Christmas is coming to Netflix and here’s a new Trailer for CHRISTMAS WITH YOU starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Aimee Garcia.

Synopsis:

Feeling career burn out, pop star Angelina escapes to grant a young fan’s wish in small town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalize her career but also a shot at true love.

Director: Gabriela Tagliavini
Writers: Paco Farias & Jennifer C. Stetson and Michael Varrati
Producers: German Michael Torres, Lucas Jarach
Executive Producers: Eric Brenner, Kerri Hundley
Cast: Aimee Garcia, Freddie Prinze Jr., Deja Monique Cruz, Zenzi Williams, Lawrence J. Hughes

CHRISTMAS WITH YOU arrives November 17, 2022 on Netflix.

(Photo/video credit: Netflix)

Walt Disney Animation Studios recently announced that it will collaborate with Lighthouse Immersive Studios, the producers of the blockbuster Immersive Van Gogh, to develop Disney Animation: Immersive Experience, which is going to Lighthouse ArtSpace venues across North America in late 2022/early 2023. Tickets to this one-of-a-kind immersive experience start at $39.99 and go on sale at the following local times in each market at disneyimmersive.com on Wednesday, Oct. 19:

• Toronto | 10 a.m. ET
• Denver | 10:30 a.m. MT
• Cleveland | 11 a.m. ET
• Detroit | 11:30 a.m. ET
• Boston | 12 p.m. ET
• Nashville | 12:30 p.m. CT
• Columbus | 1 p.m. ET
• Minneapolis | 1 p.m. CT
• San Antonio | 1:30 p.m. CT

Creating iconic animated stories for all ages for nearly a century, Walt Disney Animation Studios will join forces with North America’s top creator of experiential projection exhibitions to present the music and artistry within Disney Animation’s canon of films—from hits of today like Encanto, Zootopia and Frozen, to all of the classics including The Lion King, Peter Pan and Pinocchio.Audiences will feel like they’ve entered the incredible worlds of beloved Disney characters and become one with them. 

The opening dates for each city are as follows:

• Toronto | Dec. 21, 2022
• Cleveland | Jan. 19, 2023
• Nashville | Feb. 9, 2023
• Detroit | Feb. 9, 2023
• Denver | Feb. 16, 2023
• Boston | Feb. 23, 2023
• San Antonio | Feb. 28, 2023
• Minneapolis | March 23, 2022
• Columbus | April 6, 2023

Additional cities are currently being scheduled and Tokyo will be the first city outside of North America to receive Disney Animation: Immersive Experience.

“The collaboration with Lighthouse Immersive is a first for Disney Animation,” said Clark Spencer, President, Walt Disney Animation Studiosand two-time Academy Award®-winner (Encanto, Zootopia). “It’s a dream to bring the best of animated storytelling together with the top experts in the immersive art experience. We can’t wait for audiences around the world, of all ages, to experience the great moments from our legacy of feature films in this incredible way.”

“Like so many of us, I have a life-long love of Disney films,” said Lighthouse Immersive founder Corey Ross. “I’ve grown up with them since childhood and so has my family. The work lends itself brilliantly to the immersive experience and I am confident this program will give our guests the opportunity to be engulfed in the world of Disney, making them feel like they’re standing next to their favorite characters and seeing the world through their eyes.”

The creative team for the Disney Animation: Immersive Experience is led by Oscar®-winning producer J. Miles Dale (Best Picture 2018 –The Shape of Water) who said, “Trailblazing in a new medium is always exciting, and this is truly going to be the most challenging and rewarding project of my career. Being entrusted with Disney’s rich archive of animation is a great honor, but also a tremendous responsibility. With such a wealth of material and a treasure trove of memorable characters, it will be a thrill to bring the work of all the great Disney animators and performers to life in a 360-degree immersive environment.”  Mexico City-based Cocolab is working with Dale and the Creative Legacy team at Walt Disney Animation Studios to develop the program for Lighthouse Immersive Studios. Special Projects Producer Dorothy McKim (Oscar-nominated, Get A Horse!) is spearheading the project for Disney Animation.

The audience experience will be further enhanced by Lighthouse Immersive’s Global Creative Director David Korins, (Tony Award®-nominee whose credits include more than 20 Broadway shows including Hamilton, and an Emmy Award® winner for Grease Live). Korins will develop never-before-seen interactive lobby elements that guests can enjoy before or after entering the gallery.

