Netflix has found a physical home for its forthcoming horror anthology series Guillermo del Toro Presents Ten After Midnight and feature film Let It Snow after creating a dedicated production hub in Toronto. The SVOD service has chosen two studio spaces in the Canadian city as it looks to expand its production…

CBS plans to establish a television and film production facility outside Toronto, with the production capacity to support large-scale production. The media company said it signed a long-term lease on a 260,000 square-foot space located in the city of Mississauga, 18 miles from downtown Toronto, where it plans to…

Donald Trump, who has been busy attacking allies and cajoling a dictator, this afternoon got around to looking at Robert De Niro’s recent remarks about him, and has weighed in, calling him “Punchy” At the Tony Awards, the actor got a standing ovation when he took the stage and immediately said: "I'm just going to say…

“I don’t want to grow old or grow up.” So said Carl Boenish, father of BASE jumping – parachuting off fixed manmade or natural objects such as Buildings, Antennas, Spans, and Earth – lived life on the edge doing something he absolutely loved. Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing dropped a trailer today for the…

Jonathan Demme’s ‘Fear Of Falling’ To Premiere At Rome Fest Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme‘s Fear Of Falling will have its world premiere at the eighth annual Rome Film Festival in November. The film is based on a theater production — performed only a few times to friends — created for the stage by the…

With today’s wrap of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, the Fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto officially kicked off the six-month movie awards season. What does it say, if anything, about where the race for Oscar is at this early point? As it turns out, quite a bit. It is very early in…

David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook has been named the big winner of the BlackBerry People’s Choice Award at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Fest Artistic Director Cameron Bailey leaked the news via Twitter as the ceremony was taking place. The critically acclaimed comedy which stars Bradley…

Fox Searchlight brought its Sundance pickup and Oscar hopeful, The Sessions, to the Toronto International Film Festival today to kick-start the film’s October launch. (Now set for October 26 but very possibly moving up a week to the 19th). Last January, the film debuted under the title The Surrogate and immediately…

As the Toronto International Film Festival maintains its intense pace, the race for Oscar is clearly heating up. And after last night’s rousing world premiere for David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, you can chalk up yet another major Best Picture contender. The tweets about its inevitable awards potential…

The Place Beyond The Pines is perhaps the most eagerly awaited acquisition title of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. And Friday night it premiered to an enthusiastic reception from a sold-out crowd. With stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes lighting up the Princess of Wales theatre’s Red…

The Toronto International Film Festival officially kicked off tonight with gala screenings of FilmDistrict’s time-tripping sci-fi action flick Looper starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt, plus two Cannes premieres making their official North American bows. On The Road, the 1950s beat movie about Jack…

Toronto – Piers Handling today announced that Cameron Bailey, formerly titled Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival® will receive a new title, Artistic Director, Toronto International Film Festival. Handling's title remains unchanged as Director and CEO of TIFF. "Today's announcement is part of our…