Nominations for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards were held this morning in Los Angeles and leading the pack this year is BARBIE in the Motion Picture categories with nine nods. Its friendly rival Oppenheimer followed with eight, followed then by Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things with seven nominations apiece. SUCCESSION leads the way in the Television categories with ten nominations, uniquely with three actors each vying in the Lead Actor and Supporting Actor categories.

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Anatomy of a Fall (Neon)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films)
Maestro (Netflix)
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Past Lives (A24)
The Zone of Interest (A24)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Air (Amazon MGM Studios)
American Fiction (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The Holdovers (Focus Features)
May December (Netflix)
Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Motion Picture – Animated
The Boy and the Heron (GKids)
Elemental (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Releasing)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
Suzume (Crunchyroll / Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Wish (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures)
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Releasing)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (AMC Theatres Distribution)

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
Anatomy of a Fall, France (Neon)
Fallen Leaves, Finland (Mubi)
Io Capitano, Italy (Pathe Distribution)
Past Lives, United States (A24)
Society of the Snow, Spain (Netflix)
The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom/USA (A24)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman, May December
Alma Pöysti, Fallen Leaves
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
Timothée Chalamet, Wonka
Matt Damon, Air
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Joaquin Phoenix, Beau Is Afraid
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Director — Motion Picture
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Addicted to Romance,” She Came to Me, Music and lyrics by Bruce Springsteen
“Dance the Night,” Barbie, Music and lyrics by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin
“I’m Just Ken,” Barbie, Music and lyrics by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
“Peaches,” The Super Mario Bros. Move, Music and lyrics by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, John Spiker
“Road to Freedom,” Rustin, Music and lyrics by Lenny Kravitz
“What Was I Made For?” Barbie, Music and lyrics by Billie Eilish, Finneas

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the Heron
Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Television Series – Drama
1923 (Paramount+)
The Crown (Netflix)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
The Last of Us (HBO/Max)
The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
Succession (HBO/Max)

Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Barry (HBO/Max)
The Bear (FX)
Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix)
Beef (Netflix)
Daisy Jones & the Six (Prime Video)
Fargo (FX)
Fellow Travelers (Showtime)
Lessons in Chemistry (Apple TV+)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Helen Mirren, 1923
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Sarah Snook, Succession
Imelda Staunton, The Crown
Emma Stone, The Curse

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Brian Cox, Succession
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Jeremy Strong, Succession
Dominic West, The Crown

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Elle Fanning, The Great
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Bill Hader, Barry
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Riley Keough, Daisy Jones & the Six
Brie Larson, Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Olsen, Love & Death
Juno Temple, Fargo
Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers
Ali Wong, Beef

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers
Sam Claflin, Daisy Jones & the Six
Jon Hamm, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, White House Plumbers
David Oyelowo, Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Steven Yeun, Beef

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role on Television
Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
Abby Elliott, The Bear
Christina Ricci, Yellowjackets
J. Smith-Cameron, Succession
Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building
Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role on Television
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
James Marsden, Jury Duty
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
Alan Ruck, Succession
Alexander Skarsgard, Succession

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television
Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Chris Rock, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact
Sarah Silverman, Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Wanda Sykes, Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer

The 81st Golden Globe Awards air on CBS Sunday, January 7, 2024 from 8 to 11 p.m. ET. It also will be available on Paramount+.

(Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures Canada)

TIFF ’23 opening night selection THE BOY AND THE HERON leads a slow weekend at the Box Office with $10.7 million from 2,100 theatres for GKIDS and Cineplex Pictures. The latest from Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki gets 95% on the Tomatometer.

Second is THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES is second with $8.7 million, a total $134.9 million for Lionsgate and Cineplex Pictures.

Landing in third is GODZILLA MINUS ONE with $6.4 million, a total of $23.4 million over two weekends for Toho International.

TROLLS BAND TOGETHER takes fourth with $6 million, a total $82 million for Universal Pictures domestically.

Rounding it all out is RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ, last week’s champ, coming in with $5.2 million for AMC/Cineplex Pictures.

Photos above L to R: Hamzah Jamjoom, Baraa Alem, Waleed Zuaiter, Houshang Touzie, Naif Aldaferi

Producer Abubakar Khan of Plot Point 1 is pleased to announce that principal photography on Hamzah Jamjoom’s (Rupture– Best Saudi Film Award, 2021 Red Sea International Film Festival), How I Got There (Best Saudi Film Award, 2022 Red Sea International Film Festival)) new feature film, the eco-thriller, Running Dry, a Saudi Arabia-US co-pro, will begin December 26, 2023.

