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The Property Masters Guild handed out its inaugural MacGuffin Awards tonight in Los Angeles, celebrating significant artistic achievements of property masters in film and TV. Winners lauded at the Belasco Theater included Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer and nominee Poor Things, along with Emmy winners The Bear and The Last of Us. See the full list below. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One took the Contemporary Feature Film prize, with Oppenheimer and Poor Things winning for Period and Fantasy/Science Fiction, respectively. Other TV honored by PMG include Lessons in Chemistry, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, That ‘90s Show and the now-wrapped…

DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHTSection: Gala PresentationsDirector: Embeth DavidtzLogline: Based on the book of the same name., Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir by British-Rhodesian author Alexandra Fuller about her childhood in Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. Panelists: Dir. – Embeth DavidtzKey quotes: “The movie’s based on a memoir by the same name [by Alexandra Fuller], which is really the story of a young girl growing up in Africa, in Rhodesia, specifically at the time that the changeover happened from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, and when they gained independence. I read the book and fell in…

Hello Insiders. It’s getting colder in Europe, but the news in TV and film has been hot and spicy in the week Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris. Jesse Whittock here taking you. Let’s go, and don’t forget to sign up here. TIFF‘s Russia Doc Pulled ‘Russians at War’ director Anastasia Trofimova in Venice AFP via Getty Images War doc shelved: This year’s Toronto Film Festival had been surprisingly quiet until Thursday afternoon when the festival said it had paused upcoming screenings of Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova’s documentary Russians at War “effective immediately” after learning about “significant threats to festival operations and public safety.” The decision…

SKETCH Section: TIFF Lightbox Director: Seth Worley Screenwriter: Seth Worley Logline: Still reeling from the unexpected loss of his wife, a single dad (Hale) navigates uncharted territory when his daughter’s comically dark drawings begin to come to life and wreak havoc on their small town. Panelists: Seth Worley, Tony Hale Sales Agent: UTA Premiered: Sept 7 Key Quote: “Most of my adult life I’ve been a parent, and it’s so much of what I know. I either know being a kid or being a parent, you know. So, I wrote everything I knew, and I wrote everything I loved.” –…

Belgian artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, whose latest documentary Soundtrack To a Coup D’Etat is expected to be an Oscar contender, has been named Guest of Honor at the upcoming International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. The honor recognizes a distinguished career that includes Blue Orchids, and his debut feature film, the 1997 documentary dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. IDFA, which runs from Nov. 14-24, will be highlighting the filmmaker’s “uncompromising approach to challenging narratives and reinterpreting historical events through a critical, contemporary lens,” the festival said in a statement. ‘dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y‘ Courtesy of IDFA “Grimonprez first gained international acclaim with his 1997 film dial…

In one of the most explosive documentary premieres in TIFF history, a film sharply critical of Benjamin Netanyahu bowed before a packed house in Toronto Monday night, despite a last-ditch effort by the Israeli prime minister to block it. The Bibi Files, produced by Alex Gibney and directed by Alexis Bloom, contains never-before-seen video of Netanyahu being interrogated by Israeli police on corruption allegations – an investigation that led to Netanyahu’s indictment in 2019. In footage leaked to Gibney late last year, Netanyahu is seen locking horns with interrogators, denying he improperly accepted expensive gifts from wealthy supporters, including Hollywood…

EXCLUSIVE: Zana Gankhuyag and Joseph Carlson are star in Historical Film, an indie flick marking the debut of director Will Bryan. The film also features Gregg Turkington (Marvel’s Ant Man, Fremont), Emily Uribe and Kene Holliday (Great World of Sound, Matlock) among others.   The story follows a Mongolian-American college student who, in order to save his student visa, gets roped into participating in a recreation of the manhunt of John Wilkes Booth while making a zero-budget film about the assassin’s last days. It’s set in and around historic sites in Richmond, Virginia, and made with the participation of members of the Mongolian…

Jude Law’s appearance as rich, beautiful playboy Dickie in the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley secured his international film stardom, but now the British actor has shared why he almost turned down the role.  Law told The Times of London that he was panicking about being typecast at that stage in his career. He said: “It was delusion and madness. There was a panic in my head that I was going to be typecast as this good-looking guy. That’s where my 23-year-old brain was. What I missed, idiotically, were the complexities of that role, but honestly? I just wanted…

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off September 5 with a multi-move opening night that included David Gordon Green’s family comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller. It kicked off a slate of world premieres and buzzy movies across 11 days for the 49th edition of one of North America’s biggest film festivals. Other key titles making their debuts in Toronto include The Luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser, the Amy Adams-starring Nightbitch, theatre guru Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path, DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot and Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck. Documentaries set to make a splash include Elton John:…

Afternoon Insiders, here we are once again, another week and another busy one in the world of international film and TV. Sign up to the newsletter here. Or read on. Splashy Last Week On The Lido Uncharacteristically buzzy: The Venice Film Festival ends tomorrow after an uncharacteristically buzzy second week. The festival is usually front-loaded, with the splashiest titles playing early. This year, however, Alberto Barbera, who dished to Andreas, said the lengthy runtimes of some competition titles meant the spoils had to spread across both weeks. Enter Brady Corbet’s 215-minute post-WWII epic The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe…