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Los Angeles County has more square feet of soundstages than New York and Georgia combined, and more is on the way, according to the latest report from FilmLA, the city and county film permit office. L.A.'s 5.4 million square feet of stage space tops that of the United Kingdom (4.7 million square feet), Toronto and…

The domestic box office is about to take a single-percentile hit as the province of Ontario, Canada, which includes box office capital Toronto, shutters theaters due to the Omicron post-holiday surge. Movie theaters will close in two days, led by the country’s No. 1 chain Cineplex which will temporarily close 67…

Any half-conscious observer knew Hollywood's film awards business was pointed toward a reckoning as the audience for the Oscars and other ceremonies collapsed last year. Even I could see it coming, from way out here in the cheap seats, nowhere near Union Station. But now, eight months later, that inevitable settling…

EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has acquired North American rights to Medusa, the well-received thriller-satire by Brazilian writer and director Anita Rocha da Silveira. The feature debuted at Cannes in the Directors' Fortnight strand before getting its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. Medusa follows…

EXCLUSIVE: What better to liven up a quite Toronto Film Market than a package for a movie set in the rap arena, that has stars and a slam dunk a top-selling soundtrack? Justice Smith, Idris Elba and Taylour Paige will star in We All Die Young, a drama that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs has scripted for Jake Schreier to…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's first footage from The Wheel, the Toronto Film Festival drama directed by Steve Pink, whose credits include Hot Tub Time Machine. The pic follows Albee and Walker, a young couple on the brink of divorce, who rent a mountain getaway to save their fledgling marriage. Before long, their personal drama…

EXCLUSIVE: Here's the first clip from The Mad Women's Ball, the Mélanie Laurent-directed drama in which she also stars. The film is set to have its world premiere at Toronto before it debuts exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on September 17. Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) stars with Lou de Laâge (The Innocents) and…

The Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its lineups for the Contemporary World Cinema and Discovery programs as it ramps up toward the kickoff of its 46th edition September 9-18. The festival also solidified additional Gala and Special Presentation titles and took the wraps off TIFF Rewind, a new block that…

Toronto Film Festival organizers declared two weeks ago they will be welcoming back in-person audiences for a fest that will run from September 9-18. This after Canada made an exemption to allow for the National Hockey League playoffs to happen in country, and more recently that the Toronto Blue Jays will resume…

Canada’s most populous province, Ontario, is shutting down movie theaters and other businesses for 28 days amid an uptick in COVID-19 infections. The move, which takes effect at 12:01AM local time, sidelines a major driver of North American box office at the same time that theaters in New York and LA remain closed…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix wasn’t alone in cooking up a storm at the recent Toronto film market. STX International, now known as ErosSTX International as a result of the merger between Indian major Eros and U.S. studio STX, says it has secured cumulative international deals worth north of $100M during and after the virtual…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures Content Group is set to land international rights to Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia following the concert film’s opening-night screening at the Toronto Film Festival. HBO has domestic rights to the filmed version of the former Talking Heads frontman’s acclaimed Broadway show…