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Montreal-based international sales company H264 has unveiled its lineup for this month’s European Film Market in Berlin, which includes François Delisle’s “Waiting for the Storms” and Léa Pool’s “Hotel Silence.” Variety has exclusive access to the first image from “Waiting for the Storms.”

“Waiting for the Storms” is described as “a fable about the climate crisis that transcends artistic boundaries to spark a dialogue between our past, present and future.” Delisle’s credits include “Chorus” and “Le Météore.”

“Across various timelines and locations, four characters weave a web of stories that explore human resilience in the face of environmental upheaval,” according to a statement.

The film follows four characters: Marie, who is gripped by obsessive, heart-wrenching questions as a young mother whose child faces a dead-end future, and channels her anxiety into passionate activism; Terence, a climate-change refugee, who tells strangers his story in the hopes of...

As he took questions both onstage and later out on the street following a Sunday night screening at the Torino Film Festival – where his film, “The Noise of Engines,” played in competition – director Philippe Grégoire found himself on the opposite end of an interaction he knew all too well.

Like so many filmmakers, Grégoire himself was once an eager festivalgoer, often staying late after a screening to hear this or that director speak about their craft; in a move perhaps less common, Grégoire could pinpoint one of those moments – a Q&a with fellow Quebecois director Denis Côté, to be precise – as the exact point he decided to step behind the camera.

“I was in the same exact place,” he tells Variety. “I had to take a decision. I figured even if no one would watch my movie, even if it was risky, even if I wasn’t sure whether...

"We're trying to reach an identical universe." Saban Films has revealed the official US trailer for an indie sci-fi thriller from Canada titled Multiverse, which is a new title for this film also known as Entangled. Directed by Indian filmmaker Gaurav Seth, it does indeed mess with the multiverse theory. Four brilliant university students are forced to confront themselves in terrifying new ways when their Quantum Physics experiment leads to an entangled parallel existence that leaves them questioning who they are and what is real. Is only one of the universes real? Or are they both real? How do they gain control of everything once again? The film stars Paloma Kwiatkowski, Munro Chambers, Robert Naylor, Sandra Mae Frank, with Marlee Matlin (last seen in Coda). This originally premiered at a few small festivals back in 2019, but is only now getting an official release - which isn't a good sign. I like the concept,...

Saban Films will release the Sci-Fi/Thriller Multiverse In Theaters November 12, 2021 and On Demand and Digital November 16, 2021.

Check out this trailer:

Colleagues Loretta, Danny, Amy and Gerry are on the verge of an amazing breakthrough in quantum physics when tragedy strikes. Racing to complete the experiment, Loretta dies in a fiery car accident. Five months later, as the trio struggle to move on with their lives and the work they’d started, Loretta returns. She’s full of energy, enthusiasm, seemingly unaware she’s been gone for months. Are the friends losing their collective minds or has something remarkable happened? Soon, each of them comes face to face with their dead ringer. Professional rivalries and personal relationships surface and the friends realize only one version of them can exist in our reality. A violent correction is necessary to maintain order.

Multiverse stars Paloma Kwiatkowski, Munro Chambers, Robert Naylor, Sandra Mae Frank,...

Among authors who didn’t live to witness their own success, Louis Hemon is a particularly unfortunate case — his novel “Maria Chapdelaine” was published in 1913, the same year as his train-struck death. Thus he didn’t see it become an early Quebec-lit classic taught to generations of schoolchildren, published in translation worldwide or adapted into many other media over the past century. Among prior screen versions were two made in his native France, the 1934 one notable as Julien Duvivier’s first collaboration with Jean Gabin.

The slim book, drawing on adventure-seeking Hemon’s own experiences briefly working as a farmhand in the Lac Saint-Jean region, has been treated with less-than-strict fidelity by previous dramatists. Sebastien Pilote’s new film is probably the most faithful to date by far — though that isn’t entirely a plus. . It’s a well-produced episodic tale whose incidents and personalities remain too modest to sustain nearly three hours’ illustration,...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Denis Côté's Ghost Town Anthology is exclusively showing April 21 - May 20, 2020 in Mubi's Luminaries series.There is a certain point in any winter where it becomes unending. Long past the picturesque first snow fall, what Canadian author Mavis Gallant wisely calls “the only clean thing in a dirty year,” the snow becomes grey, packed down, blending into the constantly overcast sky. Very little breaks up this eyeline, some barren trees, long snaking highways linking what few towns remain. Northern Quebec is dotted with these landscapes, towns once prosperous and now a shadow of their past selves. Not much happens in these dreary winters of Irénée-les-Neiges, the titular town of Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology. But breaking up the winter is a sudden car crash, and when the life of a young man is taken with it, the...

