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TORONTO — Hot Docs says it will gradually resume programming in early December and host another edition of Canada’s largest documentary film festival next spring, after months of restructuring and cost-cutting.

Alvin Rakoff, the Emmy-winning Canadian filmmaker who directed Sir Laurence Olivier in the 1982 drama "A Voyage Round My Father" and helped kick-start the careers of stars including Sean Connery and Alan Rickman, has died at the age of 97.

Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis went from strangers to father and daughter in short order for the new film “Goodrich.” Before cameras started rolling, they were essentially only able to meet once.

Matt Berry has spent six years playing a suburban New York vampire but he will forever associate "What We Do in The Shadows" with Toronto, where the acclaimed series was filmed.

TORONTO — Even from her native Australia, Cate Blanchett has long felt a connection to Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin’s quirky, singular films.

In an early scene in “Smile 2,” the fictional pop superstar Skye Riley is in her drug dealer's apartment. “Do you believe in weird stuff?” he asks her, between doing lines of coke.

NEW YORK (AP) — You’d be hard pressed to find an upcoming film weirder than “Rumours.

NEW YORK (AP) — You’d be hard pressed to find an upcoming film weirder than “Rumours.

The Japanese entertainment giant Toho has reached an agreement to acquire the Oscar-winning animation outfit GKIDS , the companies said Tuesday.

The Japanese entertainment giant Toho has reached an agreement to acquire the Oscar-winning animation outfit GKIDS , the companies said Tuesday.