Lionsgate reports that the Toronto/UK-lensed feature Kick-Ass has debuted at number one on DVD sales charts. The Blu-ray combo pack of the film (three discs- including Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy), also debuted at number one.In addition, the release came out of its first weekend as the top movie download on the iTunes store, Zune and Sony/Playstation and achieved the biggest digital week performance ever by a Lionsgate title.Kick-Ass, which grossed nearly $50 million in North America and $100 million worldwide during its theatrical run, also achieved the highest box office-to-DVD conversion rate for all major DVD releases this quarter, helping Lionsgate to maintain industry leadership in box office-to-DVD conversion."Kick-Ass is truly one of the most unique, entertaining, and action-packed movies of the year," said Ron Schwartz, Lionsgate General Manager and Executive Vice President. "With its strong word-of-mouth, we felt confident that it would have a powerful home entertainment debut and are particularly pleased with the success of the Blu-ray combo pack, which accounted for 42% of week one sell-through revenue."Co-written and directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kick-Ass stars Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad) and Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes), along with Chloe Grace Moretz (Let Me In) and ...

Synthetic Cinema International and MVD Visual report that the DVD release of Assault of the Sasquatch will be available in North America, October 19, 2010."...When a merciless bear poacher is caught and arrested deep in the woods of a state park, he and his truck are taken to a neglected precinct in the heart of a dying city. Unbeknownst to the authorities, the impounded truck holds a deadly cargo in the form of the legendary 'Sasquatch'. Now, stuck in an unfamiliar world, the creature will let nothing and no one stop it from coming face-to-face with the unscrupulous man who ruthlessly ripped it from its environment..."Main cast includes Kevin Shea, Greg Nutcher, Sarah Ahearn, Cristina Santiago, Jason Criscoulo, Andrea Saenz, Alex Exum, Cuyle Carvin and "Don & Murph".

E1 Gets Under MTV's SkinsFurther to our exclusive Skins casting call November 19, 2009, MTV reports that the new North American version of the sexy, UK teen soap series Skins will start lensing the first of 10 one-hour episodes in Toronto this month.Created by father and son team Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain for Stormdog Films, Skins will feature an ensemble cast "...as they navigate complex relationships, the politics of friendship and difficulties of daily life in their formative years..."In 2009, MTV secured the rights to create a North American version of the original UK Skins series, now in its 5th season, with 'unknown' teenagers cast in lead roles and 'real' teens contributing to the creative structure of each episode.The UK series, airing on E4 won the 2009 'BAFTA Audience Award' and 'Best Drama Series' @ the 2008 Broadcast Awards.Skins is co-produced by E1 Entertainment and Company Pictures, a division of ALL3MEDIA, the same company that produces the Channel 4 series in the UK. Elsley will Executive Produce the series, along with Laszlo Barna and Michael Rosenberg from E1 and Charlie Pattinson and George Faber of Company Pictures. Chris Clough served as an executive producer on the ...

According to executive producer Scott Rosenbaum, actress Jane Badler will appear on ABC's Vancouver-lensed TV series V as a recurring character.Badler played the lizard 'Diana' in the original 1980's V series and will play a new character named 'Diana' in the rebooted show as the reptilian alien mother of 'Anna'."...'Anna' (Morena Baccarin) is keeping her mother prisoner on the mother ship in a never-before-seen section that has been designed to look like the Visitors' home planet..."Starring Elizabeth Mitchell, V, based on the 1983 mini-series, was one of the most-watched series premieres of the 2009-10 TV season when it debuted to 14.3 million viewers.V also stars Morris Chestnut as 'Ryan Nichols', Joel Gretsch as 'Father Jack', Lourdes Benedicto as 'Valerie', Logan Huffman as 'Tyler Evans', Laura Vandervoort as 'Lisa', Morena Baccarin as 'Anna' and Scott Wolf as 'Chad Decker'.Inspired by "It Can't Happen Here" a 1935 novel by author Sinclair Lewis focusing on fascism in the US, V was originally created by director–producer Kenneth Johnson.DC Comics also published a spin-off comic book series based on the original V TV series.The updated V TV series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien ...

Workers from the BC film and TV industry joined with members of the business community @ Vancouver's North Shore Studios August 5, regarding the new provincial 'Harmonized Sales Tax'."Harmonizing the sales taxes will help attract more shows and more jobs to BC, making our province a more competitive destination for TV and movie productions,” said Peter Leitch, president of North Shore Studios/Mammoth Studios and chair of the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of British Columbia."The 'HST' is strong medicine for our economy – just like medicine, it may taste bad, but it’s going to make sure we’re healthy and strong tomorrow," said Jock Finlayson, Executive Vice President, Business Council of British Columbia."It’s going to help protect the jobs we have, help spark job creation, and help create higher-paying jobs. The 'PST' was a barrier to the kind of investments that create employment and drive the economy. Harmonization takes down that barrier."In 2009, 239 motion picture projects were lensed in British Columbia...

Take a look at the latest cover of "Empire" Magazine, featuring actor Michael Cera, supporting the Toronto-lensed Universal monsters feature, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, based on the Oni Press comic book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley."...Get The Hot Girl. Defeat her Evil Exes. Hit Love Where It Hurts...""...Meet charming and jobless 'Scott Pilgrim' (Michael Cera). A bass guitarist for totally average garage band 'Sex Bob-omb', the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams…literally. The only catch to winning 'Ramona Flowers' (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him."Scott has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It’s getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart’s ass—and now is back in town—to the teenage distraction he’s trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn’t been easy."He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes control her love life and will do whatever it takes to eliminate him as a suitor. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues’ gallery from her past—from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars ...

