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Basinger in B.C.
Vancouver – Insight Film Studios is in preproduction on While She Was Out, a thriller starring Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile) as a suburban housewife who becomes stranded in a forest full of murderous thugs. Shooting begins in Vancouver on Feb. 5 with a wrap date of March 16.
Brightlight picks up Passengers
Vancouver – A thriller starring Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) is the latest production to go to camera at Vancouver’s Brightlight Pictures. Passengers, a feature film for Hollywood’s Mandate Pictures and Persistent Entertainment, began shooting in Vancouver Jan. 15 and wraps early March.
Continuing ed media programs offer skills, flexibility
Dana Lee is assistant professor, School of Radio and Television Arts, Ryerson University in Toronto, and has written the book Television Technical Theory: Unplugged, used by operations departments in television and teaching facilities.
The philosopher King
In January 1957, the CBC broadcast a tough, short documentary set in the dives and flophouses of Downtown Eastside Vancouver. Strikingly shot in black and white with moving scenes of drunks fighting in alleyways and panhandlers begging passers-by for change, it depicted the lives of downtrodden members of Canadian society. That film was Skidrow, and it retains the capacity to shock and touch a viewer. It also marked the debut of Allan King, one of Canada’s finest filmmakers.
Sundance blown Away
As the fabled indie fest gets underway in Utah, crowds have taken a shine to both Sarah Polley’s Away From Her and the enviro-minded Manufactured Landscapes
Spielberg, Burnett coming north
Filmmakers mark you calendars, you have four weeks to submit your five-minute masterpiece to the CTV/Fox reality series On the Lot, on the way from Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett
Keeper to critique Heritage
Liberal leader Stéphane Dion has tapped Manitoba MP and former North of 60 star Tina Keeper as his Heritage critic
Telefilm helps Quebec Anglos
The federal agency’s new programs for English creatives working in Quebec will confound even the most fluent anglophones
CFC names new media winners
Funds go to Rocketfuel Productions in Edmonton and Montreal’s Films Isle Turbulent
Down to the wire on actors strike
With an extended strike deadline looming on Jan. 8, eleventh-hour contract negotiations between producers and actors have boiled down to two fractious issues: wages and new media.
Boll market
Run an Internet search on filmmaker and occasional boxer Uwe Boll and you’ll find pages and pages of sites, blogs, and message boards all ‘Boll bashing’ his various video game adaptations including House of the Dead and BloodRayne.
CanWest Global leads pack of potential AAC buyers
Alliance Atlantis Communications loudly confirmed what had been quietly known for some time on Dec. 20 when the Toronto-based broadcast giant announced that it is, indeed, on the block and seeking expressions of interest from ‘selected potential buyers.’
IATSE signs low-budget agreement
IATSE has signed a new contract that stands to make Canada more attractive for low-budget U.S. shoots and which, for the first time, gives equal pay and benefits to union members on both sides of the border.
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