Film News

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s oldest film festival has been canceled amid controversy surrounding a politically sensitive documentary about the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt.

VICTORIA — Tech holding company Tiny Ltd. says it's buying a majority stake in movie review platform Letterboxd. Victoria, B.C.-based Tiny has not shared what it will pay for the 60 per cent stake it will take in the film diary and rating website.

NEW YORK (AP) — Momentum has lately been hard to come by at the movies. The big trio of fall film festivals — Venice, Telluride, Toronto — came and went without the usual amount of buzz. With actors on strike, red carpets have been mostly bare.

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish government on Thursday withdrew its support for the country’s oldest film festival after organizers reversed a decision to exclude a politically sensitive documentary.

TORONTO — Disney Plus is joining the crackdown on password sharing. The Walt Disney Company started emailing its subscribers this week to signal changes to its streaming platform's user agreement, which include "restrictions on account sharing.

The artificial intelligence in Gareth Edwards’ “ The Creator ,” a visually magnificent if by-the-books epic, is not the AI making headlines at the moment.

A mysterious woman, down on her luck and working a miserable job at a tinned fish factory, makes contact with the extremely wealthy father she’s never met — and his suspicious heirs — in the French thriller “The Origin of Evil.

NEW YORK — A career-spanning documentary about celebrated Canadian musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie has been nominated for an International Emmy Award.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s oldest film festival has been thrown into turmoil after jury members resigned and filmmakers withdrew their work from the competition over accusations of censorship.

TORONTO — "Paw Patrol" is on a roll. Only days before the second big-screen instalment in the popular animated kids' franchise hits theatres, its Canadian creators say they've locked in a deal for a third film.