Running Dry will star Baraa Alem (The Book of Sun, HWJN, Route 10), Waleed Zuaiter (Gangs of London, Baghdad Central, Omar), Houshang Touzie (Homeland, Argo, Madame Secretary), Naif Aldaferi (Rashash, Hwjn), and Ali Fardi (7-OD, Only Death Never Lies, Marokkaanse bruiloft).  

Running Dry will be directed by Jamjoom based on a script by Gregory Collins (Before Anyone Else, A Song Still Inside) and Jamjoom, from a story by Waleed Al Sanad and produced by Abubakar Khan (Mustache, Queen of Bones).

Inspired by real events, Running Dry follows the story of a poor mechanic from rural Saudi Arabia who is lured overseas only to be held captive by a sadistic drug lord. Surfacing timely themes of water, scarcity, and international espionage, Running Dry is an action/crime thriller that refreshes its genre by integrating regional sensibilities and supernatural flair.

“This film is really about overcoming forces that use and manipulate resources in order to divide people and consolidate power. In that sense, the film speaks directly to what is happening in the region and in the world more generally. In times of struggle, borders and divisions fall away, and our shared humanity is revealed. I’m thrilled to be working with people from around the world to bring this story to life,” said director Hamzah Jamjoom.

Casting Director Nancy Nayor (The Mother, 65, Barbarian) is casting the film.

Gregory Collins is a writer and filmmaker whose work explores connections across and between cultures and people. He is the writer and producer of Before Anyone Else, from Japanese auteur Tetsuya Mariko, and Chasing the Panther, the memoir of film pioneer Carolyn Pfeiffer. 

Franklin Mark Henson has been brought on as Stunt Coordinator. Henson is a second-generation stunt performer and coordinator, working as a stunt person in the industry since 1988. He was a stunt coordinator for Cocaine Bear, The Witcher, Vikings, Children of Men, and Gravity.

The highly respected AZ Celtic Films (Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune,Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, The Swimmers, Argo, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) will handling all aspects of local production in Turkey and then in Saudi Arabia.

Running Dry is supported by Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Development Fund and has been selected for the Saudi Film Commision’s DAW Fund.

Baraa Alem is represented by Abadi Alshatri.

Waleed Zuaiter is represented by A3 Artists Agency, Echo Lake Entertainment, The Artists Partnership, and Frederick P. Bimbler at Cowans, DeBates, Abrahams & Sheppard

Houshang Touzie is represented by Michael Eisenstadt, Amsel, Eisenstadt, Frazier & Hinojosa, Inc

Neif Aldeferi is represented by Ahmed Al Jihani.

ABOUT HAMZAH JAMJOOM (Director/Co-Writer) 
Hamzah Jamjoom is a Saudi Arabian-born, American-trained filmmaker and creator of thought-provoking films with international appeal. With over 15 years of professional experience, Hamzah’s work centers around clearing misconceptions about the Middle East and bridging cultural gaps through entertainment. His meticulous directing style, compelling narratives, striking imagery, and genre-bending plot twists combined with his cultural background make him a much-needed voice in the film industry. He is the co-owner and creative director of Emmy award-winning production house Digital Hydra and boutique film studio Plot Point One, where he worked with brands including MGM Studios, HBO, 20th Century Fox, McDonald’s, Facebook, and CBS. Hamzah’s projects star Hollywood talent like Helen Mirren, Billy Zane, Ron Perlman, Common, and Dermot Mulroney. His work screened in theaters worldwide (Arabia), streamed on Amazon Prime (Wamahyaya), and dominated YouTube with over 500 million views (Ya Nabi Salam Alayka). Most recently, Hamzah received the Audience Award for Best Saudi Film at the Red Sea International Film Festival two years in a row for his films Rupture (2021) and How I Got There (2022), making him the most awarded filmmaker in the country. He is currently developing a slate of films to continue his mission of promoting cultural understanding through inspiring stories.

