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This week’s buzziest names span filmmakers, music artists, and actors who are breaking out, returning to the spotlight, or stacking up acclaimed credits across film and television. From award-season fixtures to fast-rising newcomers, each person below brings a distinctive body of work that’s fueling the current surge in attention.

Below, you’ll find quick, info-packed snapshots of what each celeb is known for, recent highlights, and the projects most people associate with them. The countdown moves from 15 to 1 and follows the list exactly as provided.

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Rosa Salazar is an actress whose breakout leading role in the sci-fi feature ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ showcased her blend of physical performance and performance-capture work.

Netflix is raking up its dark world by bringing Wayward, a Canadian-British thriller miniseries created and directed by Mae Martin. The show explores the dark side of troubled teens and features psychological suspense with a small-town mystery.

Backed by Objective Fiction and Sphere Media, the eight-part show will drop on the streamer on September 25, 2025. With Ryan Scott and Mae Martin as showrunners, Wayward promises to bring the chilling yet terrifying horror hidden behind the suburban calm.

Talking about the cast, well, the lineup is stacked with some versatile talent, each bringing their depth, grit, and intensity to the show. Let’s explore the cast of Wayward.

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This Haunting 2017 Mini-Series On Netflix Is A Must-Watch!(Photo Credit –Netflix)

Netflix viewers are still mesmerized by a chilling miniseries named Alias Grace, which slipped quietly into the platform’s vast catalog in 2017 but continues to hook anyone who stumbles upon it. Though the service is no stranger to gripping thrillers and psychological rides, some even earning the stamp of approval from the likes of Stephen King, this particular gem has proven to be a slow-burn sensation.

Alias Grace: Plot

The six-part drama, tucked within the shadowy folds of 19th-century Canada, unfolds the story of Grace Marks, a young Irish immigrant whose life as a domestic servant takes a dark and unexpected turn. Her employers end up brutally murdered, and Grace is thrown into the eye of the storm, convicted and surrounded by whispers of guilt.

At that moment, Dr. Simon Jordan, a curious psychiatrist, enters with a mission...

A Ready or Not sequel was confirmed earlier this year, and now we're starting to get more details about the upcoming film from Radio Silence, which will see the return of star Samara Weaving.

Weaving was the "final girl" from the 2019 movie. Her character, Grace, married into the Le Domas family, unaware of the twisted game they play on every family member's wedding day. Grace picks "Hide-and-Seek," leading her to run from the family as they try to murder her to fulfill their part of a generational curse.

Earlier this week, Searchlight Pictures shared an endearing promotional video announcing new cast members and more.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

Even before the sequel was officially announced, fans hoped it would be subtitled "Here I Come." It's similar to Happy Death Day 2U and the upcoming Now You See Me: Now You Don't. Who doesn't love a clever title...

David Cronenberg has shared his current view on the movie theater experience, describing it as less appealing than it once was. At the same time, he’s expanding his creative participation in genre film—this time not behind the camera, but on screen—by joining the cast of Ready or Not: Here I Come, the upcoming sequel to the 2019 horror-thriller Ready or Not.

Speaking with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in Interview Magazine, Cronenberg addressed several aspects of watching films today. He noted that he rarely attends public screenings. “I stopped going to the cinema many years ago,” he said. “I only see movies in real theaters every once in a while, mostly at film festivals, and I’ve found that the projection isn’t always so great.”

Cronenberg said he watches everything with subtitles and mentioned practical inconveniences such as parking in Toronto. But his reaction extended beyond logistics. “I don...

The “Ready or Not” sequel starts production Monday, April 21 — that’s today — and Searchlight Pictures shares new details about the follow-up to the 2019 box office hit.

The sequel, titled “Ready or Not: Here I Come,” will film in Toronto this spring, with Radio Silence directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett returning for a second helping of the social survival horror comedy starring Samara Weaving.

Weaving reprises her role as Grace, who in the original film found herself being hunted by her new in-laws at her family’s posh estate. Joining Weaving and the previously announced Kathryn Newton are horror movie icons Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood in undisclosed roles. But there’s more: Shawn Hatosy (“The Pitt”), Néstor Carbonell (“The Dark Knight”), Kevin Durand, and David Cronenberg also join the ensemble.

Horror director Cronenberg recently wondered in conversation with the Los Angeles Times whether “The Shrouds,” his new film out now,...

