Drew Barrymore had nothing but praise for Canadian actress Ellen Page at today's TIFF conference to promote her new movie, Whip It. Though Page is best known for her starring role in the American film Juno, Barrymore says she had the actress on her radar before the movie came out. "I actually asked her to [...]

At the TIFF press conference promote his new film The Road, Viggo Mortensen angrily denied that he's quitting acting. A prolific actor who's had films screening at the Toronto festival for the past several years, he told reporters how the rumor got started. "I was just honest with someone a little while back who asked [...]

At Norman Jewison's annual TIFF barbecue for his Canadian Film Centre, Kiefer Sutherland, star of the hit television series 24, made a surprise announcement: he's been named the first chair of the Canadian Film Centre's Actors Conservatory. The new school for actors is presented by Canwest and supported by the Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation, which [...]

To see celebrities during TIFF, all you have to do is park yourself on a bench in Yorkville and watch as they make their way to restaurants and visit the high end stores in the area. But if you want to be assured of a celebrity sighting (especially Oprah Winfrey, who has Toronto buzzing about [...]

George Clooney was his usual witty self at the press conference for his new film Up in the Air at the Toronto International Film Festival. In it, he plays a smooth talker who travels to towns where he has to fire people for companies. Although it's a very serious subject, there are comedic moments in [...]

Juno scribe Diablo Cody wrote Jennifer’s Body as a horror movie with blood and guts and stuff, but at its core is the strained friendship between two teenage girls, one popular and one not. When the popular one is sacrificed in a botched satanic ritual, she becomes a demon who eats boys, forcing her best [...]

Jon Voight, who starred with Jane Fonda in the Oscar-winning film Coming Home, released a letter to the media yesterday accusing her of "aiding and abetting those who seek the destruction of Israel" and said she is "backing the wrong people again." Fonda signed her name to a letter of protest against the Toronto International [...]

The Toronto Film Festival starts today, and tonight's gala presentation at the Roy Thomson Hall is Creation, starring married couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles and Emma Darwin. It follows Darwin's struggle to get people to accept his theory of evolution. Also screening tonight is Broken Embraces, starring Penélope Cruz at the Visa [...]

Jane Fonda and Danny Glover are joining the boycott of the Toronto International Film Festival started by Canadian director John Greyson. The reason? TIFF is honoring Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary with a program called City to City. The program spotlights 10 Israeli films, but activists are signing their name to a letter saying they don't want Tel Aviv honored because some [...]

Tom Cruise offered to help complete Heath Ledger's last film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, but was rejected by the film's director, Terry Gilliam, because Cruise had not personally known the late star. Instead, Gilliam hired Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell to play different versions of the character Ledger had begun to portray [...]

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