Ross captures the excitement both Disney and Lighthouse Immersive feel for the project as he describes how it begins: “Just imagine journeying through Zootopia with Judy Hopps, diving to the ocean floor with Ariel, flying on a magic carpet with Aladdin, and stepping into Casita with Mirabel and the family Madrigal. This is where the Disney Animation: Immersive Experience will take you.”

Collaborating with Lighthouse Immersive is the Creative Legacy team of Walt Disney Animation Studios, helping bring their library of films to audiences in a manner never before experienced. 

This year the Reelworld Film Festival is proud to award $25,000 in cash to the Outstanding Feature Film and $10,000 in cash to the Outstanding Short Film, along with 13 additional cash and in-kind awards. Presenters at this year’s awards ceremony were racially diverse actors from Canadian film and television: Aason Nadjiwon, Athena Park, Thomas Antony Olajide, Cihang Ma, Supinder Wraich, Adam Swain, Samantha Walkes, Nicole Munoz, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Praneet Akilla, Aiza Ntibarikure, Lily Gao, Karen LeBlanc and Chantel Riley. 

Reelworld would like to thank DGC National, WIFT-Toronto, Entertainment Partners Canada, Chargefield, AstroLab Studios, Lenz Rental and Asian Television Network for their generous contributions towards these festival awards.

The jurors for this year’s awards are: TJ Cuthand, an experimental/narrative filmmaker; David Cormican, Co-Founder and President of Don Carmody Television & Head of Production, Mogul Productions; Phil Planta, filmmaker, film instructor, and VFX artist; Pedro Díaz, director; and Nicole Mendes, VP of Scripted Development at Lark Productions.

The 2022 Reelworld Film Festival Awards Show aired on Reelworld’s YouTube channel at 3pm EST on October 18th followed by the Reelspeak: Award of Excellence Interview at 4.30pm EST and the Reelspeak: Visionary Award Interview at 5:30pm EST.

The 2022 Reelworld Film Festival Award Recipients are:

Outstanding Actor in a Short Film:
Recipient: Gitz Crazyboy, Peace Pipeline
Prize: $750 cash

Outstanding Actress in a Short Film:
Recipient: Nicole Nwokolo, I Remember Footprints in the Snow
Prize: $750 cash and a one-year membership to WIFT-Toronto

Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film:
Recipient: Cardi Wong, Golden Delicious
Prize: $1000 cash

Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film:
Recipient: Jayne Kamara, Bite of a Mango
Prize: $1000 cash and a one-year membership to WIFT-Toronto

Outstanding Cinematographer for a Short Film:
Recipient: Gabriela Osio Vanden, Saturday Fuego Diablo
Prize: $750 cash and free equipment rental from Lenz Rental

Outstanding Cinematographer for Feature Film:
Recipient: Kaveh Nabatian, Kite Zo A
Prize: $1000 cash

Outstanding Producer for a Short Film:
Recipient: Amir Zargara, More Than Hair
Prize: $750 cash and a 1-year subscription of Movie Magic Scheduling from Entertainment Partners Canada

Outstanding Producer for a Feature Film:
Recipient: Ivan Madeira, Pattern
Prize: $1000 cash and a free day of studio space with all-inclusive gear package from AstroLab Studios

Outstanding Writer for a Short Film:
Recipient: Tesh Guttikonda, Mom vs Machine
Prize: $750 cash and a 1-year subscription of Movie Magic Budgeting from Entertainment Partners Canada

Outstanding Writer for a Feature Film:
Recipient: Gorrman Lee, Golden Delicious
Prize: $1000 cash

Outstanding Director for a Short Film:
Recipient: Alireza Kazemipour, Split Ends
Prize: $750 cash and a free movie poster design consultation from Chargefield

Outstanding Director for a Feature Film:
Recipient: Jason Karman, Golden Delicious
Prize: $1000 cash

Outstanding Short Film Award:
Recipient: Cazhhmere Downey, I Remember Footprints in the Snow
Prize: $10,000 cash

Outstanding Feature Film Award:
Recipient: Jason Karman, Golden Delicious
Prize: $25,000 cash

Audience Choice Award
Recipient: Bite of a Mango
Prize: $1000 cash and a day of studio space at Asian Television Network Studios

In addition, Reelworld Screen Institute presented the following awards honouring outstanding individuals in the Canadian screen industry:

Visionary Award: Nick Davis, Executive Director of Equity and Inclusion at CBC
Award of Excellence: Jennifer Podemski, producer and actor

Trailblazer Awards: Barbara Lee, filmmaker and founder of the Vancouver Asian Film Festival; Joel Oulette, actor; Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, director and screenwriter; Shant Joshi, producer; Sonya Carey, animator; Jorge Camarotti, photographer and filmmaker.