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The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian tragedy thriller drama series created by Bruce Miller. Based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, the Hulu series is set in a dystopian future after the Second Civil War, which caused the collapse of the fertility rate and gave rise to a totalitarian society. In this world, fertile women are subjugated to bear children against their will. The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O-t Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley, Amanda Brugel, Bradley Whitford, and Sydney Sweeney. So, if you loved the inventive story, thrilling drama, and compelling characters in The Handmaid’s Tale, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Netflix has greenlit an untitled supernatural creature series from Jesse McKeown, a veteran screenwriter on hit TV series like The Umbrella Academy and 19-2.

Danielle Woodrow and Tara Woodbury, directors of content for Netflix Canada, said of the commission on Thursday: “Jesse’s bold, ambitious vision offers thrills galore, with the heart of a family drama. We can’t wait to transport our members to coastal Newfoundland with this timely story about community, resilience and adaptability.”

McKeown’s TV writing credits include The Big Charade, Robson Arms, Rogue, Republic of Doyle and DaVinci’s Inquest. The Canadian limited series will be set and be shot in Newfoundland, on the country’s Atlantic coast as the six-parter will center on a mysterious sea creature terrorizing a remote town, with a hard-bitten fisherman having to fight to protect his family, his community and his vanishing way of life.

Laura Churchill, CEO of Picture Nl,...

An insider at The Hollywood Reporter, who I am suuuuure can be trusted 100%, recently informed the world that actor Zachary Levi was disappointed and “bitter” that he didn’t rise to Chris Evans or The Rock level of stardom after Shazam. Nobody can be sure if these were his true feelings, but to many, the science has been settled, and this is how he feels. So the dude became a Robert F Kennedy Jr. fan, which resulted in a Trump endorsement and running away from… or rather, escaping, LA. He now spends his time on a ranch in Texas, where, apparently, he is going to focus on making faith-based films. So, did they cancel Zachary Levi, or did they set him free?

As an actor, his silliness is always believable, especially when he pretty much plays himself, a lovable man-child who can do action scenes, like in the hilarious show Chuck.

“The Ugly Chickens,” a short film from “Game of Thrones” creator George R.R. Martin, is set to premiere at Hollyshorts Film Festival.

Starring Felicia Day (“Supernatural”), the short is based on Howard Waldrop’s Nebula Award-winning famous story. Science fiction author Waldrop was a friend of Martin’s. He died in 2024. Martin has plans to adapt a further three of Waldrop’s short stories into films.

Martin said: “Howard saw a rough cut of [“The Ugly Chickens”] before he died. He liked it, which pleases me no end. I only wish we had been able to screen the final cut for him.”

Jennifer Dale (“Coroner”), Natalie Charles (“Suits”) and Mag Ruffman (“Alias Grace”) also star in the short, which was shot on location in Toronto,

“Upon learning that the supposedly extinct dodo bird might still exist, ornithology professor Paula Linberl sets out on a cross-country expedition to unravel the mystery,” reads the synopsis.

Exclusive: Sarah Gadon (Ferrari) is set to star opposite Mae Martin in the upcoming limited series Wayward (fka Tall Pines), one of the first commissions for Netflix Canada.

The eight-episode series, created and executive produced by Martin, is a thriller set in a bucolic but sinister town that explores the insidious underbelly of the “troubled teen industry” and the eternal struggle between one generation and the next.

Gadon is believed to be playing Alex Dempsey’s (Martin) supportive yet independent partner Laura. In addition to Martin, Gadon joins recently cast Brandon Jay McLaren.

Martin serves as co-showrunner with Ryan Scott, who also is an executive producer. Ben Farrell executive produces through his Objective Fiction, along with Hannah Mackay, Jennifer Kawaja and Bruno Dubé. Sphere Media is producing.

This marks Gadon’s return to Netflix where she headlined another Canadian limited series, Alias Grace. She recently had a lead role in...

