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Netflix has released the full trailer for Season 3 of one of its biggest young adult hits, Ginny & Georgia, Season 3 of which could be headed down a dark path. The show returns to Netflix June 5 with 10 episodes.

Season 2 ended on quite a few chaotic notes, including Georgia (Brianne Howey) getting arrested at her fairytale wedding to Mayor Paul Randolph (Scott Porter).

“You know what I loved about your wedding?” Jennifer Robertson’s Ellen Baker tells Georgia in the kitchen of the Baker household. “It wasn’t this cookie cutter copy and paste affair, it was very memorable.”

“Especially the part where I was arrested,” Georgia adds.

To be clear, Georgia did commit the murder of Tom Fuller, husband of Cynthia Fuller (Sabrina Grdevich), whom she smothered in Season 2 while he was already ailing and in hospice. And her son Austin (Diesel La Torraca) witnessed her do it while he was...

Ahead of All The Lost Ones' limited theatrical release this weekend (with a VOD release on April 22nd) from Epic Pictures, we're excited to share an action-packed clip, featuring Devon Sawa and Steven Ogg, that's just for Daily Dead readers:

Epic Pictures is thrilled to announce the U.S. release of the feature full-length film, All The Lost Ones, with a limited theatrical release the weekend of April 18 and available on VOD, April 22 [...]

Directed by Mackenzie Donaldson (The Definites), All The Lost Ones takes place in a near-future dystopian America torn by civil war. A group hiding in a cabin is hunted by a rebel militia and forced into a brutal fight for survival. The story centers on Nia [Jasmine Mathews], her boyfriend Ethan [Douglas Smith], and sister Penny [Vinessa Antoine] who are being hunted by the ruthless rebel militia leader [Devon Sawa] and his platoon, turning their safe haven into a desperate attempt to escape.

The latest dystopian thriller starring horror icon Devon Sawa is set to release in theaters before going to digital platforms. Mackenzie Donaldson's All the Lost Ones was set to go straight to digital services at first, but Epic Pictures has picked it up for a small theatrical window. The film will now receive a limited release in theaters on April 18, 2025, and four days later — on April 22 — it will be available for digital purchase or rent. This is great news for the relatively small film and also for the film industry at large, as independent features rarely receive theatrical windows — especially in times when streaming has taken such a big role in terms of releasing lesser-known films.

All the Lost Ones had its premiere at the 2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival. Its synopsis describes the film thusly: "In a dystopian and climate-ravaged future America torn apart by civil war, Nia,...

Get ready for a thrilling month ahead! April is packed with exciting new sci-fi films that will take you to other worlds, spark your imagination, and leave you on the edge of your seat. Whether you’re into space adventures, futuristic tech, or mind-bending mysteries, there’s something for every sci-fi fan to look forward to this month. Here’s a list of every sci-fi movie coming out in April!

1. Good Earth (April 1)

The movie starts with Dr. Anastasia Lopez, a psychiatrist, trying to convince Olivia, a young woman with Vrop disease, not to commit suicide. Olivia is introduced to a search engine called “Good Earth,” which acts like a god and is meant to help her heal. The film, directed and written by Sameera Wackwella, stars Kalhara Wackwella, Gayathri Rasingolla, and Saasha Karunarathne.

2. Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (April 13)

In a Japan filled with giant monsters, Kafka Hibino works in monster disposal.

"We have a chance... if we can get out." Epic Pictures has unveiled an official US trailer for an indie thriller from Canada called All the Lost Ones, made by filmmaker Mackenzie Donaldson. This premiered at a few film festivals up in Canada last year, and it will be out to watch on VOD in the US later in April - if anyone is curious to watch. "The fight for tomorrow begins..." A future civil war (in dystopian America...

The country has descended into violent disarray in the forthcoming thriller feature All the Lost Ones.

Director Mackenzie Donaldson’s film is set to hit select theaters on April 18 from Epic Pictures before debuting via digital platforms on April 22, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. The ensemble cast includes Devon Sawa, Douglas Smith, Jasmine Mathews, Sheila McCarthy, Steven Ogg, Vinessa Antoine and Lochlyn Munro.

All the Lost Ones is set amid a dystopian America, where a civil war has torn the nation apart. The film centers on a group of individuals hiding out in a cabin when they are targeted by a ruthless rebel militia leader and his platoon.