Learn more about the ReelWorld Film Festival here.

The internet is lit afire! See Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in Luca Guadagnino‘s BONES AND ALL, which is coming out of Venice and New York Film Festival with all the acclaim! Here is a first look at the Canadian Trailer.

Synopsis:

From Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures comes “Bones and All,” a movie about love, directed by Luca Guadagnino (“Call Me by Your Name”), who recently won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2022 Venice Film Festival for the film.

“Bones and All” is a story of first love between Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Timothée Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter… as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

“Bones and All” stars Taylor Russell (“Waves,” “The Heart Still Hums,”), who won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor at this year’s Venice Film Festival; Timothée Chalamet (Oscar-nominated for “Call Me by Your Name,” “Dune”); Michael Stuhlbarg (“Call Me by Your Name,” “The Shape of Water”); André Holland (“Passing,” “Moonlight”); Chloë Sevigny (“We Are Who We Are,” “American Horror Story”); David Gordon Green (“Halloween Ends,” “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”); Jessica Harper (“Suspiria,” “Minority Report”); Jake Horowitz (“Adam Bloom,” “The Vast of Night”); and Mark Rylance (Oscar winner for “Bridge of Spies,” “Wolf Hall”). The screenplay is by David Kajganich (“Suspiria,” “A Bigger Splash”), based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis. It is produced by Luca Guadagnino, Theresa Park, Marco Morabito, David Kajganich, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Lorenzo Mieli, Gabriele Moratti, Peter Spears and Timothée  Chalamet. The executive producers are Giovanni Corrado, Raffaella Viscardi, Moreno Zani, Marco Colombo and Jonathan Montepare.

Guadagnino is joined behind the camera by director of photography Arseni Khatchaturan (“Eyimofe (This Is My Desire),” “The Idol”), production designer Elliot Hostetter (“Beckett,” “Waves”), editor Marco Costa (“We Are Who We Are,” “Suspiria”),  costume designer Giulia Piersanti (“Suspiria,” “Call Me by Your Name”) and composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (“Soul,” “Mank”).

Warner Bros. Pictures Canada release BONES AND ALL November 23, 2022.

(Photo/video credit: MGM)

We proudly present the new Canadian Trailer for CREED III, the latest in this riveting series, this time around with star Michael B. Jordan direting.

Synopsis:

From Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures comes “Creed III,” with Michael B. Jordan making his directorial debut and returning in the role of Adonis Creed in the third installment of the hit franchise. The film also stars Tessa Thompson (“Creed” franchise, “Passing”), Jonathan Majors (“Da 5 Bloods,” “Lovecraft Country”), Wood Harris (“Creed” franchise, “Blade Runner 2049”), Florian Munteanu (“Creed II,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”), newcomer Mila Kent, and Phylicia Rashad (“Creed” franchise, “Soul”).

Jordan directs from a screenplay by Keenan Coogler (“Space Jam: A New Legacy”) & Zach Baylin (“King Richard”), from a story by Ryan Coogler (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) and Keenan Coogler & Zach Baylin. It is produced by Irwin Winkler, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler, Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Elizabeth Raposo, Jonathan Glickman and Sylvester Stallone. The executive producers are Sev Ohanian, Zinzi Coogler, Nicolas Stern and Adam Rosenberg.

Jordan is joined behind the camera by director of photography Kramer Morgenthau (“Creed II,” “Thor: The Dark World”), production designer Jahmin Assa (“mid90s,” “Angelyne”), editor Tyler Nelson (“The Batman,” “Rememory”), costume designer Lizz Wolf (“Creed II,” “Pacific Rim: Uprising”), with a score by composer Joseph Shirley (“Jackass Forever,” “The Book of Boba Fett”).

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Presents A Chartoff-Winkler Production, “Creed III,” which will be distributed in North America by MGM and internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures and is set to open in territories beginning March 1, 2023.

(Photo/video credit: Warner Bros. Pictures Canada)

We’re so drawn to the saga of The Chippendales! Disney+ today released the official Trailer for upcoming Series WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES, based on a true story. Strippers. Money. Murder.

Synopsis:

A sprawling true-crime saga, “Welcome to Chippendales” tells the outrageous story of Somen “Steve” Banerjee, an Indian immigrant who became the unlikely founder of the world’s greatest male-stripping empire—and let nothing stand in his way in the process.

