Mr. Will wants to give readers a chance to attend an advance screening of CRAZY RICH ASIANS, based on the best-selling novel by Kevin Kwan! Screenings take place on Monday, August 13, 2018, in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal English, Calgary and Halifax!.

Synopsis:

Jon M. Chu (“Now You See Me 2”) directed the contemporary romantic comedy “Crazy Rich Asians,” based on the acclaimed worldwide bestseller by Kevin Kwan. The story follows New Yorker Rachel Chu (Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Golding), to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick’s family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country’s wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors.

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 CRAZY RICH ASIANS is in theatres August 15!

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eOne Films x Mr. Will want to give Readers across Canada a chance to win Run-of-Engagement Passes to see hilarious THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME.

Synopsis:
Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world.

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eOne Films release THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME Friday, August 3, 2018.

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Toronto rolled-out the Red Carpet for English Funnyman Simon Pegg. The star known best for the Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End) has heightened his profile with prolific roles in the Star Trek and Mission Impossible Franchises.

While Pegg has visited prior for the Toronto International Film Festival, he came to promote Mission Impossible: Fallout, in which he reprises the role of Benji Dunn. He did  various outlets including CITY‘s Breakfast Television, in addition to walking the Red Carpet for the Film at Scotiabank Theatre.

Hosted by eTalk‘s Devon Soltendieck, Pegg introduced the Film to a lucky audience and you’ll never guess what happened! Pegg publicly professed his love for us “Oh, I can’t get enough of the guy!” when asked if he was a fan of ours!

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When #SimonPegg publicly professes his love for you. Thank you @cherann3 for sending this! ❤ Thanks @devonmsoltendieck for that too! #MissionImpossibleFallout is in theatres Friday! #MissionImpossible

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Thanks to Cheryl for sending this in. Believe us, the love is mutual!

We loved meeting Pegg back in 2014 at TIFF!

#SimonPegg at #TIFF14 for #HectorandtheSearchforHappiness. #NikonD3300

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Paramount Pictures Canada release MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT Friday, July 27, 2018.

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15-year-old Wyatt Oleff gained a huge boost in profile with international Box Office success of 2017’s IT. He reprises the role of Stanley Uris in upcoming IT: CHAPTER TWO, with his older version played by Andy Bean.

Oleff, who just celebrated his birthday last week, returned from Los Angeles to continue work on the eagerly-awaited 2019 follow-up. Co-Stars Finn Wolfhard who plays Richie and his older version, Bill Hader also returned back from the weekend. Oleff, who also was seen in Guardians of the Galaxy, was beyond nice stopping for Selfies and autographs for a few fans.

A couple weeks back, we spotted Oleff’s older Co-Stars bonding including Hader and just this weekend, they were at SPiN playing Ping Pong. McAvoy reportedly was unwell and had cancelled an appearance at San Diego Comic Con, while Bill Skarsgård who plays Pennywise the Clown, was out doing the rounds.

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Amazing to meet the talented #WyattOleff, back in Toronto to continue work on #ItChapterTwo. #It #ItMovie #It2 🤡🎈

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We are so proud! Toronto-filmed SHAZAM! got its first look at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend and it actually looks fun and amazing!

Synopsis:
We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Asher Dov Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Zachary Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong).

“Shazam!” also stars Jack Dylan Grazer (“IT”) as Billy’s best friend and ultimate superhero enthusiast, Freddy, part of the foster family that includes Mary, played by Grace Fulton (“Annabelle: Creation”); Darla, played by Faithe Herman (TV’s “This is Us”); Eugene, played by Ian Chen (TV’s “Fresh Off the Boat”); and Pedro, played by Jovan Armand (TV’s “Hawaii Five-O”). Cooper Andrews (TV’s “The Walking Dead”) and Marta Milans (TV’s “Killer Women”) play foster parents Victor and Rosa Vasquez, with Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou (“Blood Diamond”) as the Wizard.

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Warner Bros. Canada release SHAZAM! Friday, April 4, 2019.

