Kiefer Sutherland is not the voice of Ryan, the main character in Disney’s The Wild as reported in the March 20 article ‘Williams, CORE create Disney opus.’ Sutherland voices Ryan’s father, Samson.

Gerald Pratley, author of the film guide A Century of Canadian Cinema, has been writing on film since 1948. He is the recipient of a special Genie Award for his lifelong dedication to the promotion and support of Canadian cinema, and is a member of the Order of Canada.

The latest feature from Toronto’s Sienna Films is underway in Hamilton, ON, with Ian Iqbal Rashid at the helm of the dance drama Step.

Vancouver – Nerd Corps Entertainment is working on a pair of new animated series – Storm Hawks and Teem Awethum!!!! – for YTV.

Vancouver – Shavick Entertainment has a full plate this spring, most of it occupied by MOW copros with companies including L.A.’s Regent Entertainment and local ally Insight Film Studios.

Halifax – The construction soap opera North/South, from The Halifax Film Company and Toronto’s Inner City Films, began shooting for CBC on March 20.

Toronto ­- Richard Attenborough will be in Toronto next month, joined by Shirley MacLaine, who is set to star in his romantic drama Closing the Ring. The picture, set partly in World War Two, follows a man as he tries to return a ring that had belonged to a downed airman to his sweetheart in the U.S. It is booked at Toronto Film Studios through May. The 82-year-old Lord Attenborough, as he is also known, directs and will produce with Jo Gilbert.

* Saw 3, the latest in the golden horror franchise, gets underway in May under director Darren Lynn Bousman. The second instalment also shot in Toronto.

It’s been a little over a year since Wayne Clarkson took over the reins as executive director of Telefilm Canada, and it’s been a hectic introduction for the former head of the Canadian Film Centre, the OFDC, and the Toronto film festival.

The following is the 2006 edition of Playback’s annual digest of key financial services

The puns just write themselves. C.R.A.Z.Y. for you. Let’s go C.R.A.Z.Y. Wild and C.R.A.Z.Y. guys. Boy C.R.A.Z.Y. And that’s just four, not even half the number of trophies scored by director Jean-Marc Vallée’s smash hit at this year’s Genie Awards.
C.R.A.Z.Y., the Cirrus Communications-produced drama about growing up gay in the ’70s, picked up 11 wins at the annual movie awards gala, scoring in all but one of its nominated categories and sweeping the behind-the-camera categories, including best motion picture and director.

Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams has a lot riding on Walt Disney’s April 14 release of The Wild, an all-CG kids feature he directed with help from Toronto visual effects house CORE Digital Pictures.
The Toronto-raised animation whiz says he got The Wild gig after Disney parted ways with prodco Pixar Animation Studios in 2002 and decided to farm out production on the film, which has a reported budget of $80 million.