Skipping school certainly contains its perks. First time actress (and climate change activist) Sara Montpetit has landed the lead role in Sébastien Pilote‘s fourth feature film, Maria Chapdelaine. The young thesp beat out about one thousand plus hopefuls for the role; she’ll be surrounded by Hélène Florent, Sébastien Ricard, Émile Schneider, Antoine-Olivier Pilon (Xavier Dolan’s Mommy), Robert Naylor (Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology), Gilbert Sicotte (who played the lead in Pilote’s Cannes selected Le Vendeur), Gabriel Arcand with additional parts going to Henri Picard, Martin Dubreuil, Danny Gilmore, Arno Lemay, Charlotte St-Martin, Thomas Haché, and Xavier Rivard-Désy.…...

Munro Chambers really impressed earlier this year with a stellar performance in the hugely entertaining Harpoon (review) so when his name appeared on the credit list of Entangled, I was instantly drawn to the movie which on closer review, sounded like it would be right up my alley.

Chambers, along with Paloma Kwiatkowski, Robert Naylor, and Sandra Mae Frank, star as a group of college students experimenting with time travel. Their experiments yield results but they don't realize just how successful their experiments are until months after one of them is tragically killed in a car accident and the dead colleague appears seemingly out of nowhere and carries on as if nothing has...

Simon died, or perhaps he killed himself. His car raced through a wintry country road, span, crashed. None of the 215 inhabitants of his native Quebecois hamlet of Irénée-les-Neiges would dare to call it a suicide, not even his older brother Jimmy, mother Gisèle, and father Romuald. But the boy’s death was no isolated case. “We lost him in a battle, but we haven’t lost the war,” Irénée’s mayor Simone Smallwood addresses the townspeople at the vigil, where the battle she hints at rekindles the lad’s death to the several suicides the remote town has suffered through the decades. The war, in turn, speaks to something far larger: a small community’s struggle against an outer urban world that concurrently poaches its residents, and pushes those who remain deeper into oblivion.

Denis Côté’s perturbing Ghost Town Anthology pivots on this conflict. It is a haunting portrait...

Six titles still to take their places.

Denis Coté’s Ghost Town Anthology has landed on Screen’s Berlin Competition jury grid, taking third place with an average of 2.7 with two scores to come.

The film achieved a top score four (excellent) from The Morning Star’s Rita Di Santo, as well as threes (good) from Frankfurter Allgemeine’s Verena Lueken and Segnocinema’s Paolo Bertolin.

The film follows a grieving family who encounter a series of strangers in an isolated town in the wake of a fatal car crash. Robert Naylor, Josée Deschénes and Jean-Michel Anctil lead the cast.

A film that’s every bit as bleak and fragmented as its title implies, Denis Côté’s “Ghost Town Anthology” is a pointedly modern portrait of a place that’s come unstuck in time. The fictional hamlet of Irénée-les-Neiges is located in a barren stretch of backwoods Québec, and the 215 people who still live there are almost as dead as the trees in winter, or the local economy since the mine shut down. Simon Dubé, the 21-year-old hockey player who crashes his car into a cement wall in the opening scene, is just a little bit deader than the rest.

His departure sends a destabilizing shiver through everyone who knew him; one of the many characters in Côté’s small mosaic likens the community to a house of cards that won’t be able to sustain itself in Simon’s absence, as if the young man’s suicide violated the...

A chill air blows through the small Quebecois village of Irénée-les-Neiges following a young man’s suicide, bringing with it unexpected and largely unwelcome visitors. Denis Côté’s “Ghost Town Anthology” has superficial parallels to Robin Campillo’s “They Came Back,” in which the dead return, but in keeping with the maverick Canadian’s style, his film is a more intimate, more unsettling work that approaches narrative elliptically: Mysteries remain mysteries, and the value isn’t in finding answers but in emotionally exploring where the questions take you. Shot on 16mm for a suitable graininess, “Ghost Town” is a largely monochrome ensemble piece that muses on, rather than directly addresses, the current hot topics of the “other” and the viability of small-town life. Skirting genre formulas, the film takes a more modest approach than “Vic + Flo Saw a Bear,” and though more universal/accessible, will require intelligent marketing to...

