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In the summer of 2023, Canadaland opened its first call for submissions, receiving more than 275 pitches from journalists and audio makers from around the world. “We were overwhelmed by the number of amazing concepts we received. The shows we are set to release are the ones that we were most wild about and had to bring into the world,” said Canadaland’s Publisher Jesse Brown. “They are consistent with the quality of shows we’ve made like Thunder Bay and Cool Mules, but they go into entirely new directions that are expanding our own concept of what Canadaland can be.”

Over the course of the next nine months, Canadaland will release a dynamic lineup that includes four original new series, the English language premiere of Prix-Italia winning Radio France podcast Inside Kabul, new seasons of Commons, canadaLANDBACK, and The Backbench, and urgent news and insightful analysis from longtime favorites Canadaland, Short Cuts,...

Widely renowned podcast network, Canadaland has entered into an exclusive multi-year first-look deal with Entertainment One (eOne).

Under the terms of the multi-year deal, eOne will adapt Canadaland’s original podcasts into scripted and non-scripted television, limited series and documentaries. All projects will be co-produced by eOne and Canadaland with eOne serving as the studio and international distributor.

“Working with Entertainment One on Thunder Bay has shown us that they are just as dedicated to telling incredible, true Canadian stories as we are,” added Jesse Brown, Founder, Canadaland. “We're thrilled to build on this partnership and take our past and future stories from sound to screen.”

“Partnering with a dynamic podcast network like Canadaland allows us access to an array of fascinating stories,” said Jocelyn Hamilton, President, Canada, eOne Television. “By leaning into the podcast to broadcast approach, we’re broadening our search in finding more incredible and thought-provoking content.

Cole Sprouse is returning to a role he loves to play. Rolling Stone can announce the return of Qcode‘s Borrasca podcast for a second season, where Sprouse plays the role of Sam Walker in the spooky multi-episode series.

“When I first signed on to the project, we didn’t really imagine that it would be so well-loved by people. But I really enjoyed finding the fine line, at least in the vocality of what we were doing, between emotion that can be portrayed more easily physically,” Sprouse tells Rolling...

The distinctive podcasts from disruptive Canadian news platform and podcaster Canadaland will soon receive global film and television adaptations thanks to a deal with U.S. outfit Storied Media Group (Smg).

In addition to representing Canadaland in the packaging and sales of its multimedia journalism for television and film adaptation, Smg will market the publisher’s daily stories to studios, streamers, networks and producers around the world.

Canadaland’s content spans hot button topics including police corruption and brutality, and stories at the intersection of money, influence and politics in Canada. Canadaland’s hit series “Thunder Bay,” about anti-Indigenous racism, is currently in production as a docuseries for eOne/Crave, while their true-crime caper “Cool Mules,” about a cocaine-smuggling ring inside Vice Media, is also in development as both a scripted and unscripted series.

Founded in 2013 by Todd Hoffman, former head of the Media Rights Group at ICM, Smg has...

In the latest socially distanced episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Ryan McMahon and Jon Thompson of the Thunder Bay podcast.

For “Democrats Suck,” Katie dives into former President Barack Obama’s new best-selling memoir A Promised Land, particularly the section in which Obama laments overseeing the deaths of people that he asserts he had actually wanted to help.

“Yeah, he wrote that,” says Katie.

“That takes some stones to write that, I have to say. I’m very impressed,” responds Matt.

The reunion of Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray for the new A24/Apple release “On the Rocks” comes 17 years after their first collaboration on the Oscar-winning “Lost in Translation.” Such repeated pairings between directors and actors have been mainstay a in Hollywood since the earliest days of cinema. In the silent era, there were multiple films from D.W. Griffith and Lillian Gish and Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance.

One of the great partnerships during the Golden Age of Hollywood was John Ford and John Wayne. Ford had actually befriended Wayne when the young man was doing odd jobs as well as extra work-including in few of the director’s films-at Fox Studios in the late 1920s. Wayne made his official film debut starring in Raoul Walsh’s 1930 epic western “The Big Trail.”

The film wasn’t a hit and Wayne found himself spending the decade doing “B” westerns including 1938’s...

