TNA Wrestling stars Santino Marella and Allie were comin’ atcha Friday morning at the Anthem Sports & Entertainment breakfast at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. The pair added some punch to this Toronto International Film Festival tradition, the unofficial kickoff to TIFF. The breakfast, hosted for years by long-time brioux.tv sponsor Hollywood Suite, always
Some Tuesday TV news and notes: This morning started with a visit with my pals Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson of Humble & Fred fame. Every two months I talk to the lads only to find out they are watching more TV than me. Howard is big on the new Jason Bateman series DTF St.
TIFF’s annual unofficial launch party, the Hollywood Suite breakfast, took place Friday in Toronto. This year, the venue was changed from the Omni King Edward to the Fairmount Royal York Hotel. The verdict: more elbow room, as well as better bacon and eggs, inside the Royal York’s one time Gino Empry emporium, the Imperial Room.
Starting now, it will cost Canadians $23.99 to subscribe each month to Netflix’s premium service. That’s a three dollar increase, (their first in two years). The US-based media giant claims that this increase is needed, goes the release, “so that we can re-invest to further improve Netflix.” Plus CEO Ted Sarandos need a new hot
Hollywood Suite is offering a free month of its movie-centric stations this month. As a longtime subscriber to the channel, I can attest to its depth of catalogue, from genuine classics to, well, less-than classics. While there are just too many movies to recommend (or whatever the opposite of recommend is), there are a few
Some news about one of our sponsors here at brioux.tv: It was announced today that Toronto-based Hollywood Suite, which owns and operates four linear TV channels featuring hit movies from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000’s plus an accompanying On Demand offering, has been acquired by the global multi-platform media company Anthem Sport & Entertainment,
The 12th annual official kickoff of the Toronto International Film Festival — a.k.a. the Hollywood Suite TIFF Breakfast — saw another full house upstairs at the Omni King Eddie. Hollywood Suite president and co-founder David Kines welcomed the throng, pointing out that this is the first full-throttle post pandemic fest, judging by the number of
About two hours northeast of Toronto stands The Highlands Cinema, a hand made movie palace carved out of cedars and mosquitoes. Every summer for 40 years, families from neighbouring towns and villages in Ontario’s cottage country have braved bear cubs in the parking lot to see everything from “Barbie” to the latest “Despicable Me” flick.