What’s new in Canadian Entertainment

The Toronto International Film Festival has finalized its competitive awards and jury lineups ahead of the festival’s Sept. 10 opening, with Canadian filmmakers Deepa Mehta, Hubert Davis, Zarrar Kahn and Sophy Romvari among those who will help select this year’s winners.

Thirty years after The Edmonton Queen first reached the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Darrin Hagen’s writing debut is returning in another form.

Toronto writer, poet and editor Terese Mason Pierre has been given one of Worldcon’s featured platforms this week, and she has already said what she wants to do with it.

Tim Curry was eating lunch in Vancouver’s Stanley Park on June 27, 1990, still in full Pennywise makeup, when journalist Steve Newton sat down to interview him. Curry was in Vancouver filming the television adaptation of Stephen King’s It, and when Newton asked how he approached Pennywise, Curry offered a description that has held up remarkably well: “I think of him all the time as a smile gone bad.”

Canadian actor Sophie Nélisse has been named the newest brand ambassador for Birks, joining the Canadian jewellery company as she moves through a busy stretch of television work.

Peter Cullen, the Montreal-born actor whose voice became inseparable from Optimus Prime over more than four decades, has died at 85.

Eric McCormack is asking Canadians to spend the final days of August getting out for a ride — however they choose to do it.

Michael J. Fox stepped back in front of a television camera this year after retiring from acting in 2020.

Canadian actor Katheryn Winnick was awakened by air-raid sirens during her latest visit to Kyiv, sending her into a shelter during an overnight Russian attack.

The free Sept. 18–19 arts and music festival includes a downtown parade with a 16-foot elephant puppet on the centennial date of Charlie Ed’s renaming.

Quebec audiovisual technicians represented by AQTIS 514 IATSE have ratified the union’s first term agreement with Netflix, creating a four-year framework for productions the streaming company shoots in the province.

Vancouver-born actor, writer and producer Seth Rogen will receive one of the Toronto International Film Festival’s major Canadian career honours next month, during a festival where he will also appear in two films and take part in a separate industry event.

The Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival heads into its final weekend with more than 200 productions on its 2026 program, including Canadian shows built around spoken-word poetry, artificial intelligence and a long-running theatrical version of God in a floral suit.

FAN EXPO Canada is preparing to bring an estimated 135,000 fans to downtown Toronto for four days of comics, cosplay, gaming, anime, science fiction and other pop culture.

The Banff International String Quartet Festival is expanding the traditional four-player chamber ensemble this September, pairing string music with dance, accordion, larger ensembles and orchestral arrangements.

Kelowna-born Taylor Kitsch is returning as Ben Edwards in the first teaser for Season 2 of Prime Video’s The Terminal List — although the series is not undoing his character’s death.

The Crave Original uses Alberta’s Kananaskis mountains to stand in for Montana and puts Canadian talent on both sides of the camera.

Prime Video is heading back to Muskoka.

The streamer has renewed Sterling Point for a second season, just 15 days after the Canadian-set drama made its debut Aug. 5.

Pamela Anderson will add another international honour to a resurgent stretch in her career when the B.C.-born actor receives amfAR’s Award of Courage during the Venice Film Festival next month.

The actor and producer will discuss two TIFF films, including an animated adaptation of a Vancouver cartoonist’s acclaimed graphic memoir.

Canadian country singer Robyn Ottolini has released her debut album, A Safe Place to Land, six years after “F-150” turned the Uxbridge, Ont., songwriter into a breakout country artist.

Ten years after The Tragically Hip crossed Canada on a tour that became a national goodbye, the music from those final weeks is being heard again.

The Canadian-made Heated Rivalry phenomenon is getting another new Shane Hollander — this time on the Off-Broadway stage.

Ballet Kelowna dancer Kurt Werner will take his final bow next spring after 15 years with the company, closing a 2026–27 season that will also bring A Streetcar Named Desire back to the Kelowna Community Theatre.

Carly Rae Jepsen is returning to Broadway, this time as a songwriter.

Shania Twain is looking back to northern Ontario and the years before stadium tours, Diamond albums and international fame in a new cover story released Monday by ELLE Canada.

Two Canadian actors were at the centre of some of the biggest Star Wars news coming out of Disney’s D23 fan event, with Ryan Gosling revealing new details about his first trip to the galaxy far, far away and Hayden Christensen returning as Anakin Skywalker.

Films featuring Alan Cumming, Dylan Mulvaney, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Matthew Morrison are among 87 titles headed to Vancouver this September for the 38th Vancouver Queer Film Festival.