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Denis Seguin
First-timer to play Slamdance
Simon Ennis’ feature directorial debut You Might as Well Live will have its world premiere in competition…
Lee helms Carnivore
CBC Radio host and former MuchMusic VJ Sook-Yin Lee has embarked on her directorial debut…
Equinoxe re-teams with Kigali author
Léa Pool is behind the camera on the first-ever Canada/Luxembourg coproduction, Une belle mort…
Gross, Fichman go with Gunless
The hyphenate hero of the number one Canadian movie and its producer are teaming up again…
The Big Screen: Saw V helmer Hackl on the cutting edge
In a horror franchise, the production designer is arguably more important than a director or even the screenwriters.
Mehta, Rushdie team up
Director Deepa Mehta and British author Salman Rushdie will collaborate on an adaptation of Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children. Mehta’s longtime producing partner David Hamilton says the duo will start working on the script in March, with an April deadline, adding that he is in discussions with two studios, both of which have expressed interest.
Capri sinks teeth into Suck
Phil the Alien director/writer/star Rob Stefaniuk begins principal photography in Toronto on Nov. 24 on his sophomore feature Suck, a rock ‘n’ roll vampire comedy from Capri Films.
The Big Screen: Telefilm looks for a clean slate
Within two weeks of its release, Passchendaele passed the $2-million mark at the domestic box office. The flashing smiles at Telefilm Canada can be seen for miles. Meanwhile, Whizbang Films, the shingle of Paul Gross, the man behind that film, is the latest Canadian production company to be approved for Telefilm’s CFFF Slate Development Pilot Program.
Frankie goes to Vancouver
Academy Award winner Halle Berry has begun principal photography in Vancouver on the $20-million psychological thriller Frankie and Alice. Directed by White Noise helmer Geoffrey Sax, the film is produced by Berry alongside her longtime manager Vincent Cirrincione and Hassain Zaidi of Toronto-based Access Motion Pictures. Simon DeKaric is also producing.
Stefaniuk sinks teeth into Suck
Malcolm McDowell, Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop among names attached to vampire comedy set to shoot for Capri Films
Deepa Mehta, Salman Rushdie making Children
Director plans to adapt acclaimed novel Midnight’s Children, collaborating with British author. Shooting likely to follow Kamagata Maru project, says producer David Hamilton
Maximum joins Animal Kingdom
Prebuys international sales and Canadian releasing rights for Guy Pearce thriller
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