For the second week in a row, Sony Pictures Horror DON’T BREATHE takes the top of the Box Office with $15.3 million from 3,051 theatres. It has made $52 million already.

SUICIDE SQUAD once again is in second with $9.9 million for Warner Bros., just surpassing $300 million in North America.

PETE’S DRAGON is in third with $6.6 million for Disney, now earning $66.8 million over four weeks.

HELL OR HIGH WATER expands to 1,303 theatres for VVS Films/Lionsgate Films in sixth with $4.8 million. It has earned $16.4 million in four weeks.

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS opens in eighth with $4.8 million for Disney from 1,500 theatres. It gets a B+ CinemaScore and a 61% on the Tomatometer.

JASON BOURNE rounds out the Top Ten with $4.2 million for Universal Pictures, earning $156 million in six weeks.

TIFFmas is about to arrive and before the insanity begins, we’re proud to announce our official Partners for TIFF ’16! We couldn’t do it without them and YOU! MRWILLWONG.COM has been a part of this City’s colourful wallpaper for seven years now, our unique take on the Festival balancing the celebrity spotlight with a strong focus on the Films which have the Festival abuzz. Contributing again this year on our Team on Reviews are George Kozera,  Siobhán Rich, David Baldwin and Justin Waldman!

We hope that once again you’ll be making MR. WILL WONG your go-to source for everything TIFF during the Festival!

CP24 will be featuring us and our TIFF content once again this year after many successful years together!  Be sure to tune-in for our sightings and thoughts on this year’s highly-buzzed Films of the Festival!

ACURA CANADA gives us the all-important mobility needed during TIFF ’16 and does it in style. The 2017 Acura ILX is style and sophistication personified.  Above this, it’s fuel-efficient! We’re thrilled to pilot this gorgeous ride this Festival!

NIKON CANADA returns as one of our official sponsors and in addition to relying heavily on our NIKON D3300 with 20-500 mm lens for those gorgeous close-ups of the stars in town, we need that wu-1a adapter to ensure you get to see these Snaps right away, enabling us to upload straight from camera to Smartphone for you all to see!

H&M CANADA has been our main go-to for our fun, versatile fashions for years and once again we will be sporting all H&M this year. TIFF ’16 is the time to be noticed and H&M does just that.

SUBWAY CANADA is the perfect go-to when we’re hungry and we need that Sandwish fulfilled fast! Check back soon as we’ll be launching another $100 SUBWAY®  Gift Card Giveaway in October!

HOTEL NOVOTEL TORONTO CENTRE has been our base for several years now. Once again TIFF ’16 we’ll be calling it home, benefiting from a quick commute to and from the star-filled action in Entertainment District. Above this, there are several amenities including in-and-out privilege parking, a gym, a pool, that amazing breakfast buffet at Café Nicole. Best of all, they’re pet-friendly (we’ve gotta have Billy with us!) and we love their cushy beds!

SAMSUNG CANADA makes TIFF ’16 and our year-round connectivity possible with the Samsung S7, which equipped with a spacious 32 gb of memory, phenomenal low-light camera, accessibility to every Social Media app under the moon and above that, being waterproof, is the only Smartphone for us!

STARBUCKS CANADA partners with us for the first-time ever this year and we are beyond thrilled about this!  Fall means one thing and one thing only, the arrival of the PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE! We dream year-round of the PSL with its warming comfort. Did you know that beginning Tuesday, September 6, 2016, Starbucks Canada will launch its Fall menu including a Chile Mocha Latte and the return of the Salted Caramel Latte? These will be our official beverages of TIFF ’16!

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Now in its third year, the annual TIFF Soirée quickly has become one of the City’s marquee events. The Party, which this year kicks off the 41st edition of the world’s greatest Film Festival, TIFF, takes place once again at TIFF Bell Lightbox.  Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender follows the footsteps of Al Pacino and Natalie Portman to take the stage before a select few journalists, VIPs glamorous Soirée guests Wednesday, September 7, 2016 to reflect on his meteoric rise to fame. A fabulous cocktail party under the stars is to follow.

Fassbender, a graduate of London’s prestigious Drama Centre, has riveted audiences with acclaimed work in Films like Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave, the X-Men Franchise and of course his Oscar-nominated work in 2015’s Steve Jobs. He next can be seen in Alien: Covenant, Assassin’s Creed, The Snowman and this month in The Light Between Oceans.

With tickets starting at $300, you too can be a part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Hosting Packages also are available, but time is limited.  For more details on this year’s TIFF Soirée, click here.

Fassbender has long been on our radar as one to watch and we’ll never forget meeting him the first time!

If performance and luxury are your thing, the 2016 ACURA RDX precisely is your car. The spacious and elegant vehicle is pure performance with its 3.5-litre i-VTEC^®V6 engine and a remarkable 279 horsepower, putting you firmly in-charge of the road.  We’ve driven several vehicles, but driving 2016 RDX feels completely effortless.

In addition to its sleek style, the RDX is focused greatly on safety. Its super-aware Lane Departure and Lane Keeping systems ensure you are focused entirely on the road 4-wheel Anti-lock Braking System (ABS), tire-pressure monitoring and front side airbags give us the piece of mind that this car truly has our back.  A rear-view camera with its precise guiding make reversing and parallel parking a real breeze.

