The Trolls are back and this time they go hard! Check out this new Trailer for TROLLS WORLD TOUR!

Synopsis:
Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animation’s 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what they’ve known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different Troll tribes scattered over six different lands and devoted to six different kinds of music: Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, Pop and Rock. Their world is about to get a lot bigger and a whole lot louder.

A member of hard-rock royalty, Queen Barb (Rachel Bloom), aided by her father King Thrash (Ozzy Osbourne), wants to destroy all other kinds of music to let rock reign supreme. With the fate of the world at stake, Poppy and Branch, along with their friends — Biggie (James Corden), Chenille (Caroline Hjelt), Satin (Aino Jawo), Cooper (Ron Funches) and Guy Diamond (Kunal Nayyar) — set out to visit all the other lands to unify the Trolls in harmony against Barb, who’s looking to upstage them all.

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DreamWorks Animation release TROLLS WORLD TOUR April 2020.

(Photo/video credit: DreamWorks Animation)

Well, this will get your heart racing! The Trailer for Netflix‘s POINT BLANK has just surfaced. The Feature Film stars Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo. We’re in love already.

Synopsis:
When his pregnant wife is kidnapped and held as collateral, Paul, an ER nurse, must team with the badly injured career criminal and murder suspect under his charge in order to save the lives of his wife and unborn child. Pitted against rival gangs and a deadly ring of corrupt cops, the unlikely duo find a way to survive together in the fight of their lives. A gritty, action-packed thriller starring Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo only on Netflix July 12, 2019.

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Netflix Canada stream POINT BLANK Friday, July 12, 2019.

(Photo/video credit: Netflix)

Growing-up in the late ’80s-early ’90s it was impossible to avoid the cultural impact of New Kids on the Block. To this day they’ve managed to maintain their loyal following, also paving the way for other massively-successful Boy Bands like NSYNC and Backstreet Boys. We remember waiting by the radio for our favourite Top 40 hits to come on and compiling our own mixtapes on your tape recorder, but imagine the joy of hearing those songs played live?  This is the concept of NKOTB‘s Mixtape Tour, bringing top Pop Acts from their era of glory on-stage with them for one hit-packed show.  Before Christina and Britney, there was Debbie Gibson and Tiffany and while often pit against one another, the two pop forces joined forces at this show, along with Hip-Hop royalty Salt-N-Pepa and Naughty by Nature!

In light of our Raptors NBA Championship glory which was pronounced and celebrated throughout the night at Scotiabank Arena, Toronto’s Snow who performed his signature hit Informer, which was made popular again by Daddy Yankee‘s Con Calma. The Raptors’ North Side Crew Dancers even came out on stage at one point to kick-it-up a notch.

NKOTB brought the house down with their catalogue of hits including Please Don’t Go Girl, Step by Step and Hangin’ Tough, but paying tribute and respect to their Tourmates who also got a chance to shine. But make no mistake, it was clear who the crowd was there to see mostly and NKOTB rewarded several lucky spectators, diving right into the crowd to the delight of their fans.

See some Snaps from the hit-packed show which was just shy of three hours:

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK

TIFFANY

DEBBIE GIBSON

SALT-N-PEPA

SNOW

NAUGHTY BY NATURE

After the show we got to fulfill a real dream of ours, meeting Tiffany and Debbie Gibson together!

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(Photo credit: Mr. Will Wong)

20th Century Fox Canada x Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to win passes to an Advance Screening of STUBER. The Screening takes place in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa July 3, 2019 at 7:00PM.

SYNOPSIS:
When a mild-mannered Uber driver named Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) picks up a passenger (Dave Bautista) who turns out to be a cop hot on the trail of a brutal killer, he’s thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he desperately tries to hold onto his wits, his life and his five-star rating. Directed by Michael Dowse, this action-comedy from 20th Century Fox also stars Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino and Karen Gillan.

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What a time to be from Toronto! We’re like many of you who in recent months have fallen in love with the Toronto Raptors and what the Team have accomplished not only for the City, but also our Country is monumental. We can’t thank the Raptors enough for all their hard work and tenacity. While it was a bit of a test of patience waiting for the Raptors at the NBA Championship Celebration Parade today – thanks to those rebellious Torontonians who refuse to wait behind the positioned barricades, instead crowding the roads, we cannot deny it was worth it.

To see our City come together – people young and old and of all backgrounds – as one spirit cheering for the Team we love, was something we’ve been needing all along. The Parade started at the Canadian National Exhibition, along the Lakeshore and northbound at York Street, en route to its final destination, at Nathan Phillips Square where our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on hand for the fun!

