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AMC Networks’ presence will be very strong at Comic-Con International this year, as they present multiple panels and a Shudder activation centered around Clown in a Cornfield. The film was a hit in theaters in May, and will soon be streaming on Shudder and AMC+.

Comic-Con International is held in San Diego at their Convention Center, and will run from July 24 through July 27.

Here’s a breakdown of the events AMC will be hosting:

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will present a panel in Hall H on Friday, July 25, from 12:15 – 1:15. Panelists will include Chief Content Officer of the Walking Dead Universe Scott M. Gimple, Executive Producer / star Norman Reedus, EP David Zabel, EP / Director Greg Nicotero and EP / star Melissa McBride. The panelists will be debuting the official trailer for season three, as well as discussing the season. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will return on Sunday, September...

Oh, dead lovers, from Shakespeare via the Romantic poets and novelists to melancholic gothic metal texts of the 90s… Yes, the roots of inspiration for the actress Grace Glowicki’s sophomore feature as a filmmaker can be traced almost all the way back. Dead Lover has been on a tour of festivals since the premiere at Sundance’s midnight section and we managed to catch it on Karlovy Vary’s Afterhours programme. It will go on to play in Edinburgh's Midnight Madness section next month.

Glowicki opens her film with a quote from Mary Shelley, setting the gothic tone with a comedic twist. A gravedigger (Glowicki herself) feels lonely because she cannot find a partner due to her smell of dirt, corpses and death. Perfumes she concocts do not help much either. It seems that her luck is about to change when a promising young opera singer (Leah Doz) suddenly becomes her “client”. The.

The world premiere of a new animated short film directed by Renée Zellweger, called They, six James Bond movies starring the late Sean Connery screened in a special strand, and “In Conversation” events with the likes of Andrew and Kevin Macdonald, Andrea Arnold, Ben Wheatley and Andy Starke, and Nia DaCosta will all be part of this year’s 78th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Among the movies in the program this year are the likes of Piotr Winiewicz’s About a Hero with Vicky Krieps, which was written by an AI system trained in Werner Herzog’s works, Eddie Marsan and Sam Claflin-starring “brooding, stylish thriller” All the Devils Are Here from Barnaby Roper, Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands, “a mysterious and Highsmith-esque existential thriller,” Urška Djukic’s debut feature and coming-of-age film Little Trouble Girls, and Elliot Tuttle’s Blue Film, starring Kieron Moore and Reed Birney.

Forming meaningful platonic relationships can become complicated as we age, and Andrew DeYoung's directorial debut explored this to cringeworthy yet hilarious effect. With the signature humor of Tim Robinson and the always reliable assistance of Paul Rudd, their new A24 film became one of the best-reviewed comedies on Rotten Tomatoes this year and now, if you missed the opportunity to catch the film in theaters, you have the opportunity to experience the second-hand embarrassment from the comfort of your own home.

Friendship is now available on digital platforms to rent for $19.99 or to own for $24.99. Released by A24, the film enjoyed a pretty solid box office run that began as a limited engagement before going wide at the end of May. The film grossed $15.7 million, not bad for a movie that opened to a mere $444,759 and only played in 1,293 theaters at the widest point of its release. The film hasn't hit streaming platforms yet,...

Exclusive: The Edinburgh International Film Festival (14-20 August) has has set Peter Dinklage-starrer The Toxic Avenger as the closing night film of the festival’s Midnight Madness strand.

The screening will mark the UK premiere of Macon Blair’s remake about a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze (Game Of Thrones star Dinklage), who is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, and is transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community.

The Fantastic Fest debut also stars Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Julia Davis and Luisa Guerreiro.

Based on the franchise-spawning 1980s movie, pic is written by Macon Blair, Lloyd Kaufman and Joe Ritter, produced by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment, Alex Garcia, and Mary Parent of Legendary Pictures.

Back in 2020, filmmaker Ben Wheatley revealed that he had secretly written and directed a psychological horror film called In the Earth over the course of 15 days that August, in the midst of the pandemic lockdowns. Five years later, Deadline has broken the news that Wheatley has managed to make another movie in secret. This one is called Bulk, and it’s set to premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which is set to run from August 14 to 20 this year. Bulk will be the opening screening of the festival’s Midnight Madness strand.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film is said to be “a return to the thrillingly free-spirited filmmaker’s homegrown, kaleidoscopic works like In The Earth and A Field in England.” Wheatley provided the following statement: “I’m very excited and proud to be premiering Bulk at Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Bulk, the long-rumoured new feature from British director Ben Wheatley, as the launch title for its 2025 Midnight Madness strand.

