The Hot Sheet tracks Canadian box-office results for the period April 27-May 3, 2007, and DVD sales in Canada for the period April 16-22, 2007.

MONTREAl: John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly and Romain Duris are set to star in the fantasy thriller Afterwards, a Canada-France coproduction set to start June 4 in Montreal.

CBC has put Avi Lewis on its schedule again, and given him the host spot for a short-run half-hour set to debut next month on CBC Newsworld. Billed as ‘in-depth analysis of world events,’ On the Map with Avi Lewis will see the frontman of both The Big Picture and counterSpin cover international and otherwise overlooked stories Monday through Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET. The slot is currently manned by CBC News: Today with David Gray.

The hardscrabble life of Chinese immigrants recruited to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 1880s is the backdrop for CBC’s period love story Iron Road.

Before Peter O’Toole tackles the building of Canada’s railway in CBC’s Iron Road, he will star as the ‘aging mentor’ in the Lionsgate Entertainment feature Christmas Cottage.

A converted 30,000-plus-square-foot production space in Aldergrove, BC makes its television debut this month, hosting the 21st century update of the campy sci-fi classic Flash Gordon.

Montreal’s Bunbury Films (Bigfoot’s Reflection, Once a Nazi) is taking on another unusual subject this summer with Leaving the Fold, a doc about Hasidic Jews who want to leave their community. Director Eric Scott (Je me souviens) conceived the project after encountering an organization in Israel that helps members of the Hasidim – a sect of highly religious Jews who live largely cut off from the surrounding culture – go their own way.

Home reno guru Debbie Travis on the set of From the Ground Up, the second season of which debuts May 31 on Global. The 10 x 60 will see 14 hopefuls compete to be chief designer of a new line of Travis-branded houses and condos

The network’s plans for the summer include an eight-part laugh-off made with Second City and a showcase of user-generated content

Ottawa’s latest report on the recent troubles at the Canadian Television Fund says monthly payments should be mandatory, and that payments to CBC shows should be ‘re-examined’

The noted CBC investigation into a 43-year-old murder case has been picked up in the U.S. and Australia

Lina Alles, managing partner/director of broadcast at MindShare reports from the NBC upfront at Radio City Music Hall