• He can fix everything else, why not the publishing business? Mike Holmes has a new media outlet and, on Monday, will launch his own magazine. Holmes: The Magazine to Make it Right is ‘the magazine I was searching for and couldn’t find,’ says the home reno superhero, author and host of both HGTV’s Holmes on Homes and Holmes Inspection. The magazine comes from Dauphin Media Group, which also publishes Canadian Architecture & Design Magazine. It will print six issues per year, focusing on home renovation and environmental tips, and profiles of Canadian tradespeople.

• The Twilight franchise is said to be leaving Canada, according to an unguarded remark by star Robert Pattinson and a report in The Globe and Mail. Pattinson told mtv.com that the fourth film in the saga, Breaking Dawn, will ditch B.C. in favor of Portland, Oregon, a blow to the service industry and teen girls alike that was echoed by an unnamed source in the Globe.

• Michael Mosca of Equinoxe Films and South Africa’s Andre Pieterse have Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) lined up to star in Winnie, a drama about the controversial ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, according to Variety. The picture is set to shoot next spring in South Africa, directed by Darrell J. Roodt (Cry, the Beloved Country), produced by Mosca and Pieterse.

• Lisa Reis has joined marblemedia as its director of brand integration, heading up a product placement effort at the Toronto company.

• Cookie Jar has opened an office in South Korea, and named C.J. Lee as its VP of distribution. Lee will handle TV sales and licensing in the territory, reporting to Asia/Pacific chief Hideki Kunugiyama.

• Richard Fung, John Greyson and Ali Kazimi have $2,500 to spend on their next project, having won the best Canadian film prize at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival for Rex vs. Singh. The jury praised the film for its ‘artful mining of archival material’ and ‘inspired multi-POV structure.’ Japan’s Yoshihiro Nakamura won the audience award for Fish Story, while $1,000 and the best narrative feature award went to Uruphong Raksasad’s Agrarian Utopia.