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Adult animation isn’t something that gets talked about enough. Paving the way for today’s movie were things like Fritz the Cat, Lord of the Rings which is not expressly adult of course, and Wizards. Let us know if we should talk about Wizards in some form by the way. Other movies that firmly tie into a similar vein of Heavy Metal are American Pop from the same year and Fire and Ice from a couple years later. While a bunch of the animated movies listed or even not listed fall under the sex comedy, fantasy, or recreation of modern life, Heavy Metal is something else entirely. It’s an anthology sci-fi, horror, comedy, action, fantasy that has a rocking soundtrack and earns its hard R rating. It was held back from being on video for a while due to licensing issues but has become an endearing cult classic 44 years later.

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Boba Fett has become one of the Star Wars franchise's most popular characters. He made a brief appearance in animated form as part of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, but he made his live-action debut in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. His unique armor and intimidating presence made him instantly iconic among film's colorful cast. Within the Star Wars universe, Boba was widely considered to be one of the galaxy's greatest bounty hunters, if not the very best. Powerful villains like Darth Vader and Jabba the Hutt frequently hired Boba for important missions, and his very name was enough to strike fear into the hearts of his targets. Over the years, he has starred in many comic books, novels and even a live-action Disney+ series.

Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher has expressed interest in returning to the Star Wars franchise. Thatcher previously played the cyborg gang leader Drash in The Book of Boba Fett.

The 2021 Disney+ series centered around reformed bounty hunter Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) seizing control of crime boss Jabba the Hutt's territory on Tatooine with the help of his trusted associate Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen). Thatcher's character Drash and fellow cyborg Skad (Jordan Bolger) initially opposed Fett before he gained their respect and they agreed to join forces.

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How Star Wars Rebels Brought Back the Original Boba Fett Into Canon

Star Wars Rebels was heavily inspired by the concept art of Ralph McQuarrie, taking cues from the early ideas behind characters like Boba Fett.

Thatcher looked back on her time in the Star Wars universe while speaking to Inverse, where she confirmed she...

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Heart Eyes is a romantic comedy and slasher film directed by Josh Ruben from a screenplay co-written by Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon, and Michael Kennedy. The 2025 film is set in a world where a serial killer named Heart Eyes returns every Valentine’s Day to kill couples, and it follows a young couple in Seattle who Heart Eyes chase on the night of Valentine’s Day. Heart Eyes stars Olivia Holt, Mason Gooding, Gigi Zumbado, Michaela Watkins, Devon Sawa, and Jordana Brewster. So, if you loved the brutal kills, thrilling story, and loads of gore in Heart Eyes, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Happy Death Day is a dark comedy slasher film directed by Christopher Landon from a screenplay by Scott Lobdell. The 2017 film follows Tree Glebman,...

As always, Shudder is the best place to find some of the most frightening horror films. From the ghoulish to the gory to the supernatural, the streaming platform has an abundance of options for every horror lover. They also have plenty of horror comedies bound to entertain a number of viewers, and next month, there will be even more to choose from.

Valentine’s Day might be just around the corner, but that doesn’t mean romantic comedies are the only type of movie audiences should be watching. Rather, Shudder has a slew of February choices perfect for the season of love. They might contain a bit more blood and gore, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be any less entertaining. Whether viewers plan to watch something alone or with a partner, Shudder has every type of frightening film they could want next month.

'My Bloody Valentine'...

Horror movies often feature killers who are connected to the main characters, adding twists that stick with audiences long after the credits roll. Classic slashers like My Bloody Valentine and Halloween II showcase how familial relations can drive killers to seek vengeance and terrorize those closest to them. Movies like Psycho and Scream have cemented iconic twists in horror history, exploring the dark depths of the human psyche and redefining the genre with self-aware storytelling.

Warning: Spoilers Ahead!A horror movie is only as good as its villain, and in some cases, they turn out to be someone close to the protagonist. Whether that's a friend or family member, killers in movies of the horror and slasher variety often turn out to be related to the main characters. This often makes for a satisfying twist that keeps audiences engaged whilst still providing them with plenty of scares along the way.

