It’s officially September. Summer is winding down, school is starting, and the Fall film festival circuit has kicked off. By the time you read this, you’ll have seen dozens of our reviews from the Venice Film Festival and Telluride Film Festivals. And so, while TIFF boasts much-anticipated titles like Christos Nikou’s “Fingernails” with Jessie Buckley, Richard Linklater’s “Hitman,” Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers” reuniting him with Paul Giamatti, Michel Franco’s “Memory” with Jessica Chastain, Kitty Green’s “The Royal Hotel” with Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick, you’ll have read our reviews of those now.

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With the WGA and SAG strikes happening right now, there are a lot of questions about what the fall film festival circuit will look like. Will studios pull films if they can’t have stars show up at the events? Will the events be delayed if they can’t produce a quality lineup of features? Well, even though we don’t know the answers to those questions, it appears it’s business as usual over at the Toronto International Film Festival, as the event has announced the first film to make its debut— “Seven Veils” from director Atom Egoyan.

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Actress Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) is coming off a big Emmy win for her portrayal of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s popular crime miniseries “The Dropout.” Another upcoming streaming series on the horizon for the actress is the Apple TV+ project “The Crowded Room,” a series adaptation of “The Minds of Billy Milligan” from Akiva Goldsman that co-stars Tom Holland, Emmy Rossum, Sasha Lane, and more.

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