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Toronto Film Festival Lineup to Include Films Directed by Regina King, Halle Berry
The feature directorial debuts of Halle Berry and Regina King will be part of the lineup at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced on Thursday.Berry’s film, “Bruised,” features the actor and director as a mixed martial arts star fighting for custody of her young daughter. King’s “One Night in Miami” is based on a play that fictionalizes a night in 1964 in which boxer Cassius Clay (soon to be Muhammad Ali), singer Sam Cooke, football player Jim Brown and activist Malco
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Holocaust drama 'The Painted Bird' prompts mass walkout at Toronto Film Festival
Around 40 people walked out of a screening of the controversial holocaust drama The Painted Bird at the Toronto Film Festival, according to reports.
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Mister Rogers, the Joker and Judy Garland Are All Headed to Toronto Film Festival
Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker, Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers and Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland are among the actors who will appear on screen at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers announced on Tuesday.For its first large batch of programming announcements, TIFF unveiled a star-studded slate of more than 50 films, many of them highly anticipated works from such celebrated directors as Noah Baumbach, Steven Soderbergh, Taika Waititi, Armando Iannucci, James Mangold, Fernan
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Toronto: Netflix Buys Young Barack Obama Movie 'Barry'
Devon Terrell in ‘Barry’ (Photo: TIFF)
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Toronto Film Review: Hailee Steinfeld Breaks Out in Darkly Hilarious 'Edge of Seventeen'
In the best teen films, from Sixteen Candles to Clueless to Superbad to the greatest high school movie of the last ten years, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, the main characters have a way of occupying the moral high ground. Even when they’re outcasts or “losers,” their cleverness and wit — the sheer humanity of their alienation — puts us right on their side. But that’s not quite the case with Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), the radiantly troubled heroine of The Edge of Seventeen.
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'Nocturnal Animals' Trailer: Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal in a Stylish Revenge Thriller
Amy Adams has a terrible secret — but looks amazing — in this first teaser.
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First 'LBJ' Clip: Watch Woody Harrelson Tell a Dirty Story
Why yes, that is Woody Harrelson’s voice coming out of Lyndon Johnson’s face in this new clip from LBJ. Thanks to some serious prosthetics, Harrelson is hardly recognizable as the 37th President of the United States. Director Rob Reiner’s film, premiering today at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows Johnson for several years of his political career — during which he, apparently, regaled his colleagues with some naughty life lessons.
