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Mel Gibson Apologizes For “Thoughtless Idiocy” in Using Mock Sign Language at Fan Expo Canada
Online backlash followed the ‘Braveheart’ star making hand gestures behind the back of an ASL interpreter as he walked on stage in Toronto for a career Q&A session.
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Zack Snyder’s ‘The Last Photograph’ to World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival
The long-in-the-works thriller set in the South American mountains will pursue a buyer with a first look at the TIFF: The Market.
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John Galliano Bows Out, Met Gala Exhibit Canceled Amid Backlash
The event was set for May, but growing concern over the controversial fashion designer's past remarks, including an antisemitic rant, led to the high-profile exhibition being canceled.
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Top Toronto Fest Party Host Expects More Studio Bashes, Tighter Budgets: “No One Is Throwing Money Around”
For TIFF's 51st edition, Charles Khabouth predicts his downtown restaurants and nightclubs will have more talent dinners and premiere parties than last year, even as major studios and streamers reduce overall spending.
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Late F1 Icon Gilles Villeneuve Drives For Speed, Trophies in ‘Rise of a Legend’ Trailer (Exclusive)
Director Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s turbo-charged biopic about the late and fearless Canadian race car driver will close TIFF on Sept. 19.
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Roger Waters, Guy Pearce, Annie Ernaux Urge Venice Fest to Take “Concrete Action” for Palestine in Open Letter
For the second year running, Italian and international artists under the Venice4Palestine banner have called for the Venice film festival to help stop what they describe as a genocide of the Palestinian people.
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Stephen Curry Doc on Hitting 4,000 3-Pointers Set for Imax Run from Disney in October (Exclusive)
‘Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry,’ about the single day and game where the NBA superstar set the new shooting record, will bow Oct. 9 on the giant screen circuit.
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New York Post Inks First-Look Film and TV Deal to Mine Archives (Exclusive)
The pact with Crazy Legs Productions will see the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid develop movie, series, documentary and streaming projects based on its reporting and archives.
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Dolly Parton’s Sister Stella Says Late Icon Offered to Test Experimental Drugs to Help Battle Cancer
“My sister was always thinking of others,” she said of Dolly Parton in an emotional Facebook tribute.
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Samuel Monroe Jr., ‘Menace II Society’ Star, Dies at 52
The character actor had been on life support after a long battle with severe meningitis amid a months-long hospitalization.
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Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in ‘Transformers,’ Dies at 85
The theater-trained Canadian also created sounds for King Kong and the Predator and portrayed Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh’s pal.
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Oscars: Canada Picks ‘Nina Roza’ as Best International Feature Selection
The transatlantic drama from Montreal-based director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles bowed in Berlin.
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