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Toronto Festival Adds Bobby Farrelly, Brian Cox, Aziz Ansari and Guillermo del Toro Films
The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled new star-driven Gala and Special Presentations titles, including Aziz Ansari's Good Fortune, Maude Apatow's Poetic License, Isabel Coixet's Three Goodbyes, David Michod's Christy, James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg and Alice Winocour's Couture. Set for the buzzy red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall are world premieres for Bobby Farrelly's road trip comedy Driver's Ed, which stars Alyssa Milano, Kumail Nanjani and Molly Shannon; Russell Crowe's Nazi thriller Nuremberg from director James Vanderbilt and Sony Pictures Classics, with the historical drama also starring Rami Malek, Michael Shannon and Leo Woodall; Succession actor Brian Cox bringing his directorial debut Glenrothan, where he stars alongside Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson in a film about estranged brothers looking to save a family whisky distillery; and David Freyne's romantic comedy Eternity for A24, which stars Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen and Callum Turner. More from The Hollywood Reporter Debbie Nightingale, Hot Docs Festival Co-Founder, Dies at 71 Toronto Film Fest Adds Chloé Zhao, Paul Greengrass, Rian Johnson Films to 2025 Lineup This Is Not Keanu: Inside the Billion-Dollar Celebrity Impersonation Bitcoin Scam Other first looks in the Gala section include Aziz Ansari's directorial debut Good Fortune, a Lionsgate release about a struggling gig economy worker (Ansari) meeting a tech giant, played by Seth Rogen, in a union overseen by an inept angel (Keanu Reeves); Hulu's Swiped, with Lily James starring as Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd in the biopic from Unpregnant director Rachel Lee Goldenberg; Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir's epic period drama Palestine 36, which has Jeremy Irons appearing alongside Hiam Abbass, Kamel Al Basha and Liam Cunningham; and Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, director Ally Pankiw's documentary about Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan's 1990 all-female music festival that's co-produced by Dan Levy and Elevation Pictures. There's also world bows for Alex Winter's murder mystery Adulthood, led by Josh Gad, Kaya Scodelario, Billie Lourd, Winter and Anthony Carrigan; Outlaw King director David MacKenzie's Fuze, a crime thriller starring Sam Worthington, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James; Arnaud Desplechin's Two Pianos, which stars Charlotte Rampling and Francois Civil in a drama about a virtuoso pianist living in an impossible love story. And there's North American premieres for Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great dramedy, which bowed in Cannes and has Sony Pictures Classic releasing the feature directorial debut and award season contender on Sept. 26; and Ramesh Sippy's Sholay, a remake of the Bollywood epic. Quebec director Anne Emond's Peak Everything, which bowed in Berlin, will close TIFF on Sept. 14. Toronto earlier announced Gala titles for films by Rebecca Zlotowski, Chloe Zhao, Derek Cianfrance, Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Nicholas Hytner. Toronto's Special Presentations sidebar also unveiled new titles, including world premieres for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, a remake of the classic monster tale that stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth and was shot in Toronto for Netflix; Euphoria actress Maude Apatow's feature directorial debut Poetic License; and Jonatan Etzler's Bad Apples, where Saoirse Ronan plays a primary teacher forced to make bad decisions over an unruly child in her class. There's also world debuts for Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley documentary EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert; James McAvoy's directorial debut California Schemin', starring Seamus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley as two Scottish friends pretending to be Californian rap duo; David Michod's biopic Christy, with Sydney Sweeney transformed into U.S. boxing legend Christy Martin; and another pugilist biopic, Bennie Safdie's The Smashing Machine, where Dwayne Johnson plays two-time UFC heavyweight champ Mark Kerr. Also getting first looks is True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto's Easy's Waltz, a Las Vegas-set drama starring Vince Vaughn as a lounge singer getting a chance for a second act with an old school entertainment manager played by Al Pacino; Romain Gavras's Sacrifice, an action comedy co-written with Will Arbery (Succession) and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans and Salma Hayek; First Nations/Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard's Meadowlarks, top-lined by Michael Greyeyes, Carmen Moore, Alex Rice and Michelle Thrush; director Nick Davis's You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, a documentary about a 1972 star-making stage production in Toronto; the romance movie Charlie Harper from directors Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge and starring Emilia Jones and Toby Wallace; Alice Winocour's high fashion drama Couture, featuring Angelina Jolie; and Yaniv Raz's romantic epic Eternal Return, toplined by Kit Harington, Naomi Scott and Jeremy Irons. Other new world debuts in Toronto include Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho's latest film, the mystery thriller The Ugly; Isabel Coixet's Three Goodbyes, led by Italian stars Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano; Mariana Rondon's It Would Be Night in Caracas; Leon Le's Ky Nam Inn; Philippe Falardeau's Lovely Day; Anurag Kashyap's Monkey in a Cage; Damiano Michieletto's Primavera; Lee Hwan's Project Y; and Lisa Rideout's Degrassi documentary Degrassi: Whatever It Takes. Toronto has also booked an international premiere for Train Dreams, Clint Bentley's take on the Denis Johnson novella that stars Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones and bowed at Sundance; and Canadian premieres for Daniel Roher's Tuner, a crime thriller starring Dustin Hoffman that marks the Oscar-winning Navalny director's first narrative fiction film; Conclave director Edward Berger's new thriller Ballad of a Small Player, starring Colin Farrell; Richard Linklater's Cannes competition title Nouvelle Vague; and Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, the Cannes Grand Prix winner that stars Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning. The Toronto Film Festival, set to run Sept. 4 to 14, will open with Colin Hanks's John Candy documentary, John Candy: I Like Me. More lineup announcements will be made in the coming weeks. 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19-06-2025
