Projects with Keke Palmer, Jeremy Irons, Alan Cumming and Deepa Mehta are among the selection of projects at TIFF’s first international financing and project market. 

TIFF: The Market, which runs September 10-16, will launch 51 projects – 40 features, six series and five innovative or immersive works – that are all looking for production and financing partners. Highlights in the list include animated feature Central Park Tale with a voice cast including Palmer, Cumming, Common and Regina Hall; Sher, a collaboration between Fire, Earth, Water helmer Deepa Mehta and Jeremy Irons; and a drama starring Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin (CODA) and Jacob Tremblay (Room).  

The full list of projects is here. 

TIFF: The Market, which is presented by Ontario Creates, will unite more than 50 established producers with influential financiers, distributors, sales agents and execs who can help launch their projects worldwide.

Focus will be on content in advanced development, financing and packaging stages. Selected producers from Canada, Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Taiwan, the Philippines, the UK, U.S. and Zimbabwe will all take center stage in a series of sessions highlighting their presentation and networking skills before an engaged audience of peers, investors and industry leaders. 

Additional participant perks include visibility across TIFF: The Market and industry platforms, access to TIFF’s digital meeting tools and the chance to compete for a range of industry awards. 

“The projects, the award-winning talent and the enthusiasm amongst key decision makers all reflect the emphasis we’ve placed on closing the loop between the ideas and the investments that fuel our global industry,” said Charles Tremblay, Head of TIFF: The Market. “When projects find the right champions, opportunities become reality and exceptional stories continue to be developed, financed and produced and shared with audiences across the globe.” 

After seven years of sobriety, Brad Pitt says he’s drinking again — in moderation.

The F1 and Fight Club star told Esquire that he’s off the wagon.

The topic came up after Pitt offered the interviewer a glass of wine, prompting him to wonder whether the wine was only for guests.

“No, I got—I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,” Pitt said with a “little laugh,” before holding a finger up to emphasize this next part: “In a more restrained manner. I got overconfident a couple times, went, ‘Yep, nope, not good for me.’ Not in big quantities.”

Asked what that meant in practice, the 62-year-old star explained, “ I can have a few [glasses of wine]. But I can’t have a lot. I have to be professional about it.”

In a 2017 GQ interview, Pitt talked about getting sober and said he couldn’t remember a day since leaving college when he wasn’t drinking, smoking pot, or using something. He also noted he loved wine and had taken it too far. In 2019, Pitt told The New York Times he spent a year and a half in an all-male recovery group in Alcoholics Anonymous. In 2020, Pitt publicly thanked Bradley Cooper at the National Board of Review gala for helping him get sober.

Given the timeline, and Pitt saying he’d been sober for seven years, it sounds like the actor has been off the wagon for at least a couple years.

Pitt was also asked about reprising the role of stuntman Cliff Booth in Netflix’s upcoming The Adventures of Cliff Booth movie at Netflix (which is directed by David Fincher and written by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood writer-director Quentin Tarantino).

The interviewer was shown the film’s first 24 minutes, and described the footage as “a movie lover’s dream … Fincher’s kill-shot direction of Tarantino’s ace script and Pitt carrying the whole thing with a smirk? Make another one.”

Pitt described the film as playing more like a series of episodic TV segments strung together than a sequel per se.

The Cliff Booth film is scheduled to be released Nov. 25 as an Imax exclusive for two weeks before debuting on Netflix on Dec. 23.

A couple of months after production wrapped on the untitled high-school hockey drama series headlined by Michelle Monaghan, Netflix is revealing more cast members — and a title, The Sticks. NCIS: New Orleans alum Scott Bakula, in his return to television, and Logan Marshall-Green, currently filming Season 2 of his hit CBS series Marshalls, are series regulars, alongside young actress Alex MacIsaac (The Social Reckoning, When Calls The Heart).

Bryan Greenberg (Suits LA, Emily in Paris) and Patrick Gallagher (Big Sky, Night at the Museum) are among seven recurring cast members that had not been officially announced.

Netflix also has released behind-the-scenes first-look images from the set of The Sticks, part of a wave of hockey-themed series that includes hits Crave/HBO Max’s Heated Rivalry and Prime Video’s Off Campus.

The Sticks’ previously unveiled cast includes Monaghan (as Harper Sullivan), Emilie Bierre (as Riley Sullivan), Shai Chase (as Henry Sullivan), Josh Macqueen (as Rhett Nelson), Costa D’Angelo (as Owen Boone), Carter Shimp (as Austin Ryder), Ethan Holder (as Cooper Cunningham), Isaac Arellanes (as Manny Rodriguez), Chloe Avakian (as Izzy Miller), Caleb Baumann (as Elu), River Codack (as Tyler Walker), Angus Albinati (as Jack McGrath) and Callum Orchison (as Derek Marchbanks).

In The Sticks, from Nick Naveda, Bridget Bedard and 21 Laps, after tragedy shatters a small Minnesota hockey town, a grieving wife (Monaghan) steps behind the bench of the team her husband built, guiding a found family of wounded young athletes through a season of loss, love, and rivalry that will decide whether South Dorothy has anything left to believe in, and who will lead it into its next chapter.

Bakula (Quantum Leap) plays Coach Brody; Marshall-Green, currently seen in The Odyssey, plays Coach Sully; MacIsaac, who guest stars on Netflix’s upcoming Hollywood Arts, plays Emma Boone.

Here are more details about the newly announced recurring cast additions:
○ Bryan Greenberg plays Cliff Barnes.
○ Chelsea Field (NCIS: New Orleans, The Last Boy Scout) plays Alice Hansen.
○ Patrick Gallagher plays Principal Montgomery.
○ Alison Araya (Peacemaker, Riverdale, Family Law) plays Joan Garcia.
○ Aman Smardon (Allegiance) plays Kai Becker.
○ Krista Bridges (Narc, Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy) plays Frankie Ryder.
○ Ben Cotton (Trinity, The Night Agent, Resident Alien) plays Mr. Marchbanks.

Creator Naveda and showrunner Bedard executive produce the eight-episode series alongside Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Robert Atwood for 21 Laps and director Trey Edward Shults (101, 102).