10 Rising Indigenous Artists In Canada You Should Be Listening To

Amazon Canada Prime Day is coming up fast (in case you haven’t already marked your calendar, it’s on July 11-12), but the site is already stacked with deals. If you love gadgets and gizmos, you’re in luck, because there are plenty of sweet discounts on headphones, speakers, tablets, and more live on the site right this second.

Summer is officially here, and with that comes a whole new boatload of footwear trends you’re gonna wanna get in on. We’re taking our inspo from celebs like Sofia Richie, Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber and Alexa Chung, who have all been seen sporting some seriously *chef’s kiss* shoes this season. 

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Few things are as essential these days as a good air purifier. With threats of Covid still lingering, and air quality concerns being triggered by the wildfires in Canada, a portable air purifier will go a long way toward ensuring that the air in your space is clean, smoke-free and germ-free too.

Julia Fox is dabbling in the Canadian film industry.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Pan-Arab distributor MAD Solutions has acquired worldwide sales and distribution rights for Palestinian director Laila Abbas’ upcoming female empowerment drama “Thank You for Banking With Us!” and boarded the buzzed-about project as a co-producer. The multi-pronged company that is active in marketing and talent representation – and has become a leading local distributor of Arabic-language films – recently branched out into international sales with Sudan’s Cannes title “Goodbye Julia.” The Cairo-based outfit, headed by Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab, is also becoming more involved in packaging Arabic projects with international market prospects.

Naman Ramachandran Julia Fox, breakout star of “Uncut Gems” has signed on as executive producer for Luis De Filippis’ debut feature “Something You Said Last Night.” The Canadian-Swiss project bowed at Toronto in 2022 and won the Shawn Mendes Change Maker Award there and went on to win major awards at San Sebastian, Cairo and Rotterdam. It stars emerging performer Carmen Madonia, Ramona Milano (“Due South”), Paige Evans (“Trapped With My Husband”) and Joey Parro (“Nikita”). The trans themed story follows 20-something aspiring writer Ren (Madonia) and her younger sister Siena (Evans) as they reluctantly accompany their parents on a family vacation.

McKinley Franklin editor Rob Young, the Oscar-nominated sound mixer of “Unforgiven,” died June 11 in Albi, France from complications of a fall he sustained during a trip to Morocco. He was 76. Young was a sound mixer in the feature film industry for nearly 40 years, earning an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Sound for Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Western “Unforgiven.” He mixed sound for other popular projects including “William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” and “Jumanji” in the mid-1990s.  Among his other notable credits were “Catwoman,” “She’s the Man,” “Final Destination 3” “Night at the Museum,” “Jennifer’s Body” and “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.”

Miranda Cosgrove still loves music.

McKinley Franklin editor The Palm Springs International ShortFest winners were announced on Sunday, with Japan and the U.S.’s “The Old Young Crow” taking the prize for best of the festival. Lithuania’s “Way Better” won best animated short and China’s “Will You Look At Me” landed best documentary short. Additionally, the award for best live-action short over 15 minutes went to France’s “Sèt Lam” and Spain’s “Mystic Tiger” took home the award for the best live-action short 15 minutes and under. The festival handed out cash prizes worth $25,000, as well as five awards to help winners qualify for the Academy Awards. The competition included some 299 short films within the official selection. The annual festival began on June 20 and will conclude Monday, June 26.

Traditional hoop dance artist and TikTok star James Jones, a.k.a. Notorious Cree, reveals he has a music album on the way  — a project that has stemmed from finding fame through his entertaining yet educational TikTok videos.

pic.twitter.com/jWuGUiKAXZHeartbroken to hear my dear friend and mentor Paxton Whitehead has passed away.He was an extraordinary actor, a brilliant friend, and truly wonderful human being.He meant so much to so many people and always brought a smile to the faces of everyone he encountered. pic.twitter.com/jKQksZ0myvWhitehead also served as artistic director of Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, Canada, from 1967–1977, and he began to regard himself as “kind of a Canadian actor,” as he said in 1997.

Stan Refreshes Lionsgate Output Deal

One of the many headline-making anecdotes in Elliot Page’s new memoir Pageboy involves a chapter in the book titled “Famous A**hole at a Party.”

“Paw Patrol Live” is currently midway through their 2023 tours — “Race To The Rescue” and “The Great Pirate Adventure” — that will take your favorite heroic pups to venues in the U.S. and Canada from June through December.And if you were wondering whether or not they’d make it to the northeast, we’re happy to report that the traveling show will close their year out at Newark, NJ’s Newark Performing Arts Center with five shows on Dec. 29-30.They’ll sing, dance and save the day at 10 a.m., 2 p.m.

Annie Murphy can’t believe she gets to star in “Black Mirror” season 6 alongside Salma Hayek.

Elliot Page (Oscar-nominee for “Juno” and star of Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy”) and Hillary Baack (“Sound of Metal) will star in “Close to You.” The new film from the BAFTA-winning writer/director Dominic Savage (“The Escape” and “I am Ruth”) will be co-financed by Kindred Spirit, with Anita Gou and Sam Intili executive producing alongside Rolling Dice’s Nai Vazirani.Executive producers include Matt Jordan Smith of Page’s PageBoy Productions. Producers are Krishnendu Majumdar and Richard Yee who developed the project under their Me + You Productions banner in the UK and Daniel Bekerman and Chris Yurkovich of Good Question Media in Canada.

Academy Award nominee Elliot Page (The Umbrella Academy) is set to star opposite Hillary Baack (Sound of Metal) in Close to You, a new film from BAFTA-winning writer-director Dominic Savage (I Am…), which has wrapped production in Canada.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Elliot Page is starring in “Close to You,” an independent drama about love, family and identity. Dominic Savage (“I Am Ruth”) directed the film, which recently wrapped production in Canada. In “Close to You,” Page plays Sam, who has a chance encounter with an old friend (“Sound of Metal” actor Hillary Baack) on his way home to a dreaded family reunion that forces him to confront long-buried memories. “I’m proud to have worked with Dominic and Hillary on this beautiful film,” Page said in a statement. “It’s been a pleasure collaborating with them and the incredibly talented cast and crew. I look forward to sharing it with audiences soon.”

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse has been sent to cinemas to fix an issue.Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, the animated superhero film is the sequel to 2018’s Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.The film hit cinemas on June 1 and has been heavily praised by fans and critics alike, with many describing it as the best superhero film ever made.However, some viewers reported issues with the sound mixing in the film, and as Variety report, producers Sony have sent an updated version of the film to theatres in order to fix the issue.A synopsis of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse reads: “Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence.

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” stormed into theatres worldwide this weekend, amassing a staggering $110 million at the international box office.