With the release of films like Mad God and The Spine of Night (not to mention a poignant reminder by Guillermo del Toro at the 95th Academy Awards ceremony), it seems like Western audiences are one step closer to catching up with the rest of the world in realizing that animation is more than capable of telling complex, adult-oriented stories.

However, this doesn’t mean that older animated films avoided mature themes and experimental narratives – it’s just that many of these movies turned out to be huge flops, with the very best of them destined to become cult classics decades after they underperformed at the box-office. And when it comes to animated flops, there are few films more remarkable than Clive A. Smith’s beautiful disaster, 1983’s Rock & Rule. An unprecedented financial failure, this oddball rock opera would go on to entertain fans of weird cinema for decades...

Quick Links Boba Fett Knew About The Scheme To Rescue Han Solo Boba Fett And Lando Calrissian Have A History In Legends What Would This Theory Mean For Boba Fett And Lando Calrissian's Future In Star Wars? A Star Wars fan theory suggests that Boba Fett knew about the rescue mission to save Han Solo in Return of the Jedi. Lando Calrissian may have made a deal with Boba Fett or used an old trick that worked on the bounty hunter before in Star Wars Legends. This theory could set up future appearances for Boba Fett and Lando Calrissian, perhaps working together in a second season of The Book of Boba Fett.

The opening act of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is an iconic piece of cinema, as the trilogy capper wraps up the cliffhanger ending of its predecessor, The Empire Strikes Back. The ending of the...

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Ah, Boba Fett. The bounty hunter with a Mandalorian helmet first appeared in "The Star Wars Holiday Special" in an animated sequence that was slightly less bats**t bizarre than the rest of that monstrosity (which I do admit to having a soft spot for). He would subsequently return in "Star Wars: Episode V -- The Empire Strikes Back," working for Darth Vader (David Prowse/James Earl Jones) and taking the body of Han Solo (Harrison Ford), frozen in carbonite, to Jabba the Hutt. His role was very small, but that character design was just too good for him to fade into the background. Fans went a little wild over him. Eventually, Boba even got a dad and a backstory in the prequel trilogy, in addition to his very own show on Disney+, "The Book of Boba Fett," starring Temuera Morrison.

A fun piece of trivia: the "Star Wars" character Boba Fett, prior to his inclusion in "The Star Wars Holiday Special" -- which didn't air until November 17, 1978 -- made a live appearance in a parade in the San Anselmo County Fair the previous September. The parade may have been before the character had been given a name, and "Star Wars" fans were tantalized to see a new, mysterious figure walking down the street next to Darth Vader. It was the first appearance of Boba Fett.

The stoic, faceless, and largely mute character, because of his cool helmet, became a fan favorite over the years, and Boba Fett's importance has grown since 1978 to the point where he got his own TV series. Boba Fett has been played by many actors over the years. In "Empire" and in "Return of the Jedi," Jeremy Bulloch wore the suit, while Jason Wingreen played his voice.

Boba Fett has been played by multiple actors throughout his 40-year history in the Star Wars franchise, ranging from voice actors to physical performers. Jeremy Bulloch is best known for physically portraying Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, while Jason Wingreen provided his voice in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Temuera Morrison, who initially played Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, returned to the role of Boba Fett in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, portraying the adult version of the character. Daniel Logan portrayed young Boba Fett in Attack of the Clones and voiced him in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, while Finnegan Garay acted as a body double for Logan in The Book of Boba Fett.

Initially introduced in The Empire Strikes Back, the bounty hunter Boba Fett quickly became a Star Wars icon, but over the course of his 40-year history,...

Cree Summer was born in Los Angeles in 1967, grew up in Canada, and now has dual citizenship. Being the daughter of voice actor and musician Don Francks, it's little surprise that she sought a career in the arts as well. Though she has had some successful live-action credits, like The Cosby Show's spinoff, A Different World, she is best known for her voice-acting credits.

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

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My Bloody Valentine will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 12 via Scream Factory. The uncut version has been newly restored in 4K with Dolby Vision. The three-disc set also includes the theatrical version on Blu-ray.

The 1981 Canadian slasher is directed by George Mihalka and written by John Beaird. Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Don Francks, Cynthia Dale, Alf Humphreys, Keith Knight, and Patricia Hamilton star.

