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Wildstorm's Supernatural: Beginnings End
18 December 2009 10:13 AM, PST
DC Comics 'Wildstorm' imprint will publish a new 6-issue comic book series based on the long-running Vancouver-lensed horror TV series Supernatural. Created by Eric Kripke, starring actors Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, Warner Bros. Television has so far produced 90 episodes of Supernatural since debuting in 2005. Executive producers of the show are Eric Kripke, McG, David Nutter and Robert Singer. Premise follows brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they hunt down demons and other figures of the paranormal. The first issue of Supernatural: Beginnings End will be released January 20, 2010, from the TV series writing team of Andrew Dabb/Daniel Loflin, with illustrations by Diego Olmos. "...Picking up several years after the "Rising Son" miniseries, the 'Winchester' clan find themselves in the strangest situation imaginable - monster hunting in New York City..." In issue #2, due in February, the story gets stranger as John Winchester's obsession with the demon that took his wife, …
Toronto's Cinespace Opening Up More Space
17 December 2009 1:32 AM, PST
Toronto's east-end located Cinespace Film Studios, currently working on Resident Evil: Afterlife and Saw 7 will open a new 30-acre studio complex in Toronto's west-end Etobicoke, with over 1,000,000 square feet of working space. A 10-minute drive midway between Pearson Airport and downtown Toronto, the new studio currently has 50,000 square feet of production office space available, with 'cinespace' soundstages to be ready by early 2010. Cinespace president Steve Mirkopoulous made the announcement, coinciding with the Ontario Liberal government, voting into law, the 'enhanced' Ontario film tax credit, refunding 25% of eligible spending, effective as of June 30. Film equipment supplier William F. White and post-production facility Deluxe are currently set up in the new facility …
Syfy Is Sweet On Stargate Universe
16 December 2009 8:12 AM, PST
Syfy has given an additional 20-episode order to the Vancouver-lensed TV series Stargate Universe, averaging 2.6 million viewers per episode. With a fall-finale cliffhanger that abandons 'Dr. Rush' (Robert "Trainspotting" Carlyle) on a planet, the show's second half will become more serialized and "...build on the fractures within the show's group of spaceship-trapped castaways...." Stargate Universe is set on the ancient ship 'Destiny', launched from Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago to seed the universe with 'Stargates'. The series begins when a team of soldiers and scientists from present-day Earth step through the Stargate and find the Destiny, discovering most of the ship's primary systems are failing, with the crew unable to return to Earth. New Stargate Universe episodes will include more sequences on board the ship as well as introduce the show's first 'alien' …
Canadian Roll Out For Winnipeg's High Life
15 December 2009 11:41 AM, PST
Set in 1983, following the first implementation of 'Automated Teller Machines', High Life is a new Canadian feature, lensed in Winnipeg, written/directed by Gary Yates, starring Timothy Olyphant, Rossif Sutherland, Joe Anderson and Stephen McIntyre. In High Life, following a visit from his former cellmate 'Bug' (McIntyre), 'Dick' (Olyphant) gets fired from his job as a hospital janitor. Unemployed and in need of fast cash, Dick gets the idea to rob a brand new Atm machine. Enter 'Donnie' (Anderson) and 'Billy' (Sutherland) to help put the pieces into place. But things don't go quite according to plan... "...Alternately tragic and hysterical, the 'High Life. perfect plan ends up anything but when one of the bank.s employees double-crosses them all. Set against the nostalgic back-beat of 'Three Dog Night', 'Creedence Clearwater Revival' and a raft of 'April Wine', the 'High Life. highwire tension unfolds with calamitous results. …
Afterlife Producer Sees 3 D Musketeers
15 December 2009 5:05 AM, PST
Producer Jeremy Bolt, currently in Toronto shooting the 3D Resident Evil 4: Afterlife has confirmed he is planning to use the same 3D camera system director James Cameron utelized in the Fox feature Avatar, for a fresh take on the classic public domain novel "The Three Musketeers", by author Alexandre Dumas. "Yes, it will be Three in 3D," said Bolt about Three Musketeers. "We've learned so much from this film (Afterlife), it would be a pity not to build on that...We have a script ready to go...so we'll probably be shooting (Three Musketeers) in late summer..." "The Three Musketeers" recounts the adventures of 'd'Artagnan' after he leaves home to become a guard of the king's 'musketeers'. The 'three' musketeers' of the title are 'Athos', 'Porthos' and 'Aramis', inseparable friends who live by the motto "all for one, one for all". The book was first published in serial …
Milla Jovovich Is Good For Resident Evil 4
15 December 2009 4:46 AM, PST
Take a look at some new footage of actress Milla Jovovich, filmed by Milla Jovovich, with a handycam on the Toronto set of Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth film in the zombie series, based on the Capcom video games. Re:a started shooting September 28 in Toronto, including near Lake Ontario adjacent to the 'Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport' on the Toronto Islands, prompting concerned locals to call authorities after witnessing several controlled explosions for the film. Created by Shinji Mikami for Capcom, the video game series, has so far sold over 40 million games, with other Resident Evil spin-offs including comic books, novelizations and action figures. The first Toronto-lensed feature, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, released in 2002, grossed $102 million worldwide, focusing on amnesiac affected heroine 'Alice' and a squad of 'Umbrella Corporation' commandos, as they attempted to escape a secret underground facility overrun by zombies. Afterlife picks up after the events of Resident Evil: Extinction, …
'Volturi' Flock To IMAX For Twilight Saga: Eclipse
15 December 2009 4:32 AM, PST
IMAX Corporation and Summit Entertainment will release The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in Summit's Twilight franchise and second feature lensed in Vancouver, to IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film's launch June 30, 2010. Directed by David "Hard Candy" Slade, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will be digitally re-mastered into the image/sound quality of 'The IMAX Experience' using proprietary 'IMAX Dmr' (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The imaging coupled with IMAX' customized theatre geometry and digital audio will create a 'unique' environment that will make audiences feel as if they are 'in' the vampiric/werewolf teen romance. "Twilight moviegoers will have a whole new way to experience this next installment of the series, with the enhanced image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience putting them In the movie," confirmed Richie Fay, Summit Entertainment President, Domestic Theatrical Distribution. "We're very excited to work with …
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