Film

In Production: BC (Oct. 22, 2010)

In Production: BC (Oct. 22, 2010)

Mongrel brings Score to 130 screens

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 plans TV movie for HBO Canada

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.

Wizzfilms and 2d3d pact to make animated movie

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.

Controversial Khadr doc to screen on Parliament Hill

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.

Lionsgate uses Facebook 3D game to promote Halloween Saw release

Canadian mini-studio Lionsgate Entertainment has unveiled a 3D Facebook game to drive box office for its latest Saw 3D release from October 29.

Ottawa Animation fest focuses on Japan, insanity and Winnipeg

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.

Incendies sells in Taiwan

A few high profile festival award wins will get your Canadian film selling on the other side of the world, Denis Villeneuve has discovered.

VIFF hands out the hardware

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.

Incendies cleans up in Vancouver and Warsaw

Denis Villeneuve continues to pile up trophies from the international festival circuit for Incendies.

Imax’s Aftershock to screen in Toronto and Ottawa

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.

Incendies to open Oscar best foreign screening sked

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.