Film

Selma Blair-starrer begins shooting in Vancouver

Psychological thriller Replicas has kicked off production in Vancouver.

Toronto film critics honor Social Network

The Toronto Film Critics Association have followed the lead of their counterparts in Los Angeles, New York and Boston by naming The Social Network as its best picture of the year.

Jo Pour Jonathan wins Thessaloniki fest award

The Greek city of Thessaloniki gave its Cinema and the City Award to Montreal director Maxime Giroux for his latest feature, Jo Pour Jonathan, which unspooled at the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

Last Train Home takes L.A. Film Critics’ best doc honor

EyeSteelFilm’s Last Train Home was named best documentary/non-fiction film at the 36th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.

Your picks for the top ten Canadian films of the Decade

We asked you to name your picks for top Canadian films of the last decade and you did. And what a list…

Magnet Releasing picks up U.S. rights to Hobo

The U.S. rights to Jason Eisener’s action film Hobo With a Shotgun has been picked up by Magnolia Pictures’ genre arm Magnet Releasing.

Whistleblower takes audience award in Whistler

Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower has added the audience award to the top jury trophy already nabbed at the just-completed Whistler Film Festival.

Could Silent Hill 2 be moving to Toronto?

Don Carmody is reteaming with French colleague Samuel Hadida to co-produce Michael J. Bassett’s Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, scheduled to shoot in spring 2011.

Will English Canada screen Incendies?

The producer of Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies wants to capitalize on the film’s considerable international buzz to try to sell the critically acclaimed flick to one of the toughest audiences for art films on the planet: English Canada.

Dream House to do reshoots in Toronto

Jim Sheridan is bringing his psychological thriller Dream House back to Toronto in March 2011 for reshoots because it didn’t snow when cameras first rolled on the Universal Pictures feature last winter.

The Whistleblower lands $15,000 prize at Whistler

The 10th annual Whistler Film Festival came to a close with Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistlerblower taking home the title of Best New Canadian Feature at the Borsos Competition.

Magnolia grabs Good Neighbours for US

Magnolia Films has acquired all US rights to Jacob Tierney’s Good Neighbours.