It’s the end of an era. See the new Trailer for JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION.

Synopsis:

From Jurassic World architect and director Colin Trevorrow, Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome creatures.

Universal Pictures Canada release JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION June 10, 2022.

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Mark Rylance an Zoey Deutch star in intriguing THE OUTFIT! See the brand-new Trailer.

Focus Features will release THE OUTFIT in theatres on
March 18, 2022.

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Adam and Aaron Nee‘s THE LOST CITY is set to make a splash during the Big Game this weekend. Check-out this brand-new TV spot to air during the game!

Synopsis:
Brilliant, but reclusive author Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) has spent her career writing about exotic places in her popular romance-adventure novels featuring handsome cover model Alan (Channing Tatum), who has dedicated his life to embodying the hero character, “Dash.” While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) who hopes that she can lead him to the ancient lost city’s treasure from her latest story. Wanting to prove that he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her. Thrust into an epic jungle adventure, the unlikely pair will need to work together to survive the elements and find the ancient treasure before it’s lost forever.

Paramount Pictures Canada release THE LOST CITY March 25, 2022.

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By Mr. Will Wong

Shonda Rhimes has done it again! The commotion leading-up to the release of Mini-Series INVENTING ANNA has been about as manic as the lifestyle which its fallen heroine lived. And if fame is what twice-jailed ‘faux heiress’ Anna Delvey wanted, the acclaim to follow this outstanding portrait just might have been worth all the trouble she got herself into. Right?

This nine-episode Series is based on the Jessica Presler‘s New York Magazine article, “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People“. We learn about Delvey‘s (Julia Garner) rise to notoriety, defrauding banks, hotels and friends, convincing them she was a wealthy German heiress. She even technically stole a private plane. We see Delvey in her ambitious attempt to launch a social art club (think kinda like Soho House) for the rich, the “Anna Delvey Foundation“.

The story works its way backwards and then forward as we see the beginnings of a swindler at work. She falls in love with jet-setting entrepreneur Chase (Saamer Usmani) who is smitten by her genius and with him and her stylist friend Val (James Cusati-Moyer), she finds herself in exactly the right social circles to build-up her new identity. With a taste for expensive things and an air of snobbery, she created an air-tight perception that she came from money and that there was no reason to dare question that. Racking-up debts for some of her generous friends, and at some of New York’s finest hotels (without even presenting a credit card at check-in), she is a master of illusion, throwing $100 tips at staff to distract them from the truth. She has no money. We see her convince bankers that she will be able to re-pay the loans (with the help of her father) needed to build her $40 million private club dream. And then her world begins to crumble as those closest to her become divided by her actions as the truth unfolds and the questions pile-up about who Delvey really is.

The story is told from the perspective of reporter Vivian (a fictitious version of Presler, who shares a Producer credit here, played Anna Chlumsky). While we uncover who Anna Delvey is through her, we also are brought inside the expectant mother’s complicated world as well. Vivian is tasked with getting Anna to trust her with her story, in order to find her truth, and this is by no means an easy task. Anna is cold and mean, but always dangles just enough of a carrot to keep Vivian coming back. The relationship is mutually beneficial. Anna is looking for fame and for the whole world to know her story. Vivian is looking to overcome some doubts cast over her journalistic integrity and this is the story that could do it. She doesn’t know why, but she cares about Anna and this becomes more than just about being a job for her.

David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada) helms INVENTING ANNA and if you are among the many who loved Prada, this Mini-Series delivers much of that cruel, toxic dynamic but in an even more generous, heaping portion. This isn’t just about Anna Delvey though, it is an exploration of what her rise and fall meant to those most closely-attached to the story. Being stuck with a $50k debut on her company credit card after an ill-fated trip to Morocco is a trauma that came to define Anna‘s friend Rachel (Katie Lowes), while also becoming a business for her. Defence Attorney Todd (Arian Moayed) takes a big risk taking on this case which could’ve been career suicide, but we witness the personal sacrifices he makes in taking this case on. Neff (Alexis Floyd) is one of the hotel staff who benefitted from Anna‘s generosity, but is taken on a wild ride after they become good friends.

This Ensemble Cast is the stuff Awards Season is made of. Garner is undeniable in this portrayal of Delvey, crafting that perfect accent that while ‘aristocratic’ is too German to be American and vice-versa. And we hear Anna‘s unavoidable Russian slip-out. It is everything. We take delight in her excitement as she circles closer and closer to that loan which could seal her fate forever, but we also are very aware it could all come crumbling down in a second once she is discovered. And that also could seal her fate forever. Occasionally, we get glimpses into Delvey‘s delicate side too and Garner is just as compelling at her loudest, screaming at her lawyer, and also at her quietest when she realizes how alone she is. She is one-part crafty and polished Fraudster, but also incredibly childlike in her tantrums. If you know Garner’s work as Ruth Langmore in Ozark, this casting makes perfect sense. Though our central subject does some deplorable things, Garner sells us on Anna‘s unapologetic essence and we were mesmerized.

