Don Carmody will produce Mike Dowse’s next film, Goon, a comedy set in the rough ‘n’ ready world of semi-pro hockey.

Dowse, whose It’s All Gone Pete Tong was a TIFF sensation in 2004, is directing a script by actor-writer Jay Baruchel, himself the star of The Trotsky at this year’s festival, and Evan Goldberg, the screenwriting dynamo behind Da Ali G Show, Superbad, Pineapple Express and the upcoming Seth Rogen vehicle The Green Hornet.

Carmody is also setting up a horror title with Quebecois videographer Jérémie Saindon entitled Hit Girl. Andre Rouleau of Montreal-based Caramel Films will produce alongside Carmody. Carmody paired with Rouleau on Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique and the upcoming thriller Die, now in post.

As for Carmody’s bread-and-butter, the veteran producer has two sequels in the works. Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth film in the franchise, is going forward with Paul W. S. Anderson back at the helm and 3D on the screen.

Then comes Silent Hill 2, with Roger Avary, who wrote the first film, acting as both screenwriter and director. Metropolitan Films of France is coproducing with chief Sami Hadida as producer alongside Carmody. The film shoots in January.