Canada’s Tate McRae Is Apple Music’s ‘Up Next’ Rising Star

While it’s not really a time to take a victory lap at the box office with only 3,1k movie theaters opened out of U.S. and Canada’s 5,8K, five out of the eight Oscar nominated best pictures this past weekend in theatrical release reaped the halo effect of Monday’s noms.

Brett Kissel wants to make a life, not a living in his new music video.

Emerging country artist Breland is teaming up with Mickey Guyton.

Despite cancelling two tours, Ringo Starr is making the most of his downtime by recording and releasing his new EP, Zoom In.

Jade Eagleson trades in his cowboy hat for a stripper pole in the hilarious new music video for “All Night to Figure It Out”.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorCanada-based actor Colm Feore, whose credits include Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy,” “My Salinger Year,” “The Amazing Spiderman 2” and multiple Oscar winner “Chicago,” is to star in post-apocalyptic Western “Six Guns for Hire,” which has just started principal photography in Toronto, Canada.

Drake may be the one of music’s biggest names, as well as a ruler of a recording and clothing business empire today. But in the aughts he was teenage actor Aubrey Graham, star of Canada’s teen drama Degrassi. His co-star from those days, former The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev, 32, is reminding Drizzy of his time on the show thanks to the most amazing greeting card she discovered.

Walter Gretzky, the father of hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has died. He was 82.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentOne of Europe’s most formidable TV forces, ZDF Enterprises, the international distribution and co-production arm of German public broadcaster ZDF, has swooped on world sales rights to “White Night” (“Nuit Blanche”), the anticipated new show from screenwriter Julie Hivon who broke out in fall 2019 with “Amber Alert,” a big audience and critical hit in French-speaking Canada.Commissioned by CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s national public broadcaster,

EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Grant and Sophia Lillis are set to join the cast of Paramount and eOne’s untitled film adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons, Hasbro’s wildly-popular game franchise from Wizards of the Coast. The film also stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith and Bridgerton star Rege-Jean Page. Paramount and eOne are jointly producing and financing the pic, with eOne distributing in the UK and Canada and Paramount in the rest of world.

Danis Goulet’s Night Raiders, executive produced by Oscar-winning Jojo Rabbit writer-director Taika Waititi, is no typical sci-fi thriller. An entry in this year’s Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section and Goulet’s feature debut, the film flips the genre on its head by using the future to confront Canada’s past colonization and subjugation of its First Nation peoples.

While it’s hard to deny the dominance of Black music across airwaves and streaming services around the world, it wasn’t long ago that many genres had a tough time gaining a foothold in Canada. With storied histories across the country in genres like soul, reggae, and hip-hop, putting them on the deserved stages proved difficult beyond niche platforms.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorShares in Walt Disney Co.

ATLANTA -- Atlanta native Gladys Knight will be among the headline performers at the NBA All-Star Game on March 7, performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” during the pregame festivities.Knight, a seven-time Grammy winner who has been vaccinated for COVID-19, will be present at the game.