(Via Marketwired) The Force is awakening demand for tickets — Cineplex says it’s “seeing unprecedented demand for advanced tickets to Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” So much, in fact, that they’re adding more showtimes
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Festival and Figures in TO
Yesterday, we brought you the story of Guess Who’s Not Coming to Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner? starring Michelle D’Alessandro Hatt, which played last night at the the indiefilmTO Festival. Congratulations to the film’s director Adam
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Storytelling, Funding, Partying, and a Musical T-Rex
(Via PRNewswire) Back on the X-Files trail and on the cover of Montecristo magazine, David Duchovny gets down to the basics of the whole entertainment industry: “[Y]ou’re telling a story or you’re entertaining people—or both,
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Snicket Casting, Whistler Must-Sees, Crowdfunding Student, Killjoys Return
(Via CNW) There’s an international casting call out for two young actors to star in the upcoming Netflix original series, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Characters are Violet, a “not-too-mature 14-year-old” (though
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Shortest Day is Long on Talent and Diversity
(Via CNW) We have some titles for The Shortest Day 2015, the free nationwide film festival that brightens the shortest days of the year with short films for everyone. Here’s a little of what’s to
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Films of Everyday Syria, Residential School Voices, and a 13-Year Commercial Break
The Vancouver Courier has a piece on Abounaddara, “an anonymous collective of volunteer, self-taught artists whose weekly short films offer a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Syrians.” The films offer an alternative view to the
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