All Canada articles – Page 115
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NewsTrailer Park Boys film will open Atlantic Film Festival
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown To Liquor Day will have its world premiere at the NBC Universal Canada Opening Gala of the 29th Atlantic Film Festival on September 17.
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NewsEgoyan's Chloe to world premiere at Toronto
Atom Egoyan’s psychological drama Chloe will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival while the North American premiere of Jean-Marc Vallée’s period biopic The Young Victoria will close the festival.
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NewsBreathless continues winning streak with jury prize at Fantasia
The Montreal-based Fantasia Film Festival ends today after welcoming 90,000 fans with 40% of its 195 screenings sold out since the event started July 9.
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NewsCronenberg comes on board for DeLillo adaptation Cosmopolis
David Cronenberg has signed on to bring Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis to the big screen.
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NewsAngelopoulos will give master class in Montreal
Greek director Theo Angelopoulos will give a master class at the Montreal World Film Festival.
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NewsTelefilm, CFC, Just For Laughs pact for feature comedy lab
Telefilm Canada, the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and Just For Laughs have joined to launch the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab, a program to develop theatrical feature-length comedies.
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NewsPoliakoff's Glorious 39 to world premiere in Toronto
UK writer-director Steven Poliakoff’s war-time thriller Glorious 39 will make its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, as TIFF added eight Special Presentations to its lineup today.
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NewsKINOSMITH to distribute Hot Docs titles on DVD in Canada
Toronto-based specialty distributor KINOSMITH has partnered with the Hot Docs documentary festival on an online DVD releasing deal targeting popular festival titles.
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NewsClarkson to step down from Telefilm Canada at end of term
Telefilm Canada executive director Wayne Clarkson has announced he will step down at the conclusion of his five-year term in January 2010.
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NewsFather And Guns outdraws Bruno in Quebec
Quebec comedy Father And Guns (De Père En Flic) was the top film at the province’s box office over the weekend, earning an astounding $1.6m (C$1.8m). The sum was more than the combined grosses of the four other top five titles: Brüno, Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, Transformers: Revenge ...
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NewsJust For Laughs to honour Todd Phillips, Etan Cohen
Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival’s Comedy Conference (July 23-25) will welcome Todd Phillips, director of The Hangover, to receive Comedy Director of the Year Award while Etan Cohen will receive the Comedy Writer of the Year Award.
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NewsKimmel plans July shoot for Thom Fitzgerald's Cloudburst
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment is financing and presenting the feature comedy Cloudburst, which is set to star Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker.
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NewsOntario plans to expand tax credit to foreign producers
The Ontario government plans to enhance the production tax credit for foreign producers.
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NewsPinewood takes on management of Toronto’s Filmport
The British film studio behind the Bond films now controls the fate of Toronto’s struggling, state-of-the-art studio operation. Pinewood Shepperton has taken charge of sales and marketing of Filmport Studios.
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NewsWeinstein Company comes on board for The Hammer
Cinemavault has confirmed new sales on Charles Herman-Wurmfeld’s comedy The Hammer.
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NewsToronto unveils new city section, announces first programme selections
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced the first selections for its 34th edition (September 10-19).
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NewsTelefilm Canada gives $6.4m to seven French-language projects
New projects from Max Films, Cinemaginaire and Cirrus Communications are among seven French-language feature to be backed by Canadian film finance agency Telefilm Canada.
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NewsSilhol's Dominic wins best live action prize at Toronto's CFC short festival
French director Nicolas Silhol took the C.O.R.E Digital Pictures Award For Best Live Action Short with his psychological drama, My Name Is Dominic as the 2009 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival wrapped this weekend.
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NewsCinemavault woos buyers for Tucci's Blind Date
Toronto-based Cinemavault has announced a slew of new sales on Stanley Tucci’s Theo van Gogh remake Blind Date.
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NewsQuebec to introduce blanket 25% tax credit
The province of Quebec has introduced an enhanced film and television production credit that will return 25% of all Quebec-based spending to foreign producers.