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Film
Copperheart to adapt Dragonriders of Pern
Indie producer Copperheart Entertainment is to adapt Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern fantasy book series for the big screen, with Entertainment One to take key international territories, including Canada.
Wilkinson newest Samaritan
Tom Wilkinson has joined Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Kirby and Ruth Negga in the David Weaver-directed film The Samaritan. The film is currently shooting in Toronto before moving to Rio de Janiero in late April.
TIFF’s Producers Lab Toronto to return in September
The co-production forum, created by the European Film Promotion, and run in concert with the OMDC and TIFF, will bring Canadian and European film producers together to talk collaboration from September 7 to 10.
Rusted Pyre to bow at Worldwide Short Film Festival
Daniel Audet’s screenplay was chosen from more than 4,100 submissions to the WSFF.
Gov’t and Langlois save Cinema Parallele and Ex-Centris
More than two years after software mogul Daniel Langlois shocked this city’s cinephiles by shutting down his rep cinema Ex-Centris, two levels of government and the software mogul’s own foundation have reached a deal to save the complex, which houses the venerated Cinema Parallele and two other theaters.
Nordin cast for Ecstasy
The $5 million dark romantic comedy is based on the controversial book Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, by Welsh.
Telefilm pours coin into Mike Clattenburg and Michael Melski films
The Guys Who Move Furniture and Charlie Zone get the green light from the funding body.
NFB/White Pines Prosecutor pulls in world sales at MIP
American documentary distributor Icarus Films has acquired the US rights for Prosecutor, a portrait of the International Criminal Court prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo from White Pine Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada.
Starz and MME behind Oz adaptation in S3D
Canadian indie producer Multiple Media Entertainment has pacted with Starz Animation Toronto and Gigapix Studios on the Canadian stereoscopic CG animated feature based on the Frank Baum classic book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Gary Burns retrospective to screen in Buenos Aires
Telefilm announced Monday that the International Festival of Independent Cinema of Buenos Aires (BAFICI) will feature Calgary film writer and director Gary Burns in a retrospective.
Mann’s filmswelike picks up four feature docs for distribution
The deals include all rights in Canada for Bill Cunningham New York, Blank City, The Last Mountain and Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.
Ana Valine lands $120,000 feature film award
The prize will go to supporting Valine as she completes her feature directorial debut, Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, an adaptation of the Billie Livingston novella, The Trouble With Marlene.
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