The film, produced in secret by Andy Starke through Rook Films and financed by Film4, will open the late-night programme when the festival returns from 14 to 20 August. Details on the film remain tightly under wraps, with both the festival and the filmmakers remaining deliberately vague about the plot.

What has been confirmed is that Bulk marks a return to the psychedelic, genre-bending work that first brought Wheatley international acclaim. Titles such as Kill List, Sightseers, and A Field in England established his reputation for unsettling, often experimental storytelling, and Bulk is reportedly in a similar vein, albeit with a twist of genre chaos. In Wheatley’s own words, the film features “car chases, gun fights, sci-fi and romance,” all distilled...

There appears to be an extraordinary number of friends and acquaintances attending Marche du Film and Cannes this year, more than the usual gaggle of regulars we watch on our socials with green envy.    Part of that usual gaggle is our friends at Raven Banner Entertainmnet who want to remind everyone that they are bringing along Deathgasm II: Goremageddon, the sequal to director Jason Lei Howden's 2015 cult metal horror hit, Deathgasm.    On board as producers and also the worldwide sales representatives for the flick they will be offering a sneak peek of the film during March du Film. With the news comes word that Deathgasm II will hit the film festival circuit early this Fall.   So, that's what, Midnight Madness or...

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Exclusive: The 2025 edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s (Eiff) Midnight Madness strand will open with the world premiere screening of Bulk, a new secretly shot feature from Ben Wheatley.

Produced by Andy Starke of Rook Films and financed by Film4, Bulk is described as a “return to the thrillingly free-spirited filmmaker’s homegrown, kaleidoscopic works like In The Earth and A Field in England.” Executive producers for Film4 are Ollie Madden and David Kimbangi.

“I’m very excited and proud to be premiering Bulk at Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness,” Wheatley said in a statement. “This is a midnight film through and through. Car chases, gun fights, sci-fi, and romance. Thanks to Edinburgh for having us. It’s going to be a wild night.”

We know very little about the film’s plot or who stars, but Eiff CEO and Festival Director Paul Ridd described Bulk...

Summer technically doesn’t arrive for another seven weeks, but don’t tell Hollywood. This weekend, Marvel’s Thunderbolts* kicks off summer blockbuster season, the latest in a long line of Marvel releases to fire the starting gun on the industry’s most lucrative annual stretch, following in the footsteps of such movies like Iron Man and its sequels, the Avengers films through Avengers: Endgame, and the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

Between now and Labor Day, several significant films will arrive in theaters with something for everyone. The 2025 summer movie calendar features sequels such as Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning and Jurassic World Rebirth, superhero reboots including Superman and The Fantastic Four: The First Steps, and family-friendly animated projects like Bad Guys 2 and The Smurfs.

However, the summer isn’t just a time for popcorn fare, as evidenced by recent awards movies like Best Picture winners Coda and Oppenheimer and nominees Barbie,...

Late last year, before his directorial debut feature Hell of a Summer slashed into theaters, Finn Wolfhard and his co-director and creative partner Billy Bryk signed on to pen a remake of the '90s horror-comedy cult classic Idle Hands. Considering his first film was an homage to classic teen comedies and slashers, it sounds like the perfect next step for the Stranger Things star, with his Ghostbusters and Saturday Night director Jason Reitman joining him as a producer to reanimate the strange, dark, and supernatural flick. The original, helmed by Rodman Flender and starring horror icon Devon Sawa, followed a teenager whose hand becomes possessed and begins a streak of mass murder, starting with his parents. However, there's more to the B-movie that made Wolfhard want to put his own spin on it with Bryk.

During an episode of Mythical Kitchen's YouTube series Last Meals, Wolfhard was asked...

In two decades at Variety, I have reviewed precious few slasher movies. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t take much pleasure in what Roger Ebert called “dead teenager movies” — and yet, for some reason, this week I am writing about three. The clearest explanation I can point to is the fact that, at a time of considerable economic uncertainty in the film industry, horror movies are performing better than ever: They’re cheap, they’re profitable and they consistently draw audiences without the cost of a massive marketing campaign.

