“I think we’re in the middle of a big sea change,” said Toronto International Film Festival chief Cameron Bailey during a Zurich Summit panel about the role of film festivals. “Certainly, there’s much more media coverage on the business of film and the screen industry generally than there used to be. This is not as…
For a book that not many people know about or have read, James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough (1890) has had quite an impact on cult cinema, particularly in the ’70s. For reasons that would take too long to go into here — and thanks to its influence on Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book The Hero…
EXCLUSIVE: After creating the John Wick and Nobody action franchises, screenwriter Derek Kolstad is at it again. Premiering last night in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto Film Festival as an acquisition title – I’ll eat my hat if it doesn’t get a distribution deal as Kolstad already ponders a sequel – comes Normal….
It has been exactly 80 years since the infamous Nuremberg tribunal established international law and put the Nazis on trial for unspeakable evil acts in war. It has been the subject of a landmark 1961 movie from Stanley Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg, which was nominated for 11 Oscars and won two, as well as TV…
Don’t dare call Maude Apatow a mere “nepo baby.” Her winning directorial debut proves she has the chops behind the camera as well as in front (Euphoria), Apatow name or no Apatow name. Poetic License, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in a prime Saturday night slot, is evidence of…
If Roofman wasn’t a true story, it would be hard to believe. World premiering tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, this Paramount release stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey Manchester, an Army 82nd Airborne veteran who turned to crime to try and support his wife and three kids after failing to assimilate back into society when…