Vancouver’s recent production rebound has led to the arrival of at least one new post house and another one expanding.

Having turned Toronto’s 80-year-old Regent theater into a digital post house by day and local movie house by night back in 2002, Theatre D Digital recently made a similar conversion at The Royal, in the city’s Little Italy area.

Pinewood Sound founder Geoff Turner used his vast knowledge of audio production and post to help craft Oscar- and Emmy-winning projects as well as gold- and platinum-selling records. Turner, also credited with helping establish Vancouver as a production hub, died of leukemia on Oct. 8 in North Vancouver. He was 67.

Toronto post shop Optix Digital Pictures has been wrapped up in an icy universe for the past three months, doing preproduction on the forthcoming sci-fi series Ice Planet, starring Michael Ironside (Starship Troopers).

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Hamilton, ON: It will reflect very well on the team behind the World War Two drama The Poet if the scenes of 1940s Poland hold up under close inspection, given that they were shot in a quiet, lovely and in no way war-torn conservation area just outside Hamilton, ON.

Montreal – Prom Wars, a teen sex comedy about two boys schools battling for the attention of a girls school, is going to stand out from the other recent entries in its genre, according to Brandi-Ann Milbradt of Montreal’s Philms Pictures.

Montreal – Atanarjuat star Natar Ungalaaq plays an Inuit hunter brought south for tuberculosis treatment in the ACPAV Productions feature Ce qu’il faut pour vivre (What It Takes to Live).

Montreal – Toronto’s Sarrazin Couture Entertainment and Forum Films of Montreal have wrapped shooting on the CTV MOW The Terrorist Next Door, ending four weeks in Montreal under director Jerry Ciccoritti (Trudeau).

Montreal – Talent and CG from Montreal’s Carpediem Film and TV will combine with footage from Australia to make Stormworld, a 26 x 30 sci-fi series in the works for Australia’s Nine Network and Space.

Montreal – Incendo Productions tapped director Louis Bolduc (Les Bougon: c’est aussi ça la vie) and star Jessica Capshaw (The Practice) for the MOW whodunit Blind Trust, which wrapped last month in Montreal.

Calgary – Nomadic Pictures has reteamed with Jason Priestley, putting the teen idol-turned-actor in the director’s chair for the MOW Don’t Cry Now, a reworking of the Joy Fielding book for Lifetime and Corus Entertainment.