Oscar-winning actor Sandra Bullock and her celebrity biker husband Jesse James are divorced.

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Disney Consumer Products (DCP) reports that their fall line-up of TRON: Legacy inspired electronics and toys, will include action figures, featuring ‘impulse light’ projection technology, high-end lifestyle headphones, advanced computer peripherals for gaming enthusiasts, illuminated iPod docks, high-quality ear buds, iPhone cases and break-through ‘zero-gravity’ vehicles that travel up and down walls (?!)

Walt Disney PictureÂ’s Vancouver-lensed TRON: Legacy, starring Academy Award winning actor Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde, “…will take audiences on a thrilling action-packed adventure in a unique virtual world”, in theaters Dec. 17, 2010 in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D.

“…Featuring dark finishes, neon lighting and a cyber aesthetic, DCPÂ’s new ‘TRON: Legacy’ line will immerse kids and adults alike into the amazing, illuminated cyber world of ‘TRON’, developed in collaboration with leading industry innovators including Spinmaster, Monster, Performance Designed Products (PDP) and Razer…”

“TRON: Legacy is a cutting-edge film with a unique futuristic feel,” said Chris Heatherly, VP of toys and electronics, Disney Consumer Products.

“This is not a typical movie line…we wanted to create products with new technology and high-end design that live up to what you will see on screen. WeÂ’re working exclusively with trailblazers who normally do not do movie merchandise, but they believed so passionately in TRON that they jumped at the chance to help us make great products.”

The new TRON: Legacy action figures feature impulse projection technology, bringing characters to life by projecting digitized, illuminated and moving faces onto the helmet just as in the film. The line features 7.5” figures and a special 12” Ultimate ‘Sam Flynn’ figure. The characters also speak phrases from the film.

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Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival running July 8-28, revealed its 2010 programming Tuesday, June 29th @ the Cinémathèque québécoise, 335, de Maisonneuve blvd. East.

Details of this yearÂ’s sci fi/fantasy/horror film screenings, special guests and special activities were announced with some members of the jury and the team of programmers present.

“…With a varied programming and an emphasis on the imaginative cinema of Asia, Europe and the Americas, FantasiaÂ’s offerings range from unique and powerful personal visions to international commercial crowd-pleasers rarely seen in North America. Our 2010 lineup of over 120 feature films and several hundred shorts will include extraordinary new works from living legends of World Cinema and brilliant emerging talents from a wealth of countries…”

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Take a look at the teaser trailer supporting Summit Entertainment’s Toronto-lensed comic book adaptation Red, starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich.

Red is an adaptation of DC Comics graphic novel of the same title by author Warren Ellis.

Cast of the film also includes Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Ernest Borgnine, Julian McMahon, James Remar and Rebecca Pidgeon.

“…Red is the story of ‘Frank Moses’ (Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, who is now living a quiet life. That is, until the day a hi-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his identity compromised and the life of the woman he cares for, Sarah (Parker), endangered, Frank reassembles his old team (Freeman, Malkovich and Mirren) in a last ditch effort to survive…”

Directed by Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler’s Wife) from a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber (Whiteout), the film is produced by di Bonaventura Pictures’ Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). Executive producers are Jake Myers (Hollywoodland) and Gregory Noveck (Jonah Hex). Di Bonaventura Pictures’ production exec David Ready is co-producer.

Red reunites Schwentke with DP Florian Ballhaus (Marley & Me) and Oscar-winning film editor Thom Noble (Thelma & Louise).

Red is scheduled for a worldwide release, October 22, 2010.

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Take a look at the new artwork supporting the Canadian documentary feature Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Brigitte Berman.

“…There’s no arguing that few magazines have had as great an impact on American culture as ‘Playboy’, which helped launch several major salvos in the sexual revolution and broke down barriers about what was acceptable to show and say in print.

“But while the magazine’s founder and publisher Hugh Hefner has a well deserved reputation as a free speech advocate and a man who embraces the good life in every way he can, the person behind the carefully cultivated public image remains a mystery to many.

“Filmmaker Brigitte Berman presents an in-depth portrait of a man who has quietly promoted many causes other than wine, women and song in the documentary ‘Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel’. In addition to chronicling the rise of his publishing empire, the film explores how he’s used his success to promote causes he believes in, such as racial equality, reproductive freedom, First Amendment causes, fighting the anti-Communist blacklist and equality for women.

Created with Hefner’s participation and featuring interviews with Mike Wallace, Jesse Jackson, George Lucas, Jim Brown, Pete Seeger, Dick Gregory and James Caan, Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel was an official selection at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival…”

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Toronto-based singer/songwriter Gary ‘Geddy’ Lee, leader of the Canadian rock band “Rush” has optioned, as a producer, the film/TV rights to musician/author Dave Bidini’s non-fiction 2005 novel Baseballissimo: My Summer In The Italian Minor Leagues.

“…In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced by the American GIs who liberated the region. Bidini wanted to spend time in a town where everyone is as nuts about the game as he is, and in Nettuno, they love the game so much that they hand out baseball gloves and bats to children taking their first communion.

“For six months Bidini followed the fortunes of the ‘Serie B Peones’, Nettunese to the core. At the same time he was also learning about his own heritage, having spent his youth vigorously ignoring his Italianness. The result of his summer in Italy is vintage Bidini: a funny, perceptive, and engrossing book that takes readers far beyond the professional sport to the game that people around the world love to play…”

“Ged was one of the first people to really get behind the book, which was a thrill for me, obviously,” said Bidini.

“It’s early days yet, but I think he’s a natural producer. And really, once you’ve helped run one of the greatest and most respected rock and roll bands of all time, the film biz has got nothing on you, I figure.”

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Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort’s immortality and destruction — the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear them apart. Meanwhile, the wizarding world has become a dangerous place for all enemies of the Dark Lord. The long-feared war has begun and Voldemort’s Death Eaters seize control of the Ministry of Magic and even Hogwarts, terrorizing and arresting anyone who might oppose them. But the one prize they still seek is the one most valuable to Voldemort: Harry Potter. The Chosen One has become the hunted one as the Death Eaters search for Harry with orders to bring him to Voldemort…alive. Harry’s only hope is to find the Horcruxes before Voldemort finds him. But as he searches for clues, he uncovers an old and almost forgotten tale — the legend of the Deathly Hallows. And if the legend turns out to be true, it could give Voldemort the ultimate power he seeks. Little does Harry know that his future has already been decided by his past when, on that fateful day, he became “the Boy Who Lived.” No longer just a boy, Harry Potter is drawing ever closer to the task for which he has been preparing since the day he first stepped into Hogwarts: the ultimate battle with Voldemort.

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The Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro franchise continues with this third outing of their film series. Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner co-star, with Paul Weitz stepping in to handle directing duties from Jay Roach, who directed both MEET THE PARENTS and MEET THE FOCKERS.

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