Our oceans are a gateway to the unknown — but the creatures at home in their mysterious depths are more like us than we could possibly imagine. From the Emmy Award-winning filmmakers behind Our Great National Parks comes an unprecedented five-part opportunity to meet the awe-inspiring animals that dwell above, inside, and deep beneath the great current that powers and sustains everything on Earth.

Details:

Narrated by Barack Obama

Our Oceans premieres November 20, 2024 only on Netflix.

ABOUT OUR OCEANS

Series Premiere Date: November 20, 2024
Narrated by Barack Obama
Synopsis: Our planet’s five oceans are driven by a single, all-powerful engine: the “Global Ocean Current”, a thousand-year phenomenon that links their diverse ecosystems into one giant lifeforce, fueling existence as we know it. From the tiny, tenacious cuttlefish to the gracefully enormous blue whale, every ocean-dwelling creature relies on that current to provide the resources they require to survive. A lonely puffin awaiting his mate in the North Atlantic is linked to the bioluminescent spectaculars off Southern California; bottlenose dolphins in the Indian Ocean frolic in the same waters as polar bear cubs in the Arctic. As the current flows past clownfish circling colorful coral reefs in the Western Pacific to the frigid Antarctic ice floes of chinstrap penguins and crabeater seals, it carries with it valuable nutrients, newborn life, man-made dangers, and hope for the future.

Narrated by President Barack Obama, this five-part documentary from Freeborne Media — the Emmy Award-winning team behind Our Great National Parks — takes viewers on a 75,000-mile cruise across and beneath the oceans as they are today, giving us unprecedented access to some of the most unexplored realms of our planet. Using cutting-edge scientific research and newly-developed underwater filmmaking technology, the series overflows with stunning action sequences, eye-popping drone footage, intimate seabed closeups, and countless never-before-seen animal behaviors: Sea bream playing tennis? Humpback whales staging heists? An octopus packing heat? It’s a literal deep dive into the emotional, relatable lives of the most magical, resourceful, and resilient creatures on Earth, as they face new challenges and develop astounding skills made necessary by the changing waters around them. Our Oceans invites us to care about these plucky heroes, with whom we’ve got a surprising amount in common — and not a moment too soon, as their fates are inextricably linked with our own.
Series Producer: Jonathan Smith
Executive Producers: James Honeyborne, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama
Production Companies: Wild Space Productions, Freeborne Media, Higher Ground Productions
Episodes: 5 x 60 min episodes
Format: Documentary Series

Today, TIFF is unveiling its fall programming slate featuring retrospectives, special screenings, new restorations, commemorative events; the return of Wavelengths Presents, MDFF Selects, and Midnight Madness Presents; and many special guests all coming to TIFF Lightbox in October. 

On October 20, TIFF is hosting an In Conversation With… Matty Matheson with programming partner  Penguin Random House Canada, an exclusive onstage discussion for the first stop of his international book tour about his new cookbook Soups, Salads, Sandwiches moderated by Tom Power, host of CBC’s Q. Matheson (The Bear) is a world-leading culinary media personality and an Emmy Award–winning writer, producer, and actor.

Programmed by Senior Curator Andréa Picard, TIFF Cinematheque’s integral retrospective on French filmmaker and screenwriter Jacques Rozier, Endless Summer: The Films of Jacques Rozier, introduces audiences to the originality, spontaneity, and youthful exuberance of his concise, rarely-screened filmography — presented in new restorations, courtesy of Janus Films.

To celebrate the significance of the four seasons in Korean culture, TIFF Cinematheque’s Cyclical Rhythms: A Quartet of Seasons in Korean Cinema will showcase one film for each season. A special Opening Night reception for Hur Jin-ho’s One Fine Spring Day, which will be screening in 35mm, will take place on October 4. The series is programmed by Hanbin Kim, Manager of Festival Programming, and supported by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto.

Presented in collaboration with TIFF, imagineNATIVE honours the life and legacy of late Mi’kmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby on October 22 with special tribute screenings of his work, including Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013), his award-winning film Blood Quantum (2019), as well as a selection of his celebrated short films. Introductions will be provided by his wife Sarah Del Seronde, producing partner John Christou, and collaborators Devery Jacobs, Kaniehtiio Horn, and Danis Goulet.