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Nuremberg Release Date Set for Russell Crowe & Rami Malek WWII Movie
Sony Pictures Classics has officially announced the release date, after acquiring the theatrical distribution rights to the upcoming historical drama. The movie is based on Jack El-Hail's 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiarist. 'It chronicles the true story of the eponymous trials held by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime,' reads the official synopsis. 'The film centers on American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who is tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes and finds himself in a complex battle of wits with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.' Nuremberg has now been scheduled to arrive in theaters on November 7, 2025, pitting it directly against two highly anticipated movies Predator: Badlands and The Running Man. It will also be debuting in the same month as high-profile movies such as Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Wicked: For Good, and Zootopia 2. The film is written and directed by Zodiac filmmaker James Vanderbilt. The ensemble cast includes Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Lydia Peckham, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lotte Verbeek, and Andreas Pietschmann. It is produced by Vanderbilt, Richard Saperstein, Bradley J. Fischer, William Sherak, Frank Smith, Benjamin Tappan, Cherilyn Hawrysh, István Major, and George Freeman. Executive producers are Jack El-Hai, Brooke Saperstein, Annie Saperstein, Beau Turpin, W. Porter Payne, Jr., Paul Neinstein, and Széchenyi Funds Géza Deme and Tamás Hajnal. 'I am beyond thrilled to be reuniting with Michael and Tom and the whole Sony Pictures Classics team, who ten years ago took a chance on me as a first-time director, and whose legacy of championing great films makes them an incredible partner,' Vanderbilt said in a statement. 'Nuremberg explores the fragile boundary between justice and vengeance in the aftermath of unimaginable atrocity. As we approach the 80th anniversary of this unprecedented moment in history, this story feels more urgent than ever, and I can't wait for audiences to see it on the big screen.' The post Nuremberg Release Date Set for Russell Crowe & Rami Malek WWII Movie appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
Geek Tyrant
29-05-2025
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READY OR NOT: HERE I COME Producer on the Film Expanding the Twisted Mythology — GeekTyrant
The game's not over yet. Ready or Not: Here I Come , the follow-up to the 2019 cult horror hit, is officially in motion, and according to producer James Vanderbilt, it's not just more of the same. Instead, the sequel plans to mess with the board entirely, pushing the twisted Le Domas family mythology into new, darker corners without unraveling what made it so chilling to begin with. In a recent chat with ComicBook about his new Apple TV+ film Fountain of Youth , Vanderbilt gave fans a few carefully chosen details about the film, enough to intrigue, but not spoil. 'There are a couple of different ways we are doing it. I don't want to give anything away... What I will say is one of the reasons it has taken a minute to make this sequel was that we were really hard on ourselves on not just repeating what the first movie was, but also, not losing the sauce of what the first movie was.' It's a smart strategy. The original film, anchored by Samara Weaving's feral final girl Grace, managed to walk a fine line between brutal horror and biting satire. According to Vanderbilt, the new film builds on that without letting the mythology get bogged down in too much explanation. When referring to the original's jaw-dropping ending, he said: 'It's interesting because there's a debate all the way through as to what is real and what is not. That is answered at the end of the first movie, so you can't put that Le Bail back in the bottle.' Writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy seemed to have cracked the next chapter of the story, and when talking about it, Vanderbilt said: 'What Guy and R. Christopher Murphy do in this script is incredibly smart. As soon as they pitched it, it was, 'Of course that's what it is. That's a great idea.' It's such a great way to tell this story.' What makes the sequel especially intriguing is its commitment to expanding the world without drowning it in exposition. 'I think it's safe to say we expand the mythology without explaining the entire mythology. I don't know if that sounds exciting, but it's exciting to us. I think it's the right amount of worldbuilding, while still telling an amazing emotional story.' That emotional core centers once again on Grace, with Weaving returning to the blood-soaked chaos. But this time, she's not alone. The cast lineup is stacked with Ant-Man 's Kathryn Newton, Buffy legend Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Elijah Wood. Then there's David Cronenberg, the master of body horror himself, who will be stepping in front of the camera in a rare acting role. Kevin Durand, fresh off Abigail , also joins the madness, playing a character said to be the 'polar opposite' of his vampire-hunting role. With Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett) once again directing, fans can expect the same kinetic blend of chaos, gore, and sharp wit that made the first film a standout.
