Chop Suey woks off into the sunset

One of Quebec’s most successful ever tv series, the Tele-Metropole-produced teleroman Chop Suey, ended an eight-year run with a final broadcast on Dec. 8.

The show ranked among the top 10 programs on Quebec tv throughout its career, with average audiences of 1.3 million in its final season on the TVA Network.

During its run, Chop Suey fans saw the real life evolution of the show’s three female leads – Marie-Soleil Tougas, Anne Bedard and Valerie Gagne – from teenagers to adults. The series was written by Christian Fournier and also starred Michel Daigle, Isabelle Miquelon, Pascal Auclair and Marcel Leboeuf.

Max awaits Oscar

It’s countdown time for Montreal’s Verseau International, producer of Mon Amie Max, the Canadian nominee in the best foreign film category in the runoff to the 1995 Oscar Awards: the u.s. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will name five finalists early in the new year.

Directed by Michel Brault and based on a screenplay by Jefferson Lewis, the film stars Genevieve Bujold and Marthe Keller.