Special features from the Blu-ray are ported over, including a commentary by Mihalka, a 35th anniversary panel with Mihalka and the cast, seven cast and crew interviews, and more.

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It’s time for a new episode of The Manson Brothers Show, the video series hosted by the writers/stars of the horror comedy The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre – Chris Margetis (Stone Manson) and Mike Carey (Skull Manson)! Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and the boys are gearing up for the holiday by taking in a viewing of the 1981 slasher classic My Bloody Valentine (watch it Here). To find out what they had to say about My Bloody Valentine, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by George Mihalka from a screenplay by John Beaird (and a story by Stephen Miller), My Bloody Valentine has the following synopsis: Twenty years ago, a tragic accident in a mine on St. Valentine’s Day took the lives of five miners. The disaster occurred while supervisors left their posts to attend the town’s annual Valentine’s Day dance. The only survivor,...

Though he now insists he's #NotABountyHunter, Boba Fett has been knocking about the galaxy — and, yes, bounty hunting — since 1978 when he first appeared in a different color scheme and in animated form in the notorious "Star Wars Holiday Special" (now in 4K). As of today, Fett is officially the star of his own Disney+ series, "The Book of Boba Fett," the first episode of which is now available to stream.

It's been a long road to this series. Don Francks provided the voice of Boba Fett in the "Holiday Special," where Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) secretly employed his services and called him "the best bounty hunter...

The post After Over 40 Years, Boba Fett is Finally a Star Wars Lead appeared first on /Film.

Boba Fett’s green, T-visored helmet is a menacing visage that’s nearly evocative of Star Wars as Darth Vader’s; one first embodied on film by actor Jeremy Bulloch, who, sadly, passed away on December 17 at the age of 75. However, the legacy that Bulloch leaves behind has proven far greater than a character with minimal screentime and dubbed lines seemingly had any right to possess. It’s a legacy to which hit Disney+ series The Mandalorian owes a great deal of thanks.

Bulloch, born in Leicestershire, England on February 16, 1945, wasted little time getting himself onscreen with uncredited roles—while still an adolescent—in 1958 films Violent Playground and Titanic tragedy movie A Night to Remember, continuing to work steadily for years in U.K.-aimed films and television shows. He fielded a notable four-episode 1974 run as Hal the Archer on Doctor Who (opposite Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor); his second run on the series,...

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The Mandalorian’s Star Wars lore elements are firmly cemented in pop culture now, so the mind-blowing impact of one of its earliest teases, the title character’s devastating, disintegration-dealing Amban phase-pulse blaster, might already be forgotten. However, the signature forked firearm of Din Djarin, is now set to reach a new tier of popularity: a Nerf toy.

The Amban rifle’s Nerf treatment was recently revealed by Hasbro, which has put together an impressive foam-flinging toy that measures 50.25 inches (1.27 meters) in length. The blaster, which makes series-accurate sound effects when firing Nerf bolts, stops short of resembling a replica—for obvious safety reasons—with a toy-distinguishing grey barrel that contrasts with bright-red parts on the scope, barrel, and trigger. Priced at a hefty $119.99, the rifle won’t be available until October 2021, but it will arrive in time for Christmas (Life Day) next year,...

“Before I said I was going to do Finian’s Rainbow I should have read the book.”Finian’s Rainbow (1968)

Commentator: Francis Ford Coppola (director)

1. Regarding the film’s opening frame featuring the word “overture” onscreen, he says it’s because this was what was referred to as a roadshow production. “They were like a night at the theater. You were given a program, it was an event, and as you came to your seat there was an overture playing.” It’s a long absent format, but Quentin Tarantino recently revived it for some screenings of The Hateful Eight.

2. He says a benefit of 70mm productions was that “the soundtrack would be in six-track magnetic stereophonic sound and was very high quality.”

3. The Warner Bros/Seven Arts logo reminds him of his time spent at the latter company working as a staff writer when they bought WB. “It was quite a coincidence related to my directing this...

As a musical it’s excellent — fine tunes and lyrics, great singing and dancing by the ever-youthful Fred Astaire, the glorious songbird Petula Clark, and the impishly weird Tommy Steele cast appropriately as a grimacing Leprechaun. The update of what was a politically acute Broadway hit in 1947 is awkward but the show is a melodious pleasure — great color, fine voices and peppy direction by Francis Ford Coppola on his first big studio feature.