“This is what you want?” a desperate Mathews asks in the trailer that can be seen below. “Turn ourselves in to the armed maniacs in the woods?”

Later in the footage, Sawa warns, “Nobody here is innocent.”

Donaldson helmed the project...

Probably the last thing that Grey’s Anatomy’s Link or we expected when he treated a woman injured at her divorce party was that he’d be inspired to pop the question to Jo. But that was exactly what happened in Thursday’s “Jump (For My Love).”

By the end of the episode, Link realized that his heart had fully mended after it was broken by Amelia — and that Jo’s advice way back when had helped him reach that point. In response, he raced home and blurted out, “You are my best friend. Marry me.”

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There’s a wave of new and intelligent life at the indie box office this weekend post-Academy Awards after the traditionally slow, slow period for new openings. There have been a smattering of interesting films (Universal Language for one) but things have absolutely picked up with a George R.R. Martin short story on screen, a nursing home creep-out starring John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush, the latest Atom Egoyan film, a duo that landed really well at Cannes, a Bruno Dumont sci-fi, a Bruce Labruce sex romp, an Italian box office hit and more.

Moderate-wide: Vertical opens action fantasy In The Lost Lands on 1,365 screens as the distributor continues a push to dot its schedule with more moderate-wide releases. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and based on a George R.R. Martin short story of the same name, the pic stars Milla Jovovich, Dave Bautista and Arly Jover. Log line: A...

Seven Veils is a film about an opera. It’s more than that, however. It’s the story of two young women dealing with their trauma through opera. It’s also the story of male abuse in its different forms and how that physically and metaphorically manifests itself in the lives of the women who receive the abuse. Writer/director Atom Egoyan, through the lens of opera, directs a unique film where nothing is quite what it seems, leading Amanda Seyfried in her excellent performance through something that often feels like it’s not grounded while also not being committed to being fully mystical.

Seven Veils Review

Seven Veils opens on a brooding one-shot of Jeanine (Seyfried) walking around an opera building at night. An immediate aura of mystery is sustained by a slow violin. It’s clear that something is wrong, or at least will be wrong. This is...

Beauty and trauma collide in Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils, which made its world premiere at the 2023 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Amanda Seyfried, the film marks a reunion between her and Egoyan, more than 15 years since their first collaboration, Chloe. In fact, Chloe and Seven Veils make for an interesting double feature: shot and set in Toronto, both films examine the dark recesses of human psychology and see Seyfried playing women navigating hidden truths about themselves.

In Seven Veils, Seyfried is Jeanine, a theater director who has been hired to remount a production of Salome for the renowned Canadian Opera Company to honor the death of its creator, Charlie (who was once Jeanine's mentor and more). Management wants the production to be exactly as Charlie originally directed it, but Jeanine is adamant in making changes that are, as she puts it, "small but meaningful.

While we wait for that Jennifer’s Body sequel that seems to be taking shape, Amanda Seyfried returns to the screen in director Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils this coming weekend.

Seven Veils will be released in select theaters nationwide on March 7, 2025.

Amanda Seyfried stars in the upcoming film alongside Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid, and Michael Kupfer-Radecky.

In Seven Veils, “After years away, theater director Jeanine (Academy Award® nominee Amanda Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel.”

XYZ Films previews, “Renowned director Atom Egoyan reunites with Seyfried in this visually stunning, propulsive work, filmed on location during the staging of Egoyan’s acclaimed production of Salome. Egoyan directed the opera,...

Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils concerns the return of the repressed against the backdrop of Canadian modern life. Though Egoyan’s eerie and uncanny films rarely embrace outright surrealist logic, conventionalities of plot, dialogue, and structure tend to take secondary importance to more cerebral musings on the primal lusts, fears, and compulsions of the human psyche and culture as byproduct of those violent internal forces. It’s an unabashedly intellectual bent that the filmmaker sometimes pursues at the cost of dramatic legibility.

Seven Veils is a metatextual hall of mirrors informed by Egoyan’s theater production of Richard Strauss’s opera Salome, which he revived in 2023 after previous runs in 1996 and 2002, and the film uses sets, footage, and personnel from that production. Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried), an ambitious opera director taking over the production of Salome from her late mentor and lover, sees the opera’s sordid narrative of soiled innocence,...

Amanda Seyfried is stepping out for the premiere of her thriller movie!

