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Being Heumann to open 51st Toronto film festival from CODA director Sian Heder
The Toronto International Film Festival has confirmed that “Being Heumann,” an Apple Studios drama from “CODA” director Sian Heder, will open its 51st edition on 10 September at Roy Thomson Hall. The film stars Ruth Madeley as disability rights advocate Judith Heumann and marks Heder’s most significant project since her Oscar-winning 2021 feature, with its…
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Ncuti Gatwa to executive produce Niamh Marie Smith’s short film Passing Through
Ncuti Gatwa, the former star of “Doctor Who”, is to executive produce a new short film called “Passing Through”, written and directed by his former co-star Niamh Marie Smith. Marie Smith appeared in the 2024 “Doctor Who” Christmas special “Joy to the World” as Sylvia Trench, and the collaboration marks a reunion between the two.…
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Nocturne: Stephen Graham’s Apple TV thriller lands October 2026 launch date
Apple TV has confirmed a launch date and a new title for Stephen Graham’s forthcoming drama, which was previously known as Lazarus and will now be called Nocturne. The 10-episode limited series will premiere globally on 30 October 2026, with two episodes released at launch and the remaining eight arriving each Friday through to Christmas.…
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Being Heumann to open Toronto film festival’s 51st edition
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced Apple Original Films’ Being Heumann from CODA Oscar winning filmmaker Siân Heder as the 51st edition’s opening night film. In addition there are two other world premieres including Prima Facie from British director Susanna White and starring 3x Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, and The Assassin(s) from Korean filmmaker…
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Being Heumann to open 51st Toronto film festival, directed by Sian Heder
The Apple Studios feature joins a 2026 TIFF lineup to include world premieres for Susanna White’s ‘Prima Facie’ legal drama starring Cynthia Erivo, and Hur Jin-ho’s ‘The Assassin(s).’
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Bidbus raises $15m to let dealers bid on private used cars
A Los Angeles-based startup called Bidbus has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by mobility fund Ibex Investors, as it seeks to expand beyond its initial markets of California and Texas. The company runs a digital marketplace where multiple car dealerships bid against one another to buy a private seller’s used car,…
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Being Heumann to open Toronto film festival with Cynthia Erivo premiere among highlights
The Toronto International Film Festival has confirmed that Siân Heder’s activist drama “Being Heumann” will open its 51st edition, with a world premiere on 10 September at Roy Thomson Hall. The film is significant as the follow-up to Heder’s “CODA”, which sold to Apple for $25 million and won the Oscar for best picture, and…
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Salma Hayek and Dakota Johnson to co-host Kering Foundation gender-violence fundraiser
The Kering Foundation has announced the celebrity co-hosts for its fifth annual Caring for Women Dinner, a fundraising event aimed at ending gender-based violence. Salma Hayek Pinault, Dakota Johnson, Pamela Anderson, Benicio Del Toro, gymnast Simone Biles, polo player Nacho Figueras, artist Lorna Simpson and Kering chairman François-Henri Pinault will lead the evening, underscoring the…
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Rookies inherit a Colombian detective agency in Rugeles thriller-comedy series
Damián Alcázar, a lead in “Narcos” as Pablo Escobar’s successor, Cali mob boss Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, is attached to star in “Rookies,” the TV series debut as a writer-director of top Colombian film director José Luis Rugeles. Breaking out with Cannes 2015 Un Certain Regard title “Alias María,” Rugeles, one of Colombia’s most prominent film…
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Chat Pile share pummelling new single Pen I S Mall from September album
We don’t all have to live like absolute fucking worms, carving out tiny moments of necessary personal relief in the short moments when we’re not engaged in the dehumanizing drudgery necessary to survive. Things could be different. We could all live fulfilling, interesting lives where work is merely one factor. We have the resources. We…