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- 9 Oct
- Deadline· 9 OctTIFF Lightbox Sets Animation Season Guest Curated By Masaaki Yuasa
Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Akira and Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3 are among the animated titles that will screen at the TIFF Lightbox as part of Drawn Universes: Visions in Animation, the animation season guest-curated by veteran Japanese filmmaker Masaaki Yuasa.
- The Hollywood Reporter· 9 OctSkydance’s Gerhard Zeiler, Warner Bros. Int’l President, to Depart With Eyes on Politics
"It is surprisingly difficult to find the right words to say goodbye," the Austrian writes in an internal memo obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. "At the end of next week, I will leave the company."
- Variety· 9 OctMargherita Ferrari on Working With Paolo Sorrentino on Directorial Debut ‘Föa — Once Upon a Future’: ‘He Helped Me Pursue and Protect My Vision’
Debuting Italian director Margherita Ferrari is at the Busan International Film Festival with “Föa – Once Upon a Future,” an innovative coming-of-age drama that also marks Paolo Sorrentino’s debut as a producer.
- Book Riot· 9 OctThe Most Read Books on Goodreads This Week
The most read books on Goodreads this week include historical fiction, romance, the new Empyrean novella, and more.
- Book Riot· 9 OctPlease Pass the Creepypasta: 13 Novels Based on Internet Horror
Creepypasta is folklore for the internet age. If you love a scary read, you'll want to pick up these creepypasta novels.
- Book Riot· 9 OctGraphic Novels About Therapy for World Mental Health Day
Read these outstanding graphic novels about therapy to explore the world of mental health and its treatment options.
- Book Riot· 9 OctWant to Fight Book Bans? Start Here.
No one is coming to save us, so we must do it ourselves. Here are 60+ small tasks to help defend the right to read in 2026 and beyond.
- Variety· 9 Oct‘Celeste’ Creator Diego San José, Director Elena Trapé on Turning a Tax Inspector Into ‘Dirty Harry’
After turning Spain’s tax agency into the unlikely engine of a noir-tinged comedy, “Celeste” creator Diego San José and director Elena Trapé are taking aim at something far more sacred in Spain: soccer.
- Deadline· 9 OctSitges-Bound Cypriot Horror ‘Motherwitch’ Sells To North America
EXCLUSIVE: L.A.-based Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American rights for Cyprus-set horror Motherwitch ahead of its screening in the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia next week.
- Literary Hub· 9 OctMarch 5, 1933: The Election That Destroyed German Democracy
Recently, President Donald Trump banned three media organizations from the White House because of their negative coverage of him and his administration. “I mean, there’s something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories,” Trump
- Literary Hub· 9 OctWhat Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man, T. Geronimo Johnson’s The Occidental Book of the Dead, and Nathaniel Philbrick’s The Rush all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews.
- Literary Hub· 9 OctFrom Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 2006, when I started writing the book that would eventually become my debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, I shared my first, tentative pages with a
- Literary Hub· 9 OctQueer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Grey Area in Between
Cross-stitch watercolor by Demetris Papadimitropoulos When Aly changed hir name, hir mother heard more than a new set of syllables. Margaret told researchers in Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith’s study that she felt Aly had “divorced the whole family.” Before
- Literary Hub· 9 OctJérôme Lindon, Jérôme Lindon: On the Relationship Between Jean Echenoz and His Publisher
Jean Echenoz’s Jérôme Lindon recounts, in sixty spare, affectionate, sometimes lightly barbed pages, the twenty-year relationship that its author enjoyed with his publisher, a legend of the French literary establishment. The story begins in 1979 with an unexpected summons to
- Literary Hub· 9 OctHow Navigating the Demands of Academia Helped Me Cope With Terrible Loss
The first summer after my daughter died, I received an email invitation to give a keynote address the next spring. I didn’t know the scholar who invited me, but she’d been told that my daughter had recently died and offered
- Literary Hub· 9 OctAlice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”
It began when I heard a sentence: “He wanted to talk again, suddenly.” The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in
- Variety· 9 OctUTA and Gold House Set Partnership to Build Asia-Hollywood Bridge (EXCLUSIVE)
UTA and Gold House are joining forces at the Busan International Film Festival and in Seoul this month, marking the Asian Pacific advocacy organization’s first official foray into Korea as the two look to connect Asian creatives and investors with Hollywood.
- Literary Hub· 9 OctRoadshow
Annie bought a fifth of whiskey from the liquor store beside the Starbucks because money was imminent, and because Vera’s addendum had knocked something loose that needed fixing, the image of her lips against Tom Selleck’s mustache, again and again,
- Deadline· 9 OctIcelandic Drama ‘Elma’ Set For Siminn Bow As Glassriver Debuts ‘NCU’ At MIPCOM
EXCLUSIVE: Elma, the Icelandic crime thriller series, will launch domestically on Síminn’s streaming service on October 15, as its producer brings new title NCU to MIPCOM.
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