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Network: The CW

Episodes: Six (hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: January 12, 2021 -- February 16, 2021

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Nathan Alexis, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice, and Georgina Lightning.

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A coming-of-age supernatural thriller series, the Trickster TV show is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson.

Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the story follows Jared (Oulette), an Indigenous teen who struggles to keep his dysfunctional family above water. Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side to support his separated parents -- partying mom Maggie (Crystle Lightning), who self-medicates an undiagnosed mental illness,...

The Trickster TV series originates on the CBC network in Canada and the show has already been renewed for a second season there. The show presumably costs The CW less to license than it would cost to produce an original series. Will season two of Trickster air in the United States? Stay tuned.   *Status Update Below.

A coming-of-age supernatural thriller series, the Trickster TV show is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson. The series stars Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Nathan Alexis, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice, and Georgina Lightning. Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the story follows Jared (Oulette), an Indigenous teen who struggles to keep his dysfunctional family above water. Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side to support his separated parents. But, when Jared starts seeing strange things,...

The Trickster TV show will have a shorter than expected lifespan. The drama series, which originates on CBC in Canada, is currently airing its first season on The CW. Trickster had already been renewed for a second season in Canada but now, those plans have been cancelled.

The Trickster TV show is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson. The series stars Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Nathan Alexis, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice, and Georgina Lightning. Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the story follows Jared (Oulette), an Indigenous teen who struggles to keep his dysfunctional family above water. Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side to support his separated parents. But, when Jared starts seeing strange things, his already chaotic life is turned upside down. At...

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Airing on CBC in Canada and on The CW in the United States, the Trickster TV show is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson. The series stars Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Nathan Alexis, Joel Thomas Hynes, Gail Maurice, and Georgina Lightning. Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the...

With the Covid-19 pandemic having wreaked havoc on production, the CW’s “fall” season is being winterized. The strangest TV season in memory will continue in January and February with the network setting premiere dates for 11 returning series and three new ones: Walker, Superman & Lois and Canadian pickup Trickster.

The CW in May announced that its regular 2020-21 schedule will roll out in January and unveiled a fall 2020 lineup consisting of acquisitions and the final episodes of Supernatural.

The series are launching when they are ready based on staggered production start dates and length of post-production — especially the multiple superhero shows that require elaborate special effects.

The rollout begins Friday, January 8, with the season bows of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Both unscripted veterans originally were set to air on Mondays.

The new season continues with the Season 3 premiere of Two Sentence Horror Stories on Tuesday,...

A Dangerous Method (15)

(David Cronenberg, 2011, UK/ Ger/Can/Swi) Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon. 100 mins

Cronenberg perverts the cause of the costume drama, as Jung and Freud go where no psychoanalyst has gone before, lifting the lid on 19th-century decorum then falling into their own can of worms. Those expecting psychedelic gore (or kinky erotica) will be disappointed; this is intelligent, articulate and restrained, but not quite conventional.

The Muppets (U)

(James Bobin, 2011, Us) Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Kermit The Frog. 110 mins

The faded felt performers mock their own obsolescence in a family musical that's very hard to dislike. Built around a shambolic "let's put on a show" comeback story, it doesn't always crackle with wit, but South Park-ish self-awareness and Conchords-style songs compensate.

The Woman In Black (12A)

(James Watkins, 2012, UK) Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer. 95 mins

A great many things go bump and argh!

Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films made available by Netflix for instant streaming.

This Week’s New Instant Releases… Title: Black Heaven (2010)

Streaming Available: 04/12/2011

Cast: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Louise Bourgoin, Melvil Poupaud, Pauline Etienne, Pierre Niney, Ali Marhyar, Patrick Descamps, Pierre Vittet, Swann Arlaud, Francesco Merenda

Director: Gilles Marchand

Synopsis: While searching for the owner of a missing mobile phone with his girlfriend, Marion (Pauline Etienne), Gaspard (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) falls for the mysterious Sam (Louise Bourgoin), who draws him into a dangerous virtual-reality video game, where she provokes unsuspecting victims into killing themselves. Directed by Gilles Marchand, this intense French drama alternates between real-life events and those within the simulated computer world. Title: Heartless (2009)

Streaming Available: 04/12/2011

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy , Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger,...

