Exclusive: Paloma Kwiatkowski (Riot Girls), Donal Logue (Sons Of Anarchy), David Mazouz (Gotham), Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter), and Golden Globe nominee Adam Beach (Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee) have been set to star in supernatural thriller The Island Between Tides.
Production is underway in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, with XYZ Films newly aboard to rep North American sales. Above is a first look image.
The feature film, based on Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie’s gothic bedtime tale Mary Rose, takes place in the coastal wilds of the Alaskan border. The plot follows Lily (Kwiatkowski), a young woman who follows a mysterious melody onto a remote tidal island. When she crosses back over at the next low tide, she emerges into a world where decades have passed.
Writer-director-producers are Andrew Holmes (Dolph) and Emmy-winning filmmaker Austin Andrews (Julie and the Phantoms).
The Island Between Tides is the first feature...
Production is underway in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, with XYZ Films newly aboard to rep North American sales. Above is a first look image.
The feature film, based on Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie’s gothic bedtime tale Mary Rose, takes place in the coastal wilds of the Alaskan border. The plot follows Lily (Kwiatkowski), a young woman who follows a mysterious melody onto a remote tidal island. When she crosses back over at the next low tide, she emerges into a world where decades have passed.
Writer-director-producers are Andrew Holmes (Dolph) and Emmy-winning filmmaker Austin Andrews (Julie and the Phantoms).
The Island Between Tides is the first feature...
- 3/29/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Vancouver’s Mad Samurai Productions produces with financing from Telefilm Canada.
Los Angeles-based Spotlight Pictures has acquired international sales rights to the thriller Juggernaut starring Jack Kesy, who stars in 12 Strong and the upcoming Deadpool 2 and Eli Roth’s Death Wish remake.
Amanda Crew, David Cubitt, Stephen McHattie and Peter McRobbie round out the key cast on the feature from writer-director Daniel Dimarco.
Kesy plays a violent young man who returns to his homestead convinced that there are suspicious elements behind his mother’s allege suicide and sets out for revenge.
Matthew Cervi produced through his Vancouver-based company Mad Samurai Productions and Ines Eisses served as co-producer. Ben Silverman, Dave Valleau, Rich Mento and Jason Upton served as executive producers.
The film was developed through the Harold Greenberg Fund, Telefilm Canada, and Creative BC, with production financing support from Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund.
“Daniel Dimarco has devised an ingeniously executed thriller,” Spotlight Pictures CEO [link...
Los Angeles-based Spotlight Pictures has acquired international sales rights to the thriller Juggernaut starring Jack Kesy, who stars in 12 Strong and the upcoming Deadpool 2 and Eli Roth’s Death Wish remake.
Amanda Crew, David Cubitt, Stephen McHattie and Peter McRobbie round out the key cast on the feature from writer-director Daniel Dimarco.
Kesy plays a violent young man who returns to his homestead convinced that there are suspicious elements behind his mother’s allege suicide and sets out for revenge.
Matthew Cervi produced through his Vancouver-based company Mad Samurai Productions and Ines Eisses served as co-producer. Ben Silverman, Dave Valleau, Rich Mento and Jason Upton served as executive producers.
The film was developed through the Harold Greenberg Fund, Telefilm Canada, and Creative BC, with production financing support from Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund.
“Daniel Dimarco has devised an ingeniously executed thriller,” Spotlight Pictures CEO [link...
- 2/19/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Projects participating in the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s two-day co-financing market include Eddie Marsan’s feature directorial debut.
The International Financing Forum (Iff 2016, Sept 11-12) is organised in association with the Toronto International Film Festival and will host 20 Canadian and 20 international English-language features.
The iff 2016 Canadian producers and projects include: Robert Budreau (Ontario) of Lumanity Productions with political thriller In The Flames, and Media Goes Here’s Jeff Rogers and Tim Martin (Ontario) with horror project The Sandman, which Dario Argento wrote and will direct starring Iggy Pop.
Sonia Boileau and Jason Brennan (Quebec) of Nish Media represent Vanished, while Mad Samurai Productions’ Matthew Cervi (British Columbia) attends with Zed. Mary Anne Waterhouse and Andrew Currie (Ontario) of Quadrant Motion Pictures represent The Invisibles, which Currie will direct.
Among the international participants are: Coded Pictures’ Karen Katz (UK) with the social drama Hammer ‘Til I Die, which marks Marsan’s (pictured) writing and directorial debut.