We were there of course and here are some of the Snaps we got on the Huawei P30 Pro!

FACES OF THE RAPTORS

Superfan Nav Bhatia

Drake x Kyle Lowry

Pascal Siakam

Marc Gasol

Kawhi Leonard

Nick Nurse

Masai Ujiri

Please stay, Kawhi!

(Photo credit: Mr. Will Wong)

We are in love with this new jam by Taylor Swift and in typical epic fashion, she unleashes another sensory splash in her new Music Video for YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN, the second single off her upcoming Disc, LOVER out this August!

And you’ll never believe this but Katy Perry even makes a cameo, the two stars burying the hatchet in their feud. Swift comments in her lyrics:

And we see you over there on the internet/Comparing all the girls who are killing it/But we figured you out/We all know now we all got crowns

Okay apparently we’re to blame okay, Internet?

Several others appear including Hayley Kiyoko, members of the Cast or QUEER EYE, Billy Porter, Ellen DeGeneres, Ryan Reynolds, Laverne Cox and more! This was an LGBTQ Pride month celebration in the closet, up till now!

Universal Music Canada release LOVER Friday, August 23, 2019.

(Photo/video credit: Universal Music Group)

We love our Peanut Butter Cups and are thrilled that there actually is a Movie about one of Canada’s favourite snacks! A Movie! The ASMR Film touches upon the chill-inducing effect of downing a REESE Peanut Butter cup!

Firstly, what is ASMR?
Autonomous sensory meridian response is an experience characterized by a tingling sensation on the skin that typically originates in the head and moves down the spine. Or in simple terms, “the chills”.

Titled REESE The Movie: A Movie About REESE, the Film stars ASMR Darlings – yes, this really is a thing – Gibi ASMR, Matty Tingles and Canadians ALB in Whisperland and Seafoam Kitten. It clocks-in at an hour and 22 minutes and has these personalities going through their REESE Ritual.

The REESE Ritual includes five key steps in great detail:

° interacting with the package ° opening the package ° sliding out the cup ° unwrapping the cup ° indulging in the cup °

Without further ado, we present to you REESE The Movie: A Movie About REESE:

MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL debuts atop the Box Office with $26.3 million from 4,224 theatres for Sony Pictures. Franchise best still belongs to 2012’s MIB3 opening with $54 million. This installment which introduces Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth, gets 24% on the Tomatometer and a B CinemaScore.

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 2 still goes strong in second with $23.7 million from 4,564 theatres for Universal Pictures. Over two weeks it has made $91.9 million in North America.

In third is ALADDIN with $17.1 million, four-week tally of $263.8 million domestically for Disney.

SHAFT debuts in seventh with $$7.1 million from 2,952 theatres for Warner Bros. It gets 35% on the Tomatometer and an A CinemaScore.

LATE NIGHT makes its Top Ten debut in ninth with $4.7 million for Amazon Studios/eOne Films, expanding to 2,218 theatres. It gets an 81% on the Tomatometer and a B+ CinemaScore.

MA rounds things out with $3.8 million for Universal Pictures, a three week total of $40.5 million.

It’s been nine years since we’ve heard from the $1.9 billion-worldwide-grossing TOY STORY Franchise, but the gang is back and we’re ready for some new adventures in TOY STORY 4. This latest installment centers on Woody (Tom Hanks), who must take care of his new kid Bonnie (Madeleine McGraw) and her new self-made toy Forky (Tony Hale). After Woody and Forky are separated on a road trip, the former  goes on a mission with friends new and old, to bring him back to Bonnie. Together we learn how big a place this world is for a toy.

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In Toronto to ring-in Toy Story 4‘s Canadian Premiere is Primetime Emmy Award winner Tony Hale (Veep, Love, Simon) who voices soon-to-be fan favourite, Forky. He tells us all about his journey with the eagerly-awaited Blockbuster.

We ask Hale about how he came to be involved with Toy Story 4.

Hale: “I feel like I had the imposter theory and that someone’s gonna figure out they made a mistake”, he jokes. “I heard they were interested in me. The cool thing – as a side bar – is the first Toy Story started in 1995 and that was the year I moved to New York to become an actor. I remember seeing the Movie and thinking, ‘Gosh, this Animation is on another level. I never thought I’d be a part of this Franchise, but they brought me up to Pixar, which is this creative wonderland, and then they just started describing Forky to me.  They were like, ‘We thought of you, he has this neurotic energy’, and I was like, ‘check!‘.”.

“The cool thing about Pixar is that they create this family community environment. They really broke down not just how simple he looks, but also how he sees the world so simple and I thought of my daughter when she was four or five and she just had so many questions. And just constantly absorbing one thing after the other.”.

