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Byline: CBC News Steven Spielberg has been one of the world's most successful film directors for over 40 years. But with his upcoming semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans, which premiered at [...]

Byline: CBC News The Toronto International Film Festival is usually swing in September, with King Street West becoming a pedestrian walkway complete with interactive movie installations and fans lining up [...]

Byline: CBC News Organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival have announced they are laying off 31 employees, a 17 per cent cut of the organization's full-time staff, due to [...]

Byline: CBC News Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi's Nazi Germany-set 'anti-hate satire,' has captured the Toronto International Film Festival's coveted People's Choice Award. The film centres on a young German boy [...]

Byline: CBC News Hearing an audience gasp, scream or recoil? That's exactly what boundary-pushing filmmaker Darren Aronofsky is going for. 'There'll always be some people who'll think I cross [the [...]

Byline: CBC News Lady Gaga needs to take a break. After a whirlwind period that saw her write, release and promote an album very different from her earlier hits, test [...]

Byline: CBC News Piers Handling announced Saturday that 2018 will be his last year as the head of the Toronto International Film Festival. Handling joined the festival in 1982, and [...]

Byline: CBC News West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and actress Brie Larson will see their directorial debuts premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Screenwriter-director Sorkin's poker drama Molly's Game, [...]

Byline: CBC News Toronto International Film Festival founder William (Bill) Marshall has died at age 77 after suffering cardiac arrest, according to a family statement released through TIFF's press office [...]

Byline: CBC News A movie fan with a rare genetic disorder that impairs his hearing and vision wants the Toronto International Film Festival to provide closed captioning for more of [...]

Byline: CBC News Authentically portraying the lives of the soldiers stationed in a warzone is a tall order, but it's something Paul Gross felt compelled to do with his new [...]

Byline: CBC News Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith square-off in My Old Lady, a new set-in-Paris dramedy opening in theatres this weekend. Kline stars as a hard-pressed American playboy who [...]

Byline: CBC News A wise-cracking Tina Fey cracks up eternal straight-man Jason Bateman; a pushy Benedict Cumberbatch nearly runs Kiera Knightley clear off the The Imitation Game red carpet. While [...]

Byline: CBC News Keira Knightley didn't have to work to achieve a windswept look at the premiere of Laggies at the Toronto International Film Festival Wednesday night. Relentless wind, and [...]

Byline: CBC News Benedict Cumberbatch was, by many accounts, the darling of last year's Toronto International Film Festival. The Sherlock star is at it again, causing a fan frenzy Tuesday [...]

Byline: CBC News Art does more than imitate life for Emmanuel Jal and Ger Duany. For the actors--and former child soldiers--art stirs up dark nightmares, and turns them into light [...]

Byline: CBC News From the whip-smart comedian Chris Rock, to the beautiful and articulate Rosario Dawson, the brilliantly bright smile of Jennifer Garner, and the strangely bristled Kevin Costner, it's [...]

Byline: CBC News Slater Jewell-Kemker dropped out of high-school when she was 16 to become a filmmaker. Now, at just 22-years old she is making her debut at The Toronto [...]

Byline: CBC News With little more than two weeks until the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, some movies are already separating themselves from the pack. Organizers revealed the full list [...]

Byline: CBC News Bill Murray, Kate Winslet, Denzel Washington, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Carell, Reese Witherspoon and Al Pacino are among the A-listers headed to next month's Toronto International Film [...]

Byline: CBC News Each edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is packed with red carpets, photo calls, parties and interviews, providing celebrities with countless opportunities to show off their [...]

Byline: CBC News For filmmaker Steve McQueen, the little-known tale of Solomon Northup -- a freeborn 19th-century African American man kidnapped and sold into slavery before miraculously regaining his freedom [...]

Byline: CBC News With a program that typically surpasses 350 films, myriad screenings across a large span of the busy downtown core and a complex ticketing system, the Toronto International [...]

Byline: CBC News Movie stars Daniel Radcliffe, Keira Knightley, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Keanu Reeves will share the spotlight with filmmakers Robert Lepage, Jason Reitman, Mad Men creator Matthew [...]

