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Ethan Shanfeld Cate Blanchett offered her thoughts on artificial intelligence during a wide-ranging conversation at Toronto Film Festival. During an audience Q&A section of the interview, conducted by TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey, the “Carol” and “Lord of the Rings” star was asked about the positives and negatives of AI. “I’m very proud of the industry, actually, for going on strike about it,” Blanchett said, prompting applause.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor People who want to see what Brian Stelter has planned for CNN’s “Reliable Sources” media newsletter won’t have to wait as long as they might think. Starting Monday, “RS” will publish each weekday morning, Monday through Friday, and the next edition — the first to be issued since Stelter returned to CNN last week after a two-year absence — could post as soon as 30 minutes after the article you are reading right now sees the light of day. The A.M.

A free arts and culture festival near Greater Manchester could be set to rival the likes of the Edinburgh Fringe in terms of its rich and varied offering.

Naman Ramachandran Spirit Media, founded by “Baahubali” star Rana Daggubati, has acquired India distribution rights for Payal Kapadia‘s Cannes prizewinner “All We Imagine as Light.” Written and directed by Kapadia in her narrative directorial debut, the film tells the story of two women in Mumbai — Prabha, a troubled nurse who receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband, and Anu, her young roommate who is seeking a place to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Columbia Pictures’ “Venom: The Last Dance” has received approval for an Oct. 23, 2024, theatrical release date in China. The date is coordinated with the film’s release in other international territories and is two days ahead of its outing in North America. All foreign films seeking entry into China are subject to import controls and to censorship.

Eden at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was paused mid-screening due to a medical emergency in the audience.On Saturday (September 7), director Rod Howard and the film’s cast – which includes Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney and Vanessa Kirby among others – premiered the survival thriller film at TIFF.Per a Variety report, the screening began around 5:45pm, but was paused at 7pm after people in the audience began murmuring. The screening was paused and the lights were turned on to provide medical attention to a viewer.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Ron Howard has always taken pride in being an eclectic filmmaker — in the last 40 years, he has made movies about mermaids, cocoons, auto factories, astronauts, firefighters, newspapers, beautiful minds, cave rescuers, the Grinch, the Da Vinci Code, the Beatles, and Pavarotti. But at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of his latest movie, “Eden,” he declared that the film stands farther apart from his other work than anything he has ever done.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Cinema box office in South Korea amounted to a dismal $5.45 million over the weekend, propelling “Alien: Romulus” back to top spot, despite the film’s steep week-on-week decline. Among new releases there was joy for a Korean-produced panda documentary and disappointment for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” “Alien: Romulus” earned $905,000 between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Lupita Nyong’o, Catherine O’Hara and the cast of “The Wild Robot” have a suggestion for moviegoers wanting to see their new animated film: Bring tissues to the theater. The movie, a sci-fi survival story about a robot that’s marooned on an uninhabited island, debuts on Sunday night at Toronto Film Festival and may prompt moviegoers to shed a few tears. As the android ROZZUM unit 7134, who goes by Roz (voiced by Nyong’o), learns to adapt to the harsh surroundings, she gradually builds relationships with other animals on the island — O’Hara voices a droll mother possum called Pinktail, Kit Connor plays an orphaned gosling named Brightbill, Mark Hamill is grumpy grizzly bear Thorn — and starts to raise Brightbill.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic A gorgeous computer-generated cartoon with a human heart beating beneath its sleek, state-of-the-art surface, DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” arrives at a time when the public seems more concerned than ever about being outsmarted by artificial intelligence. It’s somewhat ironic then that the movie, a lovely chosen-family fable adapted from the first book in Peter Brown’s open-ended series, features no human characters of consequence.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter In “The Assessment,” a psychological sci-fi thriller that premieres on Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel play a couple that wants to procreate. The only problem? They live in the not-so-distant future where the state controls who gets to have a child. So, they have to endure a shadowy and mysterious test to prove they are worthy.

Ethan Shanfeld Cate Blanchett touched down in Toronto for a wide-ranging talk about creative conflict on film sets, making big-budget films “risky,” and why her six-time Oscar-nominated film “Carol” struggled to find funding. Blanchett, who is at TIFF supporting Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ show “Disclaimer” and Guy Maddin’s film “Rumours,” was welcomed at the Royal Alexandra Theatre with a standing ovation after fans lined up early to acquire rush tickets to the event.

Emmerdale fans are eager to see Cain Dingle make Tom King pay for his actions before he faces jail time for mistreating Belle.

Angelique Jackson As summer slowly slips away, director Megan Park is stoking the fires of nostalgia with her sophomore feature “My Old Ass,” a coming-of-age story set in those sweet final weeks before her 18-year-old protagonist leaves her lakeside hometown for college in the big city. Maisy Stella (“Nashville,” “Flowervale Street”) stars as Elliott, a free-spirited teen whose birthday mushroom trip brings her face-to-face with her “old ass” 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza), who delivers some choice advice and words of warning that transform her relationships with her family and friends.

Aramide Tinubu Created by real-life siblings Adam and Craig Malamut, and set in the fictional town of Glantontown, N.J., the animated “Universal Basic Guys” revolves around Mark and Hank Hoagies, two brothers both voiced by Adam Malamut. After being laid off from the local hot dog factory and being inducted into a new basic income program, Mark and Hank have plenty of time on their hands to spend their $3,000 monthly checks on high jinks and foolishness. While the premise is interesting enough, the show is stuffed with tiresome jokes that fail to pack a punch.

Gregg Goldstein Documentaries have flooded streaming services and arthouse theaters for years, with good reason: They’re usually the most inexpensive indie films to produce and can spark cultural conversations that attract big audiences. But with so many to choose from, how can filmmakers set theirs apart from the pack? In Toronto, directors are taking some unconventional approaches: inserting new theatrical scenes to present unfilmable histories, capturing mind-bending aerial stunts that go far beyond typical doc photography, using aural techniques that duplicate protagonists’ experiences and even bringing doc elements into other genres.

When I first heard about Nightbitch for some reason I thought it was a horror movie with Amy Adams morphing physically into a dog.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Jude Law doesn’t want to take all the credit. He delivers one of the many go-for-broke performances in Ron Howard‘s star-studded “Eden,” a stranger-than-fiction survival thriller about European settlers who seek new life on a previously uninhabited island in the Galápagos. As the official logline explains, “They believe they’ve found paradise — only to discover that hell is other people.” And yes, it’s actually based on true events.

Elton John is back on the red carpet as he continues to recover from a “severe eye infection.”

Karen Bliss We already know a lot about Elton John. Anyone who hasn’t followed at least some of the ups and downs of his 50-year-plus career as they happened can easily get the gist from the 2019 musical biopic “Rocketman” or his fascinating autobiography, “Me,” or untold thousands of interviews and articles. Now, there’s even more of “me”: the new Disney+ documentary “Never Too Late,” which had its world premiere Friday night at the Toronto International Film Festival 1and will have a limited run in theaters beginning Nov.