#FIRSTLOOK: “LURKER” COMING TO MUBI CANADA

LURKER arrives August 29, 2025 in theatres and today we get a new Trailer for this Film by Alex Russell. This will premiere at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal!

Writer & Director: Alex Russell

Producers: Alex Orlovsky, Duncan Montomery, Galen Core, Marc Marrie, Charlie McDowell, Archie Madekwe, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Olmo Schnabel, Jack Selby

Executive Producers: Mal Ward, Matt Aselton, Alfonso Angoitia Legorreta, Gabriele Moratti, Lily Collins, Nicholas Wirth, Nicol Pone, Ben Shafer

Principal Cast: Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Wale Onayemi, Daniel Zolghadri, and Sunny Suljic

Score By: Kenny Beats, Dijon, Rex Orange County; Performed by Archie Madekwe

2025 / United States / 100 minutes

ABOUT WRITER/ DIRECTOR ALEX RUSSELL

Alex Russell is the writer & director behind LURKER, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. He most recently served as a Co-Executive Producer on Netflix/A24’s BEEF, for which he won an Emmy award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. And he was recently a Supervising Producer on FX’s THE BEAR. His episode – ep 207 – titled “Forks,” was one of the best reviewed episodes of television last year and nominated for a WGA award. He got his start as a staff writer on the first two seasons of DAVE – and was also recently a Producer on Hulu’s series INTERIOR CHINATOWN.

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#TIFF14: DAY 3 RECAP – CHRIS EVANS, ROSARIO DAWSON, KEVIN COSTNER, ANNA KENDRICK, NOOMI RAPACE, JESSICA CHASTAIN, TIMOTHY SPALL, MARK RUFFALO, MILES TELLER, BEN STILLER, CHLOË MORETZ, EDDIE REDMAYNE, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, ROBERT DOWNEY JR., JENNIFER GARNER, ANSEL ELGORT, ADAM SANDLER, NICOLA PELTZ, SALMA HAYEK, ANDREW SCOTT, BILL NIGHY + MORE!

Today will forever go down as the most explosive day of all time for TIFF! Stars were bursting at every seam after what was felt by the consensus as a a slow start to the Festival on Thursday. Parties were held all around the City and we made several successful Pit Stops around the City and got fueled by Starpower!

The day began with a Press Conference for Jason Reitman‘s new Film about  sexual frustrations, Men, Women & Children and although normally Fans get a chance to see and interact with the Cast, it would be the running-behind-schedule which hindered the experience. We still managed to see the following:

Jennifer Garner

Jason Reitman

Kaitlyn Dever

Adam Sandler

Ansel Elgort/Kaitlyn Dever

We also got a little surprise from Australian Actor Alex Russell, whom we met filming CARRIE here a couple years back! The Actor stars in CUT SNAKE at TIFF ’14!  He remembers us!

We love Paul Bettany and were ecstatic about meeting him as he went about his Press Day for self-directed Shelter, which premieres at TIFF ’14.

 

Midday, we head over to Princess of Wales Theatre to invest a bit of time in one of our favourite Actors, Michael Douglas whom along with Co-Star Jeremy Irvine, premiered their new Thriller The Reach.  Although it was a bit of a wait and a struggle with the clipboards from Autograph Collectors, we got our coveted Selfies with both Stars! 

Not too far long after, we made our way over to the official Audi-sponsored Party for Oscar Contender, PRIDE over at Hotspot The Citizen.  All I have to say is Truffle Poutine.  Delish. The light-hearted Dramedy documents the true struggle of a Gay Activist Group in England, supporting Miners in need. The only thing however, is that the striking Miners didn’t want to be associated with the Group. The Film won a two-minute Standing Ovation from its Audience yesterday afternoon. See some Snaps of the talented Cast:

Bill Nighy

Ben Schnetzer & Jessie Cave

Dominic West

Andrew Scott

The Cast and Team behind PRIDE

We thought we’d re-visit the Cast of Paramount Pictures‘ Men, Women & Children once more at the official Party for the Film at new It-Spot, Montecito which happens also to be owned be legendary Filmmaker Ivan Reitman, Father of  Director Jason. Fans and Cameras lined the Carpet in eager anticipation as the Stars paraded by one-by-one including a few surprises! I was so happy to see our Friend Ansel Elgort, whom we met here in the City a couple years back when he was filming CARRIE. He noticed us right away at the Carpet proclaiming, “I’ve got to get a Selfie with Mr. Will!”. We’re incredibly proud how well he’s done and also what’s next to come for the Divergent and The Fault in our Stars Talent, who clearly has been propelled into Mega-stardom from the ecstatic screams I heard from Fans everywhere he went today.

Jennifer Garner

Rosemarie DeWitt

Ansel Elgort

Eugene Levy

Adam Sandler

An annual favourite Fixture of ours at TIFF is the InStyle Magazine Party, which shuts down a strip of Yorkville for a night and the amount of Starpower seen here was s t a g g e r i n g. We admit it was a bit of on the decline mostly due to unfortunate timing later in the Festival after an abundance of Stars leave town, but was it ever a night to remember for the Fans! We’re talking Megawatts!

Chris Evans (Before We Go)

Robert Downey Jr. (The Judge)

Noomi Rapace (The Drop)

Missy Peregrym dressed in Intermix (Backcountry)

Sarah Rafferty

Paul Dano (Love & Mercy)

Madeleine Stowe

Miles Teller (Whiplash)

Lacey Chabert (aka GRETCHEN WIENERS!!!)

Mark Ruffalo (Infinitely Polar Bear, Foxcatcher)

Jessica Chastain (Miss Julie)

Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner)

Ben Stiller (While We’re Young)

Jake Abel (Good Kill)

J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Abigail Spencer (This is Where I Leave You and The Forger)

Chloë Moretz (Laggies, Clouds of Sils Maria and The Equalizer)

Rick Hoffman

Nicola Peltz

Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)

Kevin Costner (Black & White)

Will Peltz (Men, Women & Children)

Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)

Salma Hayek (Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet)

We spotted Channing Tatum, Jon Stewart and many, many more there also!!

Okay, we admit it. We were on a high and kept going right after till 5 AM (!!!)  when we also spotted several other Stars out and about! Look!

Anna Kendrick (The Last Five Years)

Douglas Booth (The Riot Club)

Rosario Dawson (Top Five)

Cedric the Entertainer (Top Five)

Jay Pharoah (Top Five)

We ain’t done. Wait till you see what we have in store next, Willionaire$!

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(Photo credit: Mr. Will Wong)

#FIRSTLOOK: NEW STILL FROM “CARRIE” STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ

Finally! Our hearts were broken when we heard the Toronto-filmed Carrie Remake was getting pushed to a Fall release, but alas we recognize the benefit of releasing around Halloween in terms of marketability and demand. This brand new Still, release exclusively to Empire Magazine, of a bloody Chloë Moretz is not only getting us real excited, but also giving us serious Flashbacks of Sissy Spacek in her epic 1976 performance – not that a lot of us were around then yet.

For those who haven’t seen or read Stephen King‘s Carrie, it centers around a socially awkward and sheltered Teen Girl who discovers she has Telekinetic Powers.  With her Peers plotting to humiliate her at the forthcoming Prom, they just might find out the price of going a bit too far with the Prank.

See the brand new Still below:

For now, we will have to snack on this Teaser, but it shouldn’t be long before we get the official Trailer.

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Sony Pictures releases on October 18, 2013.

(Photo credit: Sony Pictures)