In 2017, several Margaret Atwood adaptations hit the small screen. Compared to the hubbub surrounding Hulu's The Handmaids Tale, the first streaming series to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, Netflix's Alias Grace slid under the radar. A 6-episode miniseries based on Atwood's 1996 book of the same name, which in turn spins a glorious fictional meditation inspired by an infamous real-life murder, Alias Grace is Handmaid's unintentional echo. Nothing binds the stories except Atwood's thematic preferences. But if Handmaid's speculates about a dystopian future-scape, then Alias Grace is the past from which Handmaid's nightmares spring. Adapted with remarkable fidelity by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Sarah Polley (Women Talking) and American Psycho director Mary Harron, Netflix's Alias Grace is Atwood at her most pitiless and ambiguous, realized by women behind the camera who understand exactly what discomforting ideations they're forcing us to sit with. Alias Grace is true crime...

Exclusive: Hamish Linklater, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Brandon Perea and Yuvi Hecht have joined the cast of Imperative Entertainment and 30West’s uplifting romance A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. They join Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, who are starring with Kogonada directing. Sony Pictures will release the film in theaters globally. Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and newcomer Lucy Thomas make up the remaining ensemble.

The script is written by Seth Reiss. Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas and Ryan Friedkin will produce the feature, along with Reiss and Youree Henley. Executive producers include Kogonada, Ilene Feldman and Original Films’ Ori Eisen. 30West is financing the film.

Plot details are under wraps, but A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is described as an imaginative tale of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them.

Linklater is currently starring as “Abraham Lincoln in the Apple TV+ limited series Manhunt.

Bell Media CEO Sean Cohan, the veteran American TV exec newly-hired to lead Canada’s top-rated broadcaster and local streamer Crave, says he’s open to working with American streaming giants to produce TV shows.

Asked whether Bell Media would consider taking the Canadian rights to an indie series that Netflix or other major American streamers may launch stateside and in other international territories, Cohan told The Hollywood Reporter he’d be open to such cost-saving partnerships.

“Whether we would collaborate with the streamers to take Canadian rights to their rest-of-world, it’s a scenario I’m not aware whether Bell has undertaken before now, but it’s something we absolutely have to consider. I don’t know why we wouldn’t consider such a scenario if the story was right,” Cohan said.

The veteran American TV executive spent 15 years at A+E Networks, including as president of international and digital media,...

True Detective actress Anna Lambe has nabbed the lead role in an untitled Arctic-set comedy for Netflix and the CBC and Aptn in Canada.

Lambe will play a young Inuk mother Siaja, with Keira Cooper, a 7 year-old actress from Iqaluit, Nunavut, in Canada’s north, playing her daughter Bun. Siaja wants to build a new future for herself, not easily done in her small Arctic town where everyone knows your business, according to a synopsis from the producers.

Lambe, who is from Iqaluit, Nunavut, made her film debut in The Grizzlies, and then co-starred in CBC indigenous drama Trickster. Lambe also guest-starred on other series like Alaska Daily and the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective, set to debut in winter 2024.

The comedy from Red Marrow Media and Northwood Entertainment has also tapped Anna Adams to be the producing director ahead of production set to start in Nunavut in spring 2024.

Netflix and the CBC,...

Exclusive: Luke Wilson (Horizon: An American Saga) and Greg Kinnear (The Present) are set to star in You Gotta Believe, a film based on the inspirational true story of Fort Worth, Texas’ 2002 Westside Little League team. Others on board for roles in the pic from Santa Rita Film Co. include Sarah Gadon (Ferrari), newcomer Michael Cash, Etienne Kellici (Horizon: An American Saga) and Molly Parker (Deadwood).

Directed by Ty Roberts, who previously worked with Wilson on the Great Depression football drama 12 Mighty Orphans, the film currently in production follows a team of Little Leaguers who dedicate their season to a player’s dying father and, in the process, defy all odds to make it to the Little League Baseball World Series championship in a game that became an ESPN classic. Wilson will play the role of the dying father, Bobby Ratliff, with Kinnear as Coach Jon Kelly.

The film...

With longer days and—at some more progressive places of employment—Summer Fridays in full effect, daily agendas are now suddenly awash with temporal real estate. Should you use these extra hours to reconnect with family, go to museums or explore the natural world in all its holy wonders? No! You should be watching movies, and lots of ’em! Luckily, June is a rock-solid month with plenty of great Don’t-Miss Indies titles to enjoy.

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When You Can Watch: Now

Where You Can Watch: Theaters (Limited)

Director: Abel Ferrara

Cast: Shia Labeouf, Cristina Chiriac, Marco Leonardi

Why We’re Excited: A two-time Film Independent Spirit Award nominee for Bad Lieutenant (1992) and The Funeral (1996), indie veteran Abel Ferrara’s new biographical drama is based on the Irl story of Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar and priest Francesco Forgione, who was venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church in 1999. It...

