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Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D, the highly anticipated sequel to 2006’s film SILENT HILL, released by TriStar Pictures. SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D will be released wide October 26, 2012 in time for Halloween.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=244
This week, the 32nd annual Genie Awards will celebrate what the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television says is a banner year in Canadian film. Yet Canadians are still showing little interest in seeing them. What can be done? Here are a 14 answers to that question.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=241
Trailer: Brendan Fehr, Katharine Isabelle in 13 Eerie]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=243
The local hockey comedy from director Michael Dowse overtook the Hollywood competition by debuting with an estimated $1.2 million.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=242
While it’s always great to talk to actors, if you want to know why certain decisions were made on a movie, you’ve got to talk to the producers. While an actor can tell you why they delivered a line a certain way or how they got involved in the project, they can’t tell you why certain characters were brought back and why others weren’t. In addition, they can’t talk about the budget, working with Capcom and Screen Gems, and so many other key behind the scenes decisions. So when I got to visit the set of Resident Evil: Retribution last month in Toronto, one of the key interviews was with producers Jeremy Bolt, Don Carmody, and Robert Kulzer. During our wide ranging conversation they talked about what’s different in the fifth installment, what fans can look forward to, and so much more.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=240
One of Canada’s most successful film producers, with a record six Golden Reel Award winners to his credit, Don Carmody celebrates his 60th birthday in April. Over the years he has produced many films with CSC DOPs, including three with the late Reginald Morris csc (A Christmas Story, Porky’s, Porky’s II: The Next Day), two with Glen MacPherson csc, asc (Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster, Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D), Pierre Gill csc (The Art of War, Polytechnique), Robert Saad csc (Shivers, Death Weekend) and also with Steve Danyluk csc (Breakaway), Peter Benison csc (Meatballs III: Summer Job) and the late Don Wilder csc (Meatballs). In 2010, Carmody won the Best Picture Genie Award for co-producing Denis Villeneuve’s heart-wrenching Polytechnique. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=234
My first picture with a producer credit was [David Cronenberg’s] Shivers [1975] for Cinepix. Before that I went to film school. There were only two film schools in Canada in those days. The only one that gave a university degree was Loyola, which is now part of Concordia [in Montreal]. They gave a degree in Communication Arts and they had a Film Studies program, and I was part of a very small group of film students. I think there was maybe 10 or 12 of us and each month it was somebody’s month to make a student movie, and if it was your month, you wrote and directed it. If it wasn’t your month, you were the cameraman or the set dresser or whatever, but the thing that nobody could ever seem to get their head around was being the actual producer and getting everything ready, because it meant you had to get up early. And at least half of us lived together in this big house, and out of sheer frustration, I would just do it. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=235
This past Saturday evening, prolific movie producer Don Carmody, along with several of the cast and crew of his current 3D project, SILENT HILL: REVELATION, spent the evening joined by a Who’s Who of the Canadian film industry at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Toronto, where tribute was paid in honor of his significant achievement of 100 films in 38 years of filmmaking. This milestone actually came about in 2010 with the advent of RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, but a hectic schedule delayed the possibility of a celebration until this month.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=232
Oscar-winning Chicago producer Don Carmody, who led the exodus of Hollywood studio pics to Canada from the 1980s, to receive industry tribute in Toronto on Saturday night. TORONTO -- Having racked 100-plus movie credits during a 40-year Canadian producing career, Don Carmody has earned the status of public enemy number one with Los Angeles runaway production opponents.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=231
