Film News

J.K. Simmons has no regrets about playing the long game in work and love. The Oscar-winning actor was 42 when he appeared in his first major screen role on HBO’s “Oz” as white supremacist prisoner Vern Schillinger in 1997.

A group of incarcerated fathers are warned in the documentary “Daughters” that they’re about to go on “emotional rollercoasters.” A truer prediction has never been uttered.

TORONTO — Jason Reitman's chronicle of the early days of "Saturday Night Live" is headed to the Toronto International Film Festival.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Angela Patton has devoted her career to listening to the needs of young girls.

NEW YORK (AP) — In the Ryan Reynolds-Blake Lively box-office showdown, both husband and wife came out winners.

TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. continued to feel the impacts of twin Hollywood strikes in its second quarter, but the end of the period marked a turning point.

TORONTO — A four-part docuseries on The Tragically Hip and film shorts from Oscar-winner Torill Kove and actor Connor Jessup are among the homegrown additions to the Toronto International Film Festival.

Julian Brave NoiseCat initially didn’t want “Sugarcane” to be such a personal film. The Indigenous filmmaker says he intended to remain behind the camera for the Sundance prize-winning documentary, which he co-directed with Toronto’s Emily Kassie.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) — While filming “Alien: Romulus,” Cailee Spaeny didn’t have to dig too deep to muster up sheer terror. She was often facing off against real creatures on set — or as close to real as they could get.

TORONTO — Documentaries about the rise and fall of Vice Media and efforts to return cultural artifacts to Indigenous nations are among the projects heading to the Toronto International Film Festival.