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Lifetime grows black Magnolias, Israel sparks MIPtv sales, Nancy's just Foolin' and the Junos get Feist-y
LATIFAH: steel lady
FLICKERS: Dynamic leading ladies Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard and Phylicia Rashad have signed on for Lifetime's all-black remake of Steel Magnolias, taking over the roles originally played by Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine and Sally Field.No word yet as to who will be cast in the Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts roles … looking for some laughs this weekend? Servitude is the first film to be developed and workshopped through the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab, the CFC Film Program in collaboration with Just For Laughs, and it opens today with a stellar cast — Joe Dinicol, John Bregar, Linda Kash, Lauren Collins, Aaron Ashmore, Enrico Colantoni, Margot
DINICOL: in service
Kidder, and Dave Foley. Directed by Warren P. Sonada and written by co-producer Michael Sparaga, it looks like a lot of fun … left-wing heroine Jane Fonda will remind us what a good actress she is when she plays right-wing Republican former first lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' The Butler. An Oscar nominee for directing Precious, Daniels describes The Butler as a sprawling historical drama that centers on Eugene Allen, a black man who worked as butler in the White House under eight presidents. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker is slated to play Allen, and insiders say ardent Daniels supporter Oprah Winfrey may play one of the many supporting roles …and Marcelle Lean's 15th Cinefranco filmfest wraps up this weekend at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Hot titles include Ma Part Du Gateau/My Piece Of The Pie, one of
SUTHERLAND: worldwide
the films celebrated on last month's 12th Floating Film Festival, and L'Art D'Aimer/The Art Of Love. For Cinefranco program notes click here.
BRAVE NEW WORLDS: Did you see the premiere of Kiefer Sutherland's new series Touch last week on Global? If you did, you had plenty of company. Touch premiered almost simultaneously in 100 countries and territories. In the U.S. it screened on Fox; in Germany, on ProSieben; in Russia, on Channel One. New-world executive thinking indicates that the worldwide premiere signifies a new way of doing business that attracts multinational advertisers (Unilever is a sponsor of the series around the world) and attacks online piracy … also making history: the Adam Beach series Arctic
BEACH: hit series
Air, which averaged almost a million viewers a week in its debut season, the largest audience to follow the first season of a CBC Television drama series in 15 years. Other CBC shows more than one million viewers weekly include Dragons' Den, Republic Of Doyle and The Rick Mercer Report. So somebody must be doing something right … Israeli TV formats may prove to be the big buzz at this year's MIPtv. The annual international television convention opens Sunday in Cannes with a red carpet gala screening of Julian Fellowes' Titanic, already sold in 86 countries, but it's the shows from Israel sparking the most interest. HBO's In Treatment and Showtime's Homeland are both based on hit Israeli TV series. Another Israeli series, The Naked Truth, a suspense thriller set entirely in an interrogation room, has already been picked up by HBO
WHITE: April Foolin'
for an American remake, and NBC has ordered a pilot called Midnight Sun, based on the Israeli show Pillars of Smoke, about a female FBI agent who uncovers a conspiracy. Other hot prospects at next-week's four-day marathon in the south of France: Mr. Selfridge, a period drama about the life of the flamboyant founder of the London department story; Tom Fontana's Copper, about a police officer in 1860s New York City; the psychological thriller Hemlock Grove, already snapped up by Netflix; the period mini-series Madame Tussauds; dramatic series Hannibal, already sold to NBC; World Without End, a follow-up mini-series to Pillars Of The Earth; and Sinbad, BBC's update on the tale of the
FEIST: Junos telecast
8th century swashbuckler who battles monsters and visits magical places.
NO PEOPLE LIKE SHOW PEOPLE: Music man Jack de Keyser strums his stuff tomorrow night at Simcoe Jazz & Blues in Oshawa … perennial crowd-pleaser Nancy White headlines the April Fool's Matinee this weekend at the trendy Green Door cabaret with pianist Bob Johnston, percussionist Marsha Coffey and singers Ghislain Aucoin, Suzy Wilde, Barb Johnston, Maddy Wilde, Eddy Be, Stella Walker, Bridget Carter-Whitney, Mavis Lyons and Mike O'Hara. "Do not be frightened by the number of singers and the fact that the show is on a Sunday,"
McLACHLAN: singing Sunday
adds the irreepressible Ms. Walker. "No gospel music will be presented. That is our pledge to you." Showtime is 3 pm this Sunday April 1, For ticket info click here … Maggie Cassella hosts her own April 1 send-up, Liar Liar Pants On Fire, Sunday night at The Flying Beaver Pubaret. "It's an April Fools Day event where YOU get up on stage and tell a whopper of a story. The audience votes on weather they think it's true or false. If you fool them you win a prize!" … and now that deadmau5 and Madonna have called a truce, his fans can see him on Sunday night's Juno Awards telecast on CTV. Also set to rock the premises: Blue Rodeo, City and Colour, Feist, Hedley, Hey Rosetta!, K'NAAN, Lights, MC Flipside, Nickelback, Sarah McLachlan, and Simple Plan.
