‘The People’s Joker,’ Queer Film Set in Batman Universe, Pulled From TIFF Lineup Due to ‘Rights Issues’

“Hard keeping my mouth sewn shut about this one,” Ryan Reynolds wrote on Twitter, and with that, in a surprise video, the actor announced, “Deadpool 3” finally has a release date: September 6, 2024. What’s more, Reynolds revealed that Hugh Jackman will reprise his role as the X-men Wolverine one final time for the Marvel movie.

Kate Winslet has returned to work after an accident on the set of her new film, Lee, in Croatia. The actor was admitted to hospital after an on-set accident, but resumed filming this week as scheduled, according to Deadline. “Kate slipped and was taken to hospital as a precautionary measure required by the production,” her representatives said.

When people talk about the best films in Kevin Smith’s filmography, it doesn’t typically take long before “Dogma” is brought up. “Dogma” is, by far, his most ambitious film, telling the story of two fallen angels attempting to find a loophole to earn their way back into Heaven.

Kate Winslet was taken to hospital after suffering a fall on a film set in Croatia over the weekend. On Sunday, local press outlets published images of the British actress arriving at a hospital in Dubrovnik along with her team.

Naman Ramachandran Filmmaker R. Balki and actor Dulquer Salmaan are teaming for the first time on “Chup,” a thriller where a serial killer brutally murders Bollywood film critics and carves star ratings on their foreheads. The cast also includes Bollywood veterans Sunny Deol (“Gadar: Ek Prem Katha”) and Pooja Bhatt (Netflix’s “Bombay Begums”), Shreya Dhanwanthary (Amazon Prime Video’s “The Family Man”) and Tamil-language cinema stalwart Saranya Ponvannan (“Viruman”). Balki, whose credits include “Cheeni Kum” (2007) and “Paa” (2009), both starring Amitabh Bachchan, last directed “Pad Man” (2018), starring Akshay Kumar.

Guy Lodge Film Critic In the little-remembered 1950 noir “The Damned Don’t Cry,” Joan Crawford plays a Texan housewife whose grief for her late son spurs her to make a new life for herself in the urban underworld. Fyzal Boulifa’s exquisite new film of the same title is named expressly for that Crawford vehicle, but is neither a remake nor a direct homage. Rather, it remixes the narrative components of that film and others of its ilk into the kind of new-school-old-school heart-tugger — one might say tearjerker if its characters weren’t, true to its title, stoically dry-eyed throughout — that might have been designed for the shoulder-padded diva were she alive in 2022 and, perhaps more crucially, of Moroccan heritage. 

social media post, on the eve of the film’s premiere, “a media conglomerate that shall remain nameless sent me an angry letter (misreported as a “cease and desist”) pressuring to not screen.”“The People’s Joker” is a mixed media film set in Gotham City that re-imagines Batman villain the Joker as a trans person in a city where comedy has been criminalized. As an independent film, it was made by Drew without permission from Warner Bros.

TIFF website said.“The filmmaker has withdrawn this film due to rights issues,” the statement read. “We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued a warning that changes will be made to benefit and credit payments on Monday, September 19.

Taipei Houston – the band comprising Myles and Layne Ulrich, sons of Metallica drummer Lars – have announced their debut album.The Ulrich brothers announced the formation of their band in the summer of 2021, and played their first gig together in Long Beach, California last September.On November 4, they will release debut album ‘Once Bit Never Bored’ via C3 Records. Today (September 14), it is being previewed by new single ‘The Middle’.The track follows the band’s debut single ‘As The Sun Sets’, which was shared earlier this year.Of their new band, the brothers said in a statement: “To us, Taipei Houston is about going against the grain in every aspect.

Vera Drew has removed her film The People’s Joker from the Toronto Film Festival lineup, per fest organizers.

Manori Ravindran International Editor The director of “The People’s Joker,” a queer coming-of-age movie set in the Batman universe, has pulled the movie from the Toronto International Film Festival over alleged “rights issues.” Helmed by Los Angeles-based director Vera Drew, the mixed-media movie follows an aspiring clown (played by Drew) struggling with her gender identity while dreaming of being cast in a TV sketch show among a cast of Jokers and Harlequins. An official synopsis from TIFF reads: “With comedy criminalized in Gotham City, the show is the only government-sanctioned space for funny people, but only those who will toe the party line. Disillusioned by a botched audition, Vera partners with a birdlike slacker to found their own alternative comedy troupe, attracting not only a rogues’ gallery of would-be comics, but also the ire of a fascistic caped crusader.”

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The European Film Academy will honor Palestinian auteur Elia Suleiman with its European Achievement in World Cinema Award. The Paris-based Suleiman, whose most recent work “It Must Be Heaven” premiered in 2019 at Cannes, is the first Palestinian director to win this prestigious prize. Suleiman will be an honorary guest at the 35th European Film Awards ceremony to be held on Dec. 10 in Reykjavik. Born in Nazareth, Suleiman started his career in New York where in the early 1990s he shot two short films, “Introduction to the End of an Argument” and “Homage by Assassination” which won several prizes.

Deadline’s studio at the 2022 edition of the Toronto Film Festival continued with Day 3 by hosting fest-goers such as Tilda Swinton from The Eternal Daughter; Daniel Craig from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; Jennifer Lawrence from Causeway; Olivia Coleman from Empire Of Light and Margaret Qualley from Sanctuary. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery.

Magnolia Pictures acquired North American rights to Blue Jean, the directorial debut of Georgia Oakley which just world-premiered in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival. Pic stars Rosy McEwen and won Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (GdA) People’s Choice award. Magnolia plans to release the film next year.

Deadline’s studio at the 2022 edition of the Toronto Film Festival continued with Day 2 by hosting fest-goers such as Viola Davis and John Boyega from The Woman King; Sterling K. Brown from Biosphere; Lily James from What’s Love Got To Do With It? and Eddie Redmayne from The Good Nurse. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery.

Marta Balaga With its seventh edition coming to an end, Venice’s Book Adaptation Rights Market (BARM) is already eyeing the future. The three-day event – taking place during the Italian fest – is now recognized as the third most important annual rendezvous by the publishers, states Pascal Diot, head of industry sidebar Venice Production Bridge. “It’s starting to be ‘the’ event for the publishers to attend,” agrees VPB’s Chiara Marin. “Before, I would go to all these book fairs and when I would mention Venice Film Festival, people would go: ‘What are you doing here?,’ ” she laughs.

Deadline launched Day 1 of its photo studio at the Toronto Film Festival, as cast members of TIFF-premiering films stopped by including Nicolas Cage, from Butcher’s Crossing; Luke Macfarlane and Billy Eichner from Bros; Gabrielle Union and Jeremy Pope from The Inspection; and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery. 

UPDATED w/TIFF Statement: Sparta, the German-Romanian drama from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl that is in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto Film Festival, has been pulled from the festival lineup.