‘Run The Burbs’ Producer Pier 21 Films Names New CEOs As Founder Laszlo Barna Becomes Chair

In exciting news for movie lovers and soccer enthusiasts alike, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced that Taika Waititi’s soccer comedy, “Next Goal Wins”, will have its world premiere at the 48th edition of the festival.

Naman Ramachandran Paramount+ Australia has greenlit a second, eight-part season of hit crime drama series “Last King of The Cross.” Inspired by John Ibrahim’s autobiography, the series charts the rise of a poverty-stricken immigrant with no education, no money, and no prospects to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul and is set in Sydney’s decadent Kings Cross district in the late 1980s and 1990s. Season 2 (8 x 60′) will further explore the dangerous world of Kings Cross, as Ibrahim expands his empire into the booming queer nightclub scene. Set against the backdrop of the ecstasy-fueled 2000s, the stakes are higher than ever before, and everyone wants a piece – including John’s two younger brothers.

The exciting announcement was made on Thursday the 17th of November, delighting fans worldwide. 

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor The creators of “Accidentally Wes Anderson” had no idea what was coming when they launched their Instagram page. Wally and Amanda Koval started the account in 2017 to celebrate visually-appealing buildings and landscapes around the world that looked as if they could have inspired Wes Anderson films. From tiny libraries in New Zealand to, of course, lighthouses in Canada, the Instagram page, with 1.8 million followers, and its accompanying website curate colorful, symmetrical and historic tableaux that might have sprung directly from a scene in “The Grand Budapest Hotel” or “The French Dispatch” — except they’re submitted by photographers from around the world.

“Paw Patrol Live” is currently midway through their 2023 tours — “Race To The Rescue” and “The Great Pirate Adventure” — that will take your favorite heroic pups to venues in the U.S. and Canada from June through December.And if you were wondering whether or not they’d make it to the northeast, we’re happy to report that the traveling show will close their year out at Newark, NJ’s Newark Performing Arts Center with five shows on Dec. 29-30.They’ll sing, dance and save the day at 10 a.m., 2 p.m.

The adventures of “Queen of the Universe” season 2 are about to get bigger and better than ever before.

The 1975 have announced their ‘Still … At their very best’ 2023 North American Tour. check out the complete list of dates below.The tour will see the band perform in arenas across North America and Canada throughout autumn.

K.J. Yossman “Reginald the Vampire” producer December Films has inked a first-look deal with Cineflix Studios (“Tehran”). The first project to come out of the deal is a new ten-part series, “Carpe Demon” from showrunner Emily Andras (“Wynonna Earp”). Based on the Julie Kenner novels of the same name, the series about a demon hunting suburban mom is in development for Paramount+ Canada. Canada and LA-based December Films launched in 2020, founded by Julie DiCresce and Todd Berger. The company has numerous series in productions and is in post on feature “Out Come the Wolves” for IFC Films, Altitude Films and Level Film and rom-com “Bootcamp.”

Ethan Shanfeld The 1975 has announced the “Still… At Their Very Best” fall tour, the band’s biggest North American tour to date. The Matty Healy-led group will take their fifth album, “Being Funny in a Foreign Language,” across the U.S. and Canada for the second time since its October 2022 release. The tour will kick off Sept. 26 in Sacramento, Calif., and end Dec. 2 in Seattle. The band had teased the tour on social media throughout the month, posting vague visuals and linking to an online registration form. The 1975’s prior “At Their Very Best” tour started in October 2022 in the U.S. and then moved around the U.K., Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The show included an intricately decorated life-size house for a set, two distinct acts and a narrative interlude.

Amber Dowling In 1998, Glen Salzman and Katherine Buck launched Montreal-based Cineflix Media with one of its first series, “Dogs with Jobs.” Unable to secure Canadian financing, they pitched the series at the Banff World Media Festival to international broadcasters during a market simulation session. From there, the company produced five seasons of the factual series, which continues to sell internationally. More impressively, it was the beginning of Cineflix growing from a company with three factual shows into one of Canada’s largest independent producers, with creative, production and distribution arms in Montreal, Toronto, New York, London and Dublin.