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Often follow-ups fail to live-up to the success of their Predecessors but both critically and commercially, MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN does the unlikely! Debuting atop the Box Office this weekend with an impressive $37 million from 3,317 theatres for Universal Pictures, this Prequel to 2008’s Box Office smash MAMMA MIA gets 78% on the Tomatometer and also an A- CinemaScore. By contrast, the 2008 Adaptation of the smash hit Broadway Musical, earned $27.7 million in its debut and mustered only 54% from Critics on the Tomatometer.

In second is another follow-up, EQUALIZER 2 reuniting Denzel Washington and Director Antoine Fuqua, with $33.7 million for Sony Pictures, from 3,388 theatres. Critics gave it 51% on the Tomatometer and audiences loved it with an A CinemaScore. Its 2014 Predecessor debuted with $34 million back in 2014.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION still is going strong in third this weekend with $22.4 million from 3,388 theatres for Sony Pictures, a total $90.1 million gross over two weeks domestically.

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP sits in fourth with $15.6 million for Disney/Marvel. Over four weeks it has earned $164 million in North America.

UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB debuts in ninth with $3.4 million for Blumhouse Productions/Universal Pictures. Its 2015 Predecessor opened with $15.8 million.

Rounding-out the Top Ten is SORRY TO BOTHER YOU with $2.7 million for Annapurna Pictures/eOne Films, a two-week total of $10.1 million.

Elevation Pictures x Mr. Will want to give Readers across Canada a chance to attend an Advance Screening of DOG DAYS! Screenings take place as follows:

TORONTO
Wednesday, August 8th at 7:30pm
Scotiabank Theatre

VANCOUVER
Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm
International Village

WINNIPEG
Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm
St. Vital

OTTAWA
Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm
Cineplex Cinemas Ottawa

VICTORIA
Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm
Silvercity Victoria

HALIFAX
Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm
Scotiabank Halifax

CALGARY
Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm
Sunridge Calgary

EDMONTON
Wednesday, August 8th at 7pm
Scotiabank WEM

Synopsis:

From director Ken Marino, Dog Days follows a group of interconnected people in Los Angeles who are brought together by their lovable canine counterparts. Starring Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wolfhard, Eva Longoria, and Nina Dobrev.

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Elevation Pictures release DOG DAYS Friday, August 10, 2018.

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Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong

“I connect to her personally. This isn’t a story about my daughter. This is a story about me, now, through her.”

This type of observation is not what I thought I would hear from Bo Burnham. Admittedly, my knowledge of the 27-year-old Comedian was limited to his scene stealing role in last summer’s Oscar-nominated The Big Sick. But as I discovered his eclectic and zany stand-up comedy routines and music videos on YouTube (the online arena where he was first noticed by the likes of Judd Apatow), I began to put together a picture that contradicted the lanky, insightful and thoughtful Writer/Director I was listening to in a recreated TTC subway car alongside other local online journalists a few weeks ago.

His Film, Eighth Grade, has received unanimous praise since debuting at the Sundance Film Festival this past January. The Film revolves around Kayla (Elsie Fisher) and how she navigates through the challenges presented by her last week of middle school. The Film is honest, raw and unflinching in its awkwardness, but it is also quietly hilarious and moving.

Burnham finished the first draft of the Script in 2014, and it took three years before he was finally able to make the Film. His initial intention was to write a story about the Internet from the point of view of someone like him, but quickly pivoted when he realized how it “just felt so embarrassing because [the character] was just so hateable and like why? Why is this person doing this? But when you’re an eighth-grader, and when you’re 13 – you can kind of forgive our behaviour a little bit better.”. As he was preparing to write the story that would become Eighth Grade, he watched YouTube videos made by teenagers as inspiration: “I [transcribed] exactly what they said, every sound…‘uh yeah, so, eugh, neugh, sorry, blah, so what I’m trying to say is.’. That’s what I was trying to write. Cause the way kids actually sound is so much more complex than the way kids are written and performed.”.