Midnight Madness presents Halloween screenings of Lewis Teague’s Cujo, screening in 35mm on October 31; The Void, a cosmic horror directed by Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie, screening for free as part of See the North presented by MUBI; and Nicolas Roeg’s gothic thriller Don’t Look Now screening in 35mm, plus his family-friendly spooky film The Witches, starring Angelica Huston and adapted from the classic children’s book by Roald Dahl.

Heartstopper will have a special screening of the first two episodes of Season 3 at TIFF Lightbox on October 8. The screening will be followed by a post-show Q&A with author and series creator Alice Oseman and executive producer Patrick Walters.

TIFF Lightbox will be showing an exciting lineup of the most talked-about New Releases hot off their run at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, including All We Imagine as Light, Anora, Bird, Emilia Pérez, Flow, Matt and Mara, The Piano Lesson, and Rumours. Plus, Matt and Mara director Kazik Radwanski will be in attendance for a post-show Q&A on October 4.  Recently announced titles playing soon include A Different Man, Ibelin, In the Summers, Look Back, Seeking Mavis Beacon, The Outrun, and Woman of the Hour.

Secret Movie Club returns on October 22 with pre-screening conversations with the series co-hosts and programmers in Varda. Tickets will go on sale to TIFF Members on Wednesday, September 25 at 10am, and to the public on Friday, September 27 at tiff.net. Full programming listings may be accessed here.

Culinary connoisseurs can prepare to be dazzled as the viral CEO of croissant tasting chef Romain Avril joins forces with MICHELIN recommended Lucie’s chef Arnaud Bloquel for an extraordinary one-night evening of French culinary mastery, the fifth collaboration in the La Collab series. The France-born chefs will treat guests to a delectable multi-course dinner that weaves their signature styles together as one.

When: Thursday, October 3, 2024 with seating times from 6:00PM to 8:00PM

Who:

Chef Romain Avril discovered his passion for cooking at an early age, and by seventeen, he was working at a 1-MICHELIN Star restaurant in France. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in French and Chinese gastronomy while concurrently working at 1 and 2-star MICHELIN restaurants as well as Relais et Châteaux venues. At 21, he moved to London and began cooking at The Greenhouse in London. It was there that Avril began fusing his classic French training with molecular gastronomy. In 2010, Avril moved to Canada and started as a sous chef at Colborne Lane, ultimately progressing to achieve the role of executive chef at the city’s iconic La Société Bistro. In 2017 he launched Romain Avril Inc. and he is currently in the midst of launching his own, highly anticipated restaurant. Additionally, Avril launched a clothing brand called Franchiz’d, he published his first vegan cookbook, The Vegan Bridge, he is an ambassador for Monogram and Nespresso, and has appeared on numerous Food Network TV shows.

Chef Arnaud Bloquel has been profoundly influenced by his culturally diverse family and French heritage. At 16, he entered a hotel school in Guadeloupe and later refined his culinary skills in France under prominent MICHELIN-star chefs. After years in Paris working in celebrated restaurants, he returned to Guadeloupe, opened l’Orchidea in 2015, and won the title of Best Master Restaurateur in 2018. His restaurant earned top honours in the Caribbean. Recently, he competed in the “Meilleur Ouvrier de France” and is now at the helm of Restaurant Lucie’s kitchen, Toronto’s premier fine French restaurant.

What:

A four course luxurious dinner brought to you in partnership with Mumm champagne and San Pellegrino

Complimentary glass of Mumm Cordon Rouge champagne on arrival

Tickets are $285 plus tax per person (including wine pairings and gratuity)

Where: Lucie, 100 Yonge St. Toronto, ON (Financial District)

How: Tickets for this collaboration can be purchased HERE.

About Lucie:

MICHELIN recommended Toronto French fine-dining restaurant Lucie is named in memory of owner Yannick Bigourdan’s grandmother who played a very important role in his childhood growing up in the south of France. Lucie is the perfect combination of all the precious moments spent under the roof of his grandmother’s house, surrounded by her love and care. Lucie is helmed by award-winning executive chef Arnaud Bloquel.

For more information, visit Lucie’s website HERE.

After its debut at TIFF ’24. we get a new Poster for HERETIC, starring Hugh Grant.