Neon has been smart with “Hell of a Summer,” a summer camp slasher comedy the genre-savvy distributor picked up last August, nearly a year after it premiered in Midnight Madness at the Toronto Film Festival. The movie’s hella derivative, but still quite entertaining, with an appealing cast and memorable characters (especially “Thelma” star Fred Hechinger as a 24-year-old who...

Australian filmmaker Sean Byrne broke out in a big way with his 2009 feature debut, “The Loved Ones.” The horror film won the People’s Choice Award at that year’s Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness category and went on to become a minor cult classic.

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Since then, however, Byrne only made one film, 2015’s “The Devil’s Candy,” which came and went without much fanfare.

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There’s nothing better than seeing a Midnight Movie get wildly polarizing reviews after its premiere screening. There’s also nothing worse than having to wait for that movie to play at another festival you’re attending...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival turned out to be a low-key affair, but it got off to a rousing start with a $15 million world rights sale of Together, the body horror film acquired by Neon. Starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, it gives Neon a chance to follow up the rousing genre success of Longlegs last year.

Together, which also has landed a berth at SXSW, is written/directed by Michael Shanks. Franco and Brie are a couple that moves to the countryside and a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh. It was a real crowd pleaser to the Midnight Madness audience.

The film was produced and financed by Picturestart, marking the latest in a string of notable deals put together by the company formed by Erik Feig after a run at Summit and Lionsgate that included The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games,...

Disney is in a remake mood, but there are a lot of lesser-known movies that should be redone instead of classics!

Fans will always grouse when it’s announced a remake or a reboot of a past movie is coming. Sure, now and then, a remake can work, but most fail to capture what made the original movie work so well.

Disney, of course, has been doing live-action remakes of their animated movies as well as looking at some past films. That includes Bryce Dallas Howard planning a remake of the cult 1986 movie The Flight of the Navigator.

But there’s a period that Disney should be exploring for any possible remakes: The Dark Age. This is the nickname for the period between 1970 and 1986 when Disney’s movie output wasn’t that great.

Many will note the animated films, yet the live-action ones were rough too. There were hits and...

Quick LinksHumble Comedy Beginnings Gave A Foothold For A FilmWhat We Do In The Shadows Takes Over Festival BuzzWithout The Film, The Series Would Have Never Taken-off

It isn't out of the ordinary for large movies to spawn spinoff TV series in the same way a sequel movie would happen. The Avengers helped create Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Krypton was originally planned as a spinoff of Man of Steel, and more recently The Batman spawned the hit series The Penguin. Yet, one of the most popular TV series 2020s was created because of a hilarious indie film.

In 2014, a couple of Kiwi Directors made a truly funny film, which turned into the show people love today. What We Do In The Shadows has only recently ended with great fanfare and adulation from both its cast and creators as well as its adoring fans. Before this absolute...

Kate Mara (upcoming The Astronaut) has joined the cast of Imperfect Women, Apple’s limited series based on the 2021 novel by Araminta Hall, Deadline has learned. While her role is under wraps, she’ll star opposite the previously announced Elisabeth Moss and Kerry Washington, who also exec produce.

An unconventional psychological thriller examining a crime that shatters the lives of a decades-long friendship of three women, Imperfect Women is described as a mystery complicated by perspective that explores guilt and retribution, love and betrayal, and the compromises we make that alter our lives irrevocably. As the investigation unravels, so does the truth about how even the closest relationships can change over time.

The novel will be adapted for television by Annie Weisman, creator of Apple TV+’s acclaimed Rose Byrne series Physical, who writes and exec produces. Other EPs include Moss and Lindsey McManus for Love & Squalor Pictures, which initially optioned the book,...

Following its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, Neon’s upcoming horror comedy Hell of a Summer has finally received its official trailer. The project hails from Stranger Things vet Finn Wolfhard, who is no stranger to the horror genre, after previously starring in Warner Bros.’ It movies and Sony Pictures’ latest Ghostbusters movies.