Samantha Weinstein, the Canadian actress and voiceover artist who played Heather in the 2013 remake of “Carrie,” has died of a rare form of ovarian cancer, her family announced on Instagram. She was 28.

“Sam died on May 14th at 11:25 am surrounded by her loved ones at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto,” read the family’s obit. “After two and a half years of cancer treatment, and a lifetime of jet setting around the world, voicing a plethora of cartoon animals, making music, and knowing more about life than most people ever will, she is off on her next adventure.”

She documented her last few years on Instagram, including her wedding in October, which she called “the best day of my life… 20 months, 10 rounds of chemo, and a lifetime’s worth of memories later, here we are.”

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Samantha Weinstein, a Canadian actor who appeared in the 2013 remake of Stephen King’s Carrie starring Chloë Grace Moretz, died May 14 at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto after being diagnosed in 2021 with a rare form of ovarian cancer. She was 28.

Her death was announced on her Instagram page by her family. “After two and a half years of cancer treatment, and a lifetime of jet setting around the world, voicing a plethora of cartoon animals, making music, and knowing more about life than most people ever will, she is off on her next adventure,” her family wrote.

Launching her show business career as a child actor in 2003 with a role on an episode of the Canadian TV series The Red Green Show, Weinstein would go on to appear in such series as The Winning Season (2004), Wild Card (2005), The Border (2008), Less Than Kind and Burden of Truth (2020), among others. Her...

TheLifetimeAchievement Award of the twentiethSoundTrack_Cologne 2023goes to Mychael Danna.

Danna is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning film composer who has composed over 80 film scores and is recognized for his blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music. He composed the transculturally inspired, 2013 Oscar and Golden Globe winning film score for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. Danna also composed the scores for Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm and Ride With the Devil.

Other well-known films Danna has composed music for include Academy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated films such as The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica and Ararat from his longtime collaboration with director Atom Egoyan; also Moneyball and Capote with director Bennett Miller, Monsoon Wedding, Little Miss Sunshine, Being Julia, Stillwater, The Addams Family 1 and 2, Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur and The Song of the Crayfish.

Danna won an Emmy Award for outstanding music composition for the mini-series World Without End.

Netflix has jumped on board an untitled comedy to be shot in Canada’s Arctic for local broadcasters CBC and Aptn.

The homegrown Indigenous series is set to film in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and will center on a young Inuk mother who wants to build a new future for herself in her small Arctic town, but comes up against everyone knowing her business. There’s no word on casting, but the English-language comedy will have some local Inuktitut language spoken by the characters, according to producers.

The series from Northwood Entertainment and Red Marrow Media was created and will be written by Inuit screenwriter and producer Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Netflix will stream the comedy worldwide, and eventually in Canada, after local broadcast windows on the CBC and Aptn, the country’s Indigenous TV network.

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There's nothing like a good miniseries. The ability to take as much time as needed to tell a dense yet self-contained story, marrying the immediacy and formal panache of great cinema to the narrative depth of great TV, has allowed many auteurs in both mediums to create some of their finest and most vital work.

Historically, miniseries have been the province of some of television's most memorable hits, from "Roots" to "Taken" to "Band of Brothers." Series like Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" and Mike Nichols' "Angels in America" are also regularly cited in the upper tiers of master directors' filmographies. In recent years, the format has seen a kind of mainstream revival, thanks largely to the smashing success of titles like "The Queen's Gambit" and "Watchmen."

But countless miniseries from around the world remain that have yet to receive the attention they deserve. Here are 12 examples of...

Exclusive: Douglas Smith (Big Little Lies), Mark O’Brien (Arrival), Rebecca Liddiard (Alias Grace) and Vinessa Antoine have been cast opposite Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) in Seven Veils, the new feature from filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter).

The project wrapped principal photography in Toronto last week.

Seven Veils follows Jeanine (Seyfried), an earnest theatre director, who has been given the daunting task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away.

Smith and Seyfried previously worked together on HBO series Big Love, playing siblings Ben and Sarah Henrickson.