Films Boutique has debuted the first promo trailer for an indie drama titled Ghost Town Anthology, aka Répertoire des villes disparues, set in snowy Quebec. The film takes place in a small and isolated town. A boy named Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end. This is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival which is now underway, and it's playing In Competition during the fest. Starring Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Rémi Goulet, Diane Lavallée, and Hubert Proulx. This is such an odd trailer - playing like an old news reel, and more of a behind-the-scenes look than a real trailer. The film is also in color, not B&W. I'm curious to see this anyway. Here's the first promo trailer...

Ghost Town Anthology (Repertoire des villes disparues)

For his eleventh feature film, French-Canadian auteur Denis Côté adapts the first novel by Laurence Olivier Repertoire de villes disparues as Ghost Town Anthology. Starring Robert Naylor (of Wim Wenders’ 2015 film Everything Will Be Fine) alongside a supporting cast of Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Diane Lavallée and Rémi Goulet, the project was produced by Ziad Touma of Couzin films and was part of the Frontieres Buyers Showcase in Cannes 2018. Locarno provided Côté with his first major platform, where he won an award for 2005’s Drifting States, returning in 2007 with Our Private Lives and winning Best Director for 2008’s All That She Wants and another Best Director win for 2010’s Curling.…...

Nine titles announced for Berlinale, which runs Feb 7-17.

The first films have been announced for the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlinale Special sections.

The Competition line-up includes new films by Fatih Akin (The Golden Glove), François Ozon (By the Grace of God) and Denis Côté (Ghost Town Anthology).

The other three films in the strand are Marie Kreutzer’s The Ground Beneath My Feet, Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, but and Emin Alper’s A Tale of Three Sisters. All are world premieres except By the Grace Of God which is an international premiere.

The...

The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the first wave of titles for its competition lineup, including new films from François Ozon, Marie Kreutzer, Denis Côté and Fatih Akin. Charles Ferguson’s Watergate documentary is among the Berlinale Special titles.

The first nine Competition and Berlinale Special films were revealed today, alongside the previously announced opening film, The Kindness of Strangers by Lone Scherfig.

Festival favourites Akin (In The Fade) and Ozon (In The House) return with German-language thriller The Golden Glove and French-language drama By The Grace Of God, respectively. The former follows a serial killer who strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s. The latter looks at a real-life case of sexual abuses allegedly committed by a French priest in the late 1980s. Oscar-winner Ferguson (Inside Job) will present anticipated 260-minute feature doc Watergate, which is sure to draw plenty of contemporary parallels.

At ease in both the fiction, docu and in hybrid forms, Denis Côté is moving back to fiction with a fantasy drama offering and has cast Robert Naylor (Wim Wender’s Everything Will Be Fine) leading a cast comprised of Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Diane Lavallée and Rémi Goulet for the inspired by book to film adaptation of Laurence Olivier’s eponymous novel, Répertoire des villes disparues.

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Vulture Watch Will John Cardinal remain on the case? Has the Cardinal TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Hulu? The television vulture is watching all the latest TV cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Cardinal season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?   What's This TV Show About? Streaming on the Hulu paid subscription platform, Cardinal stars Billy Campbell, Karine Vanasse, Kristen Thomson, Allie MacDonald, Glen Gould, Deborah Hay, Alden Adair, James Downing, Eric Hicks, David Richmond-Peck, Alanna Bale, Gale Maurice, Robert Naylor, and James Thomas. Based on the Giles Blunt novels, this Canadian crime drama centers on demoted Algonquin Bay Police Detective John Cardinal (Campbell). When a missing 13-year old girl, Katie...

Network: Hulu. Episodes: Ongoing (43 mins). Seasons: Ongoing. TV show dates: June 16, 2017 — present. Series status: Has not been cancelled. Performers include: Billy Campbell, Karine Vanasse, Kristen Thomson, Allie MacDonald, Glen Gould, Deborah Hay, Alden Adair, James Downing, Eric Hicks, David Richmond-Peck, Alanna Bale, Gale Maurice, Robert Naylor, and James Thomas. TV show description: Based on the Giles Blunt novels, the Cardinal TV show centers on demoted Algonquin Bay Police Detective John Cardinal (Campbell). When a missing 13-year old girl, Katie Pine, is found dead in an abandoned Ontario mineshaft, Cardinal and his new partner, Lise Delorme (Vanasse), take on the investigation into her disappearance and death. As they grow more involved in the grisly case, a...

Antoine Olivier Pilon has a naturally defensive presence. Previously the breakout from Xavier Dolan’s caustic melodrama Mommy, his body language is less reactionary than compensatory. When he responds, it’s like the pull of a slingshot, a persistent clenching that the audience worries will never unleash. From the first moment he’s seen on screen in Yan England’s debut, 1:54, he’s fighting at unseen expectations of the universe.