The 39-year-old Emmy-winning actress looked pretty in a black dress with gold detailing at the premiere of Seven Veils on Tuesday (February 25) held at the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto, Canada.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Vinessa Antoine and Rebecca Liddiard along with writer and director Atom Egoyan.

Here’s the synopsis: “After years away, theater director Jeanine (Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel. Renowned director Atom Egoyan reunites with Seyfried in this visually stunning, propulsive work, filmed on location during the staging of Egoyan‘s acclaimed production of ‘Salome.’”

Seven Veils will be released in theaters on March 7. Watch the trailer here!

More than a decade after working together on the erotic thriller Chloe, Amanda Seyfried and director Atom Egoyan have reteamed for an “opera drama” / “meditative thriller” called Seven Veils, which XYZ Films and Variance will be bringing to theatres in the United States on March 7th. Along with the release date announcement comes the unveiling of a trailer, which can be viewed in the embed above.

Seven Veils sees Seyfried taking on the role of Jeanine, “a theatre director who is dealing with repressed trauma as she prepares to mount a production of the opera Salome.” Here’s the synopsis: Jeanine re-enters the opera world after several years away to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel. Deadline notes that the movie...

‘Seven Veils’ is a 2023 Canadian drama directed by Atom Egoyan. It follows Jeanine, played by Amanda Seyfried, a theater director struggling with past trauma while preparing for a production of the opera ‘Salome.’

The film also stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine. Other cast members include Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Ambur Braid, and Maia Jae Bastidas.

The movie premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2023. The film was also featured in other festivals, including the 2023 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, Atlantic International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal, and the 2024 Victoria Film Festival. So if you are an avid festival-goer this is most likely last year’s news for you.

For general audiences however, the movie releases in theaters on March 7th, and as we are slowly gearing up for the release of the movie, the trailer has been released...

Emmy-winning actress Amanda Seyfried will headline “Seven Veils,” a new drama that brings together the worlds of opera and film, hitting U.S. theaters on March 7, 2025. The film, distributed by XYZ Films and Variance, has already earned strong reviews with a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Director Atom Egoyan, known for his Oscar-nominated work, crafts a story about Jeanine (Seyfried), a theater director returning to stage her former mentor’s opera production. As she works on the show, hidden traumas from her past begin to surface, threatening both her work and personal life.

The film takes an unusual approach to storytelling by weaving its narrative around Richard Strauss’s opera “Salome.” Egoyan, who has directed the opera multiple times on stage, filmed during actual performances by the Canadian Opera Company, incorporating professional opera singers into the cast.

“I’ve been involved with opera for a number of years, doing it parallel to my film work,...

The trailer for Amanda Seyfried‘s new psychological thriller-drama has been released.

The 39-year-old Oscar-nominated actress stars in the new movie Seven Veils written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan.

Here’s the synopsis: “After years away, theater director Jeanine (Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel. Renowned director Atom Egoyan reunites with Seyfried in this visually stunning, propulsive work, filmed on location during the staging of Egoyan‘s acclaimed production of ‘Salome.’”

The movie also stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid, and Michael Kupfer-Radecky.

If you missed it, Amanda is currently working on the movie adaption of a bestselling thriller novel alongside Sydney Sweeney!

Seven Veils will be released...

"I've been asked to make this personal, so I am." XYZ Films has revealed an official trailer for Seven Veils, the latest feature from Egyptian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (he made Guest of Honour before this). The film originally premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival a few years back but is only now getting a proper theatrical release - starting in March 2025 in a few months. An earnest theater director has the task of remounting her former mentor's most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to color the present. Atom Egoyan directed the opera, Salome, in 1996, the first opera in what would be many to come over his career. Most recently, the acclaimed filmmaker was interested in exploring what the production of Salome would mean in our current culture. That led him to write the script for Seven Veils, about a...

XYZ Films and Variance Films have set a March 7, 2025 theatrical release for Seven Veils starring Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried (Mank). The drama reunites Seyfried with writer/director Atom Egoyan. The pair previously worked together on 2009’s Chloe with Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Max Thieriot.

In addition to Seyfried, the film stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid, and Michael Kupfer-Radecky. Seven Veils debuted at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and screened at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival.

“After years away, theater director Jeanine (Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel,” reads the official synopsis.

In 1996, Atom Egoyan directed the opera, Salome and has wanted to blend the world of opera and film for years.

