#FIRSTLOOK: DAVID CRONENBERG’S “THE SHROUDS” COMING TO THEATRES APRIL 25, 2025

From legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg, The Shrouds had its World Premiere in the Main Competition section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the North American Premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and was selected as part of TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten.

The Shrouds will open theatrically in Canada starting April 25, 2025 via Sphere Films.

Director/Writer: David Cronenberg

Producers: Martin Katz for Prospero Pictures, Saïd Ben Saïd, and Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent

Cast: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt

Synopsis: Karsh is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.

#FIRSTLOOK: NEW SERIES “LIAISON” COMING TO APPLE TV+

Apple TV+ today unveiled a first-look at “Liaison,” a new six episode thriller series starring César Award winner Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan,” “Westworld”) and BAFTA Award winner Eva Green (“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children”), and the first French and English-language Apple Original series. “Liaison” will make its global debut with the first episode on Friday, February 24, 2023, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday through March 31, 2023, on Apple TV+.

“Liaison” is a high-stakes, contemporary thriller exploring how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future, combining action with an unpredictable, multi-layered plot where “espionage and political intrigue play out against a story of passionate and enduring love.”

In additional to Cassell, the series also stars Eva Green (“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children”), Peter Mullan (“Ozark”) Cesar award winner Gerard Lanvin (“Call My Agent!”), Daniel Francis (“Small Axe”), Stanislas Merhar (“The Black Book”), Irene Jacob (“La double vie de Veronique”), Laetitia Eido (“Fauda”), Eriq Ebouaney (“Rogue City”), BAFTA rising star Bukky Bakray (“Rocks”) and Emmy award winner Thierry Fremont (“Murder In Mind”).

“Liaison” is created and written by Virginie Brac (“Engrenages”), and is directed by Emmy Award winner Stephen Hopkins (“24”). The series is co-produced by Newen Studio-backed companies Ringside Studios and Leonis Productions, and executive produced by Gub Neal (“The Fall”), Jean-Benoît Gillig (“L’Emprise”), Vincent Cassel, Sarada McDermott (“Bridgerton”), Stephen Hopkins, Justin Thomson, and Edward Barlow.

(Photo/video credit: Apple TV+)

#GIVEAWAY: ENTER TO WIN ADVANCE PASSES TO SEE “UNDERWATER”

20th Century Fox Canada x Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to see UNDERWATER. Screenings take place Wednesday, January 8, 2020 in Toronto + Vancouver.

Synopsis:
UNDERWATER is a film that follows a crew of underwater researchers who must scramble to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory. Directed by William Eubank, UNDERWATER stars Kristen Stewart, T.J. Miller, Vincent Cassel and John Gallagher Jr..

 

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To enter to win, click “like” on this Post at MR. WILL ON FACEBOOK and indicate your City. Re-Tweet this Contest Tweet from @mrwillw for an extra chance.

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20th Century Fox Canada release UNDERWATER Thursday, January 9, 2020.

 

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#GIVEAWAY: ENTER TO WIN A DOUBLE PASS TO SEE DANNY BOYLE’S “TRANCE” IN TORONTO, VANCOUVER & CALGARY!

Great news!  Fox Searchlight Canada and Mr. Will Wong are thrilled to give Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary Readers a chance to win a Double Pass to see Danny Boyle‘s Trance – yes the same Man who brought us Trainspotting and 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire. Screenings are set to take place the first week of April, final dates to be confirmed.

Trance centers on a Fine Art Auctioneer mixed up with an Underworld Gang joins forces with a charismatic Hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster and more dangerously than any of the Players could have anticipated.  The Crime-Thriller stars James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel.

Watch the Trailer in full below:

 

To enter to win, simply click “like” on this Post at Mr. Will Wong on Facebook before March 28, 2013, stating your City.  Double your chances by sharing this Post or Re-Tweeting the below:

http://www.mrwillwong.com/trance @MRWILLW wants me to win a Double Pass to see #TRANCE by #DannyBoyle in #Vancouver #Toronto or #Calgary! #win

Good luck!

Fox Searchlight Canada releases Trance on Friday, April 12, 2013.

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