Young peregrine falcons prepare to take flight!
CBC Toronto's Haydn Watters went to the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Hamilton to speak to observe falcons preparing to take flight.
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May the Schwartz be with you! Spaceballs sequel set for 2027 — with Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis
This is not a drill, movie fans! A Spaceballs sequel is in the works and set for release in 2027 — with three of its original stars reprising their roles in the cult classic 40 years after the original release. Actor Mel Brooks surprised fans on Friday with a video announcing the return of the 1987 parody of Star Wars and other space flicks, that featured Bill Pullman, Canadian comedy legends John Candy and Rick Moranis, Joan Rivers and Brooks. "I told you we'd be back," Brooks wrote in a post on on the social media platforms BlueSky and X on Thursday, accompanied by a video teasing the forthcoming film, set to be released by Amazon MGM. The video, styled after the opening sequence of the Star Wars films, mocked the number of sequels, prequels and franchise universes that have hit the screens since the last Spaceballs movie. WATCH | Teaser for new Spaceballs movie: "After 40 years, we asked what do the fans want. But instead, we're making this movie," said Brooks in the video, wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with "Spaceballs the Sweatshirt." The teaser video ends with the tag line: "The Schwartz awakens in 2027." (In Star Wars you need "the force;" in Spaceballs you get "the Schwartz.") Moranis returning play Dark Helmet, a send up of Star Wars ' Darth Vader, is a big deal for fans. The 72-year-old, Toronto-born actor, also known for the Ghostbusters and Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchises, has made fewer appearances on screen in recent years, having largely stepped away from Hollywood to focus on raising his children following the death of his wife, Ann Belsky, in 1991. Pullman, the now 71-year-old star of films like 1996's Independence Day and its 2016 sequel Independence Day: Rersurgence, will step back into his Spaceballs leading role as the Han Solo-esque character Lone Starr. And Brooks, who turns 99 years old later this month, will once again play Yogurt — like Yoda in Star Wars, but sparkly gold and with a love of merchandising. He also played the character of President Skroob in the first film. But the sequel will have two very big comedic voids to fill. Toronto-born Candy, who played one of his most memorable roles in the original film as the loveable sidekick Barf, died of a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 43. Rivers, the revered stand-up comic and TV host, died from complications after going into cardiac arrest during a routine medical procedure in 2014. She was 81. Rivers lent her voice and signature sass to the character of Dot Matrix, an android modelled after Star Wars' C-3PO. It also doesn't appear, at this point, that former Melrose Place actress Daphne Zuniga is coming back to play her Princess Leia-like character, Princess Vespa. WATCH | The trailer for the 1987 Mel Brooks cult classic Spaceballs: According to Deadline, Nope and One of Them Days star Keke Palmer is joining the case, along with Lewis Pullman, who acted in Top Gun: Maverick and is the near look-alike son of Bill Pullman, are also expected to join the cast. Brooks will be a producer on the film, but he won't be writing or directing this time around. Josh Greenbaum, who helmed the Kristen Wiig comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar and the Netflix documentary Will & Harper, is slated to direct. Josh Gad, a 2011 Tony-nominee for Broadway's The Book of Mormon and the voice of Olaf in the Frozen films, is co-writing the script. "I was that child who saw Spaceballs before I ever saw Star Wars and then wondered why anyone would do a dramatic remake of the Mel Brooks classic," Gad wrote in a post on X. "It is therefore the greatest gift of my life to now help take the reins and work alongside Mel and this incredible group to do a sequel to the movie that first inspired George Lucas."
CTV News
28 minutes ago
- CTV News
No LRT service on Line 1 this weekend for planned maintenance
An eastbound O-Train pulls in to Rideau Station on the Confederation Line of the Light Rail Transit system in Ottawa, Ont. (Brenda Woods/CTV Ottawa) Line 1 O-Train service will be offline this weekend. Planned maintenance occurring on Line 1 this month requires some partial or full interruptions to service for passengers, with most of the work occurring at night or on weekends. Service stopped early the evenings of June 6, 7, and 8, with more days of interruptions planned. The next planned shutdown takes place this weekend and will affect the whole line. 'The maintenance and Stage 2 East integration activities will continue as planned on June 14 and 15. During the weekend there is no train service on Line 1 and R1 bus service will be running between Tunney's Pasture and Blair stations,' said Transit Services general manager Renée Amilcar in a memo Thursday. The Line 1 east extension is getting closer to completion, with the Transit Committee hearing Thursday that the public is expected to be riding the train east from Blair Station to Trim Station in Orléans before the end of the year. The maintenance schedule for Line 1 also includes no train service on the entire line between 8 a.m. and noon on June 22 and on June 29, with R1 buses moving transit riders between Tunney's Pasture and Blair stations during those times. Amilcar says these interruptions are required for additional adjustments to Line 1 service for Stage 2 East Extension integration work. A planned early closure on Thursday night did not happen, as Amilcar said work was completed ahead of schedule. Line 1 service was slated to be offline between uOttawa and Blair stations after 10 p.m. Thursday, with R1 bus service running between Rideau and Blair stations, but instead ran as normal until 1 a.m. 'Since June 6, Rideau Transit Maintenance (RTM) has been performing annual maintenance activities on O-Train Line 1. They have been able to accelerate some of the work, and as a result the early closure of Line 1 on Thursday, June 12 is no longer required,' Amilcar wrote. 'Customers have been advised through all our communication channels that Line 1 service will continue to operate until the normal closing time.'
National Post
37 minutes ago
- National Post
Manitoba hotel owners should step up for wildfire evacuees, Kinew says
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says some hotel owners in the province are not doing enough to help wildfire evacuees. Article content Kinew said on Thursday after touring some fire-hit areas that while a large majority of hotel operators have been great, some need to open up rooms as there are evacuees still sleeping in cots in emergency shelters. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content