Vinessa Antoine made a name for herself as Jordan Ashford on General Hospital, captivating fans with her portrayal of the tough and compassionate detective. From 2014 to 2018, Vinessa’s on-screen presence became a beloved staple, allowing her to carve out a dedicated fan base. However, in real life, the actress is now using her platform for a much more personal cause involving her missing brother, Michael Antoine. Her recent social media posts, in which she urgently seeks help locating her brother, have shed light on her heartbreak and frustration.

A Desperate Search

Vinessa’s Instagram posts reveal the chilling situation that her brother Michael has been missing for over a month. Sadly, the police have been unable to provide any substantial help. Despite her star status, Vinessa is reaching out to her online community, asking anyone who may have information about Michael’s whereabouts to contact her directly or anonymously.

Michael...

Vinessa Antoine typically keeps her personal life private, but a pressing family issue has prompted her to seek assistance. Taking to Instagram, Antoine revealed, “My brother Micheal Antoine has been been missing for over a month and the police have not been helpful. I put out a missing person report 30 […]

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General Hospital grad Vinessa Antoine (ex-Jordan Ashford) has landed a role on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. The actress announced via Instagram, “Tomorrow. Greys. Ok, that’s all,” while posting a clip of her on set of the hit ABC primetime medical drama. There’s no word yet on who she will be playing, but look for her in […]

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General Hospital (Gh) spoilers and updates tease a behind the scenes glimpse at Finola Hughes and Vinessa Antoine’s amazing reunion. Anna Devane (Finola) and Jordan Ashford (formerly Vinessa) are best friends on Gh, and Finola posted on social media about their amazing meet up.

General Hospital Spoilers – Vinessa Antoine Was The First Jordan-There Have Been Three

Antoine played Jordan Ashford on General Hospital from 2014-2018. The character originally came as a DEA agent trying to infiltrate the Jerome crime family-or what was left of it-to take down Julian Jerome (William DeVry).

At that time Julian, Olivia Jerome (Tonja Walker) and Ava Jerome (Maura West) were all alive-now, only Ava is left of the original siblings.

Jordan was the widow of Tommy Ashford (mentioned character) the brother of Curtis Ashford, (Donnell Turner) who she later married.

Tj Ashford (Tajh Bellow) is her son, who was raised believing Tommy was his...

One of Anna Devane’s General Hospital besties is Jordan Ashford. The women have been known to unload their problems over dinner and drinks or unite to fight the good fight against the big bads of the world. Recently, Finola Hughes, who plays Pcpd Commissioner Devane, reunited with the original Jordan Ashford, aka the former Pcpd Commissioner, Vinessa Antoine. And she referred to the meet-up as “amazing.”

Catching Up

The actresses smiled big and bright for the selfie that Hughes posted to Instagram. She wrote about the experience: “Spent the afternoon chatting with this absolute beauty and pillar of creativity!! I can’t tell you how Amazing it was to spend time talking and cracking up! Love you always and forever @therealvinessaantoine...

Exclusive: CBC has put a third season of time-bending anthology drama Plan B into production.

Kotv its returning to produce the season, which will feature a new lead cast of Carolina Bartczak (Painkiller, X-Men: Apocalypse), Arnold Pinnock (The Porter, Combat Hospital) and Ennis Esmer (Children Ruin Everything, Blindspot).

Additional casting includes Arianna Shannon making her screen debut, Jaeden Noel (Orphan Black: Echoes, Invasion), Carolyn Taylor (Baroness von Sketch Show, I Have Nothing) and Grace Lynn Kung (Sort Of, Fallout).

Production is now underway in Montreal, with six episodes planned. The show is an adaptation of the French-language drama series of the same name, which is now in its fourth season for Radio-Canada.

The season will follow Abigail Walker (Bartczak), the host of Canada’s top morning TV show, who is grappling with the devastating loss of her teenage daughter, Lucy (Shannon), to suicide. Tormented by grief and regret, Abigail uses...

General Hospital fans will fondly remember Vinessa Antoine, who played the original Jordan Ashford. After leaving the show in 2018, she became the first black Canadian actress to lead a primetime drama when she starred in Diggstown in her native country. Since the legal drama ended, she has appeared on streaming shows and in other Canadian series. And she has a brand new project that stars the most stylish Emmy winner to walk the face of this planet.

