut for McCallum and is set to make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of its Discovery…

The Toronto Film Festival rolled out its 2017 Industry Conference program today, with this year's lineup exploring “the power of storytelling” and themes and challenges that have made a global impact on the film industry. The six-day conference runs September 8-13. "The importance of compelling, original storytelling…

The first trailer for Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me gives us a look at the first major film documentary about the legendary entertainer. Directed by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Sam Pollard, the docu puts the spotlight on Davis’ personal life and career as he navigated through the shifting tides of civil…

The Toronto International Film Festival is taking a bold step to reduce its lineup of films by 20% for the 2017 edition, in what is likely to be welcome news to some attendees who have lamented in recent years the bulging selections and sidebars. TIFF also says it is retiring the Vanguard and City to City…

Bill Marshall, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival, died today, his family announced. He was 77 and suffered a heart attack while in the hospital. A Scottish immigrant to Canada, Marshall, who was later awarded the Order of Canada, Marshall co-founded TIFF, originally called Toronto Festival of…

There’s no question that the march to Oscar fully begins at the start of September each year, with the arrival of the much-ballyhooed fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto. Awards prospects can soar on the strength of one of these all-important festival debuts, or simply deflate them like a Tom Brady…

Deal-making in Toronto may be moving slowly but that hasn't stopped New York-based speciality distributor Film Movement, which has picked up US and English-speaking Canadian rights to Bulgarian tragicomedy Glory. The film, which is directed by The Lesson filmmakers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, is described…

American Pastoral is the second feature adaptation this year after Indignation based on a Philip Roth novel, and coincidentally both titles were helmed by two guys making sublime directorial debuts: Ewan McGregor and former Focus Features chief James Schamus. Thematically, the movies are companion pieces, exploring…

A film about a family torn apart when an only daughter becomes a terrorist (American Pastoral), an Oliver Stone movie taking a sympathetic view of a man described by some as an American traitor (Snowden), a movie in which a woman expresses conflicted reactions to a brutal rape (Elle), a controversial movie about a…

EXCLUSIVE: Kaiser Wilhem, last emperor of the German Empire, ended his reign as one of the most hated men on earth. Held largely responsible for the disaster that was World War 1, he was as despised by his own subjects as he was by the world at large, and after Germany’s defeat was forced into exile in the…