Unfortunately, Pilon’s performance is by far the most engaging part of the film, a restless but ultimately familiar crossbreeding of coming-out experience, after school special, and sports achievement story. As the film begins, Tim (Pilon) spends his days in social isolation, creating science experiments with his best friend, Francis (Robert Naylor), in the hopes that they will impress their classmates. But Tim is developing other feelings for Francis, as seen in a charged moment where Tim hovers over the sleeping Francis,...

Exclusive: Film starring Xavier Dolan collaborator Antoine Olivier Pilon has just opened in French-speaking Canada to strong reviews and box office.

TF1 Studio (previously TF1 International) has acquired world sales rights for Canadian actor and director Yan England’s bullying drama 1:54.

It is the debut feature film of England who was nominated for an Oscar in 2013 in the best live action short film category for Henry.

Canadian actor Antoine Olivier Pilon, best known internationally for his performance in Xavier Dolan’s Mommy, plays 16-year-old Tim, a shy, young man gifted with a natural athletic ability for running.

His time at school has been difficult, however, due to the bullying behaviour of some of his team mates on the school athletics team lead by Jeff and his followers. Sick of feeling like a loser, Tim decides to stand up to Jeff and dethrone him in the 800-metre race, a track event in which Jeff has always championed...

James Franco and Rachel McAdams star in Wim Wenders' 3D drama Every Thing Will Be Fine, and we have Exclusive new images from the film.

Wenders, the iconic German director responsible for such classic films including Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, and the recent dance documentary Pina, has made his most mainstream film yet with Every Thing Will Be Fine. With a stellar cast including Franco, McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Canadian rising stars Julia Sarah Stone (who had a breakout role in last year's Wet Bum) and Robert Naylor, Every Thing Will Be Fine is probably the first film by Wenders with a Hollywood cast.

[Read: Canadian Spotlight: Robert Naylor on working with James Franco in Every Thing Will Be Fine.]

Speaking of firsts, the film breaks the traditional 3D mold. 3D is usually reserved for big-budget sci-fi, action or animated films. Every Thing Will Be Fine tells its story of a man whose life changes after a tragic car accident and the ripple effect...

James Franco taught Robert Naylor how to stay very still.

Naylor is the 19-year-old Montreal actor who stars opposite Franco in Every Thing Will Be Fine. The drama, directed by Wim Wenders, is set in Quebec and casts Franco as brooding writer Tomas, who, one snowy night, accidently runs over Nicholas, a little boy who was tobogganing with his brother, Christopher.

The film follows Tomas for the next 12 years as he deals with his guilt. Naylor enters the film as the teenage Christopher, who finds Tomas in the hopes of coming to terms with the tragedy. “James was very subdued on set,” says Naylor on the line from his Montreal apartment, “and that’s what the movie called for. He takes his work seriously, and I learned a lot about subtleties making this movie. The movie itself is all about subtlety, a lot about looks and breathing even, which take...

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Wim Wenders' Every Thing Will Be Fine, the pic that stars James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rachel McAdams, Marie-Josée Croze, Robert Naylor, Patrick Bauchau and Peter Stormare. IFC plans a December 4 release date after the film makes its North American premiere in Toronto next month in the Masters section. It had its world premiere earlier this year in Berlin. The 3D drama centers on a tragic car accident links the lives of a…...

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Wim Wenders‘ 3D drama “Every Thing Will Be Fine,” which stars James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marie-Josée Croze. The film will make its North American premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival in the Masters section. IFC Films will release “Every Thing Will Be Fine” on Dec. 4. The story follows a tragic car accident that links the lives of a struggling writer (Franco), his long-suffering girlfriend (McAdams), a grieving mother (Gainsbourg) and a publisher (Croze). Peter Stormare co-stars alongside Robert Naylor and Patrick Bauchau. Also Read: Bryan Cranston Joins James Franco in Comedy.

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Dear Danny,

How silly is it that, as cinephiles, our happiness is so bound up with the films we watch? My mood fluctuates at festivals, often based on what film I watched last. One recent morning exemplified this. You and I went to see the press screening of Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s new film, The Club. I was keen on this one as his last film, No (2012), was superb (I recall the mysterious Celluloid Liberation Front wrote on it for us from Cannes). Unfortunately, this film was entirely different, not just in style, but in its relationship to its subject matter, its characters, the world. Where No was invested in people, The Club takes on a very heavy topic with a level of disdain that left me feeling cold. The film is about a group of priests,...

With its Season One finale, "Dans l'Ombre," airing tonight, the timing of this announcement that "Helix" has been renewed for another season on Syfy couldn't have come at a better time! Read on for the details.