Also...
The International Financing Forum (Iff 2016, Sept 11-12) is organised in association with the Toronto International Film Festival and will host 20 Canadian and 20 international English-language features.
The iff 2016 Canadian producers and projects include: Robert Budreau (Ontario) of Lumanity Productions with political thriller In The Flames, and Media Goes Here’s Jeff Rogers and Tim Martin (Ontario) with horror project The Sandman, which Dario Argento wrote and will direct starring Iggy Pop.
Sonia Boileau and Jason Brennan (Quebec) of Nish Media represent Vanished, while Mad Samurai Productions’ Matthew Cervi (British Columbia) attends with Zed. Mary Anne Waterhouse and Andrew Currie (Ontario) of Quadrant Motion Pictures represent The Invisibles, which Currie will direct.
Among the international participants are: Coded Pictures’ Karen Katz (UK) with the social drama Hammer ‘Til I Die, which marks Marsan’s (pictured) writing and directorial debut.
Also...
- 8/30/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Projects participating in the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s two-day co-financing market include Eddie Marsan’s feature directorial debut.
The International Financing Forum (Iff 2016, Sept 11-12) is organised in association with the Toronto International Film Festival and will host 20 Canadian and 20 international English-language features.
The iff 2016 Canadian producers and projects include: Robert Budreau (Ontario) of Lumanity Productions with political thriller In The Flames, and Media Goes Here’s Jeff Rogers and Tim Martin (Ontario) with horror project The Sandman, which Dario Argento wrote and will direct starring Iggy Pop.
Sonia Boileau and Jason Brennan (Quebec) of Nish Media represent Vanished, while Mad Samurai Productions’ Matthew Cervi (British Columbia) attends with Zed. Mary Anne Whitehouse and Andrew Currie (Ontario) of Quadrant Motion Pictures represent The Invisibles, which Currie will direct.
Among the international participants are: Coded Pictures’ Karen Katz (UK) with the social drama Hammer ‘Til I Die, which marks Marsan’s (pictured) writing and directorial debut.
Also...
The International Financing Forum (Iff 2016, Sept 11-12) is organised in association with the Toronto International Film Festival and will host 20 Canadian and 20 international English-language features.
The iff 2016 Canadian producers and projects include: Robert Budreau (Ontario) of Lumanity Productions with political thriller In The Flames, and Media Goes Here’s Jeff Rogers and Tim Martin (Ontario) with horror project The Sandman, which Dario Argento wrote and will direct starring Iggy Pop.
Sonia Boileau and Jason Brennan (Quebec) of Nish Media represent Vanished, while Mad Samurai Productions’ Matthew Cervi (British Columbia) attends with Zed. Mary Anne Whitehouse and Andrew Currie (Ontario) of Quadrant Motion Pictures represent The Invisibles, which Currie will direct.
Among the international participants are: Coded Pictures’ Karen Katz (UK) with the social drama Hammer ‘Til I Die, which marks Marsan’s (pictured) writing and directorial debut.
Also...
- 8/30/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Forty producer teams and their projects including Eddie Marsan’s feature directorial debut will participate in the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s two-day co-financing market from September 11-12.
The International Financing Forum (iff 2016) is organised in association with the Toronto International Film Festival and will host 20 Canadian and 20 international English-language features.
The iff 2016 Canadian producers and projects include: Robert Budreau (Ontario) of Lumanity Productions with political thriller In The Flames, and Media Goes Here’s Jeff Rogers and Tim Martin (Ontario) with horror project The Sandman, which Dario Argento wrote and will direct starring Iggy Pop.
Sonia Boileau and Jason Brennan (Quebec) of Nish Media represent Vanished, while Mad Samurai Productions’ Matthew Cervi (British Columbia) attends with Zed. Mary Anne Whitehouse and Andrew Currie (Ontario) of Quadrant Motion Pictures represent The Invisibles, which Currie will direct.
Among the international participants are: Coded Pictures’ Karen Katz (UK) with the social drama Hammer ‘Til I Die, which marks Marsan...
The International Financing Forum (iff 2016) is organised in association with the Toronto International Film Festival and will host 20 Canadian and 20 international English-language features.
The iff 2016 Canadian producers and projects include: Robert Budreau (Ontario) of Lumanity Productions with political thriller In The Flames, and Media Goes Here’s Jeff Rogers and Tim Martin (Ontario) with horror project The Sandman, which Dario Argento wrote and will direct starring Iggy Pop.
