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Divisive Festival Darling Sacrifice Starring Chris Evans Finds Streaming Home

Sacrifice, the star-studded satire that left critics at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival divided, is landing on Netflix. The streaming giant just secured U.S. rights to the film, which stars Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy in a story that skewers celebrity activism and doomsday hysteria. After months of radio…

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Bryan Fuller wants Zendaya in a Science of The Lambs series, and now I do too!

Horror movie fans could get something they didn’t even know they wanted if Bryan Fuller gets his way. The Dust Bunny director wants Zendaya to star in a Silence of the Lambs limited series, and now we want that too! Let’s hope we all don’t get too obsessed with the…

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Emily Blunt Surprises the Toronto International Film Festival in a Sheer Red Carpet Look

It's so unexpected for her.

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The Best-Dressed Stars at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Are the Fashion Month Warm-Up I Needed

This red carpet so far includes all my favorite runway designers.

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Angelina Jolie breaks down in tears over mother's cancer

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie broke down in tears during an appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada as she spoke about her late mother Marcheline Bertrand's battle with cancer.

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TIFF pulls documentary on 2023 Hamas attack from festival lineup, citing footage rights issue

The Toronto International Film Festival has disinvited a documentary on the Hamas' 2023 attack into Israel over what the festival says was a footage rights issue

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Toronto International Film Festival sets lineup with Sydney Sweeney, Aziz Ansari and 'Knives Out 3'

Films starring Sydney Sweeney, Angelina Jolie and Aziz Ansari will premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, festival organizers announced Monday

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The Most Scene-Stealing Looks Straight From the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival

The red carpet supplied several sheer looks, but all of them are done in a demure way, well at least by fashion standards.

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'The Life of Chuck' wins the Toronto Film Festival's People's Choice Award

The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award has gone to “The Life of Chuck.”

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Selena Gomez's Toronto International Film Festival Red Carpet Gown Subverts the Rosette Trend

She tried gothic glam for the 'Emilia Pérez' premiere.

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Sydney Sweeney Embraces the "Demure" Red Carpet Look in a Fall-Ready, Custom Erdem Gown

The actress is embracing her softer side.

Marie Claire

Jennifer Lopez's Mirrored Toronto International Film Festival Revenge Dress Is the Opposite of an LBD

It's mirrored, side-baring, and covered in bows.

Marie Claire

Elliot Page Stars In Emotional Drama Close To You

Elliot Page stars in 'Close to You,' a drama exploring identity and family dynamics. Premiering at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, the film p...

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Hayao Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' to open Toronto Film Festival

“The Boy and the Heron,” the first film in a decade by Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, will open the 48th Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday

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What to stream: 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' and other movies about environmental activism

Last weekend, the first weekend of Earth Month, the incendiary ecoterrorism thriller “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” debuted in theaters after premiering at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Adapted from the book by Andreas Malm, the film, directed by Daniel Goldhaber, is a swift, pulse-pounding thriller about a…

Los Angeles Times

An antiwar epic became an awards darling. Why Germans don't quite see it the same way

The film with this awards season's most unexpected trajectory may be "All Quiet on the Western Front," an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's 1928 German-language novel set during World War I. After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and launching on Netflix in October, the film went…

Chicago Tribune

My worst moment: The ‘Simpsons’ joke Reid Scott blurted out in an audition that he worried ruined his career

In the comedy “Who Invited Charlie?” which premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, Reid Scott plays a New York finance guy who decamps to the Hamptons with his wife and kid in the early days of the pandemic, only for his former college roommate — a wild…

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What to stream: As 'Sidney' documentary arrives, where to find Poitier's best films

On Friday, Reginald Hudlin’s documentary “Sidney” debuts on Apple TV+, after its bow at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month. The film depicts the life and groundbreaking career of the pioneering Bahamian American actor Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win an Academy Award. Produced by Oprah…

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Films on Ravish Kumar and Gauri Lankesh win awards at Toronto film festival

Two documentaries on Indian journalists have won awards at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022. While We Watched is on the life and work of NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar; Gauri looks at the life and assassination of Gauri Lankesh and the threats faced by Indian journalists today.

Los Angeles Times

15 must-see films from the Toronto International Film Festival

It was like a muscle memory, quick to come back. That feeling of hustling from theater to theater, waiting in lines and just being surrounded by other people that used to be an annual tradition as part of the Toronto International Film Festival but for many longtime attendees has been…

The Independent UK

Steven Spielberg's 'Fabelmans' wins Toronto audience award

Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Fabelmans” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner

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Big screen dreams

With its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Inside The Dream is Bulgari's first docufilm, produced by Terminal 9 Studios.

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The Woman King is more than an action movie – it shines a light on the women warriors of Benin

The Woman King is a big-budget Hollywood movie that has been anticipated since 2018, when US star Viola Davis was announced as the lead in the story of the “amazons” of Dahomey. Rising South African star Thuso Mbedu also takes a key role in the film, which has premiered at…

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My worst moment: Ernie Hudson’s career ‘dried up’ after ‘Ghostbusters,’ then came the double-booked roles

It’s a busy month for Ernie Hudson. He’s starring in two TV series: The BET+ crime drama “The Family Business,” in its fourth season, and the NBC reboot of the time travel series “Quantum Leap.” He also stars alongside Brian Cox in the film “Prisoner’s Daughter,” which premiered last week…

Los Angeles Times

Why making 'Glass Onion' scared Rian Johnson even more than 'The Last Jedi'

One of the undisputed hits of this year's Toronto International Film Festival has been writer-director Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."

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