Finian’s Rainbow

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Starring: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Hancock, Al Freeman Jr., Ronald Colby, Dolph Sweet, Wright King, Louis Silas.

Cinematography: Philip Lathrop

Film Editor: Melvin Shapiro

Original Music: Ray Heindorf

Written by E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy

Produced by Joseph Landon

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Finian’s Rainbow is a unique musical with a strange history.

Death, destruction, hot mutant-on-mutant action: the final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse promises that Marvel's most famous Homo superior superheroes will be in for some blockbuster-sized battles. Expanding on the footage that we saw last December, this new glimpse at Bryan Singer's fifth X-Men film showcases a much larger scale than the previous teasers.

As Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), history's first mutant, wakes from his sleep and reigns havoc upon the earth, resident franchise bad guys Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and the shape-shfting Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) eventually joins forces their do-gooding counterparts to defeat a common enemy.

If you want to see what the quintessential Tim Burton movie looks like, you're in luck because his latest now has a trailer and it's gloriously Burton-esque. It's as if Ransom Riggs wrote the Ya fantasy book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children just so it'd be made into a movie by the man behind the movies Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish and the drawings of strange children in his own book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories.  It's also sort of what a Tim Burton-directed X-Men movie might look like. Or at least a New Mutants movie. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children stars Eva Green as a sort of Professor Xavier for orphans with strange powers or qualities. There's an...

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Here’s your first look inside Uncanny X-Men #6, the start of the Uncanny X-Men’s foray into Apocalypse Wars, from writer Cullen Bunn and artist Ken Lashley – who take you on a mission to save the life of one of the founding X-Men!

This April, the secrets of Archangel will be revealed as Magneto and his team prepare for war… Years ago when Archangel first met Apocalypse, he was transformed into the homicidal Horseman of Death. Now, years later, it appears he may be again returning to that form. Psylocke has discovered a vacant, drone-like Archangel in the guise of Death once more. Fearing the worst, that her once lover is under the control of Apocalypse – she and the rest of the Uncanny X-Men embark on a mission to save Archangel’s life. But what they are about to uncover is far more horrifying than they could have imagined… The...

As many of you already know, Joss Whedon worked with Marvel Comics writing a run of Astonishing X-Men that brought Colossus back and introduced several other X-Men characters. He’s done a good amount of work for the company in past, and now he’s coming back to write another comic for them to celebrate Captain America’s 75th anniversary.

ComicBook.com confirmed with Marvel that Whedon will be re-teaming with John Cassaday, who worked with the writer on reviving Astonishing X-Men. The report gives the following information:

Appearing in Captain America: Sam Wilson #7, the two will tell an all-new story celebrating the legacy and legend of Captain America. The issue will also feature a main story from series creative team Nick Spencer & Daniel Acuna, and another backup by Greg Rucka & Mike Perkins.

This wouldn’t be Cassaday’s first time working with Cap either. He did the art...

Deadpool continues to rack up the dollars, so Deadpool continues to silently change the landscape of 20th Century Fox as Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice enters the final marketing push in the foreground.

First, we were supposed to get two more X-Movies this year, at least according to the previous release schedule we were working off. X-Men: Apocalypse will still drop at the end of May (as Captain America: Civil War wears off from earlier in the month), but October 7, 2016 is no longer the release date for Gambit, starring Channing Tatum. It appears that movie has been pulled from the schedule entirely.

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The interesting additions were an untitled Fox/X-Men movie a year later on October 6th, 2017 and a second untitled Fox/X-Men movie for January 12th, 2018. The things we can plug in those release dates that we...

For the last week, Star Wars fans who follow Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) on Twitter have been enjoying a special treat. On February 17, the actor cryptically declared on social media that a big announcement would be coming soon from him. To keep But he didn’t say when. That would normally be the end of things, with fans and journalists periodically checking back to see if the news had dropped. But then Mayhew did something fun…he started posting photos of his original Star Wars script every day and promised to keep it up until the unknown day of the announcement. So far we’re eight days in. No announcement yet, but so far the posted script pages have been fascinating. From dialogue changes to more background information to characters that never saw the light of day, it’s an interesting trip down memory lane. Day One: Starting today I'll post...