So we've all heard by know that Megan Fox's dream role is to be a Native lesbian superhero. She said that she would love to be Sarah Rainmaker of 'Gen 13'. This Apache character from the comic series is able to manipulate weather and the movement of water with her thoughts, as well as being good at combat. Rainmaker is also a peace-seeking activist.

“She’s a Native American and I have a little bit of that blood in me,” she said. “It would be a bit of a stretch – but if Jake Gyllenhaal can be the Prince of Persia, I think that I can do that.”

How about we not repeat a history of Hollywood casting white people into ethnic roles (anybody remember Micky Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi?). I'm not saying no one can play an ethnicity outside of their own, but casting obviously Caucasian people as playing...

LeVar Burton's "Reach for Me" took home the best feature film award and the best of the festival award at the 10th anniversary Lake Arrowhead Film Festival, which concluded Sunday.

At the fest's awards luncheon at the Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa, director Joe Dante received the award for Special Achievement in the Art of Independent Filmmaking.

Other awards were presented to Georgina Lightning's "Older Than America," which received the June Lockhart Special Achievement in Film Award, and James Chressanthis' "Laszlo and Vilmos: No Subtitles Necessary" was presented with a Special Recognition Award.

Chris McDonald served as the host for the ceremony, with Seymour Cassel, Charlie Robinson, Barry Primus, Cynthia Stevenson, Brett Cullen and Chris Mulkey all serving as presenters.

• I could have sworn that it was just yesterday that I had become livid over never receiving subscription copy of Filmmaker Magazines’ 25 New Faces of Independent Film issue. Well 2006 is history, and this year’s feature names/faces (grab yourself the summer issue or read here) includes more of the same – a list comprised of mostly filmmakers, Sundance kids and up-and-comers that we here at Ioncinema.com do speak about on occasion, but we’ll be most likely going gaga for in a couple of year’s from now. Here’s a quick rundown.+ Andy Blubaugh+ Daniel Barnz+ Azazel Jacobs+ Calvin Reeder+ Fellipe Barbosa+ Tze Chun+ Moon Molson+ Sophie Barthes+ Jennifer Venditti+ Kim Reed+ Craig ZobelCraig Zobel's directorial debut.+ Phillip Van+ Vineet Dewan+ Ronald Bronstein+ Hope Dickson Leach+ M dot Strange+ Kentucker Audley+ Georgina Lightning+ Vicente Amorim+ Alex Holdridge+ Stephane Gauger+ Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky+ Richard Goldgewicht

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NEW YORK -- IFP has unveiled a new advisory board, date and 10-feature slate for its third annual Narrative Rough Cut Lab, a mentorship program for first-time filmmakers.

The lab will move from September (the month of the IFP Market and Filmmaker's Conference) to June to give filmmakers and mentors more postproduction time before winter and spring festival submission deadlines. It also will expand from three to four days.

The filmmakers on the advisory board include Ted Hope, Warrington Hudlin, St. Claire Bourne, Jacques Thelemaque, Effie Brown, Karin Chien, Janet Pierson and Frances Negron-Muntaner. Sundance's Cara Mertes and BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross also are members.

Among those leading filmmaker lab workshops are composer Mychael Danna; editors Sabine Hoffmann and Kate Williams; film execs Sarah Lash, Dana O'Keefe and Melissa Raddatz; MPAA independent film liaison Scott Young; and journalist Brian Brooks.

This year's 10 narrative projects are Alex Karpovsky's "General Impressions of Size & Shape," Jeffrey Jay Orgill's "Boppin' at the Glue Factory", Georgina Lightning's "Older Than America", Sergio Palacios and Damian Rodriquez's "El Coyote", Junko Kajino and Ed M.