World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
TIFF’s Tribute Awards honour Lee Chang-dong, Isabelle Huppert and Seth Rogen as Mirren and Cruz headline the day, Mirzapur: The Movie tops a strong Bollywood week, Nollywood Next launches at TIFF’s Market, Nordic Talents pitches its class of 2026, sad news for costume legend Bob Mackie, and happy birthday to Oliver Stone and Tom Hardy.
Morning all — a proper bumper edition today, taking in Toronto, Mumbai, Lagos and Copenhagen all at once, plus a weekly check-in on some of the industries this newsletter doesn’t cover often enough. Here’s what happened in the world of movies over the last day and the wider week.
TIFF’s Tribute Awards spread the love widely: Toronto’s 8th annual Tribute Awards took over the Fairmont Royal York on Sunday, with South Korean master Lee Chang-dong collecting the Ebert Director Award fresh off Possible Love‘s Silver Lion win at Venice, alongside Tribute Performer honours for Isabelle Huppert and Rosalind Eleazar, the Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award for Helen Mirren, and the Norman Jewison Auteur Award for Seth Rogen. The festival’s kept the momentum going since, with Mirren’s A Talent for Murder and Penélope Cruz and real-life husband Javier Bardem’s Bunker both premiering Monday, and Zack Snyder sneaking his surprise thriller The Last Photograph into the lineup. It’s also worth flagging a genuine structural first for TIFF this year: the launch of TIFF: The Market at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, a proper industry marketplace running alongside the festival for the first time.
Nollywood Next stakes its claim at TIFF’s new Market: Speaking of which, one of the more understated stories to come out of that new Market launch is ‘Nollywood Next’, a fresh industry platform connecting Black filmmakers, producers, distributors and financiers around film financing, co-production and global distribution. It’s a genuinely significant step for an industry that’s increasingly punching above its weight on the world stage — coming in the same week Nigeria and Ghana secured selections across four separate TIFF programmes.
A strong week for Bollywood, led by Mirzapur: The Movie: Zooming out on the week in Indian cinema, Mirzapur: The Movie has emerged as the standout performer, opening September 4th and continuing to hold strong at the top of the domestic chart. It’s been a genuinely lucrative year for Hindi cinema more broadly too, with Dhurandhar: The Revenge now the second-highest-grossing Hindi film of all time behind only Dangal, and Awarapan 2 closing its run as a massive hit with returns north of 200% on its budget.
Nordic Talents unveils its 2026 pitching class: Over in Copenhagen, twelve upcoming filmmakers from across the Nordic region took to the stage at the Danish Film School last week to pitch their debut professional projects to an international jury including UK writer David Farr and Icelandic actor-writer Aníta Briem: a low-key reminder of the pipeline feeding into Nordic cinema’s bigger festival successes down the line.
In a sad piece of news: Legendary American costume designer Bob Mackie has died aged 87, best remembered for the elaborate looks he created for Cher, Dolly Parton, Tina Turner and countless other stars across film, television and the concert stage. A defining visual signature of entertainment glamour for the best part of six decades.
And finally, Happy Birthday to Oliver Stone and Tom Hardy: Rounding things off today, Happy Birthday today to Platoon and JFK filmmaker Oliver Stone, who turns 80, alongside The Dark Knight Rises and Mad Max: Fury Road actor Tom Hardy, turning 49.
That’s your lot for today — with TIFF running through the 20th, expect plenty more from Toronto over the coming days. Until next time.
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