Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx Conversation Added to Toronto Film Festival Lineup
TIFF completes its programming by also unveiling special events, speakers and the first Mary Pickford Award presentation to director Mati Diop
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‘Balloon,’ ‘The Orphan’ and ‘Sister’ Win Oscar-Qualifying Awards at HollyShorts Film Festival
The three awards automatically qualify their winners for this year’s short-film Oscars
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Here’s Why James Corden Is King of the Emmys This Year
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Producer/director Ben Winston discusses the trick of landing nominations for half a dozen different shows in the Corden Television Universe
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‘An Emmy for Megan’ Is Back, and Megan Amram Says She Won’t Stop Until She Wins
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Megan Amram explains her unquenchable Emmy lust and why she loves the “Cats” trailer
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‘House of Cards’ Nominee Michael Kelly Tries to Explain How a Horrible Character Became an Emmy Favorite
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I can’t tell you the number of times that someone has come up to me and said, ‘I wish I had a Doug Stamper on my team,'” the four-time nominee says
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How ‘Our Planet’ Became a Surprise Emmy Heavyweight – With More Nominations Than ‘Veep’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “We set out to communicate to the audience that the world is in difficulty,” producer Keith Scholey says of the British series
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How ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Became the Year’s Sneakiest Emmy Nominee
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Only three episodes of the show were eligible, but the show’s 11 nominations included a best-director nod for Daina Reid, one of only nine women nominated for directing
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Ben Stiller on His New Role in ‘Escape at Dannemora': Behind the Camera, Without Laughter
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “From the first day of shooting, I remember thinking, ‘This feels really different,'” says Emmy best-director nominee Stiller
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Patricia Arquette on Playing 2 Truly Toxic Women – and Earning 2 Emmy Nominations
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I need another scary lady to play,'” says Arquette of playing troubled women in “Escape at Dannemora” and “The Act” back-to-back
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How ‘Fleabag’ Creator-Star Phoebe Waller-Bridge Took a Journey From Hot Priest to James Bond
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Whether she’s writing for “Fleabag” or for 007, Waller-Bridge tells TheWrap she’s looking to create “truthful, witty, sexy characters with a heart”
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Toronto Film Festival Adds TV Series ‘Mrs. Fletcher,’ ‘Briarpatch’ and ‘Limetown’
TIFF also unveils industry programming with Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Lulu Wang and Fernando Meirelles
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‘The Big Bang Theory’ Finale: One Last Episode, One Last Emmy Nomination
TheWrap Emmy magazine: The long-running show’s highest profile 2019 nomination went to director Mark Cendrowski, who said he used tricks to stave off the emotion in the final episode
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‘Game of Thrones': Carice van Houten Was in the Dark About Melisandre Too: ‘I Learned to Enjoy Not Knowing’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I like to figure everything out and ask a load of questions, but in this case that was really hard,” says the actress who played the sorceress Melisandre
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Alfie Allen Describes Growing Up on ‘Game of Thrones': ‘It Was My 20s, Really’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Allen is one of the show’s three acting nominees who submitted themselves for Emmy consideration
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‘Game of Thrones’ Star Gwendoline Christie on How Brienne Became an Unlikely Feminist Hero
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “When I first Googled the character, I couldn’t believe she even existed,” says the actress who played Brienne of Tarth
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‘Blinded by the Light’ Film Review: Joyous Indie Musical Soars to Songs of Bruce Springsteen
The film that landed the Sundance Film Festival’s biggest deal is a moving tribute to the way pop songs can detonate in our lives
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Here’s How Sophie Turner Really Wanted ‘Game of Thrones’ to End
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Hint: It involved a different ending for Cersei Lannister
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Beats Cancer, and ‘Veep’ Looks to Beat Everybody One More Time at the Emmys
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I love it whenever Trump does something idiotic and some person online will put it next to the end credits of ‘Veep,'” says six-time nominee Anna Chlumsky
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Why the Emmys Documentary Race Looks So Much Like the Oscars Doc Race
TheWrap Oscar magazine: Four of the five Oscar-nominated nonfiction films are back competing for Emmys, because the Television Academy doesn’t mind a little double-dipping
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Trevor Noah on the Advantage of ‘The Daily Show’ in the Trump Era: ‘He Writes Most of the Jokes’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “There’s more outrage and engagement but less nuance and closure,” Noah says of making “The Daily Show” now
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Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones Drama ‘The Aeronauts’ Among New Additions to Toronto Film Festival Lineup
Films added to the Galas, Special Presentations, Masters and Contemporary World Cinema sections include work starring Natalie Portman, Kristen Stewart, Daniel Radcliffe, Elizabeth Debicki and Mick Jagger
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Watch Out, ‘Game of Thrones’ – ‘NYPD Blue’ Once Set a Record and Then Got Ambushed at the Emmys
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “GoT” broke the 25-year-old “NYPD Blue” record for series nominations, but that ’90s cop show fell short when it came to wins
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How ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Addressed #MeToo Moment Without Making Fosse ‘One-Dimensional Punching Bag’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: The choreographer-director’s troubling behavior was “a big reason to do the story at this time,” producer Joel Fields says
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How Bruce Springsteen Kept Director Thom Zimny on His Toes Making ‘Springsteen on Broadway’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: The show had been running for more than a year on stage, but the Boss still threw in a brand new song for the Netflix taping
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Joaquin Phoenix to Receive Actor Award from Toronto Film Festival
The “Joker” star joins Meryl Streep as a recipient of TIFF’s first-ever acting awards
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Toronto Film Festival Adds Documentaries From Alex Gibney, Barbara Kopple, Bryce Dallas Howard
The festival also reveals programs in its Midnight Madness, Discovery and TIFF Cinematheque sections
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New Academy President on the Next Oscars: ‘I Don’t Think We Need to Be Changing the Show’
David Rubin also promises that the organization will take its time with the long-delayed museum after the exit of its director
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‘After the Wedding’ Film Review: Julianne Moore Remake Swaps Genders, Finds a Reason to Exist
With the help of Moore, Michelle Williams and Billy Crudup, director Bart Freundlich offers a new take on a 2006 Susanne Bier drama
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Toronto Film Festival Sets Sarah Gavron, Julie Delpy Films for Platform Section
Other films competing for $20,000 in the TIFF section include Alice Winocur’s “Proxima,” Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden” and Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal”
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Oscars Academy Elects Casting Director David Rubin as New President
Rubin replaces John Bailey, who had to leave the board after two terms as Academy president because of term limits