ABOUT ABUBAKAR KHAN (Producer) 
Abubakar Khan is a producer based in Los Angeles by way of Vancouver, Canada. He recently completed production management on a feature, Mustache (Dir. Imran J. Khan), which won the audience award at SXSW 2023. He was the head of Business Affairs for the feature Queen of Bones (Dir. Robert Budreau/Produced by Appian Way). He has also produced twelve short films. In addition, he is the former vice-chair of the Canadian Media Producers Association, a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre Norman Jewison Producers’ Lab, and a resident of the Canadian Academy Executive Residency Program. 

ABOUT GREGORY COLLINS (Writer & Creative Producer) 
Born and raised in Kenya, East Africa, Gregory’s work explores connections across and between cultures and people. His recent collaborations include Mayday (2020), Coyote (2021), and Before Anyone Else (premiering in competition at the 2023 Chicago International Film Festival) with Japanese auteur Tetsuya Mariko, and The Ningyo (2018) with Miguel Ortega. An alum of the IFP Filmmaker Labs in New York, Gregory has written and directed two narrative features and has worked extensively as an arts administrator, having served as executive administrator of the Austin Film Society and executive director of the Independent Filmmaker Project Chicago. Gregory is the also writer of Chasing the Panther(HarperCollins 2023)—the memoir of film pioneer Carolyn Pfeiffer whose early life was shaped by her work with Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Omar Sharif, Alain Delon, Robert Altman, and the Beatles, among others.

ABOUT WALEED AL SANADS (Story by)
After finishing his degree in Theology, Waleed Al Sanad turned to entertainment to
spread his mission of peace. He has over 18 years of professional experience producing culturally-inspired content for the Saudi Arabian government and local commercial brands. His wellness TV series aired on MBC in 2007 and has since produced over 60 award-winning commercials, documentaries, and animations. Over the years, Waleed has produced and managed productions within Saudi Arabia and around the MENA region. Most recently he has been engaged with the Ministry of Interior to hunt for local Saudi stories to turn into IPs that can be shared with the rest of the world.

TARIQ AL HAYDAR (Story Consultant (Saudi Arabia)
Tariq al Haydar is an award-winning fiction writer whose debut short story collection will be published by C&R Press in 2024. His work has been published in The Threepenny Review, North American Review, DIAGRAM, Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction (University of Arkansas Press) and elsewhere. His essay “Machine Language” was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2016. His debut television project, a comedy series, will be released on MBC (Shahid) in 2024.

Tis the season to stream holiday classics and new Originals on Disney+, and now Walt Disney Studios Canada wants to spread some more joy this holiday season for shoppers in downtown Toronto and Vancouver.  Shoppers at CF Toronto Eaton Centre and CF Richmond Centre can visit the complimentary wrapping stations to get their presents wrapped with Disney+ branded gift wrapping.

This holiday season, Disney+ is the streaming home for holiday favourites, new Originals, and the biggest premieres of the year! The Happy Holidays collection is back and more joyful than ever with exclusive new Originals and features your family’s annual holiday classics to stream over and over again.

WHEN & WHERE:

TORONTO

Friday, December 8 – Sunday, December 24

Operating from 12pm to mall closing

CF Eaton Centre (Level 3, Trinity Way)

VANCOUVER

Friday, December 8 – Sunday, December 24

Operating from 12pm to mall closing

CF Richmond Centre (Old Navy Court)

ABOUT DISNEY+

Disney+ is the dedicated streaming home for movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, along with The Simpsons and much more. In Canada, it also includes the general entertainment content brand, Star. The flagship direct-to-consumer streaming service from Disney, Disney+ offers an ever-growing collection of exclusive originals, including feature-length films, documentaries, live-action and animated series, and short-form content. With unprecedented access to Disney’s long history of incredible film and television entertainment, Disney+ is also the exclusive streaming home for the newest releases from The Walt Disney Studios. For more, visit DisneyPlus.com, or find the Disney+ app on most mobile and connected TV devices.

Facebook: @WaltDisneyStudiosCanada

Instagram: @disneystudioscanada

Hashtag: #DisneyPlus, #SeasonsStreamings

On December 1, 2023 Pluto TV, a global leader in free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST), proudly celebrated its one-year anniversary in Canada as the largest FAST platform in the country* pacing at over 1 billion total viewing minutes (TVMs) monthly**. Since entering the Canadian market with its most expansive content offering at launch, Pluto TV in Canada has added over 50 new full-time channels, is available across 11 distribution partners, and has doubled the hours of content available on the platform since launch, now delivering more than 40,000 hours of hit movies, shows, documentaries, news, and music available live and on demand.

