Vancouver: Gavin Wilding, producer of titillating fare such as Listen and Stag, is taking his brand of sexy feature upscale with Show & Tell, starring Wendy Crewson (The Sixth Day) and directed by Anne Wheeler. The feature, called a sexy comedy (read lots of naked shots of Ms. Crewson), is about a conflicted, yet successful, novelist who meets a ‘geeky boy-genius’ who takes her on a Something Wild-like ride.

B.C. Film, Telefilm Canada, Wilding’s company White Rock Film International, TMN-The Movie Network and Superchannel have invested. Remstar Distribution will handle sales in Canada.

*Silver screen

Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment are behind the snowboarding movie Out Cold (aka Ten to One) about an out-of-the-way Alaska Mountain purchased by a Colorado ski mogul. While it marks the return of Lee Majors (Six Million Dollar Man), the film stars Jason London (Dazed and Confused), Willie Garson (Play it to the Bone) and Playmate of the Year 1997 Victoria Silvstedt. The production wraps Feb. 2.

The Untold, meanwhile, is a Canadian independent feature and the first for Vancouver-based Wilderness Productions. Called a thriller, the feature marks the latest visit to Vancouver for actor Lance Henriksen (Millennium, Alien).

He was last in town to do the Canadian indie feature The Invitation for producer Matt Huson, who also acts as a producer on The Untold. Jonas Quastel is making his debut directorial effort with the feature that wrapped its Langley location shoot Dec. 2.

*More Shavick news

Shavick Entertainment, with one E! Entertainment mow in Toronto, is doing a second in Vancouver. Romantic Comedy 101 stars Tom Arnold as a hack tv movie director who gives young filmmakers a crash course on how to shoot a romantic comedy – a film within a film kind of thing. Jeremy London (Party of Five) costars in the production that wrapped Dec. 7.

Shavick is also involved in a new Fox Family series – picking up where The New Addams Family left off. Los Luchadores, starring newcomer Maximo Marrone, is about wrestlers (in that masked Mexican tradition) who fight evil in Union City. The 13 half-hours shoot until Feb. 11.

*More Lions Gate

Lions Gate Television, a division of Vancouver’s Lions Gate Entertainment, has announced its slate of programs in development for Showtime, USA Network, pax tv and syndication. Also, the company has announced its slate of feature films.

* Jeremiah is a two-hour backdoor pilot based on a futuristic European comic book in which a society of children tries to rebuild the world after a virus wipes out anyone over the age of 12. The pilot will be produced in association with Paramount International Television.

* Ms. Tree is a one-hour action series based on a comic book featuring a woman detective. It will be produced for usa.

* Making a Killing, a one-hour mystery series for pax, is about a women’s investment club that turns to sleuthing.

* Writer Sara Davidson (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) has the go-ahead for an untitled medical drama about a high-powered surgeon who turns to alternative medicine when it saves his life.

* Who Wants to Date a Hooters Girl? was covered in the last B.C. Scene.

Under Lions Gate’s Avalanche banner, three features are in the works.

* Underground Inferno is about a firefighter who rescues a group of hostages when bank robbers set a small town on fire.

* The Void is about a ruthless ceo who holds a whistle-blower captive when she tries to stop an experiment that may create a black hole on Earth.

* In Cabin Pressure, a female pilot has to avert disaster after a hacker takes control of the navigation system.

Meanwhile, Lions Gate is in production in Berlin and Greece with The Cat’s Meow, starring Kirsten Dunst, Jennifer Tilly, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann and Cary Elwes, with Peter Bogdanovich in the director’s chair.

Called by the company a ‘prestigious fourth-quarter release for next year and ‘a strong awards contender,’ Meow is a 1920s story about the scandal-ridden events surrounding the celebrity party aboard media baron William Randolph Hearst’s yacht when Hollywood mogul Thomas Ince was killed by a bullet perhaps intended for someone else.

*Hysteria and hers

Hostage Negotiator, an mow by Vancouver service producer Legacy Filmworks for USA Network, stars Gail O’Grady (Tricks), Michael Bowen (How to Marry a Billionaire), Brian Bloom (American Virgin) and Don S. Davis (Stargate SG-1). It’s a story about an fbi couple suffering through a terrible divorce: he goes nuts and takes a department store hostage and she gets to negotiate a resolution. Production wrapped Dec. 9.

*Rumors and intrigue

Look for the resurrection of Beachcombers as a series next year, says IATSE Local 669’s rumor watch – which is pretty accurate as a production prognosticator.

Likewise, the b.c. production community should watch for feature films Crossing in January, Omega Force in Victoria in the spring and The Wild McLeans, also in the spring.

Two miniseries – Johnson Country War and nbc’s Terrible Hours – are also scouting Vancouver for winter start dates. Walking Shadow may be an hdtv mow for Dogwood Pictures and abc is mulling a spring start for the series Eraser. *