The Hell of a Summer trailer brings the audience to Camp Pineway, where a group of teenagers is tasked to become camp counselors. However, just before summer camp begins, they find themselves trapped in a nightmare due to the sudden arrival of a masked killer, who’s hunting each of them one by one. The video also teases some of the movie’s gruesome kill sequences, as well as a glimpse of the crazy shenanigans they’ll do for the sake of survival. Following its debut at TIFF, the film earned the second runner-up...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival revealed the 87 feature films and six episodic projects selected for the festival on Wednesday, announcing that new films starring Jennifer Lopez, Dylan O’Brien, Chloe Sevigny, André Holland, Conan O’Brien and Olivia Colman will debut in Park City in January.

Ahead of the festival, which runs from from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2, TheWrap spoke to Eugene Hernandez, Director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming and Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming, about this year’s festival – what people should look out for and if they’re ready for the Sundance arrival of Lopez, whose new version of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” from director Bill Condon is one of the buzzier titles at the festival.

Considering this is awards season, Hernandez said that Sundance is “the crystal ball.” “This is the chance to look into the future,” Hernandez said. And he’s right – current Oscar contenders...

A remake of a cult 1990s teen horror movie is in development with a Stranger Things star set to co-write and possibly direct. Within the horror genre, remakes, reboots, and legacy sequels have become increasingly popular. Recent examples include David Gordon Green's Halloween trilogy, which served as a direct sequel to John Carpenter's classic 1978 slasher, and The Exorcist: Believer, which also acted as a direct sequel to the original 1973 film, but was much less successful, causing the planned trilogy to be scrapped with another franchise reboot planned.

Similarly, Scream (2022) brought the slasher franchise back by introducing a new generation of characters alongside familiar faces like Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), and Dewey Riley (David Arquette), leading to a sequel, Scream 6. Another 1990s slasher series, I Know What You Did Last Summer, is also receiving the same treatment with a legacy sequel starring Jennifer Love Hewitt...

The horror genre has expanded in the last few decades. The scary films are divided into different subgenres, including comedy horror, body horror, slashers, supernatural horror, and psychological horror, among others. In 2006, a New Zealand horror comedy put animals at the core of its terror.

Black Sheep, which follows a killer sheep, has since become a cult classic. Because of its ever-growing popularity and positive reviews, the film is moving forward with a sequel 18 years later, Deadline announced. The good side is that many people involved in the original will return to work on the sequel, as well.

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Trick 'r Treat writer-director Michael Dougherty offers a promising update on the long-gestating sequel to the 2007 anthology horror film.

WTFilms announced the revival of the 2006 cult classic horror comedy about a flock of killer sheep, the result of genetic engineering. The...

It’s a story we’ve all heard before. Parents leave their kids home alone for a few days and the unsupervised kids throw a party and wreck the place. That’s how it goes when 12-year-old Glen is left in the care of his 15-year-old sister Alexandra… But these kids also get into a whole new level trouble while their parents are away. They open a tunnel to Hell in their back yard, conjuring demons that play mind games with them and then become a physical threat. This is what happens in the 1987 film The Gate (watch it Here) – and if you haven’t seen this one, it’s the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw.

The Gate started with a screenplay written by Michael Nankin, who had co-written and co-directed the 1980 comedy Midnight Madness. Upset that a project he had been working on fell apart, he decided to...

Life after death proves to be equally competitive as the earthly one in John Hsu‘s barmy comedy “Dead Talents Society” in which ghosts fight each other for their right to exist. Their world is controlled by pretty much the same rules as those we live by – one has to be seen and acknowledged to gain respect, and the influencers dictate the trends. Even in the afterlife, there is too much work for anyone’s liking but possessing talent is everything. If you don’t have it, tough luck – you’ll be gone faster than you can say “second chance”.

Dead Talents Society is screening at Hawai’i International Film Festival

Hsu returns to the world of ghosts after his big cinema success “Detention” (2019), this time in a much different manner. He departs from being completely sinister to mock the entertainment industry and our addiction to it by referencing several...

"We are here to neutralize, not to help or negotiate." Netflix has revealed the main official trailer for The Shadow Strays, the latest action film from Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto. It just premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival in Midnight Madness and will be streaming on Netflix on October 17th this month. Codename 13, a 17-year-old assassin, is suspended due to a sloppy mission in Japan. But she meets 11-year-old Monji, who loses his mother, and decides to save him. Aurora Ribero stars as 13 – an assassin determined to rescue a child from a crime syndicate, even if it means going against her own mentor. "Not since The Night Comes for Us has Indonesia's preeminent architect of ultra-violent action, Timo Tjahjanto, conducted such a meticulous martial arts massacre. Opening with a bravura set piece laying waste to dozens of yakuza, his latest proceeds as a kind of taxonomy of the action genre...

