On a box office voyage for less than two months, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has become the highest-grossing film in the history of Universal Pictures. The 114-year-old film company announced the milestone on Saturday, when the Matt Damon-led epic’s weekend haul will bring its domestic earnings to $601.2 million, with an international tally of $1.083…
Kling AI hit the opening morning of the inaugural TIFF: The Market with a lively, well attended panel, “A New Creative Paradigm: Consistent, Cinematic AI Video Powered by Kling AI,” geared towards a Canadian industry audience of animation and live-action film creators eager for up-to-date insight into their roles and human skills in rapidly evolving…
Kamila Andini’s “Four Seasons in Java” is her fifth feature film, but this marks her third time at the Toronto Film Festival after “The Seen and the Unseen” (2017) and “Yuni” (2021) that won the Platform Prize and became Indonesia’s official Oscar entry. It follows Pertiwi, starring Putri Marino (“Cigarette Girl”), who comes back to…
“Brace Your Heart” director Amanda Kernell is ready to talk about forgiveness. “What can be forgiven? And what if you live in a place where everything has to be, because it can be a matter of survival?,” she wonders. In Kernell’s new film — unspooling at TIFF and the San Sebastián Film Festival — young…
“Sisters” (“Hermanas”) will have its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival, running September 10-20. Written and directed by Ione Hernández Sáenz (“1% Schizophrenia”) and starring Elena Anaya (“The Skin I Live In,” “Room in Rome”) and Emma Suárez (“Julieta,” “The Next Skin”), the Spanish film is an intergenerational family…
Filmax is launching Mar Olid’s romantic comedy “The Wedding Hustlers” (“Si te he visto no me acuerdo”) internationally with a first promo for buyers at TIFF, ahead of its Spanish theatrical release in 2027. The film is produced by Filmax, Bixagu Entertainment and Pompón AIE, with the participation of paybox Movistar Plus, pubcaster RTVE and…
There are few things as calmingly enjoyable as the modest, closeup spectacle of an expert craftsman at work. Whether the trade is cooking or carpentry, watching them ply their trade with equal parts ease and intense concentration is both gratifyingly instructional and escapist: a hands-off education in something you’ll never be able to do as…
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has closed deals announced at the Toronto Film Festival for Spanish romantic drama “All That We Never Were” (“Todo lo que nunca fuimos”). Based on the best-selling novel by Alice Kellen, the film sold to Swift for France and French-speaking territories and to MVP for India and the Indian subcontinent. A further…
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” will finally be dethroned after a six-week streak at No. 1, falling to Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman’s mystical sequel, “Practical Magic 2.” “Practical Magic 2” landed at No. 1 on Friday, making $13 million at 4,146 North American screens. By Sunday, the Warner Bros. dramedy should pull in around $30…
Absolute Batman, KPop Demon Hunters and Doctor Doom, all together at NYCC with Monogram International