Among the many adventures of Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey, The Isle of Mists ranks as one of the scariest, according to the author himself.

SK Films has been given US$3 million to go chase butterflies, and plans to shoot its large-screen Flight of the Butterflies through most of next year in Ontario, Texas and Mexico.

HALIFAX — The Growing Op’s lights are on. A production office for the $1.7-million feature has opened in Moncton, NB, and the 22-day shoot begins Aug. 25. Feature first-timer Michael Melski wrote, directs and produces with Monique Leblanc, Doug Pettigrew and Rick Warden. Thom Fitzgerald is the executive producer.

U.S. net The CW has commissioned the first 13 episodes of fish-out-of-the-subcontinent series Aliens in America, a comedy about a Pakistani teen who moves in with a white-bread Wisconsin family. Produced by CBS Paramount Network Television and Warner Bros. Television, the program went to camera in Vancouver on July 30 with a wrap date of Oct. 25.

This year’s bumper crop of Canadian movies at TIFF will send people to their basements in search of old program books to see if there has ever been a comparable lineup in the festival’s 32-year history. But they won’t find one quite like it, because this is the year our film industry comes of age.

‘Edgy’ is the cornucopia of films from ‘virtually every country in the world’ at the 32nd annual Toronto International Film Festival, according to Piers Handling.

Communications master and Serendipity Point Films producer Robert Lantos learned in 1978 that screaming ‘censorship’ from coast-to-coast would grab a lot of free press for a film with no marketing budget.

Balance is not a word typically used to describe horror master David Cronenberg. But Eastern Promises producer Robert Lantos says Cronenberg can balance a budget like a mathematician.