The nominations for the 61st Golden Horse Awards were announced last week. Considered the “Chinese-language Oscars,” the awards showcase films made in Mandarin, Cantonese, or other Chinese dialects. This year’s nominations included a diverse range of movies from Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Singapore.

John Hsu’s supernatural comedy “Dead Talents Society” topped the nominations with eleven total nods. The film tells the story of ghosts competing to haunt humans in an imagined afterlife. It received nominations for Best Feature Film, Best Director for John Hsu, and Best Original Screenplay. “Dead Talents Society” has already won audience awards at festivals like Toronto International Film Festival, where it was the runner-up in the Midnight Madness category.

Two other films, Tom Lin’s “Yen And Ai-Lee” and Geng Jun’s “Bel Ami,” followed closely behind with eight nominations each. These movies, along with Ray Yeung’s “All Shall Be Well...

John Hsu’s Taiwanese supernatural comedy Dead Talents Society has scored 11 nominations for the 61st Golden Horse Awards, followed by Tom Lin’s Yen And Ai-Lee and Geng Jun’s Bel Ami, with eight nods each.

Dead Talents Society and Bel Ami are among the five films competing in the best film category, along with Ray Yeung’s All Shall Be Well, Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes and Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film. The same five films are also running in the best director category.

They reflect the overall representation at this year’s Golden Horse Awards, with the participation of Hong Kong,...

Back in 2018, while presenting Best Director alongside Ron Howard at the Golden Globe Awards, Natalie Portman created a meme: “And here are the all-male nominees,” Portman said, pointedly underlining the omission of presumed contenders like Greta Gerwig for “Lady Bird” and Patty Jenkins for “Wonder Woman.”

Speaking a month after the ceremony, Portman said she wanted to bring attention to the disparity in the directors’ field without throwing the male nominees under the bus. “It’s not their fault, and they all made great work. You don’t want to not recognize them,” she said to BuzzFeed. “It’s just, why aren’t we recognizing the people who aren’t part of this exclusive club?”

But, Portman added, her goal was to make clear the obvious. “We have to make it weird for people to walk in a room where everyone’s not in the room,” she said. “If you...

This year, Toronto International Film Festival was back. TIFF typically kicks off the North American fall festival season alongside Telluride, but it has had a rocky past couple of years. The pandemic in 2020 put a temporary pause on in-person festivities, and 2021-2022 featured a tentative rollout of hybrid festivities. Though 2023 committed to total in-person attendance, the SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023 limited the amount of American celebrity presence on the red carpet; festival buzz too had been similarly muted. This year’s edition, however, witnessed the famed festival in full swing. With 278 films in this year’s programming, the 2024 edition of TIFF was jam-packed with Berlin/Cannes favorites, Awards season’s to-be-darlings, and of course, a good chunk of independent cinema.

Among the Asian cinema contenders, Korean and Taiwanese cinema have held an especially strong presence this year. There were nine Korean and Korean-adjacent entries – almost 100% more than in 2022, when there were...

Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.A camel, it has been said, is a horse designed by committee. This seems wrong, though, since it assumes that a horse was the initial objective, and that the camel resulted from too many incompatible interests and desires. In fact, the camel is perfectly equipped for what it needs to do, and if that camel finds itself having to step into a horse’s position, that speaks more to poor planning and shortsighted decision-making than to the nature of the camel itself. Nevertheless, the point of this aphorism is to suggest that you get something weird and nonfunctional when you allow too many people to have their say. But are these outcomes really that strange? What you get is more likely to be the sort of compromise that pleases no one. The Affordable Care Act is national health care by committee. Oprah’s Book Club is literature by committee.

From buzzy world premieres to awards hopefuls making a stop on the way to Oscar gold, the Toronto International Film Festival is one of the biggest film events of the fall. We at FandomWire attended this year’s TIFF, where we saw 43 feature films. While narrowing this crop down to our ten favorites was a difficult task, we eventually narrowed it down to a batch of films we won’t soon forget.

