With the recent casting of Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, Marvel Studios not only cast its first Asian actor in a leading role, but also its first Canadian. However, Simu Liu is not the first Canadian
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Mia Kirshner and Michael Shanks Among Those Cast in Lifetime Depiction of College Admissions Scandal
Mere months after the explosive college admissions scandal that saw at least 51 people arrested on charges that range from mail fraud to money laundering, Lifetime has announced the cast for its depiction of the
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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and a Brief History of its Adaptation
In recent years Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has become one of the most sought after directors in science fiction, which is all the more impressive when you consider that he first ventured into the genre
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Ghostbusters 2020 : The Facts and The Rumours
“If you’re a fan of the Ghostbusters franchise (or maybe even tried the mega-famous Ghostbusters online slot machine), and haven’t been living under a rock, then you’ve likely heard about the reboot by now. No, not the
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Chinese-Canadian Actor Simu Liu Cast in Leading Marvel, and Other Big Announcements
At last week’s San Diego Comic-Con Marvel delivered something of a double whammy…or several whammies, as it happens, but we’ll come to those in a moment. The first of said whammies is that Marvel has
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Former Head of the Director’s Guild of Canada in B.C., Crawford Hawkins, Dies at 85
With the death of Crawford Hawkins on June 25th, Canada has just lost an immensely influential figure, who contributed immeasurably to British Columbia’s film and television production over the past four decades. Born in Brooklyn
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