Umberto is a senior film reporter at TheWrap, covering film & television development, agencies and talent. He joined TheWrap in 2016. He has been covering the fanboy beat & breaking scoops for 20 years with numerous Hollywood trade, newspaper and magazine mentions to his credit.
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Penélope Cruz on Protecting Her Mental Health During a 3-Day Fight Scene for Thriller ‘Bunker’
TIFF 2026: “I had to trust that jumping in and out of fiction and reality, that dance, was going to make the work better and my mental health also safer,” the actress tells TheWrap
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Robert De Niro in Talks to Play Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda in Biopic ‘Tommy & Me’
“Magic Mike’s Last Dance” filmmaker Reid Carolin is attached to direct the Skydance Sports project
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Werner Herzog Recruited His ‘Bucking Fastard’ Cast With Letters and Zoom Calls
TIFF 2026: “It’s just so rare to get sent something from one of your creative heroes,” Kate Mara tells The Wrap
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Antonio Banderas Had a ‘Really Paranoid’ Crisis Before Filming ‘Up Against It’
TIFF 2026: “When I did the reading, I got really paranoid about everything about myself, basically,” the actor tells TheWrap
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Ira Sachs Cast Rami Malek in ‘The Man I Love’ After Watching Him on TV
TIFF 2026: “I had seen him in ‘Mr. Robot’ and was impressed by many things, including his charisma and his fluidity as an actor,” Sachs tells The Wrap
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Andrew Haigh on How His Father’s Death Shaped New Film ‘A Long Winter’
TIFF 2026: The filmmaker and star Fred Hechinger talk about crafting the 1950s-set tale about a man whose mother disappears in a snowstorm
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‘Everest: The Other Side’ Directors on Why the Climb Came Before the Documentary
TIFF 2026: “Our teams handpick world-class climbers, skiers and cinematographers, so they all understand the risks,” co-director Jimmy Chin tells TheWrap
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Universal, Blumhouse in Talks to Nab TIFF Slasher ‘River’ From IFC and Shudder for More Than $10 Million
Josh Giuliano’s feature debut starring Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
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Tim Blake Nelson Almost Didn’t Make ‘The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd’ Ending So Dark
TIFF 2026: “I did initially intend to shoot two endings, one considerably less dark than the other,” the filmmaker and actor reveals
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Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein’s Wonderlab Banner Taps Jon Cohen as President
The veteran producer joins the company from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, where he most recently served as head offilm
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‘Onwards and Sideways’ Director John Madden on the Key Decision That Shaped the Parkinson’s Drama
TIFF 2026: The film stars Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans as two strangers diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the same time
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Chase Infiniti Reveals Her ‘Cheat Code’ for Playing a Math Prodigy in ‘The Julia Set’
TIFF 2026: “I would not call myself a genius in any sense of anything,” the actress tells TheWrap
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‘I Play Rocky’ Star Anthony Ippolito Filmed His Own Audition Before He Even Had the Script
TIFF 2026: The actor who portrays Sylvester Stallone in Peter Farrelly’s film about the making of “Rocky” made a self-tape after reading an article about the project
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Jodie Comer Learned Taxidermy for Horror Musical Romance ‘Stuffed’
TIFF 2026: Comer and Harry Melling lead Theo Rhys’ genre-hopping musical
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Michelle Yeoh Trained Like a Real Surgeon for Action Thriller ‘The Surgeon’
TIFF 2026: “It was really important for me, so that when I did the movements and all that, it looked real,” the actress tells TheWrap
