Montreal: Talented American actress Sean Young plays an attractive, young widow whose search for revenge heals a terrible loss in the Adelson Entertainment (Kori Productions) mow Everything to Gain, shooting here Jan. 28 to Feb. 24.

The shoot is being directed by Michael Miller and is one in a series of upcoming cbs telefilms based on the writings of Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Shooting on ‘a typical mow budget,’ co-executive producers are Tracey Alexander, Andrew Adelson and Robert Bradford.

Alexander says l.a.-based Adelson is back in town because of the ‘great experience on Hiroshima, which we coproduced with Telescene Communications. The crews are terrific, and architecturally speaking, Montreal can double for so many places. Montreal film people are so creative.’

Young is joined by Jack Scalia in the role of a detective who comes to the widow’s rescue, Anne Ramsey, who plays the widow’s best friend, and Charles Shaughnessy.

Selected craft credits go to cinematographer Pierre Mignot (Pret a Porter), production designer Anne Pritchard (Descending Angel), pm Manon Bougie, ace Toronto editor Gordon McLellan (Love and Hate, Road to Avonlea) and line producer Paul Pompian.

R-C kids hit the net

Radio-Canada’s youth programming service has launched an Internet site designed for kids eight to 12 looking to cruise in cyberspace.

Michel Lavoie, the service’s director, says the new net site (//www.src-mtl.com/tvjeunesse) is meant to help francophone kids get in touch with the technology of the 21st century and to act as an exchange forum between young viewers and the creators of their fave shows.

For the moment, full pages on shows 0340 and Betes pas betes offer voice-mail commentary, mini-polls on kids’ issues and profiles of on-screen talent. Lavoie says additional pages will be ready soon on other shows, including Bouledogue, Sur la piste, Parcelles de soleil, L’infernale Machine du Dr. V and La Rimambelle et Manigances.

The site was developed by Radio-Canada in association with NeoMedia.

Max the Cat d’es CBC

Originated with watercolor illustrations, and digitized, assembled and produced (Photo-Shop and AfterEffects) on a Mac pc, Max the Cat is Productions sda’s first English-track tv series.

Based on a limited book series by Canadian author Adam Whitmore, Max is a lovable orange-coated cat who travels the world in search of his lost tail. ‘Max sees the world the way a six- or seven-year-old child would. He’s curious and open,’ says series producer Madeleine Levesque.

At the heart of this distinctive series is Max’s first-person narrative. Levesque says the slow animatic-style pacing and storytelling make kids pay attention.

Oscar winner Jon Minnis is the series’ director. David Preston, Bob Stutt and Jill Gollick are the writers, and Aidan Devine (Net Worth) and Marc Labreche are the narrators.

Max the Cat is broadcast at the top of cbc’s preschool morning block and on Canal Famille, the French-track kiddies channel. The first order is 26 five-minute episodes, with hopes for more in the future.

Mediamax International is the exporter.

Levesque is also developing a live-action children’s media literacy series called Channel 99 and a second pc-based kids’ project.

Drive wraps (on time & on budget)

Industry Entertainment producers John Hamilton and David Reckziegel have completed principal photography on time and on budget on their second feature film, The Drive, a riveting psychological drama from first-time helmer Romy Goulem.

Billed as a rough-edged, dark and explosive character piece, The Drive tells the story of three suburban teens car-jacked by a deranged ex-con. The film is based on an original stage play from 21-year-old Toronto playwright Adam Barken.

The promising cast includes Danny Brochu, t.o. actor Fab Filippo, Al Goulem in the role of the car-jacker, and Winnipeg-raised now Montreal-based actress Jayne Patterson.

The film was shot over two weeks on location around the seedy Rue St. Jacques strip in the city’s west end and at Studio St. Martin.

Craft credits go to dop Mitchell Ness, veteran production designer John Meighen (Sirens) and editor Heidi Haines, who’s working out of Buzz Image Group.

Hamilton, cowriter and director of the 1994 sex comedy The Myth of the Male Orgasm, coproduced by Robin Spry, says the film is privately financed for just under $500,000. As for distribution, he says, ‘We are currently planning to do it ourselves.’

The Drive crew got decent co-operation from the stcvq, however, dealing with actra was more problematic, according to the ambitious, young producers. They say the craft guilds ‘are going to have to ease upŠand develop a clear tier system’ based on a production’s budget.

Hamilton and Reckziegel are prepping their next feature, The Girl Next Door, a black comedy which Hamilton will direct this summer.