According to reports, a developing online Syfy series titled "Blood & Chrome will focus on the Battlestar Galactica character, 'William "Husker" Adama', as a young man during the first 'Cylon War'.Mark Stern, Syfy's executive VP of original programming/co-head of original content for Universal Cable Productions, confirmed that Battlestar Galactica and Caprica co-executive producer Michael Taylor will write the script for the new series.Taylor said that Blood & Chrome will be about"...a young man's initiation into war. Both the realities of war as fought by soldiers on the ground and the somewhat less real version portrayed in the media..."The series will comprise 10 episodes @ 10 minutes each, incorporating green screens and virtual sets using high-tech scans made from the original Battlestar Galactica sets in Vancouver."But the movie isn't confined to Galactica," said Taylor."Far from it. It's a story that will take us to new corners of the Battlestar world and yet it aims to be a very contemporary war movie in a lot of ways...We're not going to be shying away from R-rated blood and guts and sex. Because this is initially meant to air online, we pretty much have no restrictions in that department."If the series ...

This year, the 35th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) runs from Sept. 9-19. Confirmed screenings, so far include:Robert Redford's "The Conspirator" Guillaume Canet's "Little White Lies" Barry Blaustein's "Peep World" Andy De Emmony's "West Is West" Emilio Estevez' "The Way" Steven Silver's "The Bang Bang Club" George Hickenlooper's "Casino Jack" David M. Rosenthal's "Janie Jones." Richard J. Lewis' "Barney's Version" Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" John Madden's "The Debt" Im Sang-Soo's "The Housemaid" Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" Francois Ozon's "Potiche" Ben Affleck's "The Town." Raul Ruiz' "Mysteries of Lisbon" Mike Leigh's "Another Year" Woody Allen's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Biutiful" Julian Schnabel's "Miral" Stephen Frears' "Tamara Drewe" Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist" Kim Jee-woon's "I Saw the Devil" Andrew Lau's "The Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen" Tran Anh Hung's "Norwegian Wood" Rachid Bouchareb's "Outside the Law" Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's "A Screaming Man" Anurag Kashyap's "That Girl in Yellow Boots" Mark Romanek's "Never Let Me Go" Mike Mills' "Beginners" John Cameron Mitchell's "Rabbit Hole" John Curran's "Stone" Richard Ayoade's "Submarine" Michael Winterbottom's "The Trip" Nigel Cole's "Made In Dagenham" Eric Lartigau's "The Big Picture" Rowan Joffe's "Brighton Rock" Tony Goldwyn's "Conviction" Kiran Rao's "Dhobi Ghat" Will Gluck's "Easy A" Malcolm Venville's "Henry's Crime" Ryan Fleck's/Anna Bolden's "It's Kind Of A Funny Story" Pierre Thoretton's "L'Amour Fou" Andrucha Waddington's "Lope" David Schwimmer's "Trust." Philip Seymour Hoffman's "Jack Goes Boating" Danis Tanovic's "Cirkus Columbia" Susanne Bier's "In a Better World" Alain Corneau's ...

Take a look @ the new poster supporting the CW's Vancouver-lensed TV series, Hellcats, executive produced by Smallville star Tom Welling for Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Tom Welling Productions, Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios."...'Hellcats' is a coming-of-age story about 'Marti Perkins', a pre-law student at 'Lancer University' in Memphis, Tennessee. Marti is cool, hip and 'alt', but her world flips upside down, literally and figuratively, when she loses her scholarship, and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer's legendary cheerleading team, 'The Hellcats'."Against her every instinct, Marti goes for it and makes the squad, and is thrust into a world of camaraderie, backstabbing and the intersection of sports, backroom academia and big money. Marti's new roommate, 'Savannah Monroe', a petite, peppy Texan, is among the diverse cast of athletes, undergrads, family and friends, all set on the sprawling campus of a powerhouse college football program in the deep South..."Hellcats debuts September 8, starring Ashley Tisdale as 'Savannah Monroe', Heather Hemmens as 'Alice Verdura', Robbie Jones as 'Lewis Flynn', Matt Barr as 'Dan Patch', Sharon Leal as 'Vanessa ...

Take a look @ the latest posters supporting the CW network's Toronto-lensed TV series update of Nikita.Scheduled to debut Thursday September 9 on the CW, Nikita stars Hong Kong action movie star Maggie Q as 'Nikita', Lyndsy Fonseca as 'Alex', Shane West as 'Michael', Aaron Stanford as 'Birkhoff', Ashton Holmes as 'Thom', Tiffany Hines as 'Jaden', Melinda Clarke as 'Amanda' and Xander Berkeley as 'Percy'.Nikita is produced by Warner Bros. Television in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision, for executive producers Craig Silverstein, Danny Cannon, McG and Peter Johnson."...When she was a deeply troubled teenager, 'Nikita' was rescued from death row by a secret US agency known only as 'Division', who faked her execution and told her she was being given a second chance to start a new life and serve her country. What they didn't tell her was that she was being trained as a spy and assassin. Ultimately, Nikita was betrayed and her dreams shattered by the only people she thought she could trust. Now, after three years in hiding, Nikita is seeking retribution and making it clear to her former bosses that she will stop at nothing to expose and destroy their covert operation."For the time ...