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Jay Baruchel has reunited with the production team behind indie hit “Blackberry” on the upcoming rom-com “Mile End Kicks.”

The film, written and directed by Chandler Levack (“I Like Movies”), has just wrapped production in Montreal, and also stars Barbie Ferreira (“Euphoria”), Devon Bostick (“Oppenheimer”) Stanley Simons (“The Iron Claw”) and Juliette Gariépy (“Red Rooms”). Beloved Montreal rock band Tops has written two original songs for the soundtrack, performed live by a fictional rock group in the film.

The film is a Banner House Productions/Zapruder Films production and is produced by Pat Kiely (“Three Night Stand”) and Matthew Miller (“BlackBerry”). XYZ Films is financing the project in conjunction with Ipr.Vc via its New Visions initiative.

In the film, Grace Pine (Ferreira), a 24-year-old music critic moves to Montreal in the summer of 2011 with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill.” Instead, she falls...

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Press Release: "Los Angeles, CA (December 3, 2015) – Freestyle Digital Media announced today that...

Santa Monica-based company will release Marya Cohn’s drama with Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media in December.

The partners plan a 10-city Us theatrical and ultra VOD release for The Girl In The Book, about the daughter of a New York book agent with writer’s block who meets an author who reawakens painful memories.

Emily VanCamp and Michael Nyqvist star in the film, which premiered at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival.

Varient Pictures produced in association with Busted Buggy Entertainment and Gina Resnick and Kyle Heller served as producers with Daniel Cunningham and Courtney Daniels on board as executive producers.

Myriad Pictures also handles international sales on the film. This mars the third film Myriad and Freestyle will jointly release in the Us following Three Night Stand and After The Ball earlier this year.

Santa Monica-based Myriad will release Marya Cohn’s drama with Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media in December.

The partners plan a 10-city Us theatrical and ultra VOD release for The Girl In The Book, about the daughter of a New York book agent with writer’s block who meets an author who reawakens painful memories.

Emily VanCamp and Michael Nyqvist star in the film, which premiered at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival.

Varient Pictures produced in association with Busted Buggy Entertainment and Gina Resnick and Kyle Heller served as producers with Daniel Cunningham and Courtney Daniels on board as executive producers.

Myriad also handles international sales on the film. This mars the third film Myriad and Freestyle will jointly release in the Us following Three Night Stand and After The Ball earlier this year.

There was a time when the only place to see new movies was in theaters — I know, it sounds like science fiction, but it’s true — but the brave new world we find ourselves in has made it possible to experience brand new releases in a myriad of ways. One of the increasingly more common methods of mainlining cinema these days is via VOD, and while some smaller films manage limited theatrical releases a growing number are premiering on demand. This week’s small releases include four dramas of varying content and effect. Still Life follows a man whose job it is to find friends for the recently departed. Little Accidents examines the weight of guilt on several characters in a small, tragedy-prone town. The Phoenix Project finds four scientists on the verge of conquering death. And finally, Three Night Stand asks us to identify with a poor guy stuck between Meaghan Rath and Emmanuelle Chriqui. Still Life...

January is hitting of the rom-com season with “Three Night Stand,” starring “Entourage” star Emmanuelle Chriqui, “Being Human” star Meghan Rath and “Being Human” and “Veronica Mars” film star Sam Huntington. The film features a man who wants to get closer to his wife, but the weekend has different plans in mind for the couple. “Carl (Huntington) plans a weekend getaway to reconnect with wife Sue (Rath) at the same lodge he spent countless weekends with his sexy ex (Chriqui). Worlds collide when they learn the ex now runs the B&B, and Carl is forced to face the one who got away.” From what I’ve seen, it feels like the [ Read More ]

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Freestyle has acquired Us theatrical and digital rights from Myriad Pictures to the rom-com, which Myriad will be selling at the Afm.

Three Night Stand stars Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sam Huntington and Meaghan Rath in the story of a married couple who go to a ski lodge run by the man’s ex-girlfriend.

Pat Kiely wrote and directed Three Night Stand and also produced alongside Rob Vroom. Marie-Claude Poulin and Pierre Even of Item 7 are executive producers with Emily Alden of Pacific Northwest Pictures, Rath and Brian Vroom.

The film was produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Sodec, The Movie Network, Movie Central, the Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit, and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.