Byline: CBC News The Toronto International Film Festival's latest lineup additions include fresh horror from Eli Roth, docs exploring topics from Egypt's turmoil to Penthouse founder Bob Guccione and a [...]

Byline: CBC News The Fifth Estate, a film that explores the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, will open the Toronto International Film Festival this fall, organizers announced in Toronto [...]

Byline: CBC News There's a new ending to the movie Argo, which tells the story of how Canada helped Americans escape from Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis. After the [...]

Byline: CBC News Perseverance could be the mantra of Lebanese-American filmmaker Rola Nashef, who not only overcame typical first-film financing woes, but also a major medical setback to make her [...]

Byline: CBC News Despite its status as an award-winning literary classic, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children took years to make the transition to the movie screen. The Indo-British author's magical realist [...]

Byline: CBC News The Toronto International Film Festival rounded out its 2012 program Tuesday with new titles by master directors like Michael Haneke and Bernardo Bertolucci as well as a [...]

Byline: CBC News Movies from top filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Lee, Walter Salles and Brian De Palma are joining the 2012 TIFF slate, which will end on a [...]

Byline: CBC News Documentary portraits of Garth Drabinsky, Snoop Dogg and Roman Polanski, non-fiction tales from conflict zones, gritty indie films from Mumbai and genre films headlined by Eli Roth [...]

Byline: CBC News Mumbai will share the spotlight at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, which has unveiled the Indian metropolis as the focus of its City to City program [...]

Byline: CBC News Kids will be the focus of the Toronto International Film Festival this spring, with two separate events being planned for young audiences -- an April festival for [...]

Byline: CBC News Piers Handling had just ended a telephone call on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 to Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti -- in which he urged the Cannes [...]

Byline: CBC News Icons from the worlds of music, film, literature and performance have joined the perennially star-studded guest list for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. [...]

Byline: CBC Arts Robert Redford's period drama The Conspirator, the British coming-of-age comedy Submarine and Denis Villeneuve's suspenseful Incendies are just some of the films heading for theatres after scoring [...]

Byline: CBC Arts Quebec filmmaker Denise Robert became the first woman to win the CMPA Feature Film Producers Award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday -- and then [...]

Byline: CBC Arts As the Toronto International Film Festival toasts its 35th anniversary, organizers are raising a glass to another milestone achievement: the opening of TIFF's sleek and airy, year-round [...]

Byline: CBC Arts The highly anticipated Barney's Version, based on Mordecai Richler's acclaimed final novel, has landed a coveted U.S. distribution deal on the eve of the Toronto International Film [...]

Byline: CBC Arts Canadian visual artist Michael Snow has launched a breach of contract lawsuit against the developers of a condo project attached to Lightbox, the forthcoming new home of [...]

Byline: CBC Arts Documentary veterans Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and Kim Longinotto are a few of the names returning to the Toronto International Film Festival with their latest offerings. The [...]

Byline: CBC Arts The Toronto International Film Festival will celebrate one of Canada's favourite pastimes at its start this year, with organizers announcing that Score: A Hockey Musical has landed [...]

i' i' i' Having already won backing from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and filmmaker Tyler Perry, director Lee Daniel's harrowing coming-of-age story Precious has now won the Toronto International [...]

Capturing authentic, honest footage of the eccentric and private White Stripes during the rock duo's landmark 2007 Canadian tour was the goal for White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights, [...]

Toronto returns to the cinema world spotlight Thursday as the Toronto International Film Festival gets underway for 10 days of movie screenings, deal-making and celebrity-watching. More than 330 titles from [...]

Movies featuring George Clooney, Rachel Weisz, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Cera are among the latest titles confirmed for next month's Toronto International Film Festival. Organizers announced Thursday seven films that [...]

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced a lineup of free films and events for the public featuring appearances by singers Neil Young and Joan Baez, as well as directors [...]

A Jason Reitman comedy starring George Clooney, a Peter Morgan-Michael Sheen collaboration delving into the world of British football and the latest from AmA[c]lie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet are the newest [...]

Films by Michael Moore, the Coen Brothers, Werner Herzog, Oliver Parker and Drew Barrymore have been added to the schedule for the Toronto International Film Festival. The galas and special [...]