By Canadian Press on September 7th, 2025
TORONTO â When Jodie Foster began working in Hollywood as a child actress, she says there weren’t very many women around. “Occasionally there was a script supervisor or maybe a makeup and hair person, but then mostly not,” Foster said on the red carpet ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tribute Awards. Foster was ... Read More »
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Lady Gaga kicked off the MTV Video Music Awards with a win for artist of the year, immediately setting the nightâs tone. The showâs top nominee promised a performance later and delivered, hitting the stage at Madison Square Garden after her acceptance speech, which sent the audience into a frenzy at the UBS Arena where ... Read More »
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ELMONT, N.Y. (AP) â The MTV Video Music Awards kicked off Sunday with Lady Gaga winning Artist of the Year, setting up the evening’s leading nominee for a big night. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Charles Sykes And Evan Agostini, The Associated Press... Read More »
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The MTV Video Music Awards kicked off Sunday with Lady Gaga winning artist of the year, setting up the nightâs leading nominee for a big night. Gaga is also set to perform on the show and ended her acceptance speech by saying she had to leave the UBS Arena where the VMAs are being held ... Read More »
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TORONTO (AP) â Nia DaCosta was thunderstruck when she first read Ibsenâs âHedda Gablerâ in drama school. But when she saw a production of it, something was missing. âI was like, âOh, thatâs not as crazy as I thought it would feel,ââ DaCosta says. âI thought: I guess I knew what I wanted to pull ... Read More »
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TORONTO â Guillermo del Toro slipped into the Criterion Closet at the Toronto International Film Festival and some wondered if he might ever come back out. The Oscar-winning “Shape of Water” director popped by the viral TIFF hot spot, which affords movie lovers three minutes to make their own social media moment by picking from ... Read More »
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TORONTO â Paul Mescal says that to him, “Hamnet” feels so true it’s “almost like a documentary.” On the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival, the star of the William Shakespeare biopic says there’s an emotional truth to the story, even though little is known definitively about the bard’s life. “Hamnet” is based ... Read More »
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LOS ANGELES (AP) â It’s the year for horror and âThe Conjuring: Last Ritesâ was no exception. Its opening weekend tipped the genre over $1 billion in earnings for this year’s domestic box office. The horror sequel raked in $83 million domestically in 3,802 theaters, making it the third-highest domestic opening for a horror movie, ... Read More »
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TORONTO (AP) â For the third time, the knives were out at the Toronto International Film Festival. Rian Johnson on Saturday night premiered the third movie in his whodunit series, âWake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.â Like the previous two movies, âKnives Outâ and âGlass Onion,â Johnson brought a cavalcade of stars to ... Read More »
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TORONTO â Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and actors Jodie Foster and Catherine O’Hara are among the names being honoured tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tribute Awards. The annual gala fundraiser has selected Del Toro for the TIFF Ebert Director Award in celebration of his decades-long career that includes an Academy Award win for ... Read More »
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TORONTO â Indigenous performers Michael Greyeyes and Michelle Thrush say the power of film is in bringing light to dark places, and thatâs what they hope they can do with their â60s Scoop drama, âMeadowlarks.â Directed by Tasha Hubbard, the family saga about four scattered siblings brought together for one weekend makes its world premiere ... Read More »
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