Willis stays on

Toronto – Bruce Willis is staying in Canada for another month or two to shoot the crime drama Solace for New Line Cinema, which gets underway next month at Toronto’s Cinespace, three blocks from where he just shot 16 Blocks. Willis stars as a doctor with psychic powers who helps cops track down a serial killer, and is working under director Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth, The Four Feathers). Earlier this year, Willis also shot Lucky Number Slevin in Montreal. The $US40 million Solace is set to wrap Oct 22. Producers include Matthias Emcke, Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson. Sean Davidson

Fade Out resumes

Halifax – Principal photography on writer/director Michael Christofer’s U.S. thriller Fade Out got going in Halifax May 15. Production on the feature was halted last June when then-leading lady Kate Beckinsale dropped out. Milla Jovovich has stepped in and stars with Billy Bob Thornton and Dylan McDermott.

Thornton plays a screenwriter with a history of mental illness who begins to confuse reality with his scripts after his wife disappears.

The Greene Street Films/Mobius Pictures film is produced by Geyer Kosinski, John Penotti and Fisher Stevens, with David Bergstein executive producing. Laura Bracken

Beach Girls for Lifetime

Halifax – Rob Lowe and Julia Ormond (Sabrina) star in Beach Girls, a Lifetime miniseries shooting from May 16 to July 21 in various Nova Scotia locations including Duncan’s Cove, Ketch Harbour and Chester.

The six-part mini will air Sunday nights at 8 p.m., with the premiere scheduled for July 31.

In the drama, three teenage girls take a vow of eternal friendship during the summer of 1985 in the fictional beachside community of Hubbard’s Point. It is not until years later that two of the now grown-up ‘beach girls’ meet and begin to deal with the untimely death of the third, who was killed in a car accident when they were young. Robert Greenwald and Alys Shanti are executive producers. Laura Bracken