From Venice to Toronto: Festival Favorites and Fall Film Buzz (Ep. 323)

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Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Awards season is heating up, and Jim Hill and Drew Taylor are here to break it all down. From the Venice Film Festival and TIFF premieres to box office shocks and studio shakeups, this episode dives into the films and animated projects making headlines around the globe. Highlights include: Venice Film Festival winners and early buzz from TIFF “The Conjuring: Last Rites” breaking horror records Updates on “The Bad Guys 2” and Aaron Blaise’s hand-drawn short “Snow Bear” Disney’s new animated feature “Hexed” and “Ice Age: Boiling Point” What’s ahead for “Zootopia 2,” LEGO Disney Princess, and Bluey’s big-screen debut Whether you’re tracking festival favorites, the latest box office trends, or Disney’s evolving animation slate, this episode offers insights, context, and commentary you won’t want to miss. Support Our Sponsors Unlocked Magic Unlocked Magic, powered by DVC Rental Store and DVC Resale Market, offers exclusive Disney & Universal ticket savings with TRUSTED service and authenticity. With over $10 MILLION in ticket sales, use Unlocked Magic to get the BIGGEST SAVINGS. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Learn More⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.9	Welcome back to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop,
0:29.8	on the camps of animation news and commentary.
0:32.3	I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can
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0:44.9	the official Mission Impossible podcast. Drew and I are recording this on Sunday, September 7th, so it is what now, officially the weekend after Labor
0:59.1	Day. So correct me if I'm wrong, award season has officially gotten away, underway, or is now about to
1:08.8	get underway? Yeah, I think so. I mean, we're in like kind of festival season now, Jim.
1:13.6	So I feel like, you know, we had Venice tell you right and now Toronto is going on right now.
1:18.7	So I think, yeah, I think we're, I think we're in it.
1:21.8	We're in the thick of it.
1:23.1	Yeah.
1:23.5	And as Drew mentioned, Venice just wrapped up what? On Saturday.
1:28.5	Toronto just got underway on Thursday.
1:32.0	In fact, already some interesting stuff coming out of Toronto between people seem to really like I like me, the John Candy thing.
1:44.0	Likewise, it looks like the third Knives Out movie,
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