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Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled a starry lineup for its 51st edition in September, with world premieres led by Helen Mirren, Seth Rogen and Chris Rock. The festival, held after Venice, has a strong track record of launching Oscar winners such as Green Book and Dallas Buyers Club, and this year’s slate suggests…
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Toronto Fest Adds Peter Farrelly, Chris Rock, Lauren Miller Rogen World Premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled a fresh wave of world premieres for its 2026 edition, adding star-studded titles from Chris Rock, Peter Farrelly, Lauren Miller Rogen and Courteney Cox to its Gala and Special Presentations sidebars, which showcase potential future Oscar contenders. The additions underline TIFF’s continued pull with both major Hollywood names…
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‘The Vampire Lestat’s Creator Answers All Our Burning Questions About the Finale
The Vampire Lestat creator Rolin Jones explains the finale’s biggest twists and why there might be another title change coming for the show.
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Brandon Sanderson’s Blightful returns to the Cytoverse — read an exclusive excerpt
Co-written with Janci Patterson, Blightfall is set decades after the events of the original YA sci-fi series
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Cast confirmed for new PBS and BBC take on The Portrait of a Lady
A television adaptation of Henry James’ “The Portrait of a Lady” has been confirmed with its full cast, and will air on PBS’s Masterpiece strand in the US and Canada and on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK. Nell Tiger Free stars as Isabel Archer, an independent-minded young American who travels to Europe and,…
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Ayesha Curry, Matthew Daddario, Joey Graziadei and Jamie Chung to Star in Roku’s Holiday Rom-Coms
Roku confirmed two new original films for its seasonal roster: ‘Second Chance Holiday’ starring Curry and Daddario, and ‘The Holiday Spark’ starring Chung opposite Graziadei in his first feature film role.
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This PS5 RPG Will Expand ‘Beyond the Game’ with an Official Anime
Chinese studio establishes animation division. Kuro Games, the Chinese studio behind the wildly popular open world RPG Wuthering Waves, has established a new animation division named Kuro Onroad. Its first project will be an expansion of its wildly popular PS5 game, an anime named Wuthering Waves: Elysium. You can watch a teaser trailer featuring some…
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The entire Assassin’s Creed series is hiding a secret pattern that’s already told me everything I need to know about AC Hexe
A GamesRadar opinion piece argues that the Assassin’s Creed franchise has followed a consistent, largely unnoticed pattern in the type of protagonist it chooses for each instalment, and claims this pattern already reveals what kind of character players can expect in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Hexe. The writer’s central claim is that the next lead…
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The singer John Lennon said Elvis put to shame: “It always hurts and infuriates me”
John Lennon praised American rock-and-roll singer Larry Williams as a performer who could outclass Elvis Presley, saying Williams’s relative obscurity still angered him. Lennon’s comments reflect the Beatles’ deep roots in 1950s rock and roll and their admiration for artists whose influence exceeded their commercial recognition. Williams was known for energetic songs including ‘Bony Moronie’,…
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Xbox Is Dismantling Its Future To Rebuild a Past It Can Never Recapture
Microsoft’s Xbox division is undergoing what CEO Asha Sharma has called “the most significant restructure in Xbox history,” with 3,200 jobs being cut, 1,600 of which have already gone. Four studios are being spun off or shut down, marking a sharp pivot away from the broad, experimentation-friendly strategy pursued under former CEO Phil Spencer, which…