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You must remember this…
Toronto: You wake up one day, in what appears to be a hospital bed, and that’s about all you really know. Nothing else. Your name, how you got there, anything about the woman who claims to be your wife – not a clue. You’re tabula rasa on all of it.
Now what?
That is the gist of what happened to CFL star Terry Evanshen after a car wreck wiped his memory clean in 1988, and The Man Who Lost Himself, the CTV MOW now shooting at Sarrazin Couture Entertainment, is the story of his recovery.
Broadcast
Shaftesbury on the road with Terry Fox
Docs
Mehta gets loud
Briefly
* Vancouver’s Bardel Entertainment is about to wrap the CG feature Dragons: Metal Ages, a sequel to its Dragons: Fire & Ice, and will deliver to YTV in time for a fall broadcast.
The Don of Canadian production
No producer straddles Hollywood and Hollywood North on the same scale as Don Carmody. On one hand, Carmody can boast of producing the most commercially successful Canadian film ever, Porky’s (along with writer/director Bob Clark), as well as having produced other top Canuck grossers Johnny Mnemonic and Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Meanwhile, he has also played gun-for-hire on numerous Hollywood features that have shot north of the 49th, including Gothika, City by the Sea, Lucky Number Slevin, and, most notably, best-picture Oscar winner Chicago.
Porky’s: the story of a Canuck blockbuster
Every year, it seems, when the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television hands out its Golden Reel Award for the domestic film with the year’s biggest box office, critics dismissively bring up the fact that the raunchy teen comedy Porky’s is this country’s all-time box-office champ. (It hauled in a staggering US$111 million at the North American till, according to Variety.) And Don Carmody, who produced with writer/director Bob Clark, says he is sick of all the carping.
Harvey credits neighborhood friend for Some Things
While producer Don Carmody may be best known for his credits on Hollywood productions, he recently got behind the Canada/U.K. copro feature Some Things That Stay.
The MacGyver of producers
Bryan Gliserman is president of Toronto-based motion picture distributor Odeon Films.
Just don’t ask him for a lift
Montreal’s legendary Cinepix studio (purchased by Lions Gate in 1997) is renowned for fostering movie titans such as Ivan Reitman, David Cronenberg, and – of course – Don Carmody. Cinepix chairman John Dunning still remembers Carmody’s rookie days in 1973.
Shooting Chicago in Toronto
Of his many films, the project that Carmody ranks as his proudest achievement is Chicago, which he coproduced. He was brought on the film by repeat employer Miramax, and worked on it for six years, through three different directors and four different screenwriters. Miramax was considering shooting in Toronto, New York or London.
Province’s service biz bounces back
To pedestrians and drivers in the GTA, it may be an unwanted case of déjà vu. Film trucks and crews have once again taken over streets in their neighborhoods and in the downtown core, just as it was a few years ago. But it is certainly a good sign for the local production industry: Hollywood is back making movies in Toronto.
Hot summer in the city
On the heels of a serious production slump, Toronto has rebounded into one of its busiest seasons in years, and many in the industry are confident business will stay strong. This summer, the city is home to service features with budgets of more than US$60 million, and is playing host to big-name talent including Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger and Antonio Banderas.
Silver anniversary, silver screen: Epitome develops Degrassi feature
The makers of Degrassi: The Next Generation had a good month in May – bringing in a movie script and $50,000 in spending money just as they are closing in on the silver anniversary of their successful youth franchise.
Producers Linda Schuyler and Stephen Stohn of Epitome Pictures have, for some time, been looking to take their CTV show to the big screen, and, late last month, received the draft script from series writers Tassie Cameron and Aaron Martin.
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