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4 days ago
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Guillermo del Toro to Host Canadian Horror Film Festival (Exclusive)
Guillermo del Toro's film school will be back in session in Toronto this summer when the Oscar-winning director hosts a lecture series on Canadian horror movies at TIFF Lightbox. The July 9 to 13 curated showcase for TIFF Cinematheque, entitled From Rabid to Skinamarink: Canadian Movie Madness, will see the maestro of monsters take audiences through a series of iconic genre pics like David Cronenberg's sophomore feature Rabid (1977), Vincenzo Natali's Cube (1997) and John Fawcett's supernatural fright pic Ginger Snaps starring Katharine Isabelle (2000) to reveal and explain their horror genre beats. More from The Hollywood Reporter Edge of Seventeen: How the K-Pop Powerhouse Is Reinventing Itself 'A Light That Never Goes Out' Is a Cannes Debut Opus on Outcasts, Depression, Music, and Hope Netflix, BBC Studios Team on Comedy Podcast 'The Big Pitch With Jimmy Carr' The Mexican director will also explain the mechanics of Bruce McDonald's Pontypool (2008), and Kyle Edward Ball's feature directorial debut, Skinamarink (2022) for their own visual and emotional impacts on audiences. Del Toro has made Toronto a second home after Los Angeles. And the Canadian city has hosted production for a number of his movies, including Mimic, the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water, Crimson Peak, Pacific Rim, Nightmare Alley and more recently the Netflix adaptation of Frankenstein. His TV series The Strain was also shot locally. That proximity has allowed del Toro to develop a close association with the Toronto International Film Festival and its year-round headquarters, TIFF Lightbox. His master classes on filmmaking techniques often coincide with production on his latest movie projects in Toronto. And del Toro has hosted an earlier lecture series at TIFF Lightbox on Mexican cinema, Alfred Hitchcock films and film noir pics. The prolific director's creative ties to Toronto also includes key positions in his locally-shot movies, besides himself as director and Hollywood leads, being filled by Canadians down to longtime producer and collaborator J. Miles Dale, the production designer, costume designer, editors and other technical posts. TIFF Lightbox and del Toro have also partnered on a free, upcoming outdoor screening of The Shape of Water as part of the film festival's 50th anniversary this summer. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kirk Hammett to support book, art while in Toronto for Metallica's two shows
Heavy metal vets Metallica will spread their influence in Toronto beyond their upcoming April 24 and 26 shows at Rogers Centre. Guitarist Kurt Hammett will appear at TIFF Lightbox on April 25 to support his new coffee table book, The Collection: Kirk Hammett, where he will be joined by Mark Agnesi of Gibson for a live discussion. Meanwhile on the same day, The Art of Squindo, a Q&A with Hammett about his cartoon-style fine art and sculpting, will take place at the Lounge at Live Nation. And lastly, the Metallica tribute band, Sandman, will perform at the Velvet Underground on April 25. Tickets for all three events are on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at
CBC
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Canadian with Stage 4 cancer meets Severance cast after sliding into Ben Stiller's DMs
When Emily Powell-Heaton reached out to Ben Stiller on social media, her goal was to knock another item off her bucket list. The Markham, Ont., woman has metastatic, or Stage 4, breast cancer, and is a huge fan of the TV show Severance, which Stiller directs and executive produces. Five days later, she was hobnobbing with some of the cast and crew at a Toronto screening, and later this month, she'll be heading to Los Angeles for a special screening of the season 2 finale. "I try and find things that will make my life, you know, fulfilled and enriched. And I really enjoy Severance and Ben Stiller's work, so I decided to send out the message … and see if anything would come of it," Powell-Heaton told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "And it did, so I'm glad I did." 'Different and original' Severance is a psychological thriller created by Dan Erickson that airs on Apple TV. It follows a group of colleagues who have undergone a brain procedure called severance that makes them forget their personal lives when they are at work, and their work lives after they've clocked out. "I have always been a big fan of things that are different and original," Powell-Heaton said. "When Lost came on TV years ago, I was a big fan … and anything that has that kind of, you know, mystery/sci fi-feel is, you know, right up my alley." So on March 1, she went on X, formerly Twitter, to shoot her shot. "Hi @BenStiller! Severance is the best show my husband and I have ever seen. I have stage 4 cancer. A great bucket list item to check off would be to meet you and any of the cast and crew from the show. We can fly anywhere. We live near Toronto, Canada. Would this be possible? Thanks for your help!" she wrote. The post quickly gained momentum, getting thousands of likes and shares. And that very evening, Stiller responded: "Please dm me." Canadian connections A thrilled Powell-Heaton immediately slid into the actor's direct messages, where he helped arrange for her to meet some of the cast and crew at a March 6 screening at the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto. There, she and her husband chatted and posed for pictures with actor Zach Cherry, who plays severed employee Dylan G; actor Tramell Tillman, who portrays security chief-turned-manager Seth Milchick; and Jessica Lee Gagné, one of the show's directors. "[Gagné] went to school in Montreal for film production. I went to school in Ontario for film production, so I like that we have that in common," Powell-Heaton said. "It was great." Gagné, who was born in Quebec City, isn't the show's only Canadian connection. Parts of second season were filmed in Newfoundland, on Fogo Island and in and around Bonavista. The latter poses as a company town for Lumon, the mysterious and sinister corporation at the centre of Severance. In an episode of The Severance Podcast, Stiller called Newfoundland "rugged and beautiful." Powell-Heaton says she's glad for her moment in the spotlight, which has allowed her to speak publicly about her breast cancer. When she was first diagnosed in 2020, she was already at Stage 4, meaning the cancer had spread to other parts of her body. Over the last five years, she says she's realized that a lot of breast cancer research, fundraising and and support focuses on the earlier stages of the disease. "Stage 4 isn't as talked about because it is a terminal illness," Powell-Heaton said. "So that means a lot to me to be able to do that." She says she's starting a new chemotherapy treatment on Tuesday, and is preparing for spinal surgery in April. Nevertheless, her doctor has cleared the way for her to travel to L.A. for the Severance season 2 finale, where she'll meet even more cast and crew members. "I talked to my oncologist today and she was thrilled," Powell-Heaton said. "She's telling the whole office and everything."