Sonia Boileau and Jason Brennan (Quebec) of Nish Media represent Vanished, while Mad Samurai Productions’ Matthew Cervi (British Columbia) attends with Zed. Mary Anne Whitehouse and Andrew Currie (Ontario) of Quadrant Motion Pictures represent The Invisibles, which Currie will direct.
Among the international participants are: Coded Pictures’ Karen Katz (UK) with the social drama Hammer ‘Til I Die, which marks Marsan...
- 8/30/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Thanks to VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for June 2016, including "Death Note", "Juggernaut", "Prison Break" and a whole lot more:
Feature Film:
Boundaries
Boundaries Pictures Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Chris Ferguson, Kenneth Burke
May 02/16 - Jun 02/16
Death Note
Dn (Canada) Productions Inc
Exec. Producer(s): Brendan Ferguson
Jun 30/16 - Aug 30/16
Further Adventures Of Max & Banks 2 & 3
Gramercy Film Productions
Producer: Michael Deluca, Erika Mitchell, Dana Brunetti, Marcus Viscidi
Feb 16/16 - Jul 06/16
Hot Street
Hot Street Productions Ltd
Exec. Producer(s): Alex Tkach
Producer: Chris Brough
Co-Producer: Ralph Zondag
May 23/16 - Jun 10/16
Juggernaut
Forlorn Hope Productions Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Ben Silverman
Producer: Matthew Cervi
May 16/16 - Jun 08/16
Max 2: White House Hero
Max 2 Productions Canada
Producer: Karen Rosefelt, Ken Blancato, Matt Bierman
Line Producer: Kelley Sims
Jun 13/16 - Jul 13/16
Status Update
Status Productions Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Shawn Williamson, Arielle Boisvert
Jun...
Feature Film:
Boundaries
Boundaries Pictures Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Chris Ferguson, Kenneth Burke
May 02/16 - Jun 02/16
Death Note
Dn (Canada) Productions Inc
Exec. Producer(s): Brendan Ferguson
Jun 30/16 - Aug 30/16
Further Adventures Of Max & Banks 2 & 3
Gramercy Film Productions
Producer: Michael Deluca, Erika Mitchell, Dana Brunetti, Marcus Viscidi
Feb 16/16 - Jul 06/16
Hot Street
Hot Street Productions Ltd
Exec. Producer(s): Alex Tkach
Producer: Chris Brough
Co-Producer: Ralph Zondag
May 23/16 - Jun 10/16
Juggernaut
Forlorn Hope Productions Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Ben Silverman
Producer: Matthew Cervi
May 16/16 - Jun 08/16
Max 2: White House Hero
Max 2 Productions Canada
Producer: Karen Rosefelt, Ken Blancato, Matt Bierman
Line Producer: Kelley Sims
Jun 13/16 - Jul 13/16
Status Update
Status Productions Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Shawn Williamson, Arielle Boisvert
Jun...
- 5/28/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Ten years ago, author Elizabeth McClung made a big splash with "Zed." Her post apocalyptic thriller about a pre-teen girl named Zed surviving in a harsh new reality, was named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail and won numerous awards. In 2009, the project was optioned by Matthew Cervi's Vancouver based Mad Samurai Productions but little has been heard of the project since then.
Today, as if this were breaking news, Playback has announced that Cervi will be producing the movie.
Described as a [Continued ...]...
Today, as if this were breaking news, Playback has announced that Cervi will be producing the movie.
Described as a [Continued ...]...
- 6/23/2015
- QuietEarth.us
We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes news on the latest episode of Ghost Trek, an announcement for William Pattison’s new novel, Psychotic State, DVD release details for The Colony, a clip from Hitchhiker Massacre, and much more:
Details on Psychotic State: “The plot of Psychotic State tells the story of David Coleman, a bipolar twenty-six year old man who is one of those people that the world likes to pick on. David is bullied and abused by everyone around him, including his adopted father. When David gets fired from his job after a run in with a couple bullies he loses his medical and stops taking his medication. This causes David to go into a psychotic state and in a twisted idea of justice he decides that it is time for him...
Details on Psychotic State: “The plot of Psychotic State tells the story of David Coleman, a bipolar twenty-six year old man who is one of those people that the world likes to pick on. David is bullied and abused by everyone around him, including his adopted father. When David gets fired from his job after a run in with a couple bullies he loses his medical and stops taking his medication. This causes David to go into a psychotic state and in a twisted idea of justice he decides that it is time for him...