Booked and Busy The Madness, Netflix

On Vinessa Antoine’s Instagram account, she posted photos of her and the stylish Oscar-nominated Emmy-winner Colman Domingo took on the set of his upcoming Netflix limited series. The Madness drops November 28 and is about a media pundit who finds himself smack dab in the middle of a murder in the Poconos.

Source: Vinessa Antoine’s Instagram

Plan B, CBC Gem

In Antoine’s native Canada, she...

So Help Me Todd is showing different sides of Lyle this season—we just met his mother, played by the always fantastic Jenifer Lewis!—and Tristen J. Winger couldn’t be happier. “We get to see this romantic side of Lyle. We get to see a little bit of Lyle’s history to see why he is the way that he is, because a person like Lyle just doesn’t get involved in secret missions or in a CIA or the Nsa, and he isn’t a Mensa scholar. That doesn’t happen by accident, he’s not a genius on accident,” he tells TV Insider. So to see his history come in, to give us some insight into how he became who he is, and then also how he romances as well in his relationship with Alex [Vinessa Antoine] is a pleasure to play as well.” Below, Winger teases what else is ahead,...

Black Canadian content creators attending the inaugural Black Screen Office Symposium in Toronto on Tuesday showed both excitement and anxiety as the global entertainment business model faces unprecedented disruption.

Just as an industry reckoning after the murder of George Floyd led to more Black representation among Canadian industry gatekeepers and more direct federal government investment in Black creators, the impact of Hollywood shooting fewer originals and locally commissioned series in Canada, and with lower production budgets, is rippling across the business.

The impact on local broadcasters shrinking their local content slates as Canadians increasingly shift to streaming platforms and away from traditional cable TV subscriptions also plays a part as a weak advertising market undercuts overall linear TV revenues and artificial intelligence poses an existential threat everywhere.

“Because our industry is in a state of contraction, there’s challenges,” Floyd Kane, president of Freddie Films and the creator of the...

Get ready for an intense legal showdown in the upcoming episode of “Diggstown,” airing Thursday, March 28, 2024, at 10:00 Pm on BET. In Season 1 Episode 6, titled “Kim Bond,” viewers will witness Marcie as she battles to reunite a mother with her infant son, fighting against formidable odds to secure custody.

As Marcie dives into the complex case, she faces numerous challenges and obstacles, but her unwavering determination and legal prowess shine through as she fights for justice. Meanwhile, Doug takes on a case representing Colleen’s former manny, delving into the intricacies of the law to seek a favorable outcome.

Amidst the legal drama, tensions rise between Marcie and Carson as Avery’s involvement threatens to derail their rekindled relationship. With emotions running high both inside and outside the courtroom, “Diggstown” promises an episode filled with gripping storytelling and compelling characters that will keep viewers glued to their screens until the very end.

Amanda Seyfried reflected on being cast as a mother at the Berlin Film Festival press conference for her new film “Seven Veils,” saying that “it seems like once I popped out a baby, I was just playing mothers.” However, the mom of two does feel the roles she’s been given have “become way richer.”

In “Seven Veils,” Seyfried plays Jeanine, a theater director who is forced to deal with repressed trauma as she prepares a production of the opera “Salome.” When asked if she related to the character, Seyfried said she sympathized with Jeanine’s struggles as a mother.

“In my career, it’s still a bit new to play a mother. It seems like once I popped out a baby, I was just playing mothers, and that’s Hollywood for you. But I do think that the roles have become way richer and definitely challenging in ways that...

The traditionally celebrity-heavy Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its list of Canada’s best indie films for 2023, which includes a host of first-time directors that have come to the fore as the Hollywood actors strike put local movies and talent front and center at TIFF last September.

Canadian filmmakers were able to grab the spotlight after SAG-AFTRA members barred from promoting studio or streamer projects allowed them to fill the vacuum on TIFF red carpets and at industry events.

New directors were also favorites of Toronto programmers as a shifting TIFF film market with few American celebrities in town also allowed the marquee festival to double down on finding new creative voices.

So here’s the top Canadian feature films of 2023, as decided by film pickers in Toronto.

1. BlackBerry

Matt Johnson’s drama about the meteoric rise of the world’s first smartphone, before its competitive collapse, bowed in Berlin.