Where other Filmmakers and Writers have told stories within the nostalgic realm of high school, Burnham felt it was very important to set his story in middle school. He points out emphatically early in our discussion that “You’re coming of age in high school, but high school’s like yeah, you’re becoming an adult. When you’re in eighth grade, you’re literally still a child.”. And this way of thinking extended into his depiction of the Internet and its importance to Kayla and the rest of her classmates: “The Internet means the most to those kids, because they don’t know a world before it. It’s not this other thing to them that they’re living with. It’s the way that they live, and always have.”.

When it came time to cast the Film, Burnham says there was no magical formula: “It was just a mixture of kid actors. All of the extras were just from the school, from the surrounding areas and the day players were ones from the school we shot at. The girl whose pool that is, is in the pool party scene with some of her friends.”. He wanted the Film to be as authentic as possible and acted alongside the actors during rehearsals to make them feel comfortable. But what he strived for on-set was to “make a safe environment for the kids to be free…and give them permission to be themselves.”.

While we touched on various aspects of the Film from the awkward humour (“I love cringe. If you’re cringing it means you’re feeling it with the person”), to the Film’s electronic Score (“I wanted the music to be intense…and reflect her inner experience which is visceral and big”), to even politics (“I was certain I was making it for Hillary’s America…[Now] I don’t know if the country makes it to when she’s a senior”), the most enlightening aspect of our discussion was also the most mature. In discussing the importance of Kayla’s father Mark (Josh Hamilton) to the story, Burnham says that parents “don’t specifically know you moment to moment, but they know the big overarching you that at that age you just can’t attend to because two years ago feels like fucking forever ago and you were a different person.”. But while the watchful parental aspect is heavily emphasized, Burnham feels the Film’s more relevant thesis is that “moments that don’t sound like a big deal, of all different types, when you actually live them, are a huge deal.”.

Burnham’s lasting hope for Eighth Grade is simple from the on-set: “I just hope people see it and feel something.”. He hopes it will serve both parents and children well but notes that “It definitely wasn’t [made] for eighth-graders. I hope eighth-graders like it, but it’s definitely not primarily for them.”. As he dug a bit deeper however, touching on the inherent sexism involved in centring the Film on a young girl, it becomes clear what his ultimate intention was in making the Film: “Like no one goes oh Hamlet, was that only for Princes of Denmark? Everyone sees themselves in him, even if they aren’t a prince, or a man, or Danish or whatever he was. And I think a 13-year-old girl can be the same thing. Everyone should be able to see themselves in her.”.

When asked what’s next, Burnham deadpans, “I’ll bang my head off the wall. I’m not a great multitasker.”. It’s only after he says this that I begin to remember who Burnham was before he made Eighth Grade and how many of his fans will soon see a completely different side of him. And as someone who has yet to properly harness time management, I know we will be awaiting eagerly whatever he crafts as his follow-up.

Elevation Pictures release EIGHTH GRADE in Toronto on Friday, July 20, 2018 and additional cities starting Friday, August 3, 2018.

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Sony Pictures Canada x Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to experience an Advance Screening of ALPHA! Special 3D Screenings take place:

Toronto – Wednesday, August 15, 7:30PM – Cineplex Cinemas Yonge & Dundas
Vancouver – Wednesday, August 15, 7:30PM – Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver

Synopsis:
An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age, ALPHA tells a fascinating, visually stunning story that shines a light on the origins of man’s best friend. While on his first hunt with his tribe’s most elite group, a young man is injured and must learn to survive alone in the wilderness. Reluctantly taming a lone wolf abandoned by its pack, the pair learn to rely on each other and become unlikely allies, enduring countless dangers and overwhelming odds in order to find their way home before winter arrives.

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Sony Pictures Canada release ALPHA Friday, August 17, 2018.

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Check-out this new Trailer for OVERLORD from Director Julius Avery, the story of two American Soliders behind enemy lines on D-Day!  The Film is produced by J.J. Abrams!

Synopsis:
On the eve of D-Day, a group of American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion’s success. But as they approach their target, they begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation.

OVERLORD stars Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbaek, John Magaro and Mathilde Ollivier.

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Paramount Pictures Canada release OVERLORD Friday, November 9, 2018.

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