After we share our top 10 films of TIFF with you, we will also share our thoughts on some of the other films we saw at the festival, so be sure to keep reading!

FandomWire’s Top 10 Films of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival 10. The Room Next Door Image Courtesy of TIFF.

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has become one of the most beloved auteurs in international cinema with his unique brand of delicious melodramas. His latest film, The Room Next Door,...

A24 has picked up its third festival film in less than three weeks, paying what is understood to be low seven figures for US rights to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Midnight Madness selection Friendship starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd.

The comedy from Fifth Season and BoulderLight Pictures received its world premiere in Toronto on September 8 where it was a runner-up in the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award.

Friendship centres on Craig (Waterman), a suburban father whose life takes an unexpected turn when he befriends enigmatic new neighbour, Austin (Rudd).

The cast includes Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer,...

A24 has found “Friendship.”

The indie powerhouse has acquired U.S. distribution for “Friendship,” the Andrew DeYoung film that stars Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, out of the Toronto International Film Festival. The deal is said to be in the low 7-figure range, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.

Robinson plays Craig Waterman, a suburban dad whose life takes an unexpected turn when he befriends his enigmatic new neighbor, Austin Carmichael, played by Rudd. Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer, Josh Segarra, Billy Bryk, Jason Veasey and Jon Glaser also star.

DeYoung also wrote the screenplay for the movie, which was one of the breakout titles at TIFF this year, with the film receiving raves for how hilarious and uncomfortable the movie made audiences. The movie played as part of the Midnight Madness program at the festival.

“Friendship” was produced by Nick Weidenfeld, Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz and John Holland. Rudd,...

Exclusive: The Toronto Film Festival film deals are beginning to trickle in after a slow start. Deadline hears that A24 is acquiring U.S. distribution on Friendship, the comedy from writer-director Andrew DeYoung that stars Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd. Sources place the deal in the seven figures.

In the film, when new neighbor Brian (Rudd) threatens his quiet life, Craig Waterman (Robinson) struggles to protect his family’s security.

The pic also stars Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer, Josh Segarra, Billy Bryk, Jason Veasey, Jon Glaser, Eric Rahill, Conner O’Malley, Carmen Christopher, Craig Frank, Omar Torres, Jacob Ming-Trent, Daniel London, Whitmer Thomas and Raphael Sbarge. The film is financed and produced by Fifth Season.

Related: ‘The Life Of Chuck’ Wins TIFF People’s Choice Award

Friendship was produced by Nick Weidenfeld; Raphael Margules and J.D. Lifshitz of BoulderLight Pictures; and Johnny Holland. Rudd, Tracy Rosenblum, Andrew DeYoung and Alexis Garcia are exec producers.

The 2024 edition of TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) is officially in the books, with it proving to be the biggest edition of the fest since back in 2019. You see, like many other festivals, TIFF was hard hit by a variety of things, including the pandemic, which made the 2020 a stay-at-home edition and the 2021 one a hybrid, while in 2022, folks were still somewhat wary of being at a festival in person. 2023 was almost a big year until the SAG-AFTRA/ WGA Strikes meant there was very little talent on the red carpet, greatly affecting their usual star-studded lineup.

However, this year TIFF seemed to be back and stronger than ever, with no shorter of star power and movies you’ll no doubt be hearing about in the months to come. While Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck won the prestigious TIFF People’s Choice Award, now is the time for us...

The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival concluded on September 15th. In an unexpected outcome, the Stephen King adaptation “The Life of Chuck” won the People’s Choice Award. The award is the event’s most prestigious honor and selected by audience voting.

Directed by Mike Flanagan, “The Life of Chuck” tells the story of Charles Krantz in three chapters. Based on King’s novella, the film focuses on life, death, and finding meaning. Critic Chase Hutchinson praised the movie as a celebration of life’s meaningful moments.

Entering without a distributor, “The Life of Chuck” was not seen as a major contender. Its win provides a significant boost. Past People’s Choice Award winners have received Best Picture Oscar nominations 12 years in a row. Films like “Emilia Perez” and “Anora,” named runner-ups, had earned praise at Cannes but not the top TIFF prize.

In other categories, “The Substance” won for Midnight Madness.

“The Life of Chuck,” a feel-good apocalyptic story starring Tom Hiddleston and directed by Mike Flanagan, took home the Toronto International Film Festival’s people’s choice award.