“Since its inception, Pluto TV has had one mission– to entertain the planet. Pluto TV in Canada has truly been a rocket-ship, quickly climbing to the top as the country’s largest FAST platform. Pluto TV in Canada is one of our biggest international success stories to date, and this success is a testament of the value of our proposition for both users and partners” said Olivier Jollet, Executive Vice President and International General Manager, Pluto TV.

“It’s incredible what we did in just 12 months with Pluto TV in Canada, where we are now the largest FAST platform, delivering over 40,000 hours of content,” said Doug Smith, SVP, Streaming and Content Licensing, Canada, Paramount Global. “Canadians have enthusiastically embraced Pluto TV and its vast content offering including fan-favourite series like CSI, NCIS, Star Trek, South Park, Doctor Who, Frasier, Cheers, King of Queens, Jersey Shore and even Dora The Explorer along with content from our iconic brandsMTV andComedy Central. Every day we continue to see new user adoption alongside our ever-expanding catalogue of hit shows, movies, and more.”

Pluto TV prides itself in offering a human-led curation experience that gives users a truly custom offering of programming based on what resonates most. Led by a team of local content experts, in its first year Pluto TV offered Canadians a selection of special previews of new Paramount+ shows completely free (Special Ops: Lioness, Bargain and more), while also delivering exclusive programming stunts like Mission: Impossible, which featured the full franchise available to stream ahead of the theatrical debut of MI7. Prioritizing people over algorithms, Pluto TV’s portfolio consistently offers relevant programming based on the world around us from new premieres to holiday stunts and everything in between.

Over the past year, Pluto TV’s success within Canada has been driven by new channels and impactful partnerships with The Weather Network, Blue Ant Media, OUTtv, Sony, Lionsgate, Cineflix, NFB, Stingray, and Corus Entertainment, all fuelling the service’s expansive and ever-growing library.

Today, Pluto TV announced even more iconic, beloved, and fan-favourite content now streaming and coming soon to its multi-genre catalogue including:

Income Property Channel (Canadian)

Homes cost money but sometimes, they pay you back. Real estate expert Scott McGillivray shows homebuyers how to make their homes make money, with his hit series Income Property, Moving the McGillivrays, Buyer’s Bootcamp with Scott McGillivray, and more.

Pluto TV Westerns

With Gunsmoke topping the charts as the most-watched Classic TV Channel on Pluto TV in Canada, Pluto TV Westerns is a new channel dedicated to the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier. Featured series include The Rifleman, Cisco Kid, Hopalong Cassidy, and Annie Oakley to name a few.

More MTV!

Hot on the heels of Pluto TV’s announcement of five new MTV channels, the service is bringing even more of the famous brand’s series with new music channels MTV Xmas (launching December 1) with additional channels coming in January including: MTV Spankin’ New, MTV Biggest Pop, Yo! MTV and MTV Classic. On the MTV front, the service will also live stream the 2024 MTV VMAs and EMAs.

Love Pets

Love Petsfeatures heartfelt stories about the furry, slimy, spiky and all-around cuddly creatures and the devoted people who care for them.

Leave it to Bryan Channel (Canadian; launching in January)

The channel features various series from celebrity Canadian contractor Bryan Baeumler, including; House of Bryan, Disaster DIY, Bryan Inc., and Island of Bryan.

Pluto TV Holiday Programming

Warm up this holiday season with festive holiday movies, series, and jolly fireplaces. Beginning December 1, viewers can find their Yuletide joy with the Christmas 365 channel and pop-up channels including More Christmas 365, MTV Xmas, Crackling Fireplace, Festive Fireplace, and Holiday Lights.

Real Disaster Channel

With all the hard-hitting disaster and survival stories you crave, the Real Disaster Channel delivers heart-pounding edge-of-your-seat adventure.

Sailor Moon Channel

The legendary Japanese manga-turned-anime series Sailor Moon gets a dedicated channel on Pluto TV with Seasons 1- 5 of the original series and Sailor Moon Crystal. Usagi Tsukino is a girl who transforms into the guardian, Sailor Moon. Watch Usagi and her team of Sailor Guardians fight to protect the universe from evil every day on Pluto TV!