From the Press Release:

"Helix," Syfy’s chilling scripted drama, has been renewed for a second season, it was announced today by Bill McGoldrick, Evp, Original Content, Syfy. The 13-episode second season will commence production later this year with an eye towards a winter 2015 premiere.

Said McGoldrick, “'Helix' has built one of our most loyal and consistent audiences in its first season on Syfy. The incredibly talented writing and producing team have crafted a thriller that consistently delivered suspense, twists, and high quality drama. We look forward to growing this passionate audience in what promises to be an even more memorable second season.”

"Helix" premiered on January 10, 2014, as the top cable scripted...

Review Billy Grifter 23 Mar 2014 - 18:12

Helix approaches its season finale without making any more sense than usual...

This review contains spoilers.

1.12 The Reaping

If I was to sum up what happened in The Reaping, it wasn’t anything as widespread as that title suggests. In fact only two people died in the whole episode, making it mostly an exercise in small conversations, a few of which actually made sense. Other than some utterly inconsequential diversions off on the ice with Anana, Sergio and Tulok, the episode took place entirely in the lab complex. For once we get to see the garage where the snow tractor lives. Yes, the same location that didn’t exist in the pilot episode to house the helicopters.

That scene was loosely connected to the blank page that the writers left in the script, the one where they explained how, using a snow tractor, you can dig a chasm,...

"Helix" went a bit off the rails in the last few weeks, but with only one episode left, we're sticking with it just to see how things wind up. If you are, too, here are a half dozen images and Syfy's usual five-minute preview of Episode 1.13, "Dans l'Ombre."

The 13-episode Season 1, which stars Billy Campbell, Kyra Zagorsky, Jordan Hayes, Catherine Lemieux, Hiroyuki Sanada, Meegwun Fairbrother, Mark Ghanimé, and Neil Napier, wraps up with "Dans l'Ombre" ("In the Shadow") on Friday, March 28th. If and when confirmation comes for Season 2, we'll let you know.

"Helix" is executive produced by Ron Moore, creator of “Battlestar Galactica."

"Helix" Episode 1.13 - "Dans l'Ombre" (airs 3/28/14)

Alan (Campbell) tries to avert global disaster by battling The Scythe (Robert Naylor).

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With two episodes to go, Helix's logic hasn't improved any. Here's Billy's exasperated review...

This review contains spoilers.

1.11 Black Rain

I’d like to complain to Syfy. At no point did Black Rain take us to Japan, and Michael Douglas was nowhere to be seen. Unless he was very cleverly hidden under Vector make-up, which is more plausible than some of what transpired this week. No Michael Douglas was probably the least of Black Rain’s faults, where the writers have obviously started employing the same technique that David Bowie used to write some of his Ziggy songs. Reputedly he’d write short phrases on bits of paper and then randomly pull them out to form the song.

In Helix the writers print tiny movie posters, and then randomly pull them out using a well-known scene from each to form the narrative. Or,...

Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor are all starring in the Wim Wenders drama "Every Thing Will Be Fine" which just began filming in Montreal.

James Franco stars as a man responsible for the death of a young boy who channels his guilt into a successful writing career.

As he gets more famous, however, he represses and rejects the emotional connection he has to the boy's brother (Robert Naylor) and mother (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in the years after the accident after the brother reached out to him.

McAdams will play Franco’s girlfriend, who has to deal with his deteriorating mental health. McAdams takes over a role that Sarah Polley was initially slated to play.

Source: THR...

Everything Will Be Fine for Rachel McAdams in Wim Wenders' drama Rachel McAdams has joined the cast of the film which also co-stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor, reports The Hollywood Reporter. James Franco stars as a man who is responsible for the death of a young boy, and channels his guilt into a successful writing career. As he gains more fame through the years, he ends up repressing the emotional connection with the boy's brother (Naylor) as well as his mother (played by Gainsbourg). In the film, the Naylor's character reaches out the man who was responsible for the death of his brother. McAdams plays Franco's girlfriend who watches her man's mental health deteriorate.

It’s been a few months since we’ve heard anything about Wim Wenders’ latest drama, Every Thing Will Be Fine. James Franco signed on as the lead back in May, and we now know that Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor are all part of the cast.Franco will play a man responsible for the death of a young boy who transforms the grief and guilt he feels into a successful writing career. But as his fame grows, he starts to repress and reject the connection he has with the boy’s mother and brother in the time since the accident.McAdams will be Franco’s girlfriend, who has to deal with the psychological toll it takes on them both, while Gainsbourg will be the mother and Naylor is set as the brother. Wenders kicked off shooting last week in Montreal.McAdams is set to return to our...

