#SPOTTED: ALESSIA CARA IN TORONTO FOR “KNOW-IT-ALL”
19-year-old singer/songwriter Alessia Cara certainly is a star on-the-rise. And if some of her famous fanbase counts for anything, you can expect this Brampton native to among the biggest and best. For one, Taylor Swift can't stop singing her praises on Social Media and she even joined the Pop Queen on-stage on the Tampa leg of her 1989 tour.
If you listen to radio, Cara's debut single Here has been impossible to ignore since surfacing this summer. It is one of those rare tracks that ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TEASER FROM “FINDING DORY”
Oscar-winning, fifth-highest grossing animated feature of all time FINDING NEMO has a follow-up at long last and we get a first look!
Synopsis:
Disney & Pixar's “Finding Dory” reunites everyone’s favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale? Directed by Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo,” “WALL•E”) and produced by Lindsey ...
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#SPOTTED: SIMPLE PLAN IN TORONTO FOR “I DON’T WANT TO GO TO BED”
The airwaves of the early 2000s for us were filled with Punk-Pop-Rock acts and one of the biggest ones was Montreal outfit Simple Plan. The band responsible for hits like Welcome to my Life and I'd Do Anything are still going strong and in Toronto today promoting a new single. In an unlikely pairing, Simple Plan is releasing I Don't Want to go to Bed (ft. Nelly) and toured the morning show circuit earlier today, covering many outlets like The Morning Show, Breakfast Television and KISS ...
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#SPOTTED: MICHAEL B. JORDAN, TESSA THOMPSON + RYAN COOGLER IN TORONTO FOR “CREED”
Fans of the ROCKY franchise will be thrilled to see its latest installment, as our favourite on-screen boxer Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) passes on the torch in mentoring the son of his colleague Apollo Creed in Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan).
The stars of the Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) penned and directed Film are in Toronto on a 24-hour whirlwind Press Day which saw them surprise fans at a private screening of Creed last night, introducing the drama at TIFF Bell Lightbox. And ...
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#SPOTTED: MICHAEL BUBLE, SHAWN MENDES, WENDY CREWSON, JILL HENNESSY ,DON CHERRY, RON MACLEAN + MORE ARE CANADA’S WALK OF FAME 2015
Canada's Walk of Fame 2015 took place at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts yesterday and our George Kozera was there to partake in the festivities!
The ceremony now in its 17th year, rolls out the red carpet and shines a bright light on Canadian talent and excellence over an array of fields: entertainment, science, politics and sports. Among those honoured at the ceremony yesterday were:
Michael Bublé
Don Cherry & Ron MacLean
Lawrence Hill
Silken Laumann
Wendy Crewson
Lorne ...
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#BOXOFFICE: “SPECTRE” AND “THE PEANUTS MOVIE” OPEN STRONG
Not that there ever was any doubt, but SPECTRE, the latest in the 007 franchise, debuts atop the Box Office in its North American debut this weekend. It earns $74 million for Sony Pictures from 3,929 theatres. By comparison, 2012's Skyfall which also opened in November, opened with $88 million, ranking this second in the franchise for biggest opening. Critically, it gets mixed reviews with a 62% on the Tomatometer and an A- CinemaScore from audiences, giving it hopefully enough legs to run on ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TEASER FOR “THE HATEFUL EIGHT”
In case you missed it, a new Teaser Trailer for Quentin Tarantino's new opus THE HATEFUL EIGHT, has just rolled-out. We get an even better look at what we should be seeing this Christmas Day. All 2:20 minutes of it.
Synopsis:
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town ...
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#NEWMUSIC: ADELE LIVE AT THE BBC PERFORMING “HELLO”
There is nothing like seeing Adele live. Just yesterday she performed for the first time ever live at the BBC, her international smash Hello. And it was glorious! Here's good-sized snipppet of the performance, the full version which will be rolled-out soon.
Check it out below:
XL Recordings release 25 by Adele on Friday, November 20, 2015.
(Photo/video credit: BBC)
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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW INTERNATIONAL JAPANESE TRAILER FOR “STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS”
A brand new international Japanese Trailer for STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS has surfaced and despite being shorter than a previous cut we saw, there seems to be a whole lotta new footage to be seen! They always get everything first in Japan, don't they?!
See the new Trailer:
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada release STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Friday, December 1, 2015.
(Photo/video credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Canada)
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#GIVEAWAY: ENTER TO WIN ADVANCE PASSES TO SEE “LEGEND”
Elevation Pictures + Mr. Will want to give readers a chance to see TIFF ’15 selection LEGEND! The Film based on the lives of the infamous Kray Twins stars Tom Hardy in a dual role and Emily Browning. Screenings take place Wednesday, November 25, 2015 in Toronto and Vancouver and Wednesday, December 2, 2015 in Winnipeg, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Victoria, Calgary and Edmonton.
Synopsis:
From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) and Working Title ...
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