Naruto Channel

The popular Japanese manga series, written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto, gets its own channel on Pluto TV with seasons 1-4 of the hit series available live and on demand. In Naruto the Village Hidden in the Leaves is home to the stealthiest ninja in the land. But twelve years earlier, a fearsome Nine-tailed Fox terrorized the village before it was subdued and its spirit sealed within the body of a baby boy – Naruto Uzumaki!

NickToons
Take a trip to bikini bottom or make a wish with Timmy Turner. NickToons is serving up some of the very best Nickelodeon cartoons including SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly Odd Parents and Sanjay & Craig.

Pluto TV Adventure Channel

Home to series like Survivorman and Sasquatch Mountain Man Pluto TV Adventure is for viewers who love adrenaline-fueled content that indulges their inner adventurer.

Crime Files (Launching in January)
With True Crime being one of the most-watched Categories on Pluto TV, Crime Files brings some new blood to the service, featuring Canadian-produced series like Exhibit A, 72 Hours: True Crime, and See No Evil.  

These new channel additions join Pluto TV’s wide variety of genres and content categories including: Crime, True Crime, Classic TV, Sci-Fi and Supernatural, Comedy, Drama, Movies, Game Shows, Factual, News and Opinion, Local News (which includes 13 local Canadian news channels live), Home and DIY, Food, Kids, French, Sports, Anime, and Music. 

Pluto TV is also home to some of the biggest television IPs including a dedicated Star Trek channel featuring the original Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation. The service also recently launched eight new channels from MTV and Comedy Central with iconic shows like Jersey Shore, The Hills, Are You The One?, The Challenge, Catfish: The TV Show, and Ridiculousness alongside comedy favourites like Chapelle’s Show, Reno 911!, Key & Peele, Beavis & Butt-Head, and Daria. This is in addition to iconic series like South Park, CSI, NCIS and series from Nickelodeon.

Pluto TV is available for free, with no registration or subscription required. Canadian users can watch Pluto TV via web at www.pluto.tv, via the Pluto TV app for Apple, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Android Mobile, Samsung Tizen, LG, Hisense VIDAA, and Xbox devices, Windows 10 and via mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play. Visit Pluto TV Canada on Instagram @plutotvca to get started on your free streaming journey.

Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh stars in THE BROTHERS SUN. Check out the new Trailer! Arrives January 4, 2024 on Netflix.

About The Brothers Sun

When the head of a powerful Taiwanese triad is shot by a mysterious assassin, his eldest son, legendary killer Charles “Chairleg” Sun (Justin Chien) heads to Los Angeles to protect his mother, Eileen (Michelle Yeoh), and his naive younger brother, Bruce (Sam Song Li) — who’s been completely sheltered from the truth of his family until now. But as Taipei’s deadliest societies and a new rising faction go head-to-head for dominance — Charles, Bruce and their mother must heal the wounds caused by their separation and figure out what brotherhood and family truly mean before one of their countless enemies kills them all.

Created by: Byron Wu & Brad Falchuk
Executive Producers: Brad Falchuk, Byron Wu, Kevin Tancharoen, Mikkel Bondesen
Starring: Michelle Yeoh (Eileen “Mama” Sun), Justin Chien (Charles), Sam Song Li (Bruce Sun), Highdee Kuan (Alexis), and Joon Lee (TK)
Recurring Cast: Johnny Kou (Big Sun), Alice Hewkin (May/June), Jon Xue Zhang (Blood Boots), Jenny Yang (Xing), Madison Hu (Grace), and Rodney To (Mark)

(Photo/video credit: Netflix)

It’s not every day you get to see a Rock God up close and intimate! RUSH frontman Geddy Lee attended a special screening and Q&A for his new four-part Paramount+ Docu-Series GEDDY LEE ASKS: ARE BASS PLAYERS HUMAN TOO? along with Toronto Director Sam Dunn. 

The Series sees Lee chatting candidly with some of Rock’s most legendary Bassists of all time, including members of Hole and Nirvana. Series streams now.

A Recap of the night with appearance by Lee:

(Photo/video credit: Mr. Will Wong/Paramount+)

The one and only Snoop Dogg stars in THE UNDERDOGS, coming January 26, 2023 to Prime Video!

Synopsis:

Jaycen “Two Js” Jennings (Snoop Dogg) is a washed-up ex-professional football star who has hit rock bottom. When Jaycen is sentenced to community service coaching the Underdoggs, an unruly pee-wee football team in his hometown of Long Beach, California, he sees it as an opportunity to rebuild his public image and turn his life around. As Jaycen works to transform the foul-mouthed Underdoggs into top-notch champions, he reconnects with his past, including an old flame and few of his ex-teammates and rediscovers his love of the game.