Proving its title right, Every Thing Will Be Fine just successfully managed to cast the last of its important roles—seemingly at the last minute—one week after shooting on the film began. Etwbf is the latest film from well-respected auteur Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire), and it stars James Franco as an aspiring writer who, after accidentally killing a young boy by hitting him with his car, uses the tragic event to fuel his writing and subsequently becomes famous. The conflict of the film comes when, ten years after the accident, the dead boy’s brother (Robert Naylor) reaches out and tries to contact him. A period of repression and denial then commences. Charlotte Gainsbourg is set for one of the other big roles here, the role of the boys’ mother, but up until this point Wenders had yet to find an actress to play the part of the Franco character’s girlfriend. Reportedly...

Straight from Brian De Palma‘s erotic thriller to Wim Wenders‘ upcoming drama Every Thing Will Be Fine! We’ve just learned that lovely Rachel McAdams will join previously announced James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor in the movie which revolves around a man who accidentally hits and kills a child. That, my friends, is what we call a seriously good cast, hope you agree? So, at this moment we know that Wenders directs the whole thing from a script written by Bjørn-Olaf Johannessen, which follows a writer named Tomas who, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, accidentally hits and...

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It looks like "Every Thing Will Be Fine" for Rachel McAdams. The actress has joined the busy James Franco and Charlotte Gainsbourg in the upcoming big screen drama from director Wim Wenders ("Wings of Desire," "Paris, Texas"). The film centers on a struggling writer (Franco) who accidentally kills a child and is wracked with guilt while his career simultaneously takes off. He forms a bond with the boy's brother (Robert Naylor) and mother (Gainsbourg) years after the incident. McAdams will play Franco’s girlfriend, a key supporting role for which Sarah Polley was initially attached to play before leaving the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Every Thing...

Rachel McAdams is set to join James Franco in Wim Wenders' drama "Every Thing Will Be Fine," which has also added young actress Lilah Fitzgerald (left) to its cast, TheWrap has learned. Franco stars as Tomas, who accidentally hits and kills a child while driving around the outskirts of town following a trivial domestic dispute.   See video: Rachel McAdams Falls for a Time Traveler - Again - in 'About Time' Trailer Charlotte Gainsbourgh co-stars as the boy's mother, while Robert Naylor ("Immortals") plays the boy's brother, who confronts Tomas about the accident...

Rachel McAdams has joined the cast of Wim Wenders’ drama Every Thing Will Be Fine. James Franco is starring in the film as a man responsible for the death of a young boy who channels his guilt into a successful writing career. As he gets more famous, however, he represses and rejects the emotional connection he has to the boy's brother and mother in the years after the accident. Charlotte Gainsbourg is playing the boy’s mother, while Robert Naylor is playing the brother, who 10 years after the accident, reaches out to the man who killed his sibling. Story: Charlotte

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Rachel McAdams is set to join the cast of Wim Wenders' ( Paris, Texas ) next, Every Thing Will Be Fine . The Hollywood Reporter brings word that McAdams will star opposite James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor in the upcoming drama. Written by Bjørn-Olaf Johannessen, Every Thing Will Be Fine follows Tomas (Franco), a writer, who accidentally causes the death of a child. The story follows Tomas through the next twelve years, searching for the footprints of the accident on his life, as well as on the life of Kate (Gainsbourg), the child's mother. Naylor will play the child's brother with McAdams playing Tomas' girlfriend. McAdams, who recently starred in Terence Malick's To the Wonder , can next be seen in Richard Curtis' About Time , hitting theaters November...

If you got turned off of "Being Human" because two of the main characters became... well... human, then you need to check back in because things are not always as they seem! Check out the first four minutes of Episode 3.10, "For Those About to Rot," to see what we mean.

"Being Human" Episode 3.10 - "For Those About to Rot" (airs March 18, 2013, on Syfy)

Josh learns Aidan made a deal with the vampires. Aidan's date with Kat (Deanna Russo) causes him to remember his wife and son. Sally learns more about Nick (Pat Kiely) and Stevie (Robert Naylor).

Related Story: Another Batch of Stills from "Being Human" Episode 3.10 - "For Those About to Rot"

"Being Human" stars Sam Witwer (Aidan), Meaghan Rath (Sally), Sam Huntington (Josh), and Kristen Hager (Nora). The new season also features a stellar lineup of new and returning guest stars including: Mark Pellegrino ("Lost," "Revolution") as Aidan...