VVS Films release, in theatres November 8, 2024.

Details:

Genre: Horror
Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Cast: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East

Synopsis:

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Hollywood Suite is dead-icated to bringing audiences another year of spooktacular favourites with their 2024 Shocktober line-up beginning on air and on demand October 1, 2024.

Dying to show itself during the month-long ghoul fest is the broadcast premiere of R.L. Stine’s Zombie Town featuring alums Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase. Airing October 22, 2024 this family-friendly fright flick will have you uncovering a centuries-old curse and navigating a town of hungry deadites.

The second season of the Hollywood Suite original series Cinema A to Z will also kick off with its premiere episode Serial Killers on October 10. In this episode, film experts uncover audiences’ fascination with the macabre through 26 portrayals of murderers on film from American Psycho to Zodiac.

Additional Shocktober premieres include new restorations of rarely seen Canadian creepers like Richard Loncraine’s notoriously difficult to find cult classic The Haunting of Julia (1973) starring Mia Farrow, William Fruet’s Funeral Home (1981), as well as a documentary about The Evil Dead fans Hail to the Deadites.

Find more highlights below and trick or treat yourself to the full list of Shocktober selections available on Hollywood Suite On Demand this October at hollywoodsuite.ca/shocktober.

30 Days of Night (2007)

Prince of Darkness (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Black Christmas (1974)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Blacula (1972)

Saw (2004)

Blade (1998)

Scream (1996)

Carrie (2013)

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Christine (1983)

Sinister (2012)

Crimson Peak (2015)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)

Critters (1986)

The Evil Dead (1981)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

The Fly (1986)

Evil Dead (2013)

The Guest (2014)

Fright Night (1985)

The Innocents (1961)

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

The Omen (1976)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

The Purge (2013)

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005)

Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Urban Legend (1998)

From Ryan Coogler—director of “Black Panther” and “Creed”—and starring Michael B. Jordan comes a new vision of fear: “Sinners.”

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.”

Written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Coogler, “Sinners” stars Jordan (the “Black Panther” and “Creed” franchises) in a dual role, joined by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld (“Bumblebee,” “True Grit”), Jack O’Connell (“Ferrari”), Wunmi Mosaku (“Passenger”), Jayme Lawson (“The Woman King”), Omar Benson Miller (“True Lies”) and Delroy Lindo (“Da 5 Bloods”).

The film is produced by Coogler and frequent collaborators Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler. The executive producers are Ludwig Göransson, Will Greenfield and Rebecca Cho.

Coogler’s behind-the-camera artisans include his “Black Panther” franchise collaborators: director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Oscar-winning production designer Hannah Beachler, editor

Michael P. Shawver, Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson, and Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents A Proximity Media Production, A Ryan Coogler Film: “Sinners.” The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, in theatres March 2025.

Today, Disney+ released the trailer for the highly anticipated, upcoming Original documentary film “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band,” premiering Friday, October 25, 2024 exclusively on Disney+ in Canada.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band offer the most in-depth look ever at the creation of their legendary live performances – sharing fly-on-the-wall footage of band rehearsals and special moments backstage – as well as hearing directly from Springsteen on the topic. Fans get the chance to experience professionally shot footage from the 2023-2024 tour for the first time ever – while following the band through their one-of-a-kind preparation process, and onto performances for tens-of-thousands across continents.

“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band” was directed by Springsteen’s longtime collaborator, Emmy® and GRAMMY® Award winner Thom Zimny, and produced by Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Thom Zimny, Adrienne Gerard, and Sean Stuart.

Now through September 27, new and returning customers can stream the biggest movies and series of the fall with Disney+ Standard With Ads for only $1.99/month for three months. To learn more or sign-up visit www.disneyplus.com.

Hot off its’ TIFF ’24 Premiere, Guy Maddin‘s RUMOURS gets a new Trailer! In theatres October 18, 2024 via Elevation Pictures.

Directed by: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird,
Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet,
Rolando Ravello, Zlatko Burić, Alicia Vikander

Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone. A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude, the latest film from incomparable directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson is a journey into the absurd heart of power and institutional failure in a slowly burning world.