Pic is written and directed by Egoyan, who also produces alongside Niv Fichman (Enemy), Simone Urdl (The Captive), Fraser Ash (BlackBerry) and Kevin Krikst (BlackBerry).

The project is a...

Editor's Note: This article contains discussions of sexual violence and trauma.Sarah Polley's Women Talking is a drama about women in an isolated religious community struggling with their faith after facing severe continuous sexual assaults at the hands of the men in their community for a long time, featuring performances by some of the best actresses working in films today. Sarah Polley first made her name as a child actress with lead roles in films like Terry Gilliam's The Adventure of Baron Munchhausen and the TV show Ramona. In 1990, she burst into the public eye with the popular CBC television series Road to Avonlea, where she starred as Sara Stanley. She has starred in many popular feature films throughout her career, including Dawn of the Dead, Mr. Nobody, and The Secret Life of Words. In 2006, Polley directed her first feature film Away From Her, adapted from a short story by Alice Munro.

Some want to stand their ground and fight — after all, this is their home, too. Many want to leave and start anew. There’s an option to vote for doing nothing, but really, the days of simply enduring and ignoring are long gone. The choices that a group of women face in Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, her adaptation of Miriam Toews’ book, basically boil down to: Should they stay or should they go?

What has brought the various female members of a Mennonite community to this point is an epidemic.

Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is renowned as one of the most popular children's fantasy series, receiving more mainstream fame with a film adaptation of its first part (The Golden Compass) albeit with mixed reviews. However, the HBO TV adaptation managed to receive better acclaim from Pullman loyalists.With season 3 of His Dark Materials nearing its end this December, some fans are hoping that HBO will take a look at Pullman's other classics and adapt them too. His sequels and spin-offs to the trilogy would definitely make for good follow-up adaptations while even his renowned multi-genre one-off stories can be translated to the screen as either movies or shows.

The Book Of Dust Trilogy (2017-)

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Sarah Polley’s work as a director is being recognized.

On Friday, the Palm Springs International Film Festival announced that the Canadian “Women Talking” filmmaker will receive its Director of the Year Award.

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Polley will receive the honour on Jan. 5, 2023 during the festival, which will be running in-person through Jan. 16.

“Sarah Polley continues her outstanding work as a writer and director in her latest film ‘Women Talking’. She brings together a stellar cast in her adaptation of the Miriam Toews book, taking us on a cinematic journey filled with raw emotions and performances,” festival Chairman Harold Matzner said. “It is our honor to present Sarah Polley with the Director of the Year Award.”

Polley made her feature directorial debut with “Away From Her” in 2006, following a successful career as an actor from childhood. She was...

What are some of the ways that a good film score can elicit a certain emotional response in a film? What film scores did you most admire when you were starting out as a composer? These were some of the secrets revealed by four of today’s top film composers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (“Living”), Mychael Danna (“Where the Crawdads Sing”), Danny Elfman (“White Noise”) and Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Women Talking”). Watch our fascinating full group roundtable panel above and click on each name above to view each nominee’s individual interview.

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“The best way to elicit a feeling in the audience is to try to understand and feel that emotion yourself when you’re writing,” Levienaise-Farrouch says about the secret to evoking emotion through film music. “One of the...

Four top film composers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Wednesday, November 9, at 6:00 p.m. Pt; 9:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Rob Licuria and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.

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Living (Sony Pictures Classics)

Synopsis: An English-language adaptation of the script of “Ikiru” (1952), set in London in the 1950s.

Bio: Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch’s career has included “Tiger Orange,” “Only You,” “Rocks,” “The Forgotten Battle” and “Censor.”

Where the Crawdads Sing...

Exclusive: Fresh off starring in Toronto Film Festival drama North Of Normal, Sarah Gadon is set to make her directorial debut on feature Lullabies For Little Criminals, based on Heather O’Neill’s 2007 novel which won the Canada Reads competition.

Alias Grace and True Detective star Gadon will adapt the screenplay and also produce alongside Brightlight Pictures’ (Firefly Lane) Shawn Williamson and Emily Alden. Production is slated to take place in Montreal.

The movie will follow thirteen year-old Baby who vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation. Her father, Jules, takes better care of his drug habit than he does of his daughter, however when her blossoming beauty captures the attention of a charismatic and dangerous local it creates a volatile situation which threatens to crush Baby’s spirit.

