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‘Family Stone 2’ Gets Official Title ‘The Families Stone’ and Sets Cast: Rachel McAdams, Sarah Jessica Parker and More Returning
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Jorge Alonso’s Spanish Romance Drama ‘All That We Never Were’ Sells to France and India (EXCLUSIVE)
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has closed deals announced at the Toronto Film Festival for Spanish romantic drama “All That We Never Were” (“Todo lo que nunca fuimos”). Based on the best-selling novel by Alice Kellen, the film sold to Swift for France and French-speaking territories and to MVP for India and the Indian subcontinent. A further […]
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‘Boatbuilders’ Review: A Mellow Maine Boatyard Study That Offers All the Quiet Rewards of Fine Craftsmanship in Action
There are few things as calmingly enjoyable as the modest, closeup spectacle of an expert craftsman at work. Whether the trade is cooking or carpentry, watching them ply their trade with equal parts ease and intense concentration is both gratifyingly instructional and escapist: a hands-off education in something you’ll never be able to do as […]
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Filmax Launches Mar Olid’s ‘The Wedding Hustlers’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Filmax is launching Mar Olid’s romantic comedy “The Wedding Hustlers” (“Si te he visto no me acuerdo”) internationally with a first promo for buyers at TIFF, ahead of its Spanish theatrical release in 2027. The film is produced by Filmax, Bixagu Entertainment and Pompón AIE, with the participation of paybox Movistar Plus, pubcaster RTVE and […]
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Toronto Title ‘Sisters,’ Starring Spain’s Elena Anaya and Emma Suarez, Forces a Family to Visit Fears and Taboos
“Sisters” (“Hermanas”) will have its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival, running September 10-20. Written and directed by Ione Hernández Sáenz (“1% Schizophrenia”) and starring Elena Anaya ( The Skin I Live In, Room in Rome ) and Emma Suárez ( Julieta, The Next Skin ), the Spanish film is an intergenerational family […]
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Antonio Banderas, Trudie Styler and Eva Birthistle on the Sorrow and Joy of TIFF Medical Dramedy ‘Up Against It’
When it comes to “Up Against It,” a TIFF title premiering Sept. 12, director Trudie Styler says, “I know this story like the back of my hand.” She means that doubly. Not merely had she been mulling whether or not to take on the screenplay for years, and participated in workshopping it (including changing its […]
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Menswear Designer Todd Snyder on His Brand’s 15th Anniversary and Having Ryan Gosling and Matt Bomer as His First Celebrity Customers
Fashion designer Todd Snyder remembers the first time he learned a celebrity was a fan of his work. It was 2013, just two years after he launched his eponymous menswear brand following career-making turns at Ralph Lauren, Gap Inc. and J. Crew. “We were all sitting there together because it was maybe only five of […]