The seats were a decadent leather and we love that our Driver’s Seat not only was adjustable eight different ways, but also had a heated/cooling option – v. handy in this grueling summer heat!  The car seats five very comfortably and those in the back also benefit from having their own vents.  The trunk is large and we love that it both opens and closes with the press off a button on the keyless remote.

It’s all about the details for us and we cannot deny that the glorious Acura 360-watt Premium Sound System with SiriusXM gave us sheer joy, but more so, connecting to Spotify on our smartphone was a breeze and when we wanted to listen to our own music, we had that flexibility here. There were charging ports of multiple varieties and this also is extremely important for us.

While the moonroof can be fickle with some manufacturers, Acura makes it a breeze with its one-touch operation.

If the vehicle could be marked against on one thing and one thing only, it would be fuel efficiency, quickly guzzling through a tank at the cost of its high efficiency.  Its fuel economy tallies in at 10.7 litres/100 km.

Driving the 2016 Acura RDX was more than an experience, it was enlightenment!

Learn more about the 2016 and 2017 ACURA RDX right here starting at $42,190 CAN.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada + Mr. Will are happy to give Readers a chance to see official TIFF ’16 selection, QUEEN OF KATWE starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o.

Screenings take place:

Thursday, September 15, 2016 in Scarborough and Mississauga

Thursday, September 22, 2016 in Laval and Vancouver

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 in Toronto

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 in Waterloo, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal (English only), Calgary, Winnipeg and Edmonton.

Synopsis:
QUEEN OF KATWE is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.

See the Trailer:

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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada release QUEEN OF KATWE in Toronto Friday, September 23 2016 and across Canada Friday, September 30, 2016.

(Photo/video credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada)

© 2016 Disney

If like us you love Baz Luhrmann‘s THE GET DOWN, here’s an amazing new Featurette to help us get to know some of its principal cast a bit better! If you haven’t started streaming it yet, here’s a chance to get your feet wet!

Synopsis:
The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to a new art form. Set in New York in 1977, this music-driven drama series chronicles the rise of hip-hop and the last days of disco -– told through the lives, music, art and dance of the South Bronx kids who would change the world forever.

See the Featurette:

Netflix Canada streams THE GET DOWN, available now!

(Photo/video credit: Netflix)

If there was one Artist who dominated our airwaves this summer, it is Daya.  The funny thing is, many of us still can’t put a face to the name of the 17-year-old from Pittsburgh with three consecutive smash hits already including Hide Away, Don’t Let Me Down (with The Chainsmokers) and of course, catchy current single Still Still, Look Pretty.

Check out Sit Still, Look Pretty below:

Daya made her first visit to Toronto headlining The Family Channel’s Big Ticket at Molson Amphitheatre, a commitment made likely before her star rose as quickly as it has.  With her debut album coming October, she tells us, she will be embarking on her own headlining tour early 2017.

While doing very limited Press here in the City, she did make a stop-off at Global Television‘s The Morning Show (National Edition) for a quick chat before getting a little break from continuous touring.

Watch the interview:

We legitimately are a huge fan of Daya and look forward to her being a major force as she develops into a major Pop Star!  On-top of it all she is so down-to-earth and week, amazingly nice to all Fans today as her entourage enjoyed seeing their star shine bright!

See our Snap:

With our favourite new Popstar, #Daya! She was in Toronto for #BigTicketSummer!

A photo posted by Mr. Will Wong 📸 (@mrwillwong) on Aug 29, 2016 at 8:54am PDT

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(Photo/video credit: Mr. Will Wong/Global Television)

Surpassing all expectations at number one this weekend is Warner Bros. Horror, DON’T BREATHE with $22.4 million for Sony Pictures, from 3,051 theatres.  It gets an outstanding 87% on the Tomatometer from Critics and a B+ CinemaScore from Audiences. It was made for only $9.9 million.

SUICIDE SQUAD slips to second in its fourth week out with $$11.5 million for Warner Bros. from 3,582 theatres. Thus far in North America it has grossed $282 million.

In third is KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS with $7.2 million for eOne/Focus Features, a two-week tally of $24.1 million.

In fourth is SAUSAGE PARTY with $7.1 million for Sony Pictures in its third week out. It is about the surpass $80 million domestically.

MECHANIC: RESURRECTION debuts in sixth with $6.8 million for VVS Films/Lionsgate Films. Critics gave this latest installment in the Jason Statham franchise a 25% on the Tomatometer, while Audiences were much more forgiving with a B+ CinemaScore.

Rounding-out the Top Ten is BEN-HUR with $4.4  million for Paramount Pictures. It is about to surpass the $20 million-mark domestically in its second week out.

CL already is a huge star in the rest of the World, but the South Korean singer/rapper and frontwoman of 2NE1 finally is ready for her North American spotlight. Her new single Lifted is pure Summer, full of confidence and swagger. The backing vocals are impossible to get out of your head and we really think this is going to blow-up!

While the Track is causing quite a bit of a stir with her fanbase who feel the Track is too “western”, we think it is just great.

Check it out below:

(Photo/video credit: YG Entertainment)

Premiering at TIFF ’16, a brand new Trailer has just surfaced for what looks like an emotional ride, starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.

Synopsis:
Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of Kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.

See the Trailer:

eOne Films release LION Friday, November 25, 2016.

(Photo/video credit: eOne Films)