This prize has historically been a reliable predictors of eventual Oscar success. In past years, winners such as “Green Book” and “Nomadland” went on to capture the best picture prize at the Academy Awards. Last year’s honor went to Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” while 2022’s award was bestowed to Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” both of which were best picture nominees and major forces during awards season.

It’s unclear if that’ll be the case this year, though “The Life of Chuck” has received largely positive reviews. Variety’s Siddhant Adlakha praised the film’s “wild tonal shifts between horror and naked sentimentality that work with surprising precision, to a litany of fun supporting characters played by Flanagan regulars,...

Mike Flanagan’s The Life Of Chuck picked up the top People’s Choice honor Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival as its 2024 edition wrapped with renewed celebrity heat but still in the shadow of Venice and Cannes.

The Stephen King novella adaptation stars Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Karen Gillan and Chiwetel Ejiofor in a genre-tripping film about embracing hope in the face of tragedy and had a world premiere in Toronto. Flanagan in a statement thanked TIFF for the top audience award prize: “I’m absolutely overwhelmed. We’re so grateful that The Life of Chuck connected with audiences in such a powerful way, but never expected this.”

The second runner up for the People’s Choice Award was Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, a queer crime musical headed to Netflix that earned the jury prize in Cannes for the director, while the titular lead Karla Sofía Gascón became...

“The Life of Chuck,” director Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation starring Tom Hiddleston, has won the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers announced at an awards ceremony on Sunday.

In TheWrap’s review of the film, Chase Hutchinson called it “less of a horror film than it is an existential grappling with the end — while also being a jubilant celebration of the moments that make life worth living along the way. It’s Flanagan’s vibrant equivalent of Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche, New York’ that finds hope and meaning in his own way just as it is one of the best modern Stephen King adaptations one could hope for.”

Unlike festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice, Toronto does not give out a jury award to the festival’s top film. Instead, viewers at all public screenings are invited to vote for their...

The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 2024 Toronto Film Festival has gone to The Life of Chuck, first runner-up is Emilia Pérez, and second runner-up is Anora. The Documentary Award goes to The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, and the Midnight Madness winner is The Substance.

Both runners-up Emilia Pérez and Anora were big winners at Cannes in May (the latter taking the Palme d’Or), but Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck was a TIFF world premiere and a surprise winner of this award.

Tom Hiddleston stars in the film based on King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. It is an unusual winner here for this award as it currently is looking for distribution and has no set release date, which means it could be the first People’s Choice winner in recent memory...

The stars returned to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) after last year’s Hollywood strikes. There wasn’t much business activity, films generally played well, and protests nearly stole the headlines.

Screen looks at five of the key talking points. TIFF ends on September 15.

Stars are back

After last year’s star-light edition due to the Hollywood actors strike, the glamour returned to TIFF in 2024. And while there were no arrivals on boats at the Lido or stately processions towards the Palais in Cannes, there is something to be said for hundreds of real people lining the street outside the...

The stars returned to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) after last year’s Hollywood strikes. There wasn’t much business activity, films generally played well, and protests nearly stole the headlines.

Screen looks at five of the key talking points. TIFF ends on September 15.

Stars are back

After last year’s star-light edition due to the Hollywood actors strike, the glamour returned to TIFF in 2024. And while there were no arrivals on boats at the Lido or stately processions towards the Palais in Cannes, there is something to be said for hundreds of real people lining the street outside the...

When was the last time you truly laughed throughout an entire comedy? Not just a few chuckles, but tears streaming down your face, side hurting, just absolutely losing your shit? As part of this years Midnight Madness program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, one such movie had its debut, one of the most hilarious comedies to come out in quite some time: writer-director Andrew DeYoungs Friendship. Featuring Tim Robinson in his first starring film role, as well as Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, and Jack Dylan Grazer, Friendship truly has all the makings of a future comedy classic.

By Sunday morning US acquisitions activity at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was starting to grind through the gears.

Buyers were understood to be circling Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation The Life Of Chuck and David Gordon Green’s festive festival opener Nutcrackers, while A24 announced at the start of the day its US buy on Brady Corbet’s Venice Silver Lion winner The Brutalist.

The Life Of Chuck stars Tom Hiddleston and is a drama, despite the heavyweight horror credentials of King and Flanagan. It premiered on Friday and played again as a P&i and public screening on Saturday,...