After teasing us with a measly three stills from next week's episode of "Being Human" (although we're not complaining since they feature Revolutionary War-era Aidan), Syfy has released a few more images, and it looks like Josh and Sally are up to no good in "For Those About to Rot."

"Being Human" Episode 3.10 - "For Those About to Rot" (airs March 18, 2013, on Syfy)

Josh learns Aidan made a deal with the vampires. Aidan's date with Kat (Deanna Russo) causes him to remember his wife and son. Sally learns more about Nick (Pat Kiely) and Stevie (Robert Naylor).

"Being Human" stars Sam Witwer (Aidan), Meaghan Rath (Sally), Sam Huntington (Josh), and Kristen Hager (Nora). The new season also features a stellar lineup of new and returning guest stars including: Mark Pellegrino ("Lost," "Revolution") as Aidan’s vampire mentor Bishop; Amy Aquino ("Harry’s Law," "ER") as Donna, a witch whose supernatural...

Yep, it's official: This season of "Being Human" is full of win. While we weren't really digging Josh and Sally as "human," we couldn't be more pleased at the recent turn of events and can't wait to see more next week, especially since we get more Aidan flashbacks!

Here are a few stills, the promo, and a clip from the upcoming Episode 3.10, "For Those About to Rot."

"Being Human" Episode 3.10 - "For Those About to Rot" (airs March 18, 2013, on Syfy)

Josh learns Aidan made a deal with the vampires. Aidan's date with Kat (Deanna Russo) causes him to remember his wife and son. Sally learns more about Nick (Pat Kiely) and Stevie (Robert Naylor).

"Being Human" stars Sam Witwer (Aidan), Meaghan Rath (Sally), Sam Huntington (Josh), and Kristen Hager (Nora). The new season also features a stellar lineup of new and returning guest stars including: Mark Pellegrino ("Lost," "Revolution") as...

Everything has been escalated in the second season of Being Human and it’s only the second episode. We were given a real glimpse at what the season holds in store for our three roommates, the temptations that are trying to lure them in as well as the new dangers that await them. Aidan (Sam Witwer) is juggling new women in his life; Sally’s (Meaghan Rath) afterlife is overrun with adolescent boys, and Josh (Sam Huntington) and Nora (Kristen Hager) well, let’s just say that the other wolf is out of the bag.

Josh & Nora

For another week, I’m going to lead off with the werewolves after what Nora did to Heggeman who did not connect with Josh again with his gun. In fact there was nothing connected on him when the sun rose in the morning.

With Heggeman gone that leaves most if not all of...

Ep. 201 Turn This Mother Out

Being Human finally returned to Syfy with its second season Monday night and it was great to get back on the ride that thrilled us a year ago. The theme this year is “Temptation is a Beast” and even though we’ve had hints of what that means for Aidan (Sam Witwer), Josh (Sammy Huntington), and Sally (Meaghan Rath), we got to see how one of our roommates will be forced into revisiting his dark side. Every character got a great moment in the premiere and was set up what the future holds for them in Season 2.

Josh & Nora

Rarely have I led off a Being Human review with Josh but what a great way to end the season premiere, with Heggeman (Terry Kinney) getting that final shot as the camera went black. We were so consumed with the revelation of Nora (Kristen Hager) turning into a werewolf,...

The nominees for the 31st Annual Genie Awards, Canada’s answer to the Oscars, were unveiled at simultaneous press conferences in Montreal and Toronto yeseterday. After being snubbed by the major Hollywood awards, only receiving 1 nomination and win for Paul Giamatti at the Golden Globes, Barney’s Version has been highly recognized by Canadian audiences. This is no surprise as its source material is a novel from beloved Canadian treasure Mordecai Richler and the film was partially shot in Montreal. Barney’s VersionIncendies leads the pack with 11 nominations including Best Motion Picture and populating most of the acting categories including one for Paul Giamatti for a Performace by an Actor in a Leading Role and Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Dustin Hoffman. Following closely is the other Canadian darling this year, Incendies , which garnered 10 nominations such as Adapted Screenplay (Denis Villeneuve) and Performance by an Actress...

Richard J. Lewis’ “Barney’s Version,” a festival favorite and big-screen version of the Mordecai Richler, garnered 11 nominations — including Best Motion Picture and Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Giamatti) — to lead the way for the 31st Annual Genie Awards, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.

Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies,” a contender this year for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, was next with 10 nominations, including Best Motion Picture and Achievement in Direction.

The Genies will be handed out on Thursday, March 10, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The following is a list of nominees in some of the major categories.

