Festival Buzz
"The Young Victoria," which will close the Toronto International Film Festival with a gala screening Saturday night, stars Emily Blunt as the feisty queen and Rupert Friend as the charming man she falls for.
Jack White admits he was apprehensive about having a documentary made on his band, The White Stripes. The lead vocalist and guitarist and drummer Meg White have been very private about their personal lives throughout the rock group's 12-year history.
Ed Norton wasn't looking for a job when the script for "Leaves of Grass" was put in his hands. The star of such films as "Fight Club" and "The Incredible Hulk" said he was doing some writing of his own and was "determined to keep the doors closed."
Can Michael Cera do no wrong? You can't help but wonder when you watch "Youth in Revolt," the latest in a string of Cera films that have hit just the right spot with audiences -- and Hollywood execs.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody and Canadian producer Jason Reitman praised Fox for the imposing, steely-eyed presence she brought to the set of their high school horror film "Jennifer's Body."
Seven Irish features, including two featuring Dublin star Colin Farrell, are part of this year's movie marathon, offering snapshots of rolling green hills, rocky shores, rugged seafarers and gritty gangsters.
The "I" in TIFF could just as well stand for "interactive" as it does "international." New public terminals allow filmgoers to make their own mini-documentaries.
"It's been fun. But good things never last," laughs one employee at the Four Season Hotel, as Toronto begins to recover from its end-of-summer fling with Hollywood.
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Even though nearly 20 months have passed since Heath Ledger's sudden death from an accidental prescription drug overdose, Terry Gilliam says he still can't quite believe that the star is gone.
Director Bernard Emond says he realized instantly that the town of Normetal, Que., was the perfect setting for his new movie "La Donation."
The competitive, violent and masculine world of 1970s British soccer seems, at first blush, an unlikely setting for a bromance.
Matt Damon's comedic turn as an agri-business executive who goes to the FBI with the inside scoop on his employer's criminal wrongdoing definitely isn't your "father's whistleblower movie."
As TIFF's madness takes its toll, turning harried journos into a messed-up blur of wardrobe wrinkles, Tom Ford and Colin Firth sail far above that fashion frazzle.
Attention Megan Fox: You could learn a thing or two from the truly sexy, uber-talented Patricia Clarkson. Constance Droganes on this encounter with the the fashionable and polite star of "Cairo Time."
On Day 6 of TIFF, Sheri Block had some fun. "Even though I'd already attended press conferences with the likes of Matt Damon and George Clooney, I was on a mission to get up close with even more of my celebrity crushes. So began a mission of star spotting..."
When J. Lo was out, "Nay Po" dove in and the result was pitch-perfect, says Don Roos, writer-director of "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," starring Natalie Portman.
Colin Farrell, who has a six-year-old son with an ex-girlfriend Kim Bordenave, confirmed this week he's expecting another child with his co-star Alicja Bachleda.
Rebecca Miller wrote a novel called "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" and then adapted it into a movie starring Robin Wright Penn and Keanu Reeves. Now she's ready to let the character go.
Keanu Reeves remembered Patrick Swayze happily leaping out of planes during the filming of "Point Break." Drew Barrymore called the "Dirty Dancing" actor "the nicest man that one could ever meet." And Rob Lowe felt like he lost a brother.
Jane Fonda is expressing regret over endorsing a protest letter that targets an Israeli film spotlight at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Werner Herzog says he's often perceived as a sombre and brooding director, but that's really not the case.
Behind the scenes, Clive Owen is a family man. But on-screen, he's rarely played one, opting instead for more sinister characters in films such as "Closer" and "Inside Man."
Tears, joy, standing ovations... TIFF audiences didn't hold back the love after watching "The Road," John Hillcoat's moving adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Ricky Gervais loves to make people laugh and the press conference for his new film "The Invention of Lying" was no exception.
In the French-language film "Partir," Kristin Scott Thomas plays a well-to-do wife who abruptly leaves her family to pursue a white-hot sexual affair with a working class Spaniard.
Atom Egoyan had an unusual ally in helping to find the intimacy at the core of his new erotic drama "Chloe" -- a harsh Canadian winter.
Kiefer Sutherland, the Canadian actor who plays action hero Jack Bauer in the popular TV series "24," has been appointed chair of the Canadian Film Centre's Actors Conservatory.
As actress Lisa Ray promotes her new film, "Cooking With Stella, the blosphere is stregthening her as seh battles an incurable bone marrow cancer called multiple myeloma.
Day three at TIFF put the focus on serious Oscar contenders, including Oprah Winfrey's new movie, and new entries from Jane Campion, Viggo Mortensen and Patricia Clarkson. Constance Droganes on her Sunday newsers and screeners.
Canadian director Matthew Bissonnette ("Passenger Side"): 'So it is Monday morning and I am finally getting back to me first love: blogging. Weekend was busy, as we screened the film twice, had a party...'
Oprah Winfrey may have been instrumental in getting Barack Obama elected president, but now claims she's on the sidelines. Oprah made her comments Sunday night at the world premiere of "Precious" at TIFF.
Artists angered by a spotlight on Israeli films at the Toronto International Film Festival insisted they are not calling for a boycott as they continued to draw the ire of a growing list of celebrity critics.
Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page and the rest of the cast from "Whip It" dropped by a live roller derby exhibition Sunday night, before heading to the film's world premiere at a nearby theatre.
CTV.ca journalist Josh Visser, who usually covers politics, reports on his night on the town chasing celebs for the Toronto International Film Festival. "I am never mocking entertainment journalists again -- that's the lesson I've learned."
Although she tried her hand at acting in New York and L.A., it wasn't until Sari Lennick moved to Minnesota and became a housewife that she got her big break.
Just like the rest of us, Ben Barnes can't resist a little TIFF star gazing. "Oh wow. It's Viggo," says the young film star, as he's being escorted into an interview with CTV.ca's Constance Droganes.
Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee portray father and son in the harrowing survival tale "The Road," but appeared more like a pair of wise-cracking pranksters as they unleashed lighthearted barbs at reporters.
Joel and Ethan Coen head back to the landscape of their childhood for their new movie, "A Serious Man," which is having its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Oprah Winfrey says audiences shouldn't be daunted by the dark subject matter of her latest film project. Winfrey is the executive producer of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," which is screening at TIFF.
George Clooney makes his second appearance for a TIFF news conference, this time to promote a movie about a corporate hitman who spends more than 300 days a year "Up in the Air." The movie also touches on deeper issues of job loss and the economic crisis.
Willem Dafoe suffers big-time for his art in "Antichrist" and comes out the king of controversial roles in 2009. Constance Droganes on the cringe-inducing screening and press conference.
To hear Amanda Seyfried tell it, what you do with your tongue in Hollywood depends on your generation.
British director Oliver Parker says Michael Jackson came to mind as he made his new film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's gothic horror novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," about a young man corrupted by the pursuit of eternal youth.
The Coen brothers are looking to reunite with the star of their 1998 cult hit "The Big Lebowski" in a remake of the western classic "True Grit."
A quick Internet search of Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall calls up a number of impending projects, some of which include such big-name co-stars as Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and James Caan.
Michael Caine has had a prolific movie career, but the screen legend says he could quit at any time.
Michael Douglas says he's amazed that his "Wall Street" character Gordon Gekko has become so iconic.
Oscar-winning director Jane Campion is eyeing Canadian talent as she scouts for stars for her film adaptation of Alice Munro's short story, "Runaway."