With the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival wrapping up this week, we’ve highlighted our five favorite films from the slate. Make sure to stay tuned in the coming months as we learn about distribution news for the titles. Check out our favorites below, followed by our complete coverage, and one can see the winners here.

Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

One has to appreciate Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s winking self-awareness in calling his new feature Creepy. It’s as if the Coen brothers released a film entitled Snarky, or Eli Roth named his next stomach-churner Gory. Kurosawa, who’s still best known for Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), two rare outstanding examples of the highly variable J-Horror genre, instills a sense of creepiness into virtually anything he does, regardless of subject matter. His latest, which sees him return to the realm of horror after excursions into more arthouse territory, certainly lives up to its name...

Lenny Bruce: Dustin Hoffman in the 1974 Bob Fosse movie. Lenny Bruce movie review: Polemical stand-up comedian merited less timid biopic (Oscar Movie Series) Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic Lenny has two chief assets: the ever relevant free speech issues it raises and the riveting presence of Valerie Perrine. The film itself, however, is only sporadically thought-provoking or emotionally gripping; in fact, Lenny is a major artistic letdown, considering all the talent involved and the fertile material at hand. After all, much more should have come out of a joint effort between director Fosse, fresh off his Academy Award win for Cabaret; playwright-screenwriter Julian Barry, whose stage version of Lenny earned Cliff Gorman a Tony Award; two-time Best Actor Oscar nominee Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy); and cinematographer Bruce Surtees (Play Misty for Me, Blume in Love). Their larger-than-life subject? Lenny Bruce, the stand-up comedian who became one of the...

Beating Schrader’s Hardcore to the punch by a matter of months, Robin Spry’s grim and gritty gutter-level drama is driven by a not-dissimilar premise, that of a man searching the seedy urban underbelly for his drug-addicted prostitute daughter. Rather astonishing that it was made for TV – the remarkably bleak opening indicates that no punches are going to be pulled, as we first see Peter Brennan (Don Francks), before the credits have even finished rolling, nodding out in a grimy cafe toilet, the needle still sticking out of his arm. This is followed by howling hospital cold turkey, as a borderline sadistic cop plays Peter a slide show of a drug-addicted girl forced into sex work, before revealing that said girl is Peter’s own daughter. We then get to see said slide show again in harrowing close-up, while Peter wails ever louder. So, once recovered, and with regular...

By Ernie Magnotta

These days, cinema buffs searching high and low for a lost, early work of a modern filmmaker is almost unheard of , as most everything is readily available on DVD or Blu-ray. However, back in the day, this was far from the case. Way back when, many early efforts from then current directorial masters were extremely hard to find. For example, throughout the 1980s, I can remember looking everywhere for a copy of George A. Romero’s third film Season of the Witch aka Hungry Wives (1972) as well as Martin Scorsese’s debut feature Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1967) just to name a few. Another movie I always longed to see was a strange, little action film called Fast Company. The reason I use the word strange is because the movie was directed by the enormously talented, Canadian born David Cronenberg. Although he is now known...

I am such a sucker for a Slasher film. Maybe it was the late night viewings on cable that endeared me. Or perhaps the lurid video covers that are tucked deep in the recesses of my brain. But I’m hooked. For life.

The small town of Valentine Bluffs is ready to move forward. A horrible mining accident on Valentine’s night took the life of all the men in the mine, except one. Harry Warden. And exactly one year later he killed the men he deemed responsible. Tearing their hearts out and leaving them at the annual Valentine’s dance. Since then Valentine’s Day hasn’t been celebrated for fear of Harry Warden’s wrath. With the first dance in twenty years looming, people start turning up dead. Has Harry Warden finally returned?

My Bloody Valentine was released at the height of the Slasher craze. After Black Christmas,...

Sneak Peek a new Restricted 'red-band' trailer starring Famke Janssen ("X-Men") ,from the new TV series "Hemlock Grove", airing exclusively on Netflix from executive producer Eli Roth, Brian McGreevy & Lee Shipman, produced by Gaumont International Television, for an  April 19, 2013 debut.