Freestyle will release the film theatrically in the Us on January 16, 2015.

The film premiered at the 2013 Whistler Film Festival and received its world premiere at Slamdance earlier this year.

Pacific Northwest Pictures handles distribution of all rights...

Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world, has just announced the Off-Frontières selections of the fourth edition of its Frontières International Co-Production Market.

Read on for a complete listing of all the titles being pitched at the event!

From the Press Release

Following the selection of the official Frontières line-up of film projects for the Frontières International Co-Production Market, another 12 projects have been chosen for the return of the Off-Frontières selection, for the market’s 4th edition.

The Off-Frontières projects line-up features a predominance of Canadian projects, complemented by projects from American, Mexican, Irish, British, French, German and Australian directors and producers. Highlights include the next features by Dario Argento (Suspiria) and by Jacob Tierney (The Trotsky), as well as follow-up features by Fantasia alumni Rob Grant (Mon Ami), Pat Kiely (Who Is Kk Downey?), Kerry Prior...

The ninth annual promotional showcase runs during the Cannes market and features competition entries from David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan and Xavier Dolan.

The films in Perspective Canada are: Ricardo Trogi’s 1987; Adam Macdonald’s Backcountry; Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart’s I Put A Hit On You; Denis Côté’s Joy Of Man’s Desiring; Jaret Belliveau’s Kung Fu Elliot; Matthew Komalchuk’s Lawrence & Holloman; David Cronenberg’s Map To The Stars; and Daniel Grou (Podz)’s Miraculum.

The roster continues with Xavier Dolan’s Mommy; Craig Goodwill’s Patch Town; Deanne Foley’s Relative Happiness; Yan Lanouette Turgeon’s Rock Paper Scissors; Atom Egoyan’s The Captive; Pat Kiely’s Three Night Stand; Andrew Huculiak’s Violent; and Stéphane Lafleur’s Directors’ Fortnight entry Tu Dors Nicole (You’re Sleeping Nicole).

The Telefilm line-up includes the Not Short On Talent short film spotlight.

“Cannes is also vital in terms of deal making,” said Telefilm...

Being Human returns Monday night (9 p.m. Et on Syfy) for its fourth season, and with it, the kind of strange set conversations Meaghan Rath, who plays ghost Sally, and Sam Witwer, who’s vampire Aidan, have come to expect: “Interesting conversations come from nudity scenes,” Rath says. “It’s always like, ‘Cover your nipples with this hand, and then dip your other hand in the blood.’” “‘But then also with the blood,’” Witwer continues, “just caress his face and make it look natural.’”Asking them for Season 4 teases might be easier: Rath says the theme is, “Everything happens for a reason.

Festival heads announced on December 9 the Special Screenings, Beyond and Shorts programmes for the 20th anniversary event.

The expanded short film programmes include 62 American and international productions, of which 24 are world, five are North American and eight are Us premieres.

The 2014 Shorts showcase includes Narrative, Documentary, Animation, Anarchy and the new Experimental Programme. Jury Awards are presented to short films in all categories and all films are eligible for the Spirit Of Slamdance Award judged by the film-makers themselves.

Films in the Beyond and Special Screening programmes are eligible for the audience awards.

Special screenings include the world premiere of La Bare (pictured) by Joe Manganiello, the North American premiere of Cheatin’ by Bill Plympton and Waiting For Mamu from Thomas Morgan, Francois Caillaud and Dan Chen.

The Beyond Programme includes the world premiere of Who Took Johnny from David Beilinson, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, Forever Not Alone by Monja Art and Caroline Bobek and Three Night Stand...

Saying goodbye is never easy, and fortunately in television, there are lots of ways to avoid goodbyes altogether. As Being Human wraps its third season, it is saying goodbye to fans for a few months until it returns for its fourth season. Similarly the fate of Amy Aquino’s character Donna is kind of in limbo right now as the supernaturally infused-series has a habit of bringing back its characters from the dead on more than one occasion. Death is not as ironclad point of no return in Being Human. To share a bit more about where this season is going to leave fans hanging and what Donna’s ultimate fate may be, in a recent press conference call stars Meaghan Rath and Amy Aquino teased what lies ahead.

What can you tell us about what we have to look forward to in the final episodes?

Meaghan: I think it...