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UPDATING with News Corp. reaction: News Corp. acknowledged receipt of a letter by shareholder Starboard Value taking issue with so-called super voting stock that allows the Murdoch family to control the company. Starboard wants a vote at the annual meeting to merge the two classes of stock. The board insisted in its response today that
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Elizabeth Olsen played Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch, across the Marvel Universe and is seemingly down to continue reprising the role. In a recent interview, the WandaVision star opened up about playing the Marvel character and what it would take for her to portray her again. “It’s a character that I love
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Production on the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale began on Sept. 3, but Max Minghella’s first day on set is tomorrow, Tuesday, here in Toronto. When we last left Nick, he was trying to use his influence to save June Osborne, his lover, from being a target of Gilead. Nick punches Commander Lawrence
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David Mackenzie is full of deceit. His movies, not him. Mackenzie can lure you with the cunningness of an illicit couple, played by Tilda Swnton and Ewan McGregor, in his 2003 drama Young Adam. “Give us a come-hither look,” I remember him instructing Swinton on a barge berthed on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Scotland.
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In one of the most explosive documentary premieres in TIFF history, a film sharply critical of Benjamin Netanyahu bowed before a packed house in Toronto Monday night, despite a last-ditch effort by the Israeli prime minister to block it. The Bibi Files, produced by Alex Gibney and directed by Alexis Bloom, contains never-before-seen video of
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Keshet International SVP Limor Gott Ronen has reunited with Alon Shrutzman at 5XMedia. Gott Ronen has joined the management company and production house as partner/producer, working alongside 5X partner Ryan Lindenberg, the former Berlanti Productions exec who joined in June, to add to 5X’s scripted and premium docs slate. She will also continue
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Here’s the first official trailer for Ali Abbasi’s much-talked-about Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. Confirmed today by distributor Briarcliff, the film will hit U.S. cinemas on October 11.  Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice stars Emmy nominee Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) as Trump, Emmy winner Jeremy Strong (Succession) as
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‘The Traitors‘ Sells To Africa For First Time The Traitors will be uncloaking African viewers for the first time. All3Media International has struck its first deal in Africa with Primedia Studios to create a show for local audiences, coming with MIP Africa bringing the industry together in Cape Town this week. More incoming on presenter
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Michael Gracey‘s wildly inventive musical biopic of British superstar entertainer Robbie Williams rolls the dice on a unique star casting decision to play Williams which successfully separates it from every showbiz biopic that has come before. A CGI monkey (actor Jonno Davies) plays the singer in what is otherwise a recognizable cradle to a comeback
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Continuing their 23-year onscreen collaboration, George Clooney and Brad Pitt brought their latest co-starring venture to the Venice Film Festival today as Wolfs world premiered out of competition. The official screening was greeted with a five-minute, 35-second ovation Sunday inside the Sala Grande. The duo danced to Sade’s ‘Smooth Operator’ as the credits rolled and
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Emmy-nominated set decorator KC Fox — who worked on the sets of films like Speed, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The 40-Year-Old Virgin — died Aug. 28 of pancreatic cancer. The prolific artisan, whose career spanned four decades, was 70. “Known for her joie de vivre, keen artistic eye, belly laugh, and clever
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