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Denis Seguin
Transmission buys Nadda’s Cairo Time
Maximum Films closes deal with Aussie company at opening of American Film Market
Lightbox fundraising put on hold
Toronto festival brings in consultants as efforts to pay for new home hit a plateau. ‘Oxygen gets rarer the closer you get to the summit,’ says Handling
Telefilm expands financing for francophones
Feds put in another $1.2 million for filmmakers outside Quebec
Halle Berry starts work on Frankie and Alice
Psychological thriller from upstart Access Motion Pictures goes to camera in Vancouver, pairing A-lister with White Noise director Geoffrey Sax
Delphis picks up Dutch adventure
Montreal sales shop takes international rights for recent hit The Letter for the King
Sinking loonie raises service sector hopes
Remember the good old days of 2002/03, when the loonie sat safely at 63 cents American, when The Aviator was circling Montreal, Cat Woman was stalking Vancouver and Chicago was in T.O.? The U.K.’s Pinewood Shepperton was even going to build a giant film studio on Toronto’s portlands.
More Porno for Shapiro
Toronto filmmaker Jody Shapiro has signed on to co-direct eight new Green Porno titles for U.S. broadcaster Sundance Channel. Written and conceived by Isabella Rossellini and commissioned by Sundance Channel, the original series featured the actress re-enacting the mating rituals of various garden fauna, including the snail and the earthworm. The new series will see Rossellini venture into the sea alongside new playmates: the shrimp, squid, anchovy, barnacle, limpet, starfish, elephant seal, angler fish and right whale.
Porno no problem in Canada
The cheeky poster for Kevin Smith’s latest raised a ruckus across the U.S. — but north of the border, no one has batted an eye. ‘We liked it a lot,’ says Alliance
Sinking loonie raises hopes
Under-worked service sector looks for a change of luck as Canadian dollar sinks against the greenback. Service clients calling again at Brightlight, says Williamson
Shapiro signs on for Green Porno reprise
Canadian filmmaker to co-direct eight shorts for Sundance Channel, again with Isabella Rossellini
Canuck group joins Blindness protest
Canadian Federation of the Blind to picket screening in Victoria, calling McKellar’s latest ‘outrageous and offensive.’ U.S. group targets 80 cities
Vallée setting Shoe Business with Walton
C.R.A.Z.Y. director Jean-Marc Vallée is putting the finishing touches on his next project, a disco-era comedy drama about two competing salesmen with an eye for what women want – at least on their feet. Vallée is co-writing the screenplay with Ginger Snaps screenwriter Karen Walton.
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