The TV series adapts McGreevy's novel "Hemlock Grove".

"...a girl is found dead near the former 'Godfrey' steel mill. As rumors mount, two of the suspects in her killing, 'Peter Rumancek', a 17-year-old trailer trash kid rumored to be a 'werewolf' and 'Roman', the heir to the Godfrey estate, decide to find the killer themselves..."

Cast also includes Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron, Penelope Mitchell, Lili Taylor, Dougray Scott, Aaron Douglas, Nicole Boivin, Tiio Horn, Kandyse McClure, Freya Tingley, Ron Mustafaa, Eliana Jones, Emilia McCarthy, Alyssa Sworn and Don Francks.

Production of the $45 million-budgeted first season continues at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto, Port Perry, Ontario, Toronto's Deer Park United Church and in Hamilton,...

Sneak Peek a new 'werewolf' tansformation sequence, from the Ontario-lensed TV series "Hemlock Grove", airing exclusively on Netflix from executive producer Eli Roth, Brian McGreevy & Lee Shipman, produced by Gaumont International Television, for an  April 19, 2013 debut.

The TV series adapts McGreevy's novel "Hemlock Grove".

"...a girl is found dead near the former 'Godfrey' steel mill. As rumors mount, two of the suspects in her killing, 'Peter Rumancek', a 17-year-old trailer trash kid rumored to be a 'werewolf' and 'Roman', the heir to the Godfrey estate, decide to find the killer themselves..."

Cast includes Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron, Penelope Mitchell, Lili Taylor, Dougray Scott, Aaron Douglas, Nicole Boivin, Tiio Horn, Kandyse McClure, Freya Tingley, Ron Mustafaa, Eliana Jones, Emilia McCarthy, Alyssa Sworn and Don Francks.

Production of the $45 million-budgeted first season continues at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto, Port Perry, Ontario, Toronto's Deer Park United Church and in Hamilton,...

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In 1959-60, the distinguished Quebec actor Gilles Pelletier (who had earlier appeared in Otto Preminger’s The 13th Letter and in Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess) came to Ottawa to shoot 39 episodes of the R.C.M.P. television series, coproduced by Crawley Films, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Executive producer F.R. “Budge” Crawley cast Pelletier as Corporal Jacques Gagnier, a Mountie working at a detachment in rural northern Saskatchewan. Interiors were shot on a brand-new soundstage near Ottawa at Old Chelsea, Quebec. Exteriors were filmed in nearby Aylmer, Quebec, and in Outlook, Saskatchewan, which stood in for the fictional western town of Shamattawa, the center of the action of this contemporary adventure series.

Casting a Québécois in the lead role was considered a gutsy move at the time, but...

During Robert Rodriguez's presentation in Hall H today, the filmmaker revealed that he has acquired the rights to remake the 80's classic animated film, Heavy Metal, and has big plans. Take a look...

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"Hi, this is Robert Rodriguez...

I recently acquired the rights to Heavy Metal to make a large-scale media project and an animated film. I've always been a fan of Heavy Metal and Heavy Metal magazine.

I think one of the ideas I always believed in, is international artists coming together to show their best work. And when I ask other fans what they think, they all want to work on it. So I thought it would be really cool if everyone got the chance.

So what I'm doing with this website is having you submit ideas for stories, characters, or worlds that we can use...

Albert Schultz, General Director of the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, today announced the Canwest Cabaret Festival 2009, an intimate weekend of songs and stories at the Young Centre this fall. The second annual Canwest Cabaret Festival brings together over 150 of Canada's most diverse and exciting artists under the same roof for more than 60 unique performances. Every corner of the Young Centre is teeming with activity all weekend long.

Building upon the success of the inaugural festival in 2008, the weekend-long Canwest Cabaret Festival transforms the Young Centre into five intimate club venues. The Cabaret Festival highlights the collaboration of artists and artistic disciplines, while celebrating master musicians as well as emerging artists. Artists perform intimate cabarets showcasing their artistic strengths and interests. Featured artists are musicians, singers, actors, poets and dancers from across Canada, including Molly Johnson, Jackie Richardson, Melanie Doane, Tomson Highway, Kenneth Welsh, Brent Carver, Sharron Matthews, John Alcorn,...