Chlumsky delivers some phenomenal work as well as Vivian, drawn into Anna‘s world, relentless in her search for what made Anna who she is. She harbours a heaviness to her and it all makes sense the more we learn about her journey and her pain as well. Moayed gets the difficult task of delivering before a jury why Anna is innocent, but also has to put-up with her impossible list of demands and it is so incredibly satisfying when he finally gets to give her a piece of his mind. He excels, especially late in the Series. We aren’t too familiar with Floyd’s work, but she’s definitely on our radar now with her performance as Neff, the best friend we all need in our corner. Lowes captures perfectly the complexities of having been taken advantage of by Anna, but also the aftermath of attention and profit of telling her side of a story which the world has been invested in.

INVENTING ANNA is riveting Television and has been well worth the wait. Anna Delvey won. It streams beginning February 11, 2022 on Netflix.

Hilary Duff and Kim Cattrall are back in HOW I MET YOUR FATHER! Here’s your first look at the new Trailer!

Synopsis:

In the near future, Sophie (Hilary Duff) is telling her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options. 

“How I Met Your Father” is written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Executive producers for the 10-episode series include Aptaker, Berger, Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Pam Fryman, and Adam Londy. Duff will serve as a producer. “How I Met Your Father” is a production of 20th Television. 

The series stars Hilary Duff, Christopher Lowell, Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran, Suraj Sharma as well as recurring stars, Kim Cattrall, Daniel Augustin, Ashley Reyes and Josh Peck.

HOW I MET YOUR FATHER will premiere with two episodes on March 9, 2022 exclusively on Disney+ under the Star banner, with new episodes streaming weekly.

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This looks absolutely incredible! Check-out this new Trailer for THE ADAM PROJECT, from Shawn Levy, arriving next month on Netflix! What a spectacle!

Synopsis:

A time-traveling pilot teams up with his younger self and his late father to come to terms with his past while saving the future.

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Walker Scobell, with Catherine Keener and Zoe Saldaña

See the Trailer:

THE ADAM PROJECT arrives on Netflix March 11, 2022.

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Hot off her Academy Award nomination yesterday, here’s the new Trailer for MEN, starring Jessie Buckley. The Film is by Alex Garland who brought us Ex Machina and Annihilation.

Synopsis:

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina, Annihilation) feverish, shape-shifting new horror film.

VVS Films release MEN May 20, 2022.

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We present to you the latest immersive experience to hit Toronto at 1 Yonge Street! By Canadian Theatre Artist Robert Lepage, THE LIBRARY AT NIGHT will run between March 10 to April 18, 2022.

Overview:
 
Inspired by Argentinian Canadian writer Alberto Manguel’s acclaimed 2006 book The Library at Night – which explores the theoretical, architectural, and social dimensions that underlie any library’s existence– the exhibit was initially designed by Lepage and his production company Ex Machina to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque in 2015. THE LIBRARY AT NIGHT has since toured internationally including stops in Brazil and Paris, as well as an engagement in Quebec City, now arriving in Toronto, the city Manguel made his Canadian home from 1982-2000.
 
An immersive scenographic and virtual experience, THE LIBRARY AT NIGHT is dedicated to the poetic, artistic, historical, and philosophical universe of libraries. Employing VR headsets and 360 video immersion technology, the exhibit takes you inside reconstructed or fictional libraries from different historical moments and corners of the world.

Tickets for THE LIBRARY AT NIGHT go on sale to the public February 11^th at 10:00am. For more information visit, lighthouseimmersive.com.

Filmed right here in Toronto, here’s your first look at the brand-new upcoming adaptation of FIRESTARTER.

Synopsis:

In a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. 

For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; Fear the Walking Dead, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; American Horror Story: Double Feature, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. 

Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes; Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls) is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.  

The film also stars Kurtwood Smith (Amityville: The Awakening, Hitchcock), John Beasley (The Purge: Anarchy, The Sum of All Fears) and Gloria Reuben (Lincoln, Mr. Robot). The Firestarter score is composed by the legendary John Carpenter (Halloween, Christine, The Fog) and his fellow Halloween franchise composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.  

Directed by Keith Thomas (The Vigil), from a screenplay by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills) based on the novel by Stephen King, Firestarter is produced by Jason Blum (Halloween, The Invisible Man) for Blumhouse and Oscar® winner Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend, Constantine) for Weed Road Pictures. The film’s executive producers are Ryan Turek, Gregory Lessans, Scott Teems, Martha De Laurentiis, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules.

Firestarter is in theaters May 13, 2022.

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Elevation Pictures x Mr. Will are thrilled to give Readers a chance to attend an Advance Screening in Toronto to see Channing Tatum‘s directorial debut, DOG. Screening takes place February 14, 2022 at Cineplex Yonge & Dundas.

Synopsis:

Two former Army Rangers are paired against their will on the road trip of a lifetime. Briggs (Channing Tatum) and Lulu (a Belgian Malinois), race down the Pacific Coast to a fellow soldier’s funeral on time.

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Aww! Did you know that Tatum‘s actual dog Lulu was one of the inspirations behind this story?

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Elevation Pictures release DOG on February 18, 2022.

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