Near the climax of Richard Strauss’ opera “Salome,” the title character performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for her stepfather, King Herod. The dance is done as a barter: In exchange, Herod will behead the man Salome loves so that she may kiss his lips. The Dance of the Seven Veils finds Salome swaying and whirling erotically with a set of scarves, landing somewhere between an object of sexual fascination for her onlookers and a lovestruck woman reaching for agency through movement.

“Seven Veils,” written and directed by Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”), follows an opera director who is staging a production of “Salome” and, like the tragic heroine, clashes with a series of men in her quest to recover a sense of control. This slippage between art and life, sincerity and trickery, is key to deriving some sense of meaning from this strange and sultry but ultimately exasperating film,...

Art and life are inextricably entangled in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils, a wildly ambitious, visually intoxicating reinterpretation of the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, that proves to possess almost as many layers as the Biblical princess’ famous dance routine.

After spending the past two and a half decades struggling to get his groove back following the 1997 success of The Sweet Hereafter, the filmmaker reconnects with his pet themes of alienation and family trauma, taking inspiration from his own revisionist staging of the opera, which he remounted for the Canadian Opera Company earlier this year. Using that production as a leap-off point, Egoyan interweaves a behind-the-scenes narrative involving a young director (Amanda Seyfried) who is challenged to put her own stamp on the oft-interpreted material while exorcising a number of personal demons in the process.

Handed its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival at the very same venue that...

Amanda Seyfried has revealed that she will not be attending the world premiere of her film Seven Veils at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival amid the historic dual Hollywood strikes.

The actress took to Instagram on Saturday to share her appreciation for the Atom Egoyan-directed movie, writing, “I am So Proud of this movie and it hurts my heart not to stand next to the beautiful people who helped create this special film at our @tiff_net premiere next week.”

Seyfried noted that while the film was given a “wavier” by SAG-AFTRA to “promote this fully, magically independent Canadian movie,” it still “doesn’t feel right to head to the fest in light of the strike.”

She added, “I can’t wait to show you all Seven Veils when the time is right (and we’ve come to a fair agreement for actors and writers).”

Since actors joined writers...

Atom Egoyan will be returning to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to premiere his latest movie, “Seven Veils”.

“We are honoured to premiere Atom Egoyan’s extraordinary film at this year’s Festival,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey in a statement. “Egoyan’s cinematic works are unmatched, and we’re excited to bring Seven Veils to our TIFF audiences and to the city of Toronto, his home.”

“Seven Veils” is Egoyan’s 18th film to premiere at TIFF.

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Amanda Seyfried (who previously worked with Egoyan in 2009’s “Chloe”) stars as Jeanine, an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting the opera “Salome”, the most famous production of her former mentor.

“Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to colour the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away,...

Shot in February-March range this year, Atom Egoyan‘s Seven Veils will have quickly jettisoned into a release in 2023 with Toronto Intl. Film Festival making a one film title (instead of several dozens) announcement today. Egoyan’s 18th feature film will have its World Premiere screening on September 10th – and is part of the Special Presentations section. This is only the third title announced by the festival as they the navigate the trouble waters resulting from the actor’s strike.

Starring Amanda Seyfried with Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine, this sees Seyfried (Chloe), who plays Jeanine, an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome.…...

“Seven Veils,” a drama starring Amanda Seyfried, will have its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Atom Egoyan directed the movie, which also stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien and Vinessa Antoine. TIFF runs from Sept. 7-17, and the full lineup for the 48th edition will be released in August.

“We are honoured to premiere Atom Egoyan’s extraordinary film at this year’s festival,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey. “Egoyan’s cinematic works are unmatched, and we’re excited to bring ‘Seven Veils’ to our TIFF audiences and to the city of Toronto, his home.”

In “Seven Veils,” Seyfried plays Jeanine, an earnest theater director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera “Salome.” According to the official logline, Jeanine, “haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters...

TIFF has added the world premiere of Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils to their 48th lineup. It’s the director’s 18th title to premiere at TIFF.

Egoyan here reteams with Seyfried after 2009’s Chloe. She plays Jeanine, an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to colour the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away. Egoyan first directed Salome for the Canadian Opera Company in 1996 and returned earlier this year to revive the production on stage.

The pic stars Amanda Seyfried with Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine. Also featured are Ambur Braid as Salome and Michael Kupfer-Radecky as John the Baptist, who both starred in the Canadian Opera Company’s most recent production of Salome, also directed by Egoyan,...

Salome-inspired feature to debut on September 10.

Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils starring Amanda Seyfried will receive its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 10.

The opera-inspired feature also stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine, as well as Ambur Braid as Salome and Michael Kupfer-Radecky as John the Baptist.

Braid and Kupfer-Radecky both starred in the Canadian Opera Company’s most recent production of Salome, which Egoyan also directed after first directing the opera for the Company in 1996.

Seven Veils sees Egoyan reunite with his Chloe star Seyfried, who plays Jeanine,...

Canadian director Atom Egoyan is bringing his latest movie, Seven Veils, to the Toronto Film Festival for a world premiere, with Amanda Seyfried in the lead role as a tortured opera director.

Seyfried reteamed with her Chloe director Egoyan for the opera-themed drama where she plays Jeanine, a theatre director remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, an adaptation of the opera Salome from composer Richard Strauss, based on the play by Oscar Wilde. As Jeanine reenters the opera world after years away, she is haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past as her repressed trauma colors the present.

Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien and Vinessa Antoine also star in Seven Veils, which was shot in and around Toronto earlier this year. Should the ongoing strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA continue into the fall, American actors will be barred from publicizing any big-ticket studio movies...

Toronto New Wave filmmaker Atom Egoyan has set a Toronto Film Festival world premiere for his newest feature, Seven Veils, reteaming him with Oscar nom Amanda Seyfried following their work together on the 2009 thriller Chloe.

Inspired by Egoyan’s experiences mounting the opera Salome for the Canadian Opera Company, both all the way back in 1996 and earlier this year, the film is set for a TIFF Special Presentation bow on Sunday, September 10, though it will first screen two days prior at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. The Avant-première, presented in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, will take place at 7 p.m.

Joining Seven Veils in making a TIFF world premiere, as previously announced, is Taika Waititi’s soccer comedy Next Goal Wins with Michael Fassbender. Further details on the festival schedule will be released next month.

A two-time Academy Award nominee, Egoyan’s 18th feature set...

The Toronto International Film Festival has set the world premiere for a new film from one of Canada’s own, director Atom Egoyan.

Egoyan helms “Seven Veils,” which stars his “Chloe” actress Amanda Seyfried. The thriller will debut with a special screening, in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on September 8 before premiering in earnest as part of the festival’s Special Presentation lineup on September 10.

Egoyan’s films have long played at his home festival, so the film’s inclusion is no surprise. And its announcement arrives as TIFF may have to get creative about world premieres amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike that forbids union actors from promoting their work. That means less starry world premieres, and filmmakers instead doing the heavy lifting at conferences and on press lines. TIFF did not reveal in the “Seven Veils” announcement what talent...

Exclusive: Douglas Smith (Big Little Lies), Mark O’Brien (Arrival), Rebecca Liddiard (Alias Grace) and Vinessa Antoine have been cast opposite Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) in Seven Veils, the new feature from filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter).

The project wrapped principal photography in Toronto last week.

Seven Veils follows Jeanine (Seyfried), an earnest theatre director, who has been given the daunting task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away.

Smith and Seyfried previously worked together on HBO series Big Love, playing siblings Ben and Sarah Henrickson.

Pic is written and directed by Egoyan, who also produces alongside Niv Fichman (Enemy), Simone Urdl (The Captive), Fraser Ash (BlackBerry) and Kevin Krikst (BlackBerry).

The project is a...

When CBC drama “Diggstown” hit Canadian airwaves in 2019, star Vinessa Antoine became the first Black Canadian woman to lead a prime-time drama on network television. And while plenty of ink was spilled over that stat at the beginning, when the Floyd Kane-created series wraps its fourth and final season on Nov. 16, it does so not with a media bang, but a whimper.

So what happened?

“Diggstown” revolves around a corporate lawyer named Marcie Diggs (Antoine) who begins working at a legal-aid office after her aunt takes her own life. Over its 26-episode run, the drama tackled real inequities that exist in the Canadian legal system as well as sensitive themes including mental health in the Black community, Indian Day Schools, queer rights and queer representation. For the first three seasons, those stories took place in North Preston, Nova Scotia, home to Canada’s largest Black community by population — one...

The fourth and final season of CBC drama “Diggstown” is right around the corner, and on Tuesday, Oct. 11 a new trailer for the upcoming season dropped to bring viewers a first look at how the journey of crusading lawyer Marcie Diggs (Vinessa Antoine) will conclude.

