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The Sidemen are showing off their turtle power at their new retail outlet. As the creator septet opens up its second clothing store in Birmingham, England, it is announcing a partnership with Paramount that will result in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed Sidemen apparel line.

The collection will consist of 13 pieces, ranging from t-shirts to jackets to hoodies, all emblazoned with exclusive designs. As a nod to the side hustle of Sidemen member Ksi, the line also includes some boxing paraphernalia like gloves and wraps.

“The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are some of our most iconic and well-loved characters, so it felt natural for us to collaborate with the U.K.’s biggest YouTube stars, The Sidemen, on this new range,” said Paramount exec Rebecca Jenkins in a statement. “From T-shirts to boxing gloves, there’s something for everyone, and we can’t wait for fans to get their hands on it.

Alarm Pictures has closed North American rights from Hewes Pictures on “The Protector,” the latest film from Canadian writer-director Lenin M. Sivam, in advance of its July 28 world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival.

The U.S. streaming release date is set for Monday, Jan. 23. Limited theatrical openings begin the Friday prior at New York’s Film Noir Cinema and at iPic on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles, where the film will run for one week a piece.

U.K. and Ireland rights to “The Protector” have been acquired by Reel 2 Reel Film/Trinity Entertainment. Level Film will release “The Protector” in Canada.

A U.K.-based film distributor that this year picked up Serbian-German actor Branko Tomovic’s folk horror “Vampir,” Alarm Pictures specialises in edgy yet commercial “genre” film titles. That perfectly describes “The Protector.”

Starring Chelsea Clark (“Ginny and Georgia”), it turns on Evelyn, 21, pictured near the...

Warner Bros. and Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away director Robert Zemeckis' upcoming remake/ re-adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl's The Witches is coming our way soon. The much anticipated new version from producers Alfonso Cuar&#243n (Roma), and Guillermo del Toro (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) has already snagged a cast including Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises) and Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) and today we have word that the new movie will begin filming in Georgia, Alabama, and The United Kingdom next month. This production schedule makes sense as we already know the movie has a set release date of October 16, 2020.

Based on The Bfg author Roald Dahl's 1973 novel of the same name, the story follows a young boy named Luke who inadvertently spies on a convention of witches while staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother,...

When Sarah Polley decided to make a documentary about the mother she lost as a girl of 11, she had no idea of the extraordinary family secret she would unearth. The acclaimed Canadian film-maker talks about the often painful burden of exploring the lives of loved ones – and why she thinks marriage is a 'crazy and optimistic' institution

As I fly to Canada to meet Sarah Polley, I think about the glimpses of her in Stories We Tell – her first full-length documentary feature, which bowled over critics at Sundance and the Venice film festival and has won Canada's Film of the Year award. She looks like a contemplative Madonna on screen, with long, fair hair. She listens more than she talks. She encourages her family to speak. Her film may be her story – but she gets others to tell it. Michael Polley, her British-born father – an actor who worked for an...

A new poster and trailer in for Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell from Roadside Attractions with Rebecca Jenkins, Peter Evans, Alex Hatz, Pixie Bigelow, Deirdre Bowen, Geoffrey Bowes, John Buchan, Susy Buchan, Tom Butler, Andrew Church and Justin Goodland. Anita Lee produced the film which was seen at the 2012 Venice Film Festival in August, then at this year's Sundance Film Festival. You can watch it in theaters from May 10th. In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory...

A new poster and trailer in for Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell from Roadside Attractions with Rebecca Jenkins, Peter Evans, Alex Hatz, Pixie Bigelow, Deirdre Bowen, Geoffrey Bowes, John Buchan, Susy Buchan, Tom Butler, Andrew Church and Justin Goodland. Anita Lee produced the film which was seen at the 2012 Venice Film Festival in August, then at this year's Sundance Film Festival. You can watch it in theaters from May 10th. In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar®-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory...

Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) are on a hunt. Dean uses a stun gun on the Rawhead, who preys on bad children and electrocutes himself when he crawls into some water. Sam uses a fake credit card to pay for the hospital bill. Dean under the alias of Joe, found some children in the basement. The doctor tells them electrocution triggered a heart attack and his heart is damaged. The most he has is a few weeks or months. They can only keep him comfortable, they can't work miracles. Which is what this episode is mostly about. So already they were playing havoc with our guys and putting their lives at risk and the death that stalks them with hunting is made even more real for Dean now. Dean: "You don't actually watch Daytime TV, it's terrible." Yeah as we know that's an in joke since Jensen was in a Daytime soap,...

Yesterday, the nominees for the 2010 Leo Awards were announced. The objective of this award is to celebrate all the things that have been done in the film and television industry of the Prairies and the province British Columbia along with people who are based in these regions. Furthermore, foreign TV series and films that are produced in Canada's West are also included in the party. Obviously, this is not the full list of nominees. In fact, this is the presentation of the nominees for dramatic TV series, feature films, comedy series and web series.

Feature Length Drama

Best Feature Length Drama:

* A Shine Of Rainbows

* Alice

* Cole

* Excited

* The Thaw

Best Direction in a Feature Length Drama:

* Vic Sarin - A Shine Of Rainbows

* Carl Bessai - Cole

* Bruce Sweeney - Excited

* Mark A. Lewis - The Thaw

Best Screenwriting in a Feature Length Drama:

* Vic Sarin, Chatherine Spear and...

TORONTO -- Daniel MacIvor's Wilby Wonderful will open the 24th Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sept. 17, it was announced Wednesday. The ensemble comedy, MacIvor's second movie as director and writer after Past Perfect in 2002, was shot in Picton, Nova Scotia, and stars MacIvor, Sandra Oh (Under the Tuscan Sun), Maury Chaykin (My Cousin Vinnie) and Paul Gross (Due South). Wilby Wonderful is set for release in Canada on Oct. 1 through Mongrel Media. The movie portrays a day in the life of several island locals trying to maintain business as usual in the face of unusual circumstances. The film also stars Callum Keith Rennie (Falling Angels), James Allodi (Foolproof), Rebecca Jenkins (Marion Bridge) and Ellen Page (Marion Bridge). The Atlantic Film Festival, Canada's most prestigious festival after Toronto, runs through Sept. 25.

Film Movement

NEW YORK -- This Canadian dysfunctional family drama is the sort of earnest, thoughtful exercise that smacks far more of the stage than the screen. That's not surprising as screenwriter Daniel MacIvor's screenplay is adapted from his own theatrical effort. While boasting sensitive performances and generally believable dialogue, "Marion Bridge" ultimately suffers from a static, torpid quality that will inhibit theatrical returns. The film is being released in theaters in conjunction with its distribution on DVD to subscribers of the recently established Film Movement series.

Bearing more than a slight similarity to Chekhov, Wiebke von Carolsfeld's film details the emotional complications that ensue among three sisters, here being reunited at the deathbed of their hard-living, elderly mother (Marguerite McNeil). Newly sober Agnes (Molly Parker) has returned to her small hometown in Nova Scotia, where she is greeted suspiciously by her older sister Theresa (Rebecca Jenkins), whose husband has recently left her for a younger woman, and their sister Louise (Stacy Smith), a homebody who has retreated to a world of junk food and televised hockey.

It isn't long before the reunion has engendered a series of revelations and confrontations, which are exacerbated by Agnes' addictive behavior patterns and complicated relationship with a troubled 15-year-old girl (Ellen Page). As you might guess, Agnes also is still coping with the scars of past turmoil, including sexual abuse at the hands of the sisters' long-departed father.

While the situations and characterizations ring true, if a bit melodramatically, the film is so understated that little dramatic effect registers. It is best appreciated for its intimate moments of emotional truth and for the powerful performances, particularly Parker's complex turn as the troubled but well-meaning Agnes.