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Insight, Kaleidoscope get Bloody
Vancouver – Insight Film Studios of Vancouver and Kaleidoscope Entertainment of Toronto are heading into production on the new CHUM sci-fi series Blood Ties. The $22-million season will shoot under the single-purpose banner of Bitten Productions, beginning Aug. 28 in Vancouver.
Zukerman, Lutz take a dive
Toronto – Bernie Zukerman broke with tradition on his latest title, picking up the script for the sports biopic Victor from outside his company, rather than developing one of his own ideas.
Onda gets Intimate in Moose Jaw
Moose Jaw – Regina’s Stephen Onda Productions wrapped the MOW Intimate Stranger for Lifetime Television and Global late last month.
Mainframe goes Nutty for Jerry Lewis
Vancouver – Animation house Mainframe Entertainment is set to team with Hollywood heavyweight The Weinstein Company and comedian Jerry Lewis on an animated update of Lewis’ 1963 comedy The Nutty Professor.
Under Sycamore underway
Vancouver – A down-and-out football star contemplates suicide, while an FBI agent tracks a serial killer in the intertwining premises of Under the Sycamore Tree, a feature coproduction between B.C. prodcos Bases Loaded Entertainment and Sycamore Productions, which was set to wrap in Vancouver on Aug. 20.
Rhombus on the case
Toronto – Rhombus Media has walked away from Telefilm Canada with $625,000 to make Inside Hana’s Suitcase, having scored at the pilot program for feature-length docs recently put forth by the federal agency, CBC and the Rogers Group of Funds.
Hills producers go underground
Toronto - Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto is hosting the thriller P2 until September – putting up debut director Frank Khalfoun and stars Rachel Nichols (Alias) and Wes Bentley (Weirdsville). The picture by U.S.-based Summit Entertainment has Nichols as a woman trapped in an underground parking lot over Christmas Eve.
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* Season three (13 x 30) of Instant Star is shooting at Epitome Pictures until November.
WFF overcomes adversity to celebrate 30th year
Serge Losique will have a good reason to take a bow when the 30th edition of Montreal’s World Film Festival kicks off on Aug. 24.
Losique frets over future of festivals
On one hand, Serge Losique is happy that his World Film Festival will, despite reports of its imminent demise, be around to blow out 30 candles starting Aug. 24. But the controversial founder and president of the Montreal fest is also concerned about how digital technologies are impacting the way films are being consumed.
30th anniversary festivities
A lack of financial support from Telefilm Canada and SODEC won’t stop Montreal’s World Film Festival from celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Hollywood’s return keeps business steady
Film and TV production in Quebec so far this year looks to be on par with 2005, buoyed by three Hollywood pictures coming to the province.
Industry addresses funding crisis
The adage that success breeds success doesn’t quite apply to the Quebec film industry.
Rumours looks to spread to English Canada
Jocelyn Deschênes, one of Quebec’s hottest producers, is making his first foray into English television with a remake of his hit Radio-Canada sitcom Rumeurs, and who better to help him navigate the murky waters of the English market than TV visionary Moses Znaimer.
AAC faces uncertainty after Loewy departure
The sudden departure of Victor Loewy has left Motion Picture Distribution on shaky ground, amid speculation that New Line Cinema’s lucrative output deal could leave with him, and uncertainty regarding MPD’s European interests.
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