The Hot Sheet tracks Canadian box-office results for the period Feb. 16-22, 2007.
In these early, heady days of his five-year tenure, CRTC topper Konrad von Finckenstein has been impressing colleagues and industry stakeholders alike with his smarts and his deft handling of the crisis at the Canadian Television Fund. But the question still remains – what sort of mark will this tree-tall public servant leave on our cultural champion and regulator?
Top 20 TV Programs tracks ratings for the top 20 television shows in Canada for the period Feb. 12-18, 2007.
Judy Gladstone is executive director of CHUM’s Bravo!FACT
Jeremy Podeswa has put the finishing touches on Fugitive Pieces, his first feature film in almost a decade, and is looking to screen the long-awaited Holocaust story later this year – at Toronto ‘for sure’ and possibly at Cannes.
MONTREAL: For Jean-Marc Vallée, making his next film with Martin Scorsese is the chance of a lifetime.
VANCOUVER: Jennifer Garner is back in B.C. and returned to work on Valentine’s Day with Juno, a romantic-comedy about a woman’s attempts to adopt a child.
Darius Films (The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico) and Cirrus Productions (C.R.A.Z.Y.) are partway through shooting the oddball comedy Hank and Mike, about the misadventures of two foul-mouthed Easter Bunnies. Paolo Mancini and Thomas Michael star – reviving characters introduced almost 10 years ago on The Comedy Network – alongside Joe Mantegna (The Simpsons) and Wes Bentley (Ghost Rider).
VANCOUVER: Chris Haddock and Nicholas Campbell are working together once again, this time on The Quality of Life – A Dominic Da Vinci Movie, an MOW that continues the evolution of Vancouver’s coroner-turned-mayor for CBC.
Second City is partnering with CBC on the talent contest Canada’s Next Comedy Legend, which starts auditions March 20 in Vancouver.
Producer Peter Rowe and veteran ‘stormchaser’ George Kourounis atop Mount Washington, NH – ‘home of the world’s worst weather’ – while shooting Angry Planet, a six-part series about killer storms, the environment and other natural disasters. It airs March 6 on OLN.