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Entity, Central open doors in booming B.C.
Vancouver’s recent production rebound has led to the arrival of at least one new post house and another one expanding.
Theatre D takes its act to The Royal
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 founder helped build B.C. biz
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.
Optix lands on Ice Planet
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).
Recent goings-on in the world of post
Switch hitting
Poet revisits wartime Poland
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.
Philms goes to the Prom
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.
ACPAV has What It Takes
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).
Ciccoritti wraps Terrorist
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).
CG deal for Carpediem
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.
Incendo goes Blind
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.
Priestley helms MOW
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.
Briefly
* Toronto’s Associated Producers (The Exodus Decoded) has wrapped the feature doc The Tomb, due to air later this year on Discovery Channel in the U.S. and VisionTV.
TV Policy center stage at CRTC hearing
Gatineau, QC: Will Canada’s conventional broadcasters get more deregulation, more options for delivering HD service and more revenue in the CRTC’s next TV policy? If the tone of the hearing held here tells the tale, the answers are likely to be ‘yes-and-no,’ ‘yes,’ and ‘no.’
Riot act
Police clash with protestors in Battle in Seattle, a feature account of the violence that broke out during the 1999 talks of the World Trade Organization – in the works for Insight Film Studios and Proud Mary Entertainment under director Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned). Charlize Theron and Woody Harrelson star.
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