Giant Film Studio Development Planned for Toronto

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterAs the country awaits the final results of the presidential election, there were major strides when it came to the representation of people of color and the LGBTQ community on many fronts — many film and TV figures from Hollywood celebrated as the world saw progress in the House and Senate.“The Squad” which includes Reps.

Politically active stars in Hollywood are sharing their anxieties over anticipated delays in results of the 2020 election and urging voters to remain in line and make sure their vote is counted. As of late Tuesday evening on the West Coast, Donald Trump and Joe Biden were locked in a tight race across the country.

Over the course of her career, Carey Mulligan has shown her prowess at playing some of the most interesting female characters to grace the big screen, in features such as “Drive,” “Shame,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Mudbound,” and “Wildlife.” However, according to the actress, not all of the female characters she has had the pleasure of bringing to life survive the editing room unscathed, which she feels is a serious problem in Hollywood.

David Robb Labor EditorAnimators at Titmouse Vancouver have unionized, voting 98% to 2% to join the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 938.

Peter White Television EditorVice TV has handed wrestling docuseries Dark Side of the Ring a supersized third season.The youth-skewing network has given its biggest original a 14 episode order for its third season – up from ten episodes on season two and six episodes for its first run.The show, which is co-produced with Crave in Canada, will return in 2021.

sexual assault suspect was arrested early Monday on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood after a confrontation with officers, the Los Angeles Police Department said.The incident began around 10 p.m.

Hollywood veteran Johnny Depp has been ordered to attend a deposition in his defamation lawsuit involving ex-wife Amber Heard. Deadline recently reported that the order states the 57-year-old actor to “appear for three successive days in counsel for Defendant’s offices in Virginia …or at such other place in Northern Virginia designated by counsel for Defendant, from November 10-12, 2020, beginning at 10:00 a.m.

This weekend’s edition of “Saturday Night Live” targeted Canada with a sketch featuring CBC’s “Bonjour Hi!”

No matter how much people like to complain about the casting of underrepresented actors in Hollywood projects, it’s still a struggle for actors of color to get the same opportunities as white actors. Case in point, Salma Hayek took the time to reflect on her role in Robert Rodriguez‘s “Desperado,” the film that gave Hayek her breakthrough Hollywood role.

Peter Bart Editor-At-LargeWith yet another major round of layoffs about to hit Hollywood, I am reminded of Ben Hecht’s explanation of how he made his peace with the town. “The key is to understand how to balance the misery with the money,” he wrote.Arriving in Hollywood at the zenith of the studio system, Hecht wrote that everyone he met was working, but also complaining.

Angelique Jackson In the satirical horror film “Bad Hair,” which debuts Oct. 23 on Hulu, Elle Lorraine plays Anna, a young woman who adopts a new look in order to land a hosting gig at a “106 & Park”-like music countdown show.

There’s a big rumor floating around the Internet that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield will be putting their Spidey suits back on for the third Marvel Spider-Man movie!

Fans had their spidey senses tingling with news that Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire may make an appearance in the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland.

Whether it’s as a director or a producer, filmmaker Ava DuVernay is one of the busiest folks in Hollywood. And now, it appears the director is ready to tackle yet another project for Netflix.

Todd McCarthy At the time, in November 1970, it must have seemed like an ideal match, a meeting of renegade titans: Orson Welles, the long-ago boy genius of theater and films who never got a job directing in Hollywood after 1958, and Dennis Hopper, whose out-of-nowhere smash with Easy Rider in 1969 made him the boy wonder of the hippie age and ostensible leader of a new wave of counterculture movies.Just as Welles had cratered from a Hollywood-career perspective, Hopper hit the rocks with his

In celebration of National Coming Out Day on Sunday, Oct. 11, 20th Century Fox is unveiling its first look at the trailer for “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie”.

Lindsey Vonn and P.K. Subban have postponed their wedding until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe idea of a U.S. film festival sticking to its dates in 2020 with a fully programmed, all-physical, non-virtual slate of screenings? It might seem beyond possibility, but then, the suspension of disbelief is particularly accentuated at L.A.’s annual Beyond Fest, which programs “genre” films every fall at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

Lindsey Vonn and P.K. Subban are looking at a long engagement.