Directed by: Charles Stone III

Written by: Danny Segal & Isaac Schamis

Produced by: Kenya Barris, p.g.a., Calvin Broadus, p.g.a., Constance Schwartz-Morini, p.g.a., Mychelle Deschamps, p.g.a., Jonathan Glickman, p.g.a.

Executive Producers: Jeremiah Samuels, Anni Weisband

Music by: Joseph Shirley

Cast: Snoop Dogg, Tika Sumpter, Mike Epps, Andrew Schulz, and George Lopez

Genre: Sports, Comedy

Three feature films from Disney and Pixar will hit the big screen across Canada for the first time ever in 2024, including 2020’s “Soul,” 2021’s “Luca” and 2022’s “Turning Red.” The special engagement theatrical runs, invite moviegoers to experience three Pixar films the way they were meant to be seen ahead of the studio’s June 2024 theatrical release of “Inside Out 2.” 

Like Pixar theatrical experiences of the past, audiences will be treated to a Pixar animated short film ahead of each of the features. “Soul,” opening in theatres on Jan. 12, 2024 will be accompanied by the SparkShort “Burrow.” “Turning Red,” opening Feb. 9, 2024 will be preceded by the SparkShort “Kitbull.” “Luca,” which hits the big screen March 22, 2024 includes the classic Pixar short “For the Birds.”

ABOUT “SOUL” (Jan. 12, 2024)

What is it that makes you…YOU? Pixar Animation Studios’ “Soul,” Oscar® winner for best animated feature film, introduces Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie Foxx) – a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. But one small misstep takes him from the streets of New York City to The Great Before – a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities, quirks and interests before they go to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22 (voice of Tina Fey), who has never understood the appeal of the human experience. As Joe desperately tries to show 22 what’s great about living, he may just discover the answers to some of life’s most important questions. Directed by Academy Award® winner Pete Docter (“Inside Out,” “Up”), co-directed by Kemp Powers (“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “One Night in Miami”—Oscar® nominee for best adapted screenplay) and produced by Academy Award winner Dana Murray, p.g.a. (Pixar short “Lou”), Disney and Pixar’s “Soul” also won the Oscar for best achievement in music written for motion picture (original score by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste), as well as Golden Globes® for best motion picture—animated and best original score—motion picture (Reznor, Ross, Batiste), and GRAMMY® for best score soundtrack for visual media (Reznor, Ross, Batiste). “Soul” will open in theatres on Jan. 12, 2024. 

·         In “Burrow,” a young rabbit embarks on a journey to dig the burrow of her dreams, despite not having a clue what she’s doing. Rather than reveal to her neighbors her imperfections, she digs herself deeper and deeper into trouble. After hitting (bed)rock bottom, she learns there is no shame in asking for help. Directed by Madeline Sharafian and produced by Mike Capbarat, “Burrow” is part of Pixar Animation Studios’ SparkShorts program.

ABOUT “TURNING RED” (Feb. 9, 2024)

Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda! Directed by Academy Award® winner Domee Shi (Pixar short “Bao”) and produced by Lindsey Collins “Turning Red releases on March 11, 2022.“Turning Red” opens in theatres Feb. 9, 2024.  

·         Pixar Animation Studios’ SparkShort “Kitbull,” directed by Rosana Sullivan and produced by Kathryn Hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.

ABOUT “LUCA” (March 22, 2024)

Set in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s original feature film “Luca” is a coming-of-age story about one young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. Luca (voice of Canadian Jacob Tremblay) shares these adventures with his newfound best friend, Alberto (voice of Jack Dylan Grazer), but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface. Directed by Academy Award® nominee Enrico Casarosa (“La Luna”) and produced by Andrea Warren (“Lava,” “Cars 3”), “Luca” was nominated for an Oscar for best animated feature film and a Golden Globe for best motion picture—animated. “Luca” releases in theatres on March 22, 2024.

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·         In Pixar Animation Studios’ Academy Award®-winning short film “For the Birds,” small birds mock a big bird who tries to join them on a telephone wire. Written and directed by Ralph Eggleston and produced by Karen Dufilho-Rosen, “For the Birds” initially opened in front of Disney and Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.” in 2001.