The Hot Sheet tracks Canadian box-office results for the period April 13-19, 2007, and DVD sales in Canada for the period April 2-8, 2007.

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Following the success of the TV movie Shania: A Life in Eight Albums in 2005, Toronto’s Barna-Alper Productions has high expectations of its latest rags-to-riches tale, the two-hour biopic Céline, based on the life of the Quebec-born singing star, now shooting in Hamilton, ON for CBC.

Showcase rolled out a darker second season (10 x 30) of its law office comedy Billable Hours earlier this month, thanks to U.S.-style showrunning by new executive producer Frank van Keeken.

Leelee Sobieski (The Wicker Man) stars along with Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica) in the comedy thriller Walk All Over Me, in which the former assumes her roommate’s dominatrix identity in order to pay the bills.

Christal Films Productions is coproducing a supernatural thriller with France’s Fidélité Films that will bring John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly (Lost) and Romain Duris (Molière) to Montreal in July for Afterwards. The $15-million English-language project, to be helmed by Gilles Bourdos (Inquiétudes) will be produced here by Christian Larouche (Sans elle) and Christian Gagné and by Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier of Fidélité.

The West Edmonton Mall is hosting the U.S. shoot Christmas in Wonderland until next month, starring as itself in the holiday comedy from Jordan Films (Moondance Alexander). The picture follows a father and his kids, who run afoul of crooks and counterfeit money during their Christmas shopping, and is directed by James Orr (Blowing Smoke, Mr. Destiny). Henry Boger (Even Money) and Alexander Tabrizi (Blonde and Blonder) exec produce.

Montreal’s Couzin Films and director Michael Mackenzie (The Baroness and the Pig) are partway through shooting the feature Adam’s Wall, a romantic drama in which a young Lebanese girl falls in love with a Jewish teenager.

Carmen Electra and Toronto’s 121 Ventures have turned out another in what is becoming a series of naked wrestling specials, and will see the pay-per-view Naked Revolution air this month in the U.S. and on Viewers Choice.

Vancouver: In DreamWorks’ comedy smash Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder perform cutting-edge figure skating moves on the ice, but the most challenging lifts happened behind the scenes at Vancouver’s Rainmaker Visual Effects.

Montreal: The latest screen adaptation of Jules Verne’s fantasy Journey to the Center of the Earth, filmed most famously in Twentieth Century Fox’s 1959 version, is getting the 3D treatment.

Toronto: Adam Shankman’s film version of Hairspray, due to hit theaters July 20 via Alliance Atlantis in Canada, adds a cinematic dimension to the popular stage musical. The Toronto-shot movie features extensive dance scenes in which characters in billboard photographs come to life to boogie alongside star John Travolta.