Best Motion Picture

“10 ½”

Pierre Gendron

“Les amours imaginaires” (“Heartbeats”)

Xavier Dolan, Carole Mondello, Daniel Morin

“Barney’s Version”

Robert Lantos

“Incendies”

Luc Déry, Kim McCraw

Splice

Steven Hoban

Achievement in Direction

Podz

“10 ½”

Xavier Dolan

“Les amours imaginaires” (“Heartbeats”)

Denis Villeneuve

“Incendies”

Vincenzo Natali...

Richard J. Lewis’ “Barney’s Version,” a festival favorite and big-screen version of the Mordecai Richler, garnered 11 nominations — including Best Motion Picture and Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Giamatti) — to lead the way for the 31st Annual Genie Awards, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.

Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies,” a contender this year for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, was next with 10 nominations, including Best Motion Picture and Achievement in Direction.

The Genies will be handed out on Thursday, March 10, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The following is a list of nominees in some of the major categories.

Best Motion Picture

“10 ½”

Pierre Gendron

“Les amours imaginaires” (“Heartbeats”)

Xavier Dolan, Carole Mondello, Daniel Morin

“Barney’s Version”

Robert Lantos

“Incendies”

Luc Déry, Kim McCraw

Splice

Steven Hoban

Achievement in Direction

Podz

“10 ½”

Xavier Dolan

“Les amours imaginaires” (“Heartbeats”)

Denis Villeneuve

“Incendies”

Vincenzo Natali...

Yesterday, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (Acct) announced the nominees for the 31rst Genie Awards, Canada's own Oscars.

Best Motion picture:

* 10 1/2

* Les amours imaginaires

* Barney's Version

* Incendies

* Splice

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

* Jay Baruchel in The Trotsky

* Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version

* Robert Naylor in 10 1/2

* Timothy Olyphant in High Life

* François Papineau in Route 132

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

* Martin Dubreuil in 10 1/2

* Dustin Hoffman in Barney's Version

* Alexis Martin in Route 132

* Callum Keith Rennie in Gunless

* Rossif Sutherland in High Life

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

* Lubna Azabal in Incendies

* Tatiana Maslany in Grown Up Movie Star

* Molly Parker in Trigger

* Rosamund Pike in Barney's Version

* Tracy Wright in Trigger

Best Actress In a Supporting Role:

* Sonja Bennett in Cole

* Anne-Élizabeth Bossé in Les amours imaginaires

* Minnie Driver in Barney's Version

* Terra Hazelton in Fubar 2

* Mary Walsh in Crackie

Best Adapted Screenplay:

* Michael Konyves...

Paul Giamatti's new movie "Barney's Version" is leading all nominees for the upcoming Genie Awards in Canada with 11 nods. The film has edged out Canada's Best Foreign Language Oscar hopeful, "Incendies", which has landed 10 nominations. The two movies will compete for the Best Film prize at the independent cinema awards in March, along with "10 1/2", "Les Amours Imaginaires" and "Splice".

Giamatti will compete with Jay Baruchel (The Trotsky), Robert Naylor (10 1/2), Francois Papineau (Route 132) and Timothy Olyphant (High Life) for the Best Actor award, while the Best Actress race will be run by Lubna Azabal (Incendies), Tatiana Maslany (Grown Up Movie Star), Molly Parker (Trigger), Tracey Wright (Trigger) and Rosamund Pike (Barney's Version).

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television will hand out the honors on March 10.

Yesterday, Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (Fnc), which will take place from October 13 to 24, revealed its full line-up of films. Nineteen Canadian feature films and documentaries will be presented. However, don't expect to see all films that were screened at the latest Toronto or Vancouver International Film Festivals.

Opening film:

10 1/2

Director: Daniel Grou (Podz)

Starring: Claude Legault, Robert Naylor and Albert Kwan

International selection

Jo pour Jonathan

Director: Maxime Giroux

Starring: Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Raphaël Lacaille, Jean-Alexandre Létourneau and Vanessa Pilon

Focus Québec/Canada

A Night for Dying Tigers

Director: Terry Miles

Starring: Jennifer Beals, Gil Bellows, Lauren Lee Smith, Tygh Runyan, Kathleen Robertson, John Pyper-Ferguson, Leah Gibson, Sarah Lind and Jessica Heafey

Affinity Point

Director: Deeh

Starring: Danielle Hubbard, Jason D. Pitre, Sophie Ricard and Yann Faussurier

2 fois une femme

Director: François Delisle

Starring: Evelyne Rompré, Marc Béland and Catherine de Léan

Falardeau (Documentary)

Director: German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia...