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Hindustan Times
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Who is Mckenna Grace, actress set to play Maysilee Donner in ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping'?
Actress and singer Mckenna Grace has been cast as Maysilee Donner in 'The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping', set for release on November 20, 2026. Joseph Zada will portray a young Haymitch Abernathy, while Whitney Peak has been cast as his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird. Who is Mckenna Grace? Grace gained early recognition for her portrayal of young Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel (2019) and as Phoebe Spengler in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and its sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) Wikipedia. She also starred in I, Tonya (2017) and Troop Zero (2019), showcasing her range in various genres?
CBC
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Sharing, inclusion top list of Calgary Expo perks
Ben Eadie doesn't go to comic conventions to meet celebrities, or to nerd out about a particular video game or film franchise. He goes for inspiration. "What I love is to see the costumes that people have built, and how they've done it, the unconventional materials, and, like, the MacGyvering instinct of everybody," said Eadie, a props and special effects artist from Calgary. "You see somebody that's got a really cool light-up jacket arm and you're like, 'How did you do that?' And they show me something that I didn't know, and it's like, 'Oh my god, that's amazing!'" Eadie has created intricate movie sets and props for major Hollywood films, including Star Trek Beyond (2016) and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). The Star Trek project required him to build giant rotating machines that looked and moved like the starship Enterprise while it was being attacked by alien ships. And he got to create all the fictional gizmos used to detect and capture ghosts in Ghostbusters, including proton packs, PKE meters and ghost traps. He credits his childhood on a farm south of Calgary for his ability to invent, build and fix things. "In High River, I spent a lot of time just monkeying around, and because of that, I have an innate sense of what works and what doesn't," he said. "You know where you've got to put a bolt so that you can actually get at it with a wrench. And that kind of skill set is interestingly missing sometimes. There are a lot of people who can design things, but because they haven't put stuff together, they don't understand that it won't work that way. They don't have that practical know-how, the visual and doing-stuff-with-your-hands mechanicalness of it." Wandering through the crowds at the Calgary Expo gives Eadie a chance to admire and inspect the often elaborate cosplay costumes and accessories that have become the norm at comic cons around the world. "It's the builds and how they did it, and, you know, the story behind it," he said. "The literal blood, sweat and tears behind each costume is always so amazing." Fan costumes are on full display each year at the POW! Parade of Wonders, a Calgary Expo mainstay that draws thousands of participants and spectators into the city core. This year's parade on Friday, April 25, has a new route through the Beltline to the BMO Centre, and will include surprise appearances by some of the celebrities attending this year's convention. Strathmore cosplay guest and judge Autumn Desjardins went to her first Calgary Expo in 2012, at the age of 12. She and her friend thought dressing up was a requirement to get in. "We thought it was a rule," Desjardins recalled. "So we built these costumes, and I made the Ash Ketchum Pokemon costume from Value Village, and put all these pieces together, and since then I was hooked," Desjardins said. "It was game over, this is what I was going to do." In the years that followed, her costumes grew increasingly intricate. "I'd go to my mom, and I'm like, 'Mom, how do I use a sewing machine?' And she's like, 'I don't know how to use a sewing machine, so we're going to figure it out together!'" Desjardins, now 25, has won dozens of awards for her cosplay creations, and has represented Team Canada several times at international competitions, even placing second in 2024 at the MegaCon in Orlando, Fla. She loves learning new skills as part of her builds, be it woodworking, or sword-making, but says it's just as important to share those skills and ideas with others. "In Calgary, specifically, we have a community that's being created where at the end of the competition, people will trade their build books with other competitors. This is something I've only seen in our area, that people will trade, so then they learn off of these other costumes they've seen. It's so cool, and it's such a good community-building thing." But that willingness to talk shop and share tends to be a feature of the broader cosplay community, she notes. "You worked so hard on something that someone asks you one question and you want to go on a half-an-hour tangent about how you built it. Because a lot of us take a lot of pride in what we've built as well. And we want to share what we've done, and what small details you might miss, and 'did you notice this detail from Episode 6 that I added in?' All these little things. And so it really opens itself up to being a community of sharing and learning from others and building up one another, rather than being competitive and secretive and tearing people apart. Eadie emphasizes that, even though the innovation he sees is inspiring, any costume is just fine by him. "It doesn't have to be super amazing, either. I remember being at one of these cons with a couple of friends, and there was this one costume that was cardboard. It was rough. It was a great try, but it wouldn't make a movie scene. And (my friends) were kind of giggling at it, and I was mad. And they were like, 'Why are you so mad?' And I was like, 'Do you see a smile on that person's face? Because that is what this is about. This isn't about you, and what you see. This is about their escape, and the fun they've had, and don't you dare take that away from them.'" 'An escape where you can be you' Positivity and acceptance are a key part of comic convention culture, says Eadie, a father of two teenagers. Both are neurodivergent and LGBTQ, and they revel in dressing up to go to the expo, he adds. "And if you're a little bit weird or quirky, it just plays into the character," he said. "So they suddenly are not holding this shield up in public around themselves. They become them. I'm actually kind of tearing up about this. It's an escape where you can be you. "Whether you're neurodivergent or neurotypical, it doesn't matter," he added. "If you can escape into these things, it's so liberating. If you do these long stares and have to sit in a corner to breathe, that's part of the character, and that's cool. And nobody questions it. And that's lovely." The 2025 Calgary Expo runs April 24-27 at Stampede Park, with celebrity Q&As, photo ops, panels, workshops and demos. Confirmed VIPs include the cast members from Back to the Future, Twilight and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Alicia Silverstone, John Boyega, James Marsters, Helen Hunt and Nicholas Hoult. Friday morning's Parade of Wonders kicks off at 10:30 a.m. in Haultain Park with a new route, travelling east on 13th Avenue S.W., then south on Centre Street and east on 17th Avenue to the BMO Centre. Most celebrities taking part in the parade are being kept secret until the parade, but Peggy the Dog from Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) has been confirmed, as well as honorary parade marshals Jyoti Gondek, mayor of Calgary, and Loki, Dog Mayor of the Culture + Entertainment District. The Parade of Wonders is being hosted by CBC Calgary's Anis Heydari and Jenny Howe.
Fox News
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
'Stranger Things' star, 22, still lives at home with parents despite Hollywood success
22-year-old Finn Wolfhard hasn't left the nest just yet. The "Stranger Things" star still lives with his parents, despite the huge success he's found with the mysterious science fiction show. Wolfhard resides in Vancouver, when he's not working — the TV star wrapped season five of "Stranger Things" in December. The hit Netflix series is expected to premiere sometime in 2025. "I rarely get to see my family. I think it's a nice home base to have, just because, if I'm going to be away for most of the year working, then I might as well have a place [to come back to] with my parents," Wolfhard told People magazine. Wolfhard has moved out on his own a few times, but has always found his way back to his family. "I lived alone for a few years, I guess two years, and then I moved back in with my family for a year. And then, last year, I was living alone in Atlanta for the year while shooting 'Stranger Things,' but I have since moved back in with my family," he told the outlet. "We have a place in Vancouver," Wolfhard said. "We all have our separate space, but we still live together, and it's great." Wolfhard began his acting career in the mid-2000s. He caught his big break in 2016 after being cast as Mike Wheeler in "Stranger Things." The actor was 13 years old while filming the first season. Since then, he has gone on to star in "It," "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," "Carmen Sandiego" and most recently, "The Legend of Ochi." Wolfhard isn't the only "Stranger Things" star to live with his parents. Millie Bobby Brown, who famously stars as Eleven in the Netflix show, lived with her parents in Georgia while filming the TV series until they told the actress she couldn't have any more animals. Brown promptly moved into a house next door, where she takes care of 60-plus animals with husband Jake Bongiovi. "I live next to my parents. I was living with them, then when I turned 18 I was like, 'I want another dog.' And they were like, 'No, you can't fit any more dogs in your room,'" the TV star said during an appearance on "The Drew Barrymore Show." "And I was like, 'Well, I want a rabbit and I want farm animals.' So I moved out, and I moved next door," Brown added.