Cole Sprouse has been making good use of his time in lockdown, playing lots of video games — specifically “Animal Crossing” — and growing some epic facial hair. His mustachio’d appearance was originally for his role in the upcoming Lionsgate comedy “Undercover” and was recently documented in (socially distant) photoshoot that went viral.

The “Riverdale” actor is also debuting a new narrative podcast “Borrasca,” in which he stars and produces. The eight-episode mystery series debuted May 25. Rebecca Klingel, a writer for “The Haunting of Hill House,” wrote and created the show, centering on a thread that originated on the social news aggregation website Reddit.

It’s Sprouse’s first foray into voice acting, a new challenge he relished in, he said on “Variety Live.”

“It’s just finding that balance between how much emphasis you have to place on reading the dialogue when someone is only getting an emotion through something audible,...

As Riverdale makes its midseason return, it sounds like Cole Sprouse will continue to channel his inner Jughead Jones in an upcoming thriller podcast called Borrasca. According to Deadline, Sprouse - who will also produce the series - will star as a young man named Sam Walker who makes it his mission to investigate the sudden disappearance of his sister after moving to the small town of Drisking, Missouri. The deeper he digs, the more people go missing, and the more Sam wants to get to the bottom of this unsettling mystery.

Each 30-minute podcast episode will dive further into Walker's journey to find his sister and shed more light on the dark secrets hidden in this small town. The eight-part series, which was made with La audio studio QCode, was written and created by Rebecca Klingel, who was also a writer on Netlfix's The Haunting of Hill House, so...

Exclusive: Riverdale and Five Feet Apart star Cole Sprouse is to star in and produce podcast series Borrasca.

The eight-episode, 30-minute thriller is written and created by Rebecca Klingel, a writer on WGA-nominated Netflix horror series The Haunting Of Hill House. The pod hails from growing La audio studio QCode.

Debuting in April, the podcast will follow Sam Walker, whose parents move him and his sister to the picturesque mountain town of Drisking, Missouri. It quickly becomes clear there may be more to the town than what they can see on the surface. When his sister suddenly disappears, Sam becomes obsessed with untangling the local lore, the juvenile rhymes and legends taking on an entirely new – and dark – meaning as more teens continue to disappear.

QCode’s pod series to date include Rami Malek starrer Blackout, Cynthia Erivo drama Carrier, Markiplier’s The Edge Of Sleep, and Chloe Grace Moretz starrer Gaslight.

Does your memory go as far back as 2010, or have too many catastrophes and cataclysms blurred your vision? Peter Berg’s tense account of the Bp Gulf Oil Spill debacle covers twenty hours of technological peril, as Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell battle idiotic executives and a badly-cemented oil well that’s fixing to blow sky high — and to turn a massive floating oil rig into a hellish inferno.

Deepwater Horizon

Blu-ray + DVD

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2016 / Color / 2:35 1:85 widescreen 1:37 flat full frame / 97 min. / Street Date January 10, 2016 / 39.99

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, John Malkovich, David Maldonado, Kate Hudson, Brad Leland.

Cinematography Enriqaue Chediak

Film Editors Gabriel Fleming, Colby Parker Jr.

Original Music Steve Jablonsky

Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand from an article by David Rohde, Stephanie Saul

Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Mark Wahlberg, David Womark

Directed by Peter Berg

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

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The biggest, most lavish hook-up between Hollywood and the Pentagon was this Anthony Mann-James Stewart collaboration, a morale & recruiting cheer for America's intercontinental bombing air force, the service that kept the peace by holding up our side of the balance of fear. Strategic Air Command Blu-ray Olive Films 1955 / Color / 1:66 widescreen (VistaVision) / 112 min. / Street Date October 16, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol, Bruce Bennett, Jay C. Flippen, James Millican, James Bell, Rosemary DeCamp, Harry Morgan, William Hudson, Strother Martin, House Peters Jr. Cinematography William Daniels Film Editor Eda Warren Original Music Victor Young Written by Valentine Davies, Beirne Lay, Jr. Produced by Samuel J. Briskin Directed by Anthony Mann

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

In the 1950s America was spending its enormous military budget on a fantastic array of advanced weapons technology, the most expensive of which was...

