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The 1989 action classic Road House (watch it Here) recently got a decent enough Prime Video remake that’s set to receive a sequel – which is something the original movie should have gotten around 1991 or so. But no matter what other movies use the Road House title, nothing will ever compare to that ’89 movie… which I have vivid memories of watching at a drive-in during its initial release. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Road House, the estate of musician Jeff Healey has announced that they’re teaming up with Sony Music and Mondo Music to bring us Road House: The Lost Soundtrack, the complete, previously unreleased soundtrack that Healey recorded for the film.

Road House: The Lost Soundtrack is available to pre-order from the Jeff Healey Estate’s official website and will also be available on all major streaming platforms on June 7th, courtesy of Sony Music. This release features...

The 2023 Canadian Screen Awards nominations are in.

On Wednesday, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (the Canadian Academy) announced the nominees in 145 television, film, and digital media categories, which also include the inaugural nominations in gender-neutral performance categories for lead and supporting performers in film and television.

The first season of CBC’s “The Porter” leads both television and overall 2023 Canadian Screen Award nominations with 19 nods, including Best Drama Series and Best Lead Performer, Drama Series nominations for Aml Ameen, Ronnie Rowe Jr., and Mouna Traoré.

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Both CBC’s “Sort Of” and CBC Gem’s “Detention Adventure” received 15 nominations, followed by CBC’s “Pretty Hard Cases” with 11.

Over in the film category, Clement Virgo’s “Brother” tops nominations with 14, including Achievement in Direction and Performance in a Leading Role for Lamar Johnson. Stéphane Lafleur’s “Viking” follows with 13, while...

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The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, which organizes the annual Canadian Screen Awards, the country’s main film and TV prize-giving event, has named Tammy Frick as its new CEO.

Frick joins the Academy after 27 years as executive director of the Cinéfest Sudbury Film Festival in northern Ontario. She replaces Beth Janson, who left the Academy in April 2022 to run day-to-day operations at the Toronto Film Festival as COO.

Frick will lead the Canadian Academy from Oct. 31. “Tammy’s experience and knowledge of the industry will be extremely beneficial to advancing our hard work towards developing, recognizing, celebrating and advocating for Canadian talent in Canada’s screen-based industry,” John Young, Academy chair, said in a statement.

The Academy, launched in 1979 as a not-for-profit, promotes Canadian film and TV with annual awards shows. A decade go, the organization shifted from holding separate Gemini...

Canada’s top film and television awards are going gender-neutral.

Organizers say next year’s Canadian Screen Awards will drop categories dedicated to male and female performers in favour of categories that aren’t divided by gender.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television says this will “better represent the country’s diverse community of talent.”

Instead of four film categories that each honour best lead actor or actress and best supporting actor or actress, there will be two categories recognizing best “performance in a leading role” and “performance in a supporting role.”

Several genre-based TV categories are similarly renamed. For instance, the contests for best lead comedy actor and actress are simply becoming “best lead performer” in a comedy.

Previously, each category allowed for five nominees, but going forward the Academy says eight nominees will be considered.

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The Canadian Screen Awards will transition to gender neutral performance categories for lead and supporting performers in the film and television awards streams from 2023.

The move will see an increase in the number of nominations per category from five to eight. The change follows a large-scale five-year consultation effort, which included 40 key industry organizations.

The Canadian Screen Awards have awarded gender neutral performance categories in the digital media awards stream since 2019.

The performance categories in film and television for the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards will be presented as follows:

Television:

Best lead performer, comedy

Best lead performer, drama series

Best lead performer, TV movie

Best supporting performer, comedy

Film:

Performance in a leading role (Previously performance by an actor/actress in a leading role)

Performance in a supporting role (Previously performance by an actor/actress in a supporting role)

Louis Calabro, interim CEO, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, which presents the awards,...

Shift comes into effect in 2023. Nominations per category to increase from five to eight.

The Canadian Screen Awards will transition to gender-neutral performance categories for lead and supporting performers in the film and television awards, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced.

This shift will go into effect for the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards and will see an increase in the number of nominations per category from five to eight, it emerged on Thursday (August 25). Submissions will open on September 14.

The switch follows broad consultation with 40 industry bodies over five years. Going forward the awards will recognise performance in...

Get your figers ready folks, we're just a little over a week away from the release of the brand new Super Smash Bros. game coming to the 3Ds. It's a highly competitive game and to kick off the launch of the newest entry in the franchise, Nintendo is launching an open tournament across the country to give gamers the chance to prove their mad skills. Come inside to find out if it's coming to a city near you!

If there's one thing I know, it's that I'm an amazing gamer when I play by myself. Up against others, I suddenly become a mentally challenged monkey poking at the controls (something that's become painfully obvious with the release of Destiny). That doesn't mean I don't enjoy watching other people actually be good at video games via some of these tournaments. There's some cool stuff going on with this one, ultimately leading...

Tiny Toon Adventures is sort of the overlooked middle child of Warner Bros. animation. The series was conceived during the late-80s, post-Muppet Babies boomlet for younger versions of beloved cartoon characters, and the series could never match up to the original Looney Tunes animation. At the same time, Tiny Toon only rarely achieved the full-scale madcap insanity of Warner’s later cartoon Animaniacs. (Much as I love “Particle Man,” I have to agree with John Young that nothing beats the musical sequences on Animaniacs.) Still, I loved Tiny Toon Adventures when I was a kid, for one simple...