Toronto: Service house Front and Centre Productions had a busy month in June, wrapping the MOW Say When at Toronto’s Cinespace Film Studios while dividing its time between Toronto and Hamilton for the 20-day shoot of Riding the Bus with My Sister, an MOW for Hallmark and CBS directed by Anjelica Huston. The pic (aka Slow Ride) stars Andie MacDowell and Rosie O’Donnell as two sisters – one a frazzled career woman, the other mentally challenged – who are reunited after their father dies. The show will air sometime in ’04/05 after editing in L.A. Sherri Saito (Blessings, Aurora Borealis) produces for Front and Centre, under exec producer O’Donnell.

This is Huston’s third time at the helm – after Bastard out of Carolina and Agnes Browne – and her third outing with DOP Tony Richmond. Locals in the 50-plus supporting cast include Roberta Maxwell (Scar Tissue), Jayne Eastwood (Chicago) and D.W. Moffett (Stealing Beauty). Anne Dixon (Saint Ralph) was costume designer, Karen Bromley (111 Gramercy Park) was production designer.

Production required a lot of shooting on a large bus rig and favored Hamilton partly because of its many wide, one-way streets, says Saito. ‘It’s all about the bus,’ she says.

Say When, a Christmas movie for CBS, stars Joe Mantegna, Jean Smart (Designing Women) and Charles Durning, with locals Kari Matchett (Blue Murder) and Rosemary Dunsmore (Dreamcatcher). Thomas McLoughlin directs, with Rodney Charters (24) as DOP.