Anthony Mann

As much as any other filmmaker who found a niche in a given genre, in the 10 Westerns Anthony Mann directed from 1950 to 1958 he carved out a place in film history as one who not only reveled in the conventions of that particular form, but also as one who imbued in it a distinct aesthetic and narrative approach. In doing so, Mann created Westerns that were simultaneously about the making of the West as a historical phenomenon, as well as about the making of its own developing cinematic genus. At the same time, he also established the traits that would define his auteur status, formal devices that lend his work the qualities of a director who enjoyed, understood, and readily exploited and manipulated a type of film's essential features.

Though he made several fine pictures outside the Western, Mann as an American auteur is most notably recognized for his work in this field,...

Cinema is a kind of uber-art form that’s made up of a multitude of other forms of art including writing, directing, acting, drawing, design, photography and fashion. As such, film is, as all cinema aficionados know, a highly collaborative venture.

One of the most consistently fascinating collaborations in cinema is that of the director and actor.

This article will examine some of the great director & actor teams. It’s important to note that this piece is not intended as a film history survey detailing all the generally revered collaborations.

There is a wealth of information and study available on such duos as John Ford & John Wayne, Howard Hawks & John Wayne, Elia Kazan & Marlon Brando, Akira Kurosawa & Toshiro Mifune, Alfred Hitchcock & James Stewart, Ingmar Bergman & Max Von Sydow, Federico Fellini & Giulietta Masina/Marcello Mastroianni, Billy Wilder & Jack Lemmon, Francis Ford Coppola & Al Pacino, Woody Allen & Diane Keaton, Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro...

Looking back at 2011 on what films moved and impressed us it becomes more and more clear—to me at least—that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, our end of year poll, now an annual tradition, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2011—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2011 to create a unique double feature. Many contributors chose their favorites of 2011, some picked out-of-the-way gems, others made some pretty strange connections—and some frankly just want to create a kerfuffle. All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2011 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative...

by Vadim Rizov

The well known numbers fueling Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear, which soon screens in a new 35mm print at NYC's Film Forum: 148 minutes, two trucks, three hundred miles, four men, lots of nitroglycerin. An oil fire's raging at a far-away outpost, and the Southern Oil Company (which, as Roger Ebert noted, non-coincidentally has the same initials as Standard Oil) needs explosives to put it out; with roads in this unnamed South American oil republic so unstable the slightest jostle will blow up the truck, it'll take some truly desperate losers to undertake the trip—men like Mario (Yves Montand) and Luigi (Folco Lulli). (It's unknown if Nintendo named their video-game duo in deliberate homage.) The former best friends have their relationship torn apart at the film's start by the arrival in town of barrel-chested Jo (Charles Vanel), who wears his gut as an emblem of...

Before he led David Letterman’s band, Paul Shaffer was just a music-obsessed kid from Thunder Bay, Ontario. In his new memoir, We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives, Shaffer recalls his storied path to the Ed Sullivan Theater—including a stint at Saturday Night Live and performances with Ray Charles and Steve Martin. In this exclusive audio excerpt, the legendary maestro remembers a few soul-rattling moments with his musical—and religious—guru, Bob Dylan. Listen to the podcast after the jump.

American screenwriter John Michael Hayes has died of natural causes at the age of 89.

Hayes - who wrote some of director Alfred Hitchcock.s best-known films - passed away on 19 November in a retirement community in Hanover, New Hampshire.

He adapted four of Hitchcock's films, including 1954's Rear Window, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, which gained him an Academy Award nomination, and his work on 1955 project Mystery Writers of America won him an Edgar Award.

In addition to Rear Window, Hayes also adapted the director's 1955 films To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant, and The Trouble With Harry - as well as a remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, in 1956.

Besides his work for Hitchcock, Hayes was known for writing Peyton Place, a 1957 screenplay also nominated for an Oscar.

He began his career as a radio writer, after serving in the Army in World War II, with earlier film credits including 1953's Thunder Bay, directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart.

He later wrote adaptations of The Children's Hour and Butterfield 8 - a 1960 film starring Elizabeth Taylor.

Through the 1980s and '90s, he wrote television movies and began teaching film at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Hayes is survived by two daughters, Rochelle Hayes and Meredyth Hayes Badreau; two sons, Garrett Michael and Corey; and four grandchildren.