Super Écran

Canadian films Riceboy Sleeps, Viking to world premiere at TIFF

Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps and Stéphane Lafleur’s Viking will bow in the festival’s competitive Platform program alongside eight other titles.

Sort Of, The Handmaid’s Tale, Way Over Me score multiple CCE Award nominations

The Canadian Cinema Editors event will also hand out special honours, including a posthumous Career Achievement Award for the late filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée.

Film of the Year: Le Guide de la famille parfaite

The Quebec feature launched on Netflix after amassing $2.1 million at the box office.

Crave taps the French market by going bilingual

The Bell Media streaming service is adding 6,000 hours of French-language content, including its original series Pour toujours, plus un jour.

Van Helsing renewed for season four at Syfy

The Nomadic Pictures series will begin production in Vancouver in early 2019.

Production underway on third season of Cardinal

The CTV and Super Ecran drama is shooting in North Bay, ON and Toronto.

CTV reveals The Disappearance premiere

Produced by Montreal’s Productions Casablanca, the six-parter will have its linear debut in October.

CMF invests $8.1M through Francophone Minority Program

The funder backed a total of 15 projects, including a $1.16 million investment in Slalom Productions TV drama Malediction de Jonathan Plourde.

Cameras rolling in North Bay on Cardinal season two

Six more episodes of the thriller are scheduled to launch as part of CTV and Super Ecran’s 2017/18 season.

Cameras roll on The Disappearance

The six-part original, which is currently filming in Montreal, will air on CTV and Super Ecran.

1R2D acquires Catastrophe scripted format

The Longueuil, QC-based prodco will go to camera on the sitcom this fall. (Star Rossif Sutherland pictured.)

Super Channel, Super Ecran pick up Van Helsing

Production on the Nomadic Pictures project will start later this month in Vancouver, with Jason Priestley and Amanda Tapping set to direct episodes of the drama. (Star Kelly Overton pictured.)