How The Mary Kay Letourneau Scandal Inspired May December

These 2024 Emmy Awards nominees will keep you fully booked.   After all, so many of this year's Emmy-nominated TV shows based their scripts on bestselling novels, including Shogun, Lessons in

Let’s see if those famously kind Canadian audiences can convince Hollywood studios and streamers to bring the indies of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival back with them through customs. As always, a promising crop of star-studded films are headed to TIFF in search of distribution. Some have tantalized audiences in Venice or Telluride, some […]

Joseph Kahn’s sci-fi/horror satire “Ick” has its world premiere in Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s Midnight Madness slot on Saturday. He previously directed “Bodied,” which premiered at the festival in 2017, and won the People’s Choice Award for Midnight Madness. Kahn talks to Variety about his love for creature features, taking comedy-horrors seriously, and his respect […]

TrustNordisk has added more key territory sales for “The Quiet Ones,” a heist action drama from Denmark’s Zentropa and director Frederik Louis Hviid premiering in TIFF. Starring Gustav Giese, Amanda Collin and Reda Kateb, “The Quiet Ones” has closed Spain (Flins & Piniculas), Poland (MediaSquad), former Yugoslavia (Cinemania Group) and the Baltic states (Europos Kinas).

Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen are a work in progress. Over a year after the TikToker was arrested on domestic charges following an incident with her boyfriend, The Secret Lives of

By the time police found the body of Diane Ruiz in a field in Cape Coral, Fla., on Oct. 10, 2019, the man who'd eventually be sentenced to death for killing her was already in custody. Wade Steven