(Photo/video credit: Elevation Pictures)

Following the 26th anniversary of the SwissAir Flight 111 tragedy that plunged the world into mourning, production on the highly-anticipated drama ‘111’ commences on September 18, 2024 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. On-screen talent includes award-winning Canadian actors Kris Holden-Ried (Departure) and Natalie Brown (The Strain), and Swiss actor Ursina Lardi (Lore) alongside an international cast. Filming will take place until the end of October 2024 in Nova Scotia, Canada as well as in Zurich, Switzerland and surrounding areas through October.

“The SwissAir 111 tragedy not only moved Nova Scotians into mourning,” says Canadian producer and CEO of Auguste Content, Ann Bernier, “it brought Canada, Switzerland and the world together as we united in the face of the unthinkable. ‘111’ is our opportunity to remember this important moment, not only in Canadian history, but in a history that crosses the ocean. We hope that this film can be an important reminder of the power of coming together across borders as well as honour the lives of those we lost.”

‘111’ revolves around the tragic crash of Swissair 111 into the cold waters of the Atlantic off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 2, 1998. It follows the stories of various characters whose lives are affected by the disaster while weaving together a message of hope amidst grief. ‘111’ forces us to grapple with tragic loss, inevitable grief and the question of life and its finiteness.

“For me as a frequent traveler, the crash of Swissair 111 over Halifax was a deeply moving experience,” says director-writer Mauro Mueller. “How life always manages to turn chance encounters into either beautiful, incisive and formative moments or – as in this case – to bring people together under the most tragic of circumstances who would never have crossed paths under “normal” circumstances is a phenomenon of life that fascinates me. We are not interested in developing a Boulvardesque disaster movie or retelling the tragedy one-to-one. On the one hand, our aim is to create a subtle, emotional homage to the strength in us humans to stand up to even the most adverse circumstances. On the other hand, this film is a gentle appeal to be grateful for what life gives us every day.”

The fate of flight SR 111 shocked Switzerland, Canada and the world. Making global headlines, the crash left mourning relationships and victims all over the world with a passenger list from 21 nations. The accident that dominated international press also launched a thorough technical investigation into the safety of the aircraft which resulted in the models modification and retrofitting in the hopes that another tragedy would never occur.

“‘111’ is “glocal” in the truest sense of the word – locally rooted and yet global. We are telling a Swiss tragedy in which more than two dozen nations were involved and which turned countless people’s lives upside down,” says Anne Walser, producer and co-owner of C-Films. “The highly emotional, international story surrounding the crash of Swissair 111 seems to us to be the ideal material for the talented director, and winner of the Student Oscar, Mauro Mueller.”

111 will be released in cinemas in Switzerland by ASCOT ELITE ENTERTAINMENT, Elevation Pictures in Canada, with world sales handled by Global Screen, a Vuelta Group Company.

We get a new Trailer for THE LINCOLN LAWYER Season Three today! Arrives October 17, 2024 on Netflix!

About THE LINCOLN LAWYER S3:
Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), an iconoclastic idealist, runs his law practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln, as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles. Based on the series of bestselling novels by renowned author Michael Connelly, the third season is based on the fifth book in The Lincoln Lawyer series, The Gods of Guilt.

THE LINCOLN LAWYER also stars Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson and Yaya DaCosta. The series was created for television by David E Kelley and was developed for television by Ted Humphrey, who serves as co-showrunner alongside Dailyn Rodriguez. Connelly is an executive producer and writer on the series. Ross Fineman and Kelley are also executive producers. The series is produced by A+E Studios and Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson serve as executive producers.

Series Credits
Co-Showrunners / Executive Producers: Ted Humphrey, Dailyn Rodriguez
Executive Producers: David E. Kelley, Michael Connelly, Ross Fineman, Barry Jossen, Tana Jamieson
Created for Television by: David E. Kelley
Developed For Television By: Ted Humphrey
Studio: A+E Studios
Cast: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson, Yaya DaCosta
Recurring & Guest Stars: Neve Campbell, Merrin Dungey, Elliott Gould, Devon Graye, Michael Irby, Maisie Klompus, Holt McCallaney, Allyn Moriyon, Wolé Parks, John Pirruccello, Fiona Rene, Philip Anthony-Rodriguez, Jon Tenney, Krista Warner