“Welcome to Chippendales’” star-studded cast includes Kumail Nanjiani (“The Big Sick”), Murray Bartlett (“The White Lotus”), Juliette Lewis (“Yellowjackets”) and Annaleigh Ashford (“American Crime Story”), with recurring guest stars Quentin Plair (“The Good Lord Bird”), Robin de Jesús (“tick, tick… BOOM!”), and Andrew Rannells (“Girls5eva”), along with guest stars Nicola Peltz Beckham (“Holidate”) and Dan Stevens (“Gaslit”).

Robert Siegel and Nanjiani executive produce alongside Dylan Sellers, Jenni Konner, Matt Shakman, Emily V. Gordon, Nora Silver and Rajiv Joseph, who will write on the series along with Mehar Sethi. Siegel and Konner serve as co-showrunners and Shakman will direct. Jacqui Rivera is co-executive producer and Annie Wyman is co-producer.

Robust parental controls ensure that Disney+ remains a suitable viewing experience for everyone in the family. Subscribers can set access limits on mature content and create PIN-protected profiles alongside the already existing Kids Profiles to give parents and guardians peace of mind.

WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES arrives on Disney+ November 22, 2022 via its Star banner.

(Photo/video credit: Disney+)

Searchlight Pictures x Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to win Advance Passes to see TIFF ’22 selection, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN. Screenings take place as follows Wednesday, October 26, 2022.

Toronto: Cineplex Varsity at 7:00 pm
Montreal: Cineplex Forum at 7:00 pm
Vancouver: Cineplex International Village at 7:00 pm

Synopsis:

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

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Searchight Pictures release THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN in theatres October 28, 2022.

(Photo/video credit: Searchlight Pictures)

Four-time Emmy-winner Dan Levy makes his directorial film debut with Good Grief, which he also wrote and will star in alongside Ruth Negga (Passing, Loving), Himesh Patel (Station Eleven, Yesterday), Luke Evans (Echo 3, Beauty and the Beast), Celia Imrie (Better Things, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Arnaud Valois (BPM (Beats Per Minute), Spring Blossom), David Bradley (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones) and Jamael Westman (Hamilton, The Essex Serpent) for Netflix.

Director/Writer: Dan Levy (Schitt’s Creek)

Producers: Not A Real Production Company’s Dan Levy, Megan Zehmer; Sister’s Stacey Snider, Kate Fenske, Debra Hayward

Logline:

Marc Dreyfus chose to distract himself from the loss of his mom with a comfortable marriage. But when his husband also dies, unexpectedly, Marc is forced to finally confront the grief he’s tried so hard to avoid, sending him and his two closest friends on a Parisian weekend of self discovery.

Dan Levy said, “Good Grief is a cautionary tale about friendship and loss and all the mess that comes with it when the truth is something you’ve evaded for most of your life. It’s funny, it’s bittersweet, it’s a project that has helped me work through my own grief. And I hope it does the same for other people as well.”

Good Grief marks the first project under Levy’s Not A Real Production Company and Netflix’s creative partnership.

(Photo credit: José Mandojana)

James Corden and Sally Hawkins star in upcoming Prime Video series MAMMALS. Here is a first look!

Synopsis:

In this darkly comedic drama, revelations and secrets come to light as the complexity of modern marriage and fidelity are exposed. In a world of eight billion, what happens after we’ve found ‘the one’? Can we stay true to the promises we strive to keep when, after all, aren’t we all just Mammals.

Mammals follows the story of Jamie (James Corden), a chef whose world implodes when he discovers shocking secrets about his pregnant wife, Amandine (Melia Kreiling). Jamie finds himself hunting for answers with the help of his brother-in-law Jeff (Colin Morgan). Through this hunt, the cracks in Jeff’s marriage to Jamie’s sister Lue (Sally Hawkins) also widen.

The six-part series written by two-time Olivier and Tony Award-winning Jez Butterworth, about the complexities of marriage: there is sadness, grief, tension, love, friendship, betrayal, and a touch of magical realism.

The series is directed by Stephanie Laing (Made for Love, Physical) and produced by Street Hassle in association with Vertigo Films and Fulwell 73. The UK Original series will launch worldwide, exclusively on Prime Video on 11th November.

Prime Video release MAMMALS November 11, 2022.

(Photo/video credit: Prime Video)

A new Trailer has arrived for ALL THE BEAUTY AND BLOODSHED.

Synopsis:

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

Directed by: Laura Poitra
Featuring: Nan Goldin

Elevation Pictures release ALL THE BEAUTY ANS BLOODSHED this December.

(Photo/video credit: Elevation Pictures)