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Features, reality shoot at Sudden Storm
Sudden Storm Productions (Killing Zelda Sparks) has sent its reality series Ten Angry Chicks to camera with partners Blueprint Entertainment and Barna-Alper Productions. The show, about recently brokenhearted women getting their revenge, will air on Slice and arrives on the company’s slate as principals Jesse Ikeman and Jeff Glickman juggle a number of feature projects.
Volumes on par or down across provinces
As if a strong Canadian dollar, a potential Screen Actors Guild strike stateside and increased competition from U.S. tax-rebate states wasn’t a big enough challenge for the Canadian film and TV industry, the unfolding Wall Street crisis has added another unknown dimension, making it even trickier to predict production volume levels in upcoming months.
B.C. Film Commision turns 30 in competitive world
When the British Columbia Film Commission first set up shop in 1978, the West Coast was emerging as a new frontier for the film, TV and commercial production industry.
Visually affecting the industry
Refusing to rest on the laurels strewn on them for their work on films and TV shows like The Incredible Hulk and Stargate: Atlantis, digital producers in Ontario and British Columbia have taken matters into their own hands, forming associations to represent their interests in Canada and abroad.
How do you eat an elephant?
Paul Day is an editor who has worked in film and television for 20 years, and is one of the founders of the newly formed Canadian Cinema Editors association. His credits include the series Dead Like Me, Odyssey 5, This Is Wonderland and The 4400. He’s received nominations for outstanding picture editing awards from the Directors Guild of Canada and the Geminis. He’s now cutting season two of The Movie Network/Movie Central series The Weight, about two cops living in a suburban wasteland.
Avid gets Red
Avid Technology’s announcement that it has signed a R3D Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) licence agreement with Red Digital Cinema Camera Company is the latest indicator of the swift rise of the hot new Red One camera in the marketplace.
Toronto shop gets with high definition
Toronto-based video shop Post Producers Digital has upgraded to high-definition television standards.
Mehta readies $35-million Maru epic
True story of immigrants turned away by Canada in 1914 marks most expensive project to date for writer/director and partner David Hamilton. Indian star Akshay Kumar signed to lead
Latest Buzz goes live
Tween hit brings in a crowd and Emmy winner Brian Richards
Canwest, Rogers partner on VOD
First deal of its kind in Canada to offer full roster of network programming
Fresh, Blueprint to work on teen series
Developing live-action and CG In Maya’s Opinion for YTV
Cronenberg circling Circle
Big-budget adaptation of Ludlum thriller for MGM could mark first film since Eastern Promises
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