Some sightings from Day Three to share with you!

•Cynthia Erivo at tiff for PRIMA FACIE
•Margaret Qualley, Aaron Pierre and Gabriel Basso at tiff for LOVE OF YOUR LIFE
•Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen at tiff for BABIES
•Son Suk-ku and Moon Choi at tiff for Bedford Park
•Anthony Ippolito, Kiki Seto, Stephan James and Peter Farrelly at tiff for I PLAY ROCKY
•Lily-Rose Depp, Léa Seydoux and Kelvin Harrison Jr. at tiff for ALPHA GANG

…and several more!

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Today we get a new trailer for tiff ’26 selection LOVE OF YOUR LIFE from Rachel Morrison.

Starring Margaret Qualley, Aaron Pierre, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Basso, and Catherine Keener

Directed by Rachel Morrison

Toronto International Film Festival Premiere September 13, 2026

Streaming Globally on Prime Video October 14, 2026

Love of Your Life is an emotionally expansive and aspirational romance about one woman’s journey after losing a great love of her life, and realizing that through grief, romance, adventure and self-discovery, true love can ultimately be found within yourself.

For Rachel Morrison the story struck deep on a personal level. “The idea that on the other side of profound grief can lie profound appreciation and gratitude is very real and very personal for me. I’ve had a lot of loss in my life, but that loss has been offset by so much love and vitality.”

Directed by Rachel Morrison (The Fire Inside), LOVE OF YOUR LIFE follows Maya (Margaret Qualley), whose chance encounter with Charlie (Gabriel Basso) sets in motion a sweeping romance and a future beyond anything she had imagined. When that future is suddenly upended, Maya is sent hurtling toward an unexpected new life—one that will force her to reckon with who she is, what she wants, and how to love again.

Directed by: Rachel Morrison

Screenplay by: Julia Cox

Cast: Margaret Qualley, Aaron Pierre, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Basso, Catherine Keener, Tamara Lawrance, and Corey Johnson

Produced by: Ryan Gosling, Jessie Henderson

Music by: Dustin O’Halloran

Costume Designer: Jill Taylor

Editor: Jennifer Vecchiarello

Production Designer: Laura Ellis Cricks

Director of Photography: Todd Banhazl

Directed by Rachel Morrison (The Fire Inside), LOVE OF YOUR LIFE follows Maya (Margaret Qualley), whose chance encounter with Charlie (Gabriel Basso) sets in motion a sweeping romance and a future beyond anything she had imagined. When that future is suddenly upended, Maya is sent hurtling toward an unexpected new life—one that will force her to reckon with who she is, what she wants, and how to love again.

Directed by: Rachel Morrison

Screenplay by: Julia Cox

Cast: Margaret Qualley, Aaron Pierre, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Basso, Catherine

Keener, Tamara Lawrance, and Corey Johnson

Produced by: Ryan Gosling, Jessie Henderson

Music: Dustin O’Halloran

Costume Designer: Jill Taylor

Editor: Jennifer Vecchiarello

Production Designer: Laura Ellis Cricks

Director of Photography: Todd Banhazl

Watch the new trailer for John Patton Ford’s How to Make a Killing starring Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley. In theaters February 20, 2026, via VVS Films.

Focus Features and Universal Pictures Canada will release HONEY DON’T! In Theatres Nationwide on Friday, August 22, 2025. This premiered at Cannes to big raves!

Details:

Directed By: Ethan Coen

Written By: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke

Producers: Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke, Robert Graf, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner

Cast: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, Billy Eichner, and Chris Evans

Genre: Dark Comedy

Synopsis: HONEY DON’T! is a dark comedy about Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

(Photo/video credit: Focus Features)

Focus Features and Universal Pictures Canada will release
HONEY DON’T! in theatres Nationwide on Friday, August 22nd
Following a World Premiere at The 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Details:

Directed By: Ethan Coen
Written By: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke
Producers: Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke, Robert Graf, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Cast: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, Billy Eichner, and Chris Evans
Genre: Dark Comedy
Synopsis: HONEY DON’T! is a dark comedy about Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

By David Baldwin

Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) was once Hollywood royalty. Fearing she may fade into total obscurity after getting sacked from her TV fitness show, she turns to a black-market injection program called “The Substance”. Using it creates a younger version of herself, Sue (Margaret Qualley), but it comes with a catch: each body is only allowed to exist for a week at a time before they need to swap back or else they risk irreversible consequences.