Hale tells us about the importance of his character.

Hale: “I love the message. I think the whole journey from seeing himself as trash, to come along and realizing he has a bigger purpose than that, he has value and I thought, ‘What a beautiful thing to put out into the world’.”. He adds, “Everybody has a tremendous purpose and I love being a part of it.”.

We ask Hale about the very prominent featuring of  a Canadian Stuntman character, Duke Caboom and working with Keanu Reeves.

Hale: “He’s the nicest guy and he’s so hilarious in this Movie. It’s the way he brings his swagger to the character that contrasts with these very sharp movements, it is so funny. And then they bring this emotional trauma to his life. His story just really makes me laugh. It’s really great that him and Forky get to have this journey together.”.

Hale kids that his humour “comes from a lot of pain”a while his characters have had to do some outlandish things in his celebrated career, he says “Yes, I’ve had to do some colourful bits, however I actually would like to be held by Tom Hanks!”.

Greg Mason, VP of Marketing at Walt Disney Studios Canada took time to chat with us about how the idea of Duke Caboom originated and how his office was actually very much involved!

Mason: “It’s been three-and-a-half years in the making. It goes back to Zootopia where we had Peter Mansbridge do a cameo as Peter Moosebridge. We’re always trying to insert a bit of Canadian in here and there.”.

“We’ve had Jonas Rivera (Producer) in Toronto twice and I see him when I’m in San Francisco. After working on Inside Out, I asked if we could do a little something for Canada. And he replied, ‘You’re gonna love Inside Out. Riley plays hockey and her boyfriend is from Canada’.”.

Rivera came back to Mason, telling him, how for Toy Story 4, he had ideas in mind for a Canadian Dardevil character, letting them make notes on his Character Design and they even sent notes on Casting. He says, “Pixar is so detailed. Right away they said, the Actor had to be Canadian. Our team got together with suggestions and Keanu was on the list. We loved the idea of Keanu and they brought him in and did a read-through and that’s how it came to be.”.

It’s been a while since the last Toy Story film and a lot changing in how Movies are marketed since then. We ask Mason how this can be navigated.

Mason: “Very carefully. With knew we had something special with Duke Caboom and we wanted him front and centre, but it’s not a Duke Caboom film, it’s a Toy Story film. Pixar is wonderful about letting us do stuff and figure it out from here.”.

Jonas sent us the first photo of Duke and he had a box of Timbits! They think everything through and the Animators who worked on Duke, every single one was Canadian! I didn’t have to tell them that and our team is proud of this.”.

The festivities moved down the road in the evening to Scotiabank Theatre. Prizes to be won by guests at the Premiere included memorabilia from the Film including Plushies, T-Shirts and more. Fans got a chance too to see Hale on the Red Carpet and he was joined by Toronto’s Queen of Cake Decorating, Yolanda Gampp who presented a Toy Story-inspired cake. French-Canadian Voice Actor François Bellefeuille who voices Forky in the French-Canadian version also walked the Carpet as well!

Check-out Amanda Gilmore x David Baldwin‘s Interviews here:

Walt Disney Studios Canada release TOY STORY 4 on Friday, June 20, 2019.

(Photo/video credit: Mr. Will Wong/Amanda Gilmore/Walt Disney Studios Canada)

eOne Films x Mr. Will want to give Readers in Toronto + Vancouver a chance to attend an Advance Screening of WILD ROSE! Screenings are as follows:

Toronto – Varsity – June 20, 7pm
Vancouver – Fifth Ave – July 3, 7pm

Synopsis:
Young single mother Rose-Lynn Harlan (former musical reality talent show contestant Jessie Buckley, who came in second on the BBC show I’d Do Anything), 23, lives in Glasgow, but dreams of becoming a country star in Nashville.

After spending a year in prison on drug-related offences, Rose-Lynn goes home to her mother (Julie Walters), who has been taking care of Rose-Lynn‘s two young children. Rose-Lynn is indifferent to her kids, seeing them as an impediment on her road to stardom.

Once a singer at a local country music club, Rose-Lynn now has a strict parole curfew and an ankle monitor, which precludes her from returning to the stage. Instead, she finds a job as a housekeeper for an English woman, Susannah (Sophie Okonedo), during the day. When Susannah and her children hear Rose-Lynn singing while working, they become fans and want to help her reach her dreams.

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eOne Films release WILD ROSE:
June 21, 2019 – Toronto
July 5, 2019 – Vancouver, Montreal

(Photo/video credit: eOne Films)