In the six-episode final season, Marcie is struggling mentally and physically after last season’s shooting, facing threats and defections from all sides. “As she grapples with one crisis to the next, a former ally’s actions threaten to spell the end of Marcie Diggs & Associates,” notes the synopsis, which indicates themes in the final season will be mental health, the plight of migrant workers, the treatment of a pregnant trans man within the healthcare system, sterilization of Black women and Indian Day School abuse.

“For four seasons we’ve had the pleasure of bringing Marcie Diggs and the beauty of the communities of Dartmouth,...

Kicking Blood, starring Alanna Bale (Cardinal), Luke Bilyk (Degrassi), Benjamin Sutherland (Kim’S Convenience), Vinessa Antoine (General Hospital), Rosemary Dunsmore (Orphan Black), Ella Jonas Farlinger (Anne With An E), and Kristin Shepherd (Netflix’s The Knight Before Christmas). The fantasy thriller hits theaters March 31st from XYZ Films Releasing. After falling for a charming recovering alcoholic, modern vampire Anna sets her mind, and heart, on quitting blood and becoming human again. Release Date: March …

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"Kicking old habits... can be deadly." LevelFilm in Canada has unveiled the official trailer for a Canadian indie horror drama titled Kicking Blood, about a female vampire who tries to give up blood and become human again. This first premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival last year. When Anna, a centuries old vampire, watches Robbie, a charming but reckless young man, recover from his alcoholism, she decides to quit blood and restore her humanity. The filmmakers state that they were inspired to update the vampire mythology - explaining more: "the idea of being immortal and addicted and you have to live in darkness. You can’t see the sunlight and you have no soul, and would there be just the tiniest spark left to compel you to try to recover from your addiction and reconnect with your soul in the end." Kicking Blood stars Alanna Bale, Luke Bilyk, Benjamin Sutherland,...

Tanisha Harper, an actress who has recently appeared in series such as Dollface and Hacks, has joined ABC‘s long-running daytime soap-opera General Hospital. According to Deadline, Harper will star in a series regular role as Port Charles police commissioner Jordan Ashford, replacing Briana Nicole Henry, who exited the series last year. Harper marks the third actress to play the Jordan Ashford role, having been initially portrayed by Vinessa Antoine from March 14, 2014 to September 7, 2018. Last year, Henry announced that it was time “to move on” from the series after playing Ashford from September 13, 2018 to September 13, 2021. Her character’s final appearance saw her in a medical clinic in Albany, New York, after suffering a near-death experience. Harper was born in Tokyo and worked as a model for many years; she competed on the sixth season of Project Runway in 2008, finishing in second place. One of her first acting roles was the...

Tanisha Harper is taking over the role of Jordan Ashford on “General Hospital,” ABC confirmed to TheWrap on Wednesday. Harper’s first episodes will begin airing in March.

Briana Nicole Henry, who played the role for three years, left the series in September, saying in an Instagram post that it was time to “move on” from the daytime drama.

Since then, Jordan — who is Port Charles’ police commissioner — has been close to renal failure as she languished offscreen at a medical clinic in Albany, New York.

Before Henry, Vinessa Antoine played Jordan from March 2014 to September 2018.

Henry’s exit came just two months before longtime “General Hospital” stars Ingo Rademacher and Steve Burton were fired after refusing to comply with ABC’s vaccination mandate.

Harper has appeared in small roles in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Dear White People,” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and was a regular on MyNetworkTV’s telenovela “Desire.

Exclusive: Tanisha Harper (Dollface) is joining ABC’s long-running daytime drama General Hospital as a new series regular in a recasting.

Harper will play Jordan Ashford, the Port Charles police commissioner, replacing Briana Nicole Henry, who most recently played the role and exited the series last year.

The Jordan Ashford role was initially portrayed by Vinessa Antoine from March 14, 2014 to September 7, 2018. Henry took over the role from September 13, 2018 to September 13, 2021, when she announced that she felt it was time for her “to move on” from the series.

When we last saw Jordan, she was sent to a medical clinic in Albany, NY. With only one kidney, she was close to renal failure after a near-death experience. The character wasn’t killed off, however, so the door remained open for a return.

Harper’s first episodes will begin airing in March.

Harper most recently guest-starred on Hulu’s Dollface and Hacks on HBO Max.