After a flurry of fall festival activity in Venice and Telluride, the curtain is coming down on another year at TIFF. Careers were boosted, dark horses gained traction and blades were sharpened. Here are our biggest takeaways. Chris Rock Atmosphere at Variety and YouTube Creator Screening Series at TIFF held at TIFF Lightbox on September
The dramatic drop in 2025 French TV export figures may have cast a shadow over this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous TV market in Le Havre. Yet, like the skies over the Normandy coast, the gloom proved fleeting. Local sellers, rather than disheartened, are already navigating the current challenges and discovering new opportunities in the process. Indeed,
Trump has long thrown out unconventional ideas at rallies. On Wednesday night, that came in the form of an offer to pay every adult US citizen $5,000 (£3,700) if Republicans win both chambers of Congress in November. The only caveat, Trump said, was the money would have to be spent in the US. He offered
On my last morning in Telluride, halfway through breakfast at Butcher & Baker, Kenneth Branagh stopped at the table on his way to a Q&A for “Into the Breach,” the National Theatre documentary he produced. He had a story. A night earlier, he’d ridden the gondola up in pitch darkness with Willem Dafoe, Tom Hiddleston
There’s also an array of clothes you can equip your characters with, which Rockstar has apparently coordinated with real-life fashion designers to put in the game. Some of these, however, may only come with the $100 Ultimate Edition that people are very mad about. Maybe Don’t Hit and Run The NPCs in the game appear
Bill Gates has warned that the world needs to do more to prepare for a “turbulent AI era” before workers are “displaced or underemployed.” In a nearly 5,900-word blog post published on Wednesday, the Microsoft cofounder said that AI and robotics will eventually reach beyond the white-collar jobs already under pressure from the technology. “In