Gadon’s latest feature is Carly Stone drama North of Normal which launched on Sunday at TIFF. The Canadian actress stars with Robert Carlyle,...

Following the early promise of her exceptional directorial debut, Away From Her, the mature complexity of her sophomore feature, Take This Waltz, and the raw power of her third feature, the intimate and personal documentary, Stories We Tell, moviegoers have spent a long time wondering when actress-turned-filmmaker Sarah Polley would return to the director's chair. It's been a long decade since her work has been on the silver screen. While she has kept herself active with a few projects, including Netflix's mini-series, Alias Grace, and the Canadian web series, Hey Lady!, Polley has notably been absent in the film scene, and her fourth feature has been long overdue. Thankfully, the time has come for Polley's much-awaited return. She's back with Women Talking, a surely-sterling adaptation of Miriam Toews' 2018 novel of the same name, and it's expected to be a big awards contender. It's rapidly approaching its Telluride Film Festival premiere,...

Hunting for buried treasure? Mining for hidden gems? Panning for entertainment gold? Use whichever excavation metaphor you fancy, but your findings will stay the same: Netflix has some good stuff, some bad stuff, a lot in between, and digging through it all takes forever.

Since getting into the content production game with “Lilyhammer” in 2012, then breaking through with “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black” in 2013, the pioneering streaming service has made thousands of hours of TV in dozens of different languages. From “BoJack Horseman” and “Arrested Development” to “The Queen’s Gambit” and “The Umbrella Academy,” the entertainment company once known for mailing DVDs en masse has become a producing powerhouse.

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Exclusive: Deadline has the first exclusive track from Jeff Danna’s score for Julia, which is set for release tomorrow via Watertower Music.

HBO Max’s eight episode comedy series is inspired by Julia Child’s (Sarah Lancashire) extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show. Through Julia’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history—the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity and America’s cultural evolution. At its heart, the show is a portrait of a loving marriage with a shifting power dynamic.

One of Danna’s main challenges in his work here was to develop a theme that could speak to both the culinary icon’s spirit, and the series’ “brilliant and warm showcase” of her early years on television.

There will be no third season of Netflix’s space drama Another Life, star Katee Sackhoff revealed on Twitter Monday. The news, which is not surprising, comes four months after the release of Season 2 on Oct. 14.

“I wish we could do more seasons but sadly it’s just not in the cards,” Sackhoff wrote in her note to fans, thanking “everyone single person who watched & supported Another Life on Netflix.”

Created by Aaron Martin, who also served as showrunner, Another Life centers on astronaut Niko Breckinridge (Sackhoff) who is focused on searching for alien intelligence. She leads a crew on a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact. As Niko and her young crew investigate, they face unimaginable danger on what might very well be a one-way mission.

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David Cronenberg has not wanted for work these last few years — with recurring roles in TV’s “Star Trek: Discovery,” “Slasher,” and “Alias Grace,” and a few short films in the can. But he hasn’t directed a feature since 2014’s “Maps to the Stars” won Julianne Moore the Best Actress prize at Cannes. He’s finally back behind the camera for “Crimes of the Future,” a speculative science-fiction film with a stacked cast including Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don McKellar, and Lihi Kornowski. The film shot in Greece earlier this year.

As revealed in a new interview with Document (via The Film Stage), Cronenberg is currently in the edit on “Crimes of the Future” and working closely with Stewart (whom he cross-interviews for the piece) on the post-production. If all goes well, this should show up at Cannes next year.

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The route that took Oscar-winning “Life of Pi” composer Mychael Danna from the basement of a Toronto church to an office on Hollywood and Vine and all the way to the stage of Zurich Film Festival, where he will receive a career achievement tribute on Sept. 30, kicked off – as such things often do – with an offhand comment.

It was the mid-1980s and Danna was a student of electronic music at the University of Toronto, paying his way through college by playing organ in local churches and by composing ambient pieces for the nearby planetarium. He’d also score plays on campus, mostly for kicks. Sitting in the sound booth one afternoon, and idly chatting with the neighboring lighting technician, Danna stumbled onto a new path. “My friend told me about another guy from campus who wanted to make a film and was looking for a composer,” Danna says. “That is literally how it happened.

