Vancouver: Minds Eye Pictures of Regina has found itself a busy new friend in l.a.-based Buffalo Films. After co-executive producing and line producing the low-budget action feature Decoy starring Peter Weller (Robocop, Naked Lunch) and Robert Patrick (Terminator II), which shot in Saskatchewan earlier this fall, the two companies have decided to produce six more pictures in the action/adventure/sci-fi genre.

Decoy, a contemporary industrial espionage thriller, is now posting in l.a. after being cut in Saskatchewan by Vancouver editor Frank Irvine.

Kevin DeWalt, president of Minds Eye, has been shuttling back and forth to l.a. talking with distributors while partner Rob King minds the shop back in Saskatchewan.

The next film (as yet untitled) under this new partnership is slated for production in Saskatchewan early in ’95.

Something funny’s

going on

Producers Glynis Whiting and Tom Dent-Cox of Edmonton-based WDC Entertainment are discovering a wealth of new comic talent on the Prairies as they cast for the pilot episode of their proposed new sitcom, Nobody’s Business.

Set in a rundown storage warehouse, the series revolves around an eccentric cast of rebels, immigrants and misfits who eke out an existence, relying on ingenuity and friendships to survive.

Nobody’s Business has been in development for the last two years, with financial support from WIC Western International Communications, Maclean Hunter, Telefilm Canada and the Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation. It goes into production in March 1995 after being workshopped on the stage in Edmonton in December.

Also in development with wdc is the television feature No Immediate Danger. Written by Nanaimo, b.c. journalist/author Kim Goldberg based on her book Submarine Dead Ahead, the script is a thriller about a potential nuclear disaster at the Canadian naval base in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island where 70% of the activity involves American submarines, many with nuclear capability.

On ice

Producer Geoff Le Boutillier of Tohaventa Holdings, through Montreal distributor Multimedia, had such success with his recent tv production A Midsummer Night’s Ice Dream at mipcom, he and partner/producer Michael Sulima have three more ice skating dramas in the works: Three Musketeers on Ice, which received the most interest from potential French coproduction partners; Vampyre, described by Le Boutillier as a sort of Rocky Horror Picture Show on ice; and The Samurai’s Daughter, starring former u.s. Olympic Gold Medal figure skater Kristie Yamaguchi and current world figure skating women’s champion Yuka Sato.

A Midsummer Night’s Ice Dream airs for the first time across Canada on CanWest Global stations and Radio-Canada on Dec. 16.

And for a change of pace and the chance to get off the ice once in a while, Le Boutillier is also in development with wic on an innovative one-hour interactive comedy detective series entitled Murder 900, which utilizes interactive technology and 1-900 telephone lines.