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The 2016 edition of the Toronto Film Festival started today, September 8, with a gala presentation of Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke. The night before the official launch, Michael Fassbender was the special guest of another gala, which included a q & a with the actor, musical numbers and a “talk show” hosted by “Jimmy Glick”, aka Martin Short.

When they reunited in You’ve Got Mail fans were overjoyed to have another chance to witness the chemistry which made them famous in Sleepless in Seattle. The movie, which cost only $21 million to make, grossed over $200 million across the globe in 1993, consolidating both Meg Ryan’s and Tom Hanks’ status as hot movie stars.

Buon giorno, John Porno. Past the festival midpoint viewers tend to get a little tired of Hollywood hype as well as artistic or pseudo-artistic international art faire.

Hollywood icons Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks collaborate on Sully, based on the autobiographical book, Highest Duty, about Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, the pilot who landed the US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River, in 2009. Against all odds, Captain Sully saved all 155 lives onboard.

Golden Globe nominated director Pablo Larraín confirms that he is one of the brightest young talents in film making with the world premiere of his Jackie, which screened in competition on the Lido. The Chilean director has a gift for casting an oblique light of famous lives – witness the excellent Neruda, which was just screened in Cannes, on the life of his famous countryman and poet.

Director John Landis came to the Lido with his wife, costume designer and curator Deborah Nadoolman to present the first ever look at the restored version of his 1981 beloved horror classic An American Werewolf in London at the Venice Film Festival. The film is the story of two American college students, Jack (Griffin Dunne) and David (David Naughton) backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them.

With a ten minute standing ovation after the first screening of his Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson could hardly have hoped for a more auspicious return to filmmaking. The Word War II epic marks his fifth feature as a director and the first since Apocalypto ten years ago.

Ulrich Seidl has already won three Venice Festival awards, two for Paradise: Faith in 2012 and the Grand Special Jury Prize for his 2001 feature Hundstage (Dog Days). He is back now with Safari, a film that is shown in the festival’s  documentary section.

Better Things (premiering on FX September 8, 2016) gives Pamela Adlon titles few women are able to access individually, never mind altogether. “Yeah, I’m the writer, producer, actor.

Labor Day weekend is typically a slow one at the domestic box office, as Americans traditionally prefer to enjoy the last days of summer Sun to sitting in air conditioned movie theatres. This frame was no exception.