It is fitting that All My Puny Sorrows is making its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. This is a quintessential TIFF film. There is the lovely Mongrel Media animated logo opening the proceedings. The setting is a blustery Winnipeg. It has an illustrious pedigree, based on a bestselling and award-winning novel from beloved Canadian author Miriam Toews. The cast features festival favorites Alison Pill and Sarah Gadon. And the director, Michael McGowan, has a hockey musical (!) in his past.

None of these elements should be considered problematic––well, perhaps the hockey musical. And yet they all contribute to the sense of overfamiliarity and predictability that burden All My Puny Sorrows. It is by no means a misfire and features a trio of tremendous performances from Pill, Gadon, and Mare Winningham. But given the source material and the ingredients, Sorrows certainly qualifies as a disappointment.

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Canadian actor Sarah Gadon told Variety Saturday she was “really happy” with the decisions of Venice’s main jury this year, on which she served alongside Bong Joon-ho, Saverio Costanzo, Virginie Efira, Cynthia Erivo, Alexander Nanau and last year’s Golden Lion winner Chloé Zhao.

The jury gave the Golden Lion to French director Audrey Diwan’s powerful abortion drama “Happening,” while Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Hand of God” took the runner-up grand jury prize.

“I feel that our choices are very strong and we all arrived at a place where we were unanimous about them,” she said, admitting that the discussions about the presented films weren’t just restricted to four jury meetings. “We often spoke after the screenings. It just felt natural,” she said.

Gadon, who studied film theory and criticism at university, was vocal about her excitement over joining the jury, writing...

Vertigo Releasing has debuted a new trailer for the Aubrey Plaza thriller ‘Black Bear’ before screening at the Glasgow Film Festival from 27th February.

At a remote lake house, a filmmaker plays a calculated game of desire and jealousy in the pursuit of a work of art that blurs the boundaries between autobiography and invention.

Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine, the film stars Aubrey Plaza Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon.

Also in trailers – Lots of one-armed bandits in the Army of the Dead trailer

The film will be released on UK and Irish digital platforms on 23rd April.

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It’s been eight years since filmmaker and Academy Award-nominee Sarah Polley made a feature-length film. To be fair, she wrote and executive-produced 2017’s mini-series “Alias Grace“ and finally resurfaced this year directing episodes of CBC Comedy short series “Hey Lady!” But she’s back for real in the feature space and teaming up with a bevy of talent.

Continue reading Frances McDormand Teams With Director Sarah Polley For ‘Women Talking’ Film at The Playlist.

One of the pleasant surprises of Star Trek: Discovery‘s third year has been the addition of David Cronenberg as a supporting character. The filmmaker plays Federation agent Kovich, who shares some of the more disturbing realities of life in the 32nd century with the time-displaced Discovery crew. And according to an interview with the director in Variety, he’ll be turning up again in the remaining three episodes of season 3, and again in the already-in-production fourth run of the CBS All Access hit.

Kovich was most recently seen showing an interest in the Mirror Universe and Michelle Yeoh’s Emperor Georgiou, and helps set up a seeming return to her own time. When interviewed, Cronenberg discussed how he sees the character, commenting as so:

“He is an interrogator who’s also kind of an academic historian. He plays his cards pretty close to his vest, as does the Emperor.

One of the best delights of the current season of “Star Trek: Discovery” is the unexpected presence of iconoclastic filmmaker David Cronenberg — as an actor. In this week’s episode of the CBS All Access series, the director of “The Fly,” “Dead Ringers,” and “A History of Violence” reprises his performance as the mysterious Federation official named Kovich, who takes a particular interest in Emperor Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) and her origins in the cutthroat alternative Mirror Universe.

“He is an interrogator who’s also kind of an academic historian,” Cronenberg tells Variety about Kovich. “He plays his cards pretty close to his vest, as does the Emperor. And as he tries to pry open some secrets from her, she actually is doing the same to him.”

The 77-year-old Canadian filmmaker has been acting sporadically for as long as he’s been directing, but since his most recent feature as a director,...

For lovers of period pieces, social issues and psychology, look no further than the Netflix mini-series, Alias Grace. It follows the story of Grace Marks, a young Irish immigrant who is imprisoned for murdering her employer and his housekeeper. A young psychiatrist, Dr. Simon Jordan, is tasked with assessing her in order to escape execution. Fact and fiction quickly become blurred as Jordan unravels Marks' retelling of events leading up to the murders.