Acclaimed comedian and series creator Tim Robinson discusses the future of I Think You Should Leave at Netflix.

Speaking to Collider, Robinson responded to the question of whether there would be more I Think You Should Leave in the future with, "It's not over. I don't think it's over." Although Robinson said he could not say anything about whether he and series co-creator Zach Kanin were currently writing any sketches for a potential fourth season of the hit Netflix sketch comedy, he did respond with, "That's fair," when asked if fans of I Think You Should Leave should be in a good mood about where the show is headed.

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I Think You Should Leave premiered on...

While the just-ended Venice Film Festival exploded out of the gate with two high-profile acquisition annoucements in its first 24 hours for Maria and Queer, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was staying true to form as the first major on-site deals were yet to materialise heading into Sunday.

Anticipated heavyweights like Ron Howard’s Eden, Daniel Minahan’s 1950s drama On Swift Horses, and Anderson .Paak’s K-Pops received their world premieres on Saturday, while Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl first screened on Friday and has sparked admiring talk of a possible awards play for Pamela Anderson’s lead...

Joseph Kahn’s sci-fi/horror satire “Ick” has its world premiere in Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s Midnight Madness slot on Saturday. He previously directed “Bodied,” which premiered at the festival in 2017, and won the People’s Choice Award for Midnight Madness. Kahn talks to Variety about his love for creature features, taking comedy-horrors seriously, and his respect for Steven Spielberg’s scary movies.

Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky summarizes the plot as follows: “In the small American town of Eastbrook, nearly two decades after a viscous vine-like growth — colloquially referred to as ‘the Ick’ — began encroaching on every nook and cranny, a nonplussed populus have found their lives seemingly unaffected by the creeping anomaly. The exceptions to this oblivious conformity are Hank Wallace, a former high-school football prospect turned hapless science teacher, and his perceptive student Grace, who both regard the Ick with a suspicious scrutiny that is soon violently validated.

The Toronto Film Festival on Thursday returned post-strikes with Hollywood star wattage as Ben Stiller and director David Gordon Green gave a glittering lift-off for their opening night film Nutcrackers.

Gordon Green introduced Stiller to the crowd at Roy Thomson Hall in the Canadian city that looked primed for film fest fun with the opening night comedy. The Zoolander and Tropic of Thunder star then recalled making movies in Canada.

“When people will talk to me sometimes about the Night at the Museum movies, they’ll say, Wow, what’s it like to shoot in the Museum of Natural History? And I’ll say it was actually a warehouse in Vancouver,” Stiller recounted.

“I’ve made a bunch of movies in Canada, and it’s always been an amazing experience,” Stiller added. His comments followed Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau touting Canada as a foreign location destination for Hollywood. “Our...

Plot: A former marine (Aaron Pierre) takes on the corrupt police force of a small town.

Review: Jeremy Saulnier has always struck me as a talent to watch. From his small-scale debut, Blue Ruin, to his genre breakthrough, Green Room, he’s always had a talent for mixing bone-crunching violence with a surprising amount of soulfulness. While I thought his last film, Hold The Dark, was a mixed bag, it had one incredible shoot-out about mid-way through the movie that made me think that Saulnier, should he ever go that route, would make one heck of a legit action film.

Lucky for us, he went that route.

Rebel Ridge is probably Saulnier’s most conventional and accessible film to date, but it also ranks as one of the most entertaining films Netflix, which is dropping the film this week, has made in some time. Gorgeously shot and featuring a breakout...

The Ick is about to take over the Toronto International Film Festival. Tomorrow, the annual event celebrating the latest and most exciting new projects in cinema from around the world will kick off with David Gordon Green's Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller. However, viewers looking for a sci-fi horror comedy treat will have to wait for Midnight Madness, where the festival's wild side comes out with actioners, horror features, and generally some of the biggest crowd-pleasers. Director Joseph Kahn, whose 2017 flick Bodied scored the Peoples Choice Award at the program that year, returns to the Royal Alexandra Theatre in 2024 with his latest, Ick, in hopes of repeating that success and offering laughs and scares in equal measure. Ahead of its world premiere on September 7, Collider is excited to share the spooky official poster from Creepy Duck Designs showing Brandon Routh and his students facing a terrifying infection.