- 10/13/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged on Wednesday [7] that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
We return with the latest edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a trailer for The Banshee Chapter, a new episode of Chronicles of the Dead, details on The Crying Dead, and much more:
Heir First Details: “From Richard Powell and Zach Green’s Fatal Pictures, the company that brought you the critically acclaimed, award winning horror shorts Worm and Familiar, comes their new and final short film “Heir”, a touching tale of father and son. Starring the Emmy award winning Bill Oberst Jr. (Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies) and Robert Nolan (Sick, Worm, Familiar).
After connecting with a stranger of similar interests online, family man Gordon and his son Paul, embark on an ill-fated road trip in which Gordon aims to indulge in a secret passion. Before the day ends a horrible truth will be uncovered and a harsh lesson will be learned.
Heir First Details: “From Richard Powell and Zach Green’s Fatal Pictures, the company that brought you the critically acclaimed, award winning horror shorts Worm and Familiar, comes their new and final short film “Heir”, a touching tale of father and son. Starring the Emmy award winning Bill Oberst Jr. (Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies) and Robert Nolan (Sick, Worm, Familiar).
After connecting with a stranger of similar interests online, family man Gordon and his son Paul, embark on an ill-fated road trip in which Gordon aims to indulge in a secret passion. Before the day ends a horrible truth will be uncovered and a harsh lesson will be learned.
- 7/28/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Image Entertainment picked up USA release rights to the sci-fi thriller The Colony, which stars Laurence Fishburne. No word yet on a release date, and whether it'll get a theatrical release or head straight to VOD/DVD. Budget at $16 million, the Canadian-produced film is directed by Jeff Renfroe, from a script he co-wrote with Patrick Tarr, Pacal Trottier and Svet Rouskov, and the story centers on a group of underground survivors fighting to survive after the next Ice Age, fending off an invasion of feral cannibals. Bill Paxton co-stars with Fishburne. Paul Barkin, Matthew Cervi and Pierre Even produced. Image...
- 6/21/2013
- by Natasha Greeves
- ShadowAndAct
Image Entertainment has picked up USA release rights to the sci-fi thriller The Colony, which stars Laurence Fishburne. The $16 milliom Canadian production is directed by Jeff Renfroe, from a script he co-wrote with Patrick Tarr, Pacal Trottier and Svet Rouskov. It centers on a group of underground survivors fighting to survive after the next Ice Age, fending off an invasion of feral cannibals. Bill Paxton co-stars with Fishburne. Paul Barkin, Matthew Cervi and Pierre Even produced. No word on release dates yet. No trailer yet, but here are some on-set photos for the film (and if you squint, you should be able to make out...
- 2/8/2013
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Toronto – Bill Paxton has joined The Colony, a $16 million Canadian indie feature shooting in Toronto and northern Ontario. Paxton joins Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Zegers as top-liners in the sci-fi thriller about a group of underground survivors after the next Ice Age fending off an invasion of feral cannibals. Jeff Renfroe is directing The Colony, based on a script he co-wrote with Patrick Tarr, Pascal Trottier and Svet Rouskov. Alcina Pictures is producing the Ontario/Quebec co-production with Item 7 and Mad Samurai Productions. Paul Barkin, Colin Brunton, Matthew Cervi, Pierre Even and Marie-Claude
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- 3/28/2012
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Zegers ("Transamerica," "Dawn of the Dead") are close to joining the cast of Jeff Renfroe's $16 million Canadian sci-fi thriller "The Colony" for Alcina Pictures, Item 7 and Mad Samurai Productions says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story deals with a group of underground survivors after the next Ice Age fending off an invasion of feral cannibals.
Renfroe, Patrick Tarr, Pascal Trottier and Svet Rouskov co-wrote the script. Shooting kicks off next week in Toronto and will continue through late March.
Paul Barkin, Colin Brunton, Matthew Cervi, Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin are producing.
The story deals with a group of underground survivors after the next Ice Age fending off an invasion of feral cannibals.
Renfroe, Patrick Tarr, Pascal Trottier and Svet Rouskov co-wrote the script. Shooting kicks off next week in Toronto and will continue through late March.
Paul Barkin, Colin Brunton, Matthew Cervi, Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin are producing.
- 2/16/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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