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Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, the series delves into the ideas of trauma, scandal and unnatural psychology as Dr. Jordan attempts to prove that Grace is not the murderess she's been accused of. If the mini-series tickles your fancy, the internet (including Reddit) has more than a few suggestions of similar shows.

Since bringing her signature deadpan sizzle to turns in “Ingrid Goes West,” “The Little Hours,” and “Safety Not Guaranteed,” Aubrey Plaza has succeeded in becoming a one-woman mini-genre unto herself. Because of her discerning choices of roles, her name indicates something about the tone, quality, and artistic ambitions of the films to which she lends her talents. From the intriguing new trailer for “Black Bear,” which premiered in the forward-looking Next section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, it looks as if Plaza has done it yet again.

Describing the film as “an intriguing and unexpected comedic thriller,” the official synopsis goes on to explain: “At a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously convoluted their lives will soon become...

Sports are shut down. Live theater is shut down. A visit to a movie theater sounds downright terrifying. Group activities are a nonstarter. But you know what we still have as America begins The Great Shut-In?

We’ve got TV.

Suddenly, the overwhelming quantity of television has gone from something that provokes anxiety to something that soothes it. Most of us won’t be leaving the house much, if at all, for the next few weeks, and an easy way to stay both calm and safe is to find a new binge.

Exclusive: The cast of Quibi’s Liam Hemsworth-fronted untitled action thriller continues to grow with Jimmy Akingbola, Sarah Gadon and Zach Cherry in recurring roles. The trio joins previously announced cast members Christoph Waltz and Natasha Liu Bordizzo

The series from Scorpion creator Nick Santora follows Dodge Maynard (Hemsworth) who, out of desperation to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter but the prey. Gadon is set to play Dodge’s wife Valerie and Cherry will step into the role of Looger, Dodge’s best friend from childhood. Akingbola’s role is being kept under wraps.

Santora will write and executive produce the series. Emmy-nominated director Phil Abraham (Mad Men) will helm and also executive produce. The yet-to-be-titled series comes from Santora, producer Gordon Gray,...

“Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power,” a documentary about the author of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has scored a raft of international deals.

The doc was produced by Canada-based White Pine Pictures with pubcaster the CBC. Sky has acquired it for its Sky Arts channel in the U.K. and Arte has taken it for France and Germany. In the U.S., it has landed with Hulu, home of the immensely successful TV adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale” starring Elisabeth Moss.

Elsewhere, the Sbs has pre-bought the documentary for Australia, and Svt for Sweden.

The program is set to bow on CBC’s documentary channel on Nov. 19. It takes a closer look at the Canadian author who wrote hugely acclaimed books such as “The Blind Assassin” and “Alias Grace.” Her latest book, “The Testaments,” a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has...

Netflix has renewed Katee Sackhoff-starrer “Another Life” for Season 2.

“I have the most exciting news! Another Life is coming back for Season 2 on Netflix! Can’t wait to see you all back in space,” Sackhoff wrote on her Twitter account Tuesday.

Sackhoff stars as astronaut Niko Breckinridge, who leads a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact. Justin Chatwin co-stars as Niko’s scientist husband, with Samuel Anderson and Elizabeth Faith Ludlow also starring.

Production on Season 2 will begin next year in Vancouver.

“Another Life” is produced by Halfire Entertainment (“Alias Grace”). Aaron Martin is the creator and showrunner for the series, which is also executive produced by Noreen Halpern.

Netflix renewed “Another Life” as the company is set to face stiff competition in the streaming space. Four major companies are launching their...

The Katee Sackhoff-led sci-fi space drama Another Life will be back for another go-round. Netflix has picked up a 10-episode second season of the series from Alias Grace producer Halfire Entertainment, with production slated to begin in 2020 in Vancouver, Canada. Sackhoff just revealed the renewal news on social media.

Created by Aaron Martin, who also serves as showrunner, Another Life centers on astronaut Niko Breckinridge (Sackhoff) who is focused on searching for alien intelligence. She leads a crew on a mission to explore the genesis of an alien artifact. As Niko and her young crew investigate, they face unimaginable danger on what might very well be a one-way mission.

Cast also includes Justin Chatwin as Erik Wallace; Samuel Anderson as William; and Elizabeth Faith Ludlow as Cas Isakovic; among others. Additional cast for season 2 will be announced.

Noreen Halpern executive produces for Halfire Entertainment.