Holly Jones Successful Argentinean YouTube Channel, The Children’s Kingdom (El Reino Infantil), will team with kidoodle.tv, the safe streaming network, to bring their slate of inventive children’s programming to the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. “The alliance with Kidoodle opens the path for us to continue to expand our brand globally and grow our content in the English-speaking market. We are very proud to be part of this platform with “Zenon the Farmer” and “Bichikids,” two of our main IPs,” said Agostina Sanzio, marketing and communications manager at Leader Entertainment. “We continue working so that The Children’s Kingdom is the home of reference content for parents and preferred by children,” she told Variety.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter After less than two weeks of release, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” has surpassed the entire box office run of its predecessor, 2018’s Oscar-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Over the weekend, the comic book sequel hit $226 million in North America and $390 million globally. It now stands as Sony’s highest-grossing animated release in history. The original film, also a box office winner, tapped out with $190 in North America and $384 million globally. Despite competition from Paramount’s “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” which opened to $60 million and targets a similar audience of younger males, “Spider-Verse” added $55 million in its second weekend of release, a decline of $55% from its huge $120 million debut.

Film and television writers from around the world will be picketing and rallying Wednesday in support of the Writers Guild strike, which is now in its 39th day.

Shawn Mendes splits opinion with his return to music as he drops single about how the Canadian wildfires have affected New YorkWhile the likes of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are drawing in big dollars for their respective 2023 tours, Shawn Mendes is making his musical comeback after cancelling his tour last summer to focus on his mental health. However, the year-long wait for Shawn’s return to the music industry has not been met with the most warmth from fans after he promoted his newest single ‘What The Hell Are We Dying For?’The 24-year-old singer shared a picture of the New York skyline surrounded by fog as a result of wildfires in his home country Canada with the caption:“WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DYING FOR? OUT NOW Started writing this song yesterday morning with my friends in upstate New York & finished it only a few hours ago.

Summer is officially on the horizon.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The name Preston Mutanga might not ring a bell, but anyone who has contributed to the $235 million and counting box office haul for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” has seen his work on the big screen. Mutanga is a 14-year-old from Toronto, Canada, who landed a role as an animator on “Across the Spider-Verse” after he recreated the film’s trailer shot-for-shot in the style of LEGO blocks and left producers Chris Lord and Phil Miller dazzled (via The New York Times). Not too bad for your industry debut. Mutanga uploaded his LEGO remake of the “Across the Spider-Verse” trailer to Twitter on Jan. 2 (see the post below). Lord and Miller, both active Twitter users, caught wind of the clip and were impressed — the directors know a thing or two about crafting LEGO-inspired sequences as the directors of 2014’s “The LEGO Movie.” When the team decided they wanted a scene in “Across the Spider-Verse” set in a LEGO universe, they decided to reach out to Mutanga.

The day that SAG-AFTRA began its talks with Hollywood studios over its own film and TV contract with a strike authorization in hand, picketing Writers Guild members on Wednesday hit up Disney and Warner Bros in Burbank.

woke up to find their cities engulfed in smoke,which as the day progressed turned into a hazy, deep orange sky— a result of the smoke traveling south from ongoing wildfires in Nova Scotia, Canada. With the Manhattan skyline and its landmarks eerily disappearing into the yellow fog, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality health advisory through Thursday, citing "unhealthy" quality levels, which have now been deemed the worst of any city in the world, according to according to IQAir, a Swiss monitoring service.

Broadway’s Hamilton and Camelot are the latest New York City productions canceling performances tonight due to issues caused by the region’s historically bad air quality.

RuPaul is the undisputed queen of self-confidence — and he shares his tips for learning how to love yourself in the new issue of Us Weekly.