You may have an idea of where it goes from there, but trust me when I tell you that nothing can prepare you for THE SUBSTANCE. You will not be the same after watching this satirical nightmare that is as much an indictment of archaic female beauty standards as it is a masterpiece of Body Horror that would make even the genre’s Maestro David Cronenberg blush. I will not mince words – THE SUBSTANCE is disgusting and goes to some absolutely revolting places. In other words, this is one the Midnight Madness sickos are going to adore and anyone else should probably avoid.

I am one of those sickos and I loved every minute of THE SUBSTANCE.

Writer/Director Coralie Fargeat’s first film, the bloody thriller Revenge, was awesome. What she does here in only her second picture makes that film look like an angry Disney Princess movie. She swings for the fences right from the jump, crafting an experience that gradually takes over nearly every one of your senses. The way she incorporates sound is impeccable and her Editing (done alongside Jerome Eltabet and Valentin Féron) is magnificent. While I was not a fan of some of the CGI effects, the stunning makeup work more than makes up for it.

Even better are the genuine special effects on display here: the performances by Moore and Qualley. They are both incredible, firing on all cylinders and delivering the best performances of their careers. They both tap into something primal and give off an aura of raw, animalistic energy that continually grows stronger throughout. They compliment each other and breathe frighteningly real life into Fargeat’s poison-laced dialogue. And though he is used sparingly, Dennis Quaid is deliciously over-the-top as the shit weasel studio executive named (of course he is), Harvey. For my money, he has the most sickening, stomach-churning scene in the entire film – which says a lot given the places this theme park ride from hell takes you.

THE SUBSTANCE screens at TIFF’24:

Thursday, September 5 at 11:59PM at Royal Alexandra Theatre

Friday, September 6 at 7:30PM at Scotiabank Theatre Toronto

Friday, September 13 at 5:45PM at Scotiabank Theatre Toronto

MUBI, the global film distributor, production company and streaming service is thrilled to announce the Canadian release date for Coralie Fargeat’s deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical new film THE SUBSTANCE, which received its World Premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival to riotous acclaim, winning the prize for Best Screenplay. Also, launched today is the new official teaser for the film.

Starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid, this Cannes sensation turns toxic beauty culture inside out with a be-careful-what-you-wish-for fable for the ages. Explosive, provocative and twisted, THE SUBSTANCE announces the arrival of a thrillingly visionary filmmaker.

Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. Seriously. You’ve got to try this new product, The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE.

It generates another you.

A new, younger, more beautiful, more perfect, you. And there’s only one rule: You share time.
One week for you. One week for the new you.
Seven days each. A perfect balance.
Easy. Right?

Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat (Revenge), The Substance stars Demi Moore (G.I. Jane, A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal), Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Maid, Kinds of Kindness, Fosse Verdon), and Dennis Quaid (Far from Heaven, The Rookie, The Day After Tomorrow).

Director of Photography on the film is Benjamin Kracun (Promising Young Woman, Beast), co-editors are Coralie Fargeat, Jerome Eltabet (Revenge) and Valentin Féron, music is composed by Raffertie (I May Destroy You), Production Design is led by Stanislas Reydellet (Le Bal Des Folles), and Costume Design is by Emmanuelle Youchnovski (Café de Flore, La belle époque).

The Substance is produced by Coralie Fargeat, and Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan for Working Title following Fargeat’s acclaimed debut feature Revenge, which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017 and was written, directed and co-edited by Fargeat. Alexandra Loewy of Working Title and Nicolas Royer of A Good Story are Executive Producers.

While this might be our last day at the Festival, it certainly wasn’t our least! The Premiere for Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS took place last night, and the Junket today. The Film not only received a ten-minute standing ovation, but above this, has received the approval of Elvis Presley’s family – and there can be no higher honour. Amanda tells us the Film is told more through the lens of Elvis‘ Manager Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks.

From the junket for Baz Luhrmann‘s ELVIS:

And also Claire Denis’ STARS AT NOON, set in 1984 Nicaragua, about a Businessman and Journalist who find themselves in trouble and trying to escape.

Thanks for checking-out our coverage. Our Amanda Gilmore‘s thoughts on ELVIS here!

(Photo credit: Amanda Gilmore/Mr. Will Wong)

Margaret Qualley stars in upcoming Series MAID. Here’s your first look at this adaptation of Stephanie Land‘s Memoir.

MAID arrives October 1, 2021 on Netflix.

(Photo/video credit: Netflix)