In Production: BC (Oct. 22, 2010)
Mongrel Media is preparing for its largest release ever, as Score: A Hockey Musical opens on 130 screens across the country today (October 22), with more than $1 million in P&A spend.
Durham County producer Back Alley Film Productions and Muse Entertainment are developing a TV movie for HBO Canada to follow the homegrown drama’s third and final season.
Canadian cartoon house Wizzfilms is pacting with France’s 2d3d Animations to produce a stop-motion animated feature based on a French comic book series.
A controversial documentary about Omar Khadr’s 2003 interrogation by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from Montreal-based documentary filmmakers Luc Cote and Patricio Henriquez will be shown to federal MPs on on Parliament Hill tonight.
Canadian mini-studio Lionsgate Entertainment has unveiled a 3D Facebook game to drive box office for its latest Saw 3D release from October 29.
There’s always been more to Japanese animation than simply anime. That’s one of the messages of the Ottawa International Animation Festival that artistic director Chris Robinson is hoping will come across.
A few high profile festival award wins will get your Canadian film selling on the other side of the world, Denis Villeneuve has discovered.
The 29th annual Vancouver International Film Festival wrapped its two-week run with both a screening of the French film The Illusionist and a host of hardware hand-outs, as seven awards were announced Friday night.
Denis Villeneuve continues to pile up trophies from the international festival circuit for Incendies.
Aftershock, the Chinese-language film co-produced by Imax Corp. and the Chinese film studio Huayi Brothers Media, will open simultaneously on U.S. and Canadian screens on October 29.
Here’s a good omen: Canadian contender Incendies from Quebec director Denis Villeneuve is to open the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ screening schedule for the official Oscar best foreign language film award competition.