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Film actress Trish Rainone, who is from Sault Ste. Marie, will appear in a leading role in a new women’s prison sitcom, Pink is In, to be aired on Bell Fibe TV1. Rainone joins a cast of “fabulous and funny” characters all of whom have either television or film credits: • Elley-Ray Hennessy (My Little Pony) plays prison Warden Morgan Dungworth. • Veteran Canadian actress Margaret Lamarre plays Ol’ Granny BJ, a former matinee film idol. • Jon Welch (No Easy Days) plays handsome prison guard Jigz Festerson. • Eileen Li (Jack Ryan) plays an escaped convict on the run. • Trish Rainone (My Roommate Is An Escort) appears as the inmate known as Top Dog.
Alexa N. Careccia as Emily
Laura Post as Eva
Plot concept: Created by celebrated anime master Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), ‘Memories’ consists of three dazzling stories, each delivered with its own astonishing style.
Magnetic Rose: Based on a manga short by Otomo, two space travelers following a distress signal are drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman’s memories. (Directed by Koji Morimoto)
Stink Bomb: A young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. (Directed by Tensai Okamura)
Cannon Fodder: A day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy. (Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo)
The Magnetic Rose story has not had its cast revealed yet.
The Blu-ray release from Discotek is undated at the moment but will be done in 1080p and will be getting a new translation done for the subtitles. The release will come with a few extras, including a ‘Making of Memories’ Featurette, the pilot films for Magnetic Rose, Stink Bomb, and Cannon Fodder and Interviews with Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto and Tensai Okamura that we’ve seen before. It also looks like we’ll be getting an animated storyboard sequence for the Cannon Fodder piece along with translation and liner notes.