Jake Gyllenhaal’s company Nine Stories Productions has hired Josh McLaughlin as its new president. In his new role, McLaughlin will work alongside Gyllenhaal to develop a slate of projects. As recently announced, the company has closed a three-year, first-look film deal with Amazon MGM Studios. The pact includes theatrical, as well as streaming releases.  “We […]

Lamorne Morris went against the better wishes of “Saturday Night” director Jason Reitman when meeting with original “Saturday Night Live” cast member Garrett Morris, whom he plays in the upcoming movie about the origins of the famed sketch comedy show. You see, Reitman wasn’t keen on the film’s sprawling ensemble — Gabriel LaBelle plays Lorne […]

John Mulaney, who made his Broadway debut in “Oh, Hello” with Nick Kroll, is returning to the stage. He’s starring in “All In: Comedy About Love,” a play by former “Saturday Night Live” writer Simon Rich. The show, based on Rich’s short stories that were published in the New Yorker, is described as a collection […]

Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s wife and E Street bandmate, has revealed she was diagnosed in 2018 with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. Scialfa addressed her diagnosis in the new documentary “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” which premiered on Sunday night at the Toronto Film Festival. In the film, a […]

In “The Assessment,” a psychological sci-fi thriller that premieres on Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel play a couple that wants to procreate. The only problem? They live in the not-so-distant future where the state controls who gets to have a child. So, they have to endure a shadowy and […]

Lupita Nyong’o, Catherine O’Hara and the cast of “The Wild Robot” have a suggestion for moviegoers wanting to see their new animated film: Bring tissues to the theater. The movie, a sci-fi survival story about a robot that’s marooned on an uninhabited island, debuts on Sunday night at Toronto Film Festival and may prompt moviegoers […]

Did someone say Beetlejuice’s name three times? Either way, the mischievous demon triumphantly returned to unleash his mayhem at the box office. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 horror comedy about a pesky poltergeist, scored a huge $110 million from 4,575 theaters in its opening weekend. Those ticket sales rank as the second-biggest […]

A24 has landed U.S. distribution rights to “The Brutalist,” a historical epic directed by Brady Corbet and starring Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones. The 215-minute movie (which includes an intermission!) debuted to acclaim at the Venice Film Festival before screening for buyers at the Toronto Film Festival. Multiple parties pursued the sale after “The Brutalist” […]

Jude Law doesn’t want to take all the credit. He delivers one of the many go-for-broke performances in Ron Howard’s star-studded “Eden,” a stranger-than-fiction survival thriller about European settlers who seek new life on a previously uninhabited island in the Galápagos. As the official logline explains, “They believe they’ve found paradise — only to discover […]

Dakota Johnson was feeling a little jittery while shooting “Loser Baby,” a short film that serves as her directorial debut and will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. But it wasn’t nerves that put her on edge. “I discovered Celsius on day one of filming,” she said at Variety’s Toronto Film Festival studio, sponsored […]

Jenny from the Block made her way to the Six for the premiere of “Unstoppable,” a heartfelt sports drama that debuted on Friday at the Toronto Film Festival. Jennifer Lopez, who stars as a fiercely supportive mother of five, worked on the film with her ex-husband Ben Affleck, whose production company Artists Equity served as […]

Tom Hiddleston had to learn to move and groove to play Charles “Chuck” Krantz in “The Life of Chuck,” a feel-good apocalyptic story (yes, those exist!) that premieres on Friday at the Toronto Film Festival. Adapted from Stephen King’s 2020 novella of the same name and directed by “The Haunting of Hill House’s” Mike Flanagan, […]

The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 49th edition with the world premiere of “Nutcrackers,” a crowd-pleasing fish-out-of-water comedy from director David Gordon Green and Ben Stiller in his first film role in seven years. Stiller’s big screen homecoming wasn’t the only major return to TIFF. Star power is back, baby! Last year’s festival […]

Angel Studios, the independent distributors behind last summer’s box office sleeper hit “Sound of Freedom,” has raised over $10 million to fund new movies and television shows. With the new investment, the company plans to expand the Angel Guild, a community of 360,000 members with whom Angel Studios has empowered to greenlight the development and […]

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired rights to “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The studio will distribute the film in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and on worldwide airlines.  Laura Piani wrote and directed “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” which stars […]

Filmmakers of “The Apprentice,” an origin story in which Sebastian Stan portrays a young Donald Trump, are asking for money to bolster the film’s theatrical release. In a highly unusual move, they launched a Kickstarter called “Release the Apprentice” to “keep the film in as many theaters for as long as possible,” according to a […]

“Deadpool & Wolverine” notched a major box office milestone, surpassing $600 million in domestic ticket sales. It’s one of 16 films in history to reach that benchmark. The Marvel superhero sequel hit this achievement during the otherwise desolate Labor Day weekend, in which “Deadpool & Wolverine” ruled over the box office in its sixth outing. […]

Due to the sheer lack of compelling options, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is expected to top the box office in its sixth weekend of release. Several movies will open nationwide — the Dennis Quaid-led biopic “Reagan” and Sony and Blumhouse’s AI horror fable “Afraid” among them — but none are projected to make a dent on […]

Will we ever know how it ends? After three weeks in theaters, “It Ends With Us,” a big screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling book, has become a box office smash to the tune of $242 million worldwide. Ticket sales are projected to reach at least $285 million to $300 million. In a summer that’s […]