Actress Ellen Page ("Inception," "Juno") will make her directorial debut on "Miss Stevens" for Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content. Anna Faris is attached to play the title role of a teacher whose life is in disarray when she chaperones a group of high schoolers on a weekend trip to a state drama competition. There, through the admiration and … [Read more...]
“You’re Next” Team Welcome “The Guest”
February 6, 2013 by
Playing to superb reception on the festival circuit over the past eighteen months, most of us won't get to see the home invasion horror tale "You're Next" until its release in August. Already though, the team behind it - namely director Adam Wingard and scribe Simon Barrett - are set to reunite for the action thriller "The Guest" at HanWay … [Read more...]
Rescue team: fines put lives at risk
December 24, 2012 by
Many people are wondering why those heading out of bounds on ski hills, or skirting closure gates on the Grouse Grind, aren't being fined. Tim Jones with North Shore Rescue says they're not even remotely interested in considering fines, because it puts even more lives in danger. "If we have fines and charges, you may have families doing their own … [Read more...]
Apple’s Eddy Cue reportedly fires Richard Williamson, who oversaw the iOS 6 Maps team
November 28, 2012 by
We aren't apt to ever hear this in official fashion, but Bloomberg has it on good authority that Apple's newly-promoted Eddy Cue has just fired the guy who was unfortunately leading the Maps team at the time of iOS 6's release. If you'll recall, Cue was placed in charge of both Siri and Maps during an executive shakeup back in October, and it seems … [Read more...]
New Westminster team heading to Eastern U-S for tips on disaster management
November 16, 2012 by
A committee from New Westminster will be heading to the coast of the Eastern United States to learn a few things about how to handle a disaster like Superstorm Sandy. City Councilor Chuck Puchmayr says a third of New Westminster lives below the flood plain and there have been a couple of close calls over the last decade. He says the team won't go … [Read more...]
Streep, Swank Team For “Homesman”?
October 1, 2012 by
Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank have been linked to the upcoming Tommy Lee Jones-directed period drama "The Homesman" at Ithaca Films, The Javelina Film Company and EuropaCorp reports The Wrap. Jones is not only writing, producing and directing the project, he's also starring. Jones will play a pioneer who, along with a frontier woman (Swank), … [Read more...]
Former attorney-general to oversee B.C.’s legal team at Enbridge hearings
September 6, 2012 by
The provincial government has hired a former attorney-general to lead B.C.s team at the Enbridge hearings. Premier Christy Clark has announced Geoff Plant's appointment at YVR, as he and the environment minister prepare to fly to Edmonton for the National Energy Board hearings. "He will be our chief legal strategist. He's going to making sure … [Read more...]
‘Gangsters’ with gun on SkyTrain turns out to be dodgeball team in dress-up
August 23, 2012 by
A bit of an embarrassing situation on the Canada Line this week for ten young men. Transit police say they got a call about a group of young men dressed as gangsters boarding at Yaletown Station Tuesday afternoon, with one man tucking a handgun into his pants. Officers stopped the train, boarded and demanded everyone to put their hands on their … [Read more...]
Waltz, Gilliam Team On “Zero Theorem”
August 15, 2012 by
Christoph Waltz is set to star in Terry Gilliam's next project "The Zero Theorem" reports Deadline. Pat Rushin penned the script set in an Orwellian corporate world run by a shadowy figure called 'Management'. Waltz plays an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst who works on a mysterious project aimed at … [Read more...]
Snowden, Stiles Team For “Ouija”
July 17, 2012 by
"Knowing" and "The Possession" scribes Juliet Snowden and Stiles White are set to rewrite and direct the "Ouija" movie at Universal Pictures and Platinum Dunes says Variety. Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz wrote the original drafts which envisioned this feature adaptation of the classic Hasbro boardgame as a big-budget tentpole. Now with Jason … [Read more...]