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Anne kicks off a new tour, Robin gets ready for Rama, Robert gets ready to make a splash, the NFB gets animated & T.O. film buffs go on Cairo Time
NO PEOPLE LIKE SHOW PEOPLE: Jazz legend Joe Sealy, cabaret queens Nancy White and Judith Lander, and We Will Rock You alumni Yvan
LANDER: October concert
Pedneault and Alana Bridgewater headline an afternoon musicale Oct. 25 at Rosedale United Church … Robin Williams plays Casino Rama Nov. 11 & 12 … Ron James is set to host the Nov. 14 Gemini Awards telecast from Calgary … good news for her Atlantic fans: Serena Ryder will play the first of six "intimate" east coast gigs November 26 in St. John's … and Robert LePage's nine-hour theatrical marathon, Lipsynch, is currently on view at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with intermissions and a dinner-break, through this Sunday. The brilliant Quebec dazzle-master, set to world-premiere his predictably controversial new opera The Nightingale and Other Short Fables
WILLIAMS: at Rama
here next week at the Four Seasons Centre, plans to fill a partially raised orchestra pit with roughly 30 tonnes of water. His singers will wade in, waist-deep, to manipulate puppets while the orchestra plays onstage behind them. Now that's show business!
FLICKERS: New season for the TIFF Cinemateque screenings at the AGO starts tonight, with Lisa Ray set to make an appearance tomorrow night for the screening of Deepa Mehta's hit comedy Bollywood/Hollywood. For more info, just click here … TIFF award-winner Cairo Time, with Patricia Clarkon and Alexander Siddig, opens in T.O. today. Film buffs, take note: Director Ruba Nadda will be attending tonight's 7pm screening and tomorrow's 2pm and 7pm
CLARKSON: in TIFF winner
screenings at the Varsity Cinemas for post-screening Q&A's … award-laden writer-director Paul Haggis' current film project has an intriguing title: The Next Three Days … and in celebration of International Animation Day and the National Film Board of Canada's 70th anniversary, the NFB is launching a special edition of Get Animated! – a series of free public screenings, from October 23–31, 2009, in 13 communities across this country. Accordingly, the NFB's Get Animated! website is already offering exclusive animation programming to all its visitors.
LITERATI: Royalists continue to be fascinated by the Queen Mother's recently revealed diaries and letters, despite the fact that her younger daughter,
MURRAY: on the road again
the late HRH Princess Margaret, reportedly destroyed a lot of the Queen Mum's correspondence in an effort to cover up the scandals created by Charles and Diana … look for new books this fall from both Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy … on your mark, set, buy: Top Five fiction finalists for this year's Giller Prize are Kim Echlin, The Disappeared; Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean; Linden MacIntyre (yes, the Linden MacIntyre,) The Bishop's Man; Colin McAdam, Fall; and Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault … and Anne Murray is set to kick off her cross-Canada tour to promote her new autobiography, All Of Me, with a signing session at Indigo Books & Music on Oct. 29 at the Eaton Centre. To find out when she's coming to your town, just click here.
And have a happy Thanksgiving.
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Tagged ALANA BRIDGEWATER, Alexander Siddig, Annabel Lyon, Anne Michaels, BAM, Bollywood/Hollywood, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Cairo Time, Casino Rama, Colin McAdam, DEEPA MEHTA, Fall, Four Seasons Centre For the Performing Arts, Gemini Awards, Get Animated!, Giller Prize, JOE SEALEY, JUDITH KANDER, Kim Echlin, Linden MacIntyre, Lipsynch, LISA RAY, NANCY WHITE, National Film Board Of Canada, NFB, PATRICIA CLARKSON, Paul Haggis, Robert LePage, ROBIN WILLIAMS, RON JAMES, Rosedale United Church, Ruba Nadda, Serena Ryder, The Bishop's Man, The Disappeared, The Golden Mean, The Next Three Days, The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, The Winter Vault, Varsity Cinemas, YVAN PEDNAULT