Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “De Gaulle,” Antonin Baudry’s sprawling two-part historical epic that premiered out of competition at Cannes and was just shortlisted to represent France in the Oscar race. The distributor is planning a U.S. theatrical release in November or December 2026 for the €70 million ($82 million) production, […]
Variety•Elskes11 Sept
Netflix has canceled “Ransom Canyon” after two seasons. The romantic drama was set in the Texas Hill Country and, per the official logline, followed “the intersecting lives of deep-rooted families in a town where your neighbors know everyone’s business.” Season 2 saw “rancher Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel) fighting to reclaim his legacy after being unseated […]
Variety•Selome Hailu11 Sept
In 2014, Laverne Cox made history as the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine under the headline “The Transgender Tipping Point.” The accompanying story, written by Katy Steinmetz, positioned the fight for trans rights as the next big civil rights movement “poised to challenge long-held cultural norms and beliefs.” It’s […]
Variety•Marlow Stern11 Sept
Norway’s Oscar submission “Growth of the Soil,” based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel, has already become a significant event in its native country. Even before premieres at TIFF and San Sebastián. “After I finished the film, I went sailing for a couple of weeks and was off the coast,” says director Hans Petter Moland, downplaying […]
Variety•Marta Balaga11 Sept
“Dastur: Teris Bata,” the sequel to Kazakhstan’s record-breaking horror hit “Dastur,” has found an international sales partner in Bangkok-based Fearfolks, which has boarded world sales rights excluding CIS territories. The company is launching the title at the Toronto Film Festival market. The original “Dastur” (2023) — meaning “traditions” in Kazakh –—became the highest-grossing film in […]
Variety•Naman Ramachandran11 Sept
It is no wonder Belgian cinema has risen internationally in recent years. Cinema is, after all, a language, and Belgian filmmakers come from a country built on the need to understand language as a bridge—between its regions, its people, and its idioms. The country has three official languages—Dutch, French and German—and is divided both regionally […]
Variety•Leo Barraclough11 Sept
Catherine Deneuve needed little convincing to play a “punk fairy godmother” in Léa Domenach’s “Peau d’Homme” (“A Man’s Skin“) the Venice-premiering medieval musical that reunites the famed French actor and up-and-coming director three years after “Bernadette.” “A punk fairy godmother — first of all, that idea alone would have been enough,” Deneuve told Variety in […]
Variety•Elskes11 Sept
“At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?” Nobel Prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa famously asks at the beginning of “Conversation at The Cathedral.” In “Glaxo,” one of the most awaited of Latin American films this year, director Benjamín Naishtat charts what he describes as the whole of Argentina’s loss of innocence, which […]
Variety•Roberto Prieto11 Sept
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched “Amazing Locations: From Scene to Scenic,” a campaign built to convert the country’s rising profile as a filming destination into lasting tourism, as productions ranging from “The White Lotus” to “The Challenge” Season 42 continue to draw international attention to Thai locations. TAT deputy governor Nithee Seeprae […]
Variety•Naman Ramachandran11 Sept
Is Venice still vibrating from all the rounds of applause? It’s become customary for audiences at the festival’s premieres to clap and cheer for a seeming eternity after the credits roll. (Often to the visible discomfort of the actors and filmmakers, who look like they don’t know what to do with themselves when the hurrahs […]
Variety•Rebecca Rubin11 Sept
The first-ever Toronto film market, running as part of the Toronto Film Festival, will have a robust contingent of African filmmakers, executives and industry professionals on the ground. Producers at TIFF: The Market look to capitalize on the festival’s historically strong position as a platform for some of the continent’s most diverse and exciting talents. […]
Variety•Postcardjunky11 Sept
Tyler Hagan of Experimental Forest Films has won the Canadian Media Producers Association’s (CMPA) 2026 Feature Film Producer Indiescreen Award. The plaudit was announced Sept. 10 at the Indiescreen Awards, held at a packed industry event and ceremony at the Sutton Place Hotel on the opening evening of the 51st Toronto Film Festival. The award, […]
Variety•Jennie Punter11 Sept
New Zealand is set to announce a first-of-its-kind Indigenous co-production initiative at the Toronto Film Festival, New Zealand Film Commission CEO Annie Murray tells Variety. The pact will bring together Māori filmmakers from New Zealand, Aboriginal filmmakers from Australia and Indigenous Canadian filmmakers in a program of collaborative storytelling that none of the three countries […]
Variety•Naman Ramachandran11 Sept
Def Leppard’s epic journey from Sheffield to global rock superstardom is getting the documentary treatment from filmmaker Jeff Feuerzeig (“The Devil and Daniel Johnston,” “Author: The JT LeRoy Story”). “Long Live Def Leppard” is the first authorized feature-length documentary about the British band, which has sold more than 110 million albums worldwide and been inducted […]
Variety•Angelique Jackson11 Sept
On the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, YouTube serves as a fascinating time capsule for news coverage from that day, during which shocked anchors documented the national tragedy in real time. American Airlines Flight 11 was flown by a terrorist into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. ET on that […]
Variety•William Earl11 Sept
Touted as the most ambitious sci-fi pic ever made in Spanish, Gonzalo Gutiérrez’s “Pacific” (“Pacifico”) will make its European bow at the prominent Sitges Fantasy Film Festival in October and is selling fast to buyers worldwide. “We are proud of the response among top-tier theatrical buyers who are watching and immediately reacting to the film’s […]
Variety•Anna Marie de la Fuente11 Sept
The “Practical Magic 2” press tour might be taking over the world, but Tony Vahl’s impressive feature debut “Krux” also finds space for the supernatural. Set in the final days of the WWII and premiering at TIFF and San Sebastián, it portrays a German village waiting for the inevitable: the arrival of Soviet troops. Some […]
Variety•Marta Balaga11 Sept
The dramatic drop in 2025 French TV export figures may have cast a shadow over this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous TV market in Le Havre. Yet, like the skies over the Normandy coast, the gloom proved fleeting. Local sellers, rather than disheartened, are already navigating the current challenges and discovering new opportunities in the process. Indeed, […]
Variety•Emeza80511 Sept
As far as date movies go, “Everybody Wants to Fuck Me,” a wild London-based rom-com-meets-thriller-meets-horror-meets-thought-provoking-satire, could be either among the worst choices or the best. “I think it can be both!” says Jonathan Schey about his feature debut, premiering in Toronto, and a film he says was his attempt to “poke fun at performative nice […]
Variety•Alex Ritman11 Sept
Michael Dowse’s “The Stunt Driver,” starring Jay Baruchel as ’70s daredevil Ken Carter, who tried to jump a mile across the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, roars into its Toronto Intl. Film Festival world premiere offering warm-but-never-fuzzy retro visions of stunts and cross-border tension that resonate in the present moment. Dowse has premiered […]
Variety•Jennie Punter11 Sept