Carmody, despite his low-key style, is probably Canada’s most successful producer. And if his name isn’t immediately familiar, his movies are. Included in his oeuvre: David Cronenberg horrorfests (Shivers, Rabid) raunchy eighties comedies (Porky’s, Weekend at Bernie’s), Chuck Norris martial-arts vehicles, and such mainstream films as Goodwill Hunting, Johnny Mnemonic, The Whole Nine Yards and the 2002 Oscar-winner Chicago. With a résumé like that, Carmody has pretty much seen it all. On a tour of his latest film set, the producer’s tales include one about a minor bump during the making of his first 3-D movie, back in 1983, called Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. “The director had some kind of breakdown after a couple of weeks, so Columbia sent us a new guy,” recalls Carmody. “I called the studio: ‘Do you know he’s blind in one eye?’ They asked me, ‘Is that going to be an issue?’ I said, ‘Yeah, for 3-D it’s kind of an issue.’ ” ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=230
Had modesty not intervened, Canadian film über-producer Don Carmody’s first paid movie job would have had him nakedly frolicking in a naughty little number called The Devil Among Us. The invitation for porn stardom came when he was barely 20 in 1971. The man who would later send Chicago to the Oscars and Porky’s to the showers was then a shy film scholar seeking work with the boys at Montreal’s Cinepix, legendary makers of “B” movies and skin flicks. “The first time I went to Cinepix looking for a job they offered me one as an extra in an orgy scene!” Carmody recalls in an interview, laughing. “I told them I didn’t want to be in an orgy!” ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=229
The producers indicate the sequel builds on the 2006 Silent Hill movie: “For years, Heather Mason (Clemens) and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn’t fully understand. Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody, who produced the original Silent Hill movie directed by Christopher Gans, most recently stick-handled Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, and Wentworth Miller. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=228
Adelaide Clemens and Kit Harington have signed to star in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, the sequel to video game movie Silent Hill. The movie, being directed by Michael J. Bassett , begins shooting in Toronto Monday. Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody are producing.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=226
Further to our world exclusive scoop February 5, 2011, confirming Toronto-based producer Don Carmody's plans to mount "Resident Evil 5", Sony has now scheduled Sept. 14, 2012 for the upcoming 3D feature's release. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=227
The Golden Reel for domestic box office topper goes to "Resident Evil: Afterlife," which has so far raked in over $280 million worldwide, making it the most successful Canadian feature ever. Horror pic also landed five noms in craft categories.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=225
The latest instalment of the Resident Evil franchise earned five nominations, as well as the Golden Reel Award, presented to the film with the year’s biggest box office take. (Resident Evil: Afterlife made $280-million worldwide and is the most successful production in Canadian feature film history.)]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=219
Denis Villeneuve has a tradition of dominating the Genies in the years in which his films are eligible. His 2001 pic Maelstrom, narrated by a fish, had a field-leading five nominations that year. And last year, the Quebec director’s Montreal massacre movie Polytechnique led the field with 11 nominations and came away with nine trophies in all. English Canadian film does get a look-in, however, with Resident Evil: Afterlife grabbing the Golden Reel Award for its $7.02 million box office nationwide last year. Having surpassed the $280 million foreign box office mark last November, Resident Evil is now the top-grossing Canadian film of all time. “Canadians really like zombies,” five-time Golden Reel winner and producer Don Carmody told Playback Daily.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=221
Carmody credited 3D technology with helping push the film to record receipts. He says the movie made $50 million in Japan alone, and another $28 million in China, where it was the first horror film to officially be allowed into the country. He noted that his slick project is one of several big budget co-productions that garnered substantial Genie attention Wednesday. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=223
The biggest Canadian earner was Resident Evil: Afterlife, which grossed $7.02 million at the nationwide box office, on its way to over $300 million in international box office, ahead of DVD sales.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=222
TORONTO, February 2, 2011 — The nominations for the 31st Annual Genie Awards were announced today by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television at press conferences in Toronto and Montreal. The 2011 Special Awards were also announced. This year's Golden Reel Award goes to Resident Evil: Afterlife, which grossed $7,026,559 in 2010. Surpassing $280 million worldwide this past November, the film is now the most successful production in Canadian feature film history. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=216
Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth instalment in the apocalyptic zombie franchise, received the Golden Reel Award for the highest grossing Canadian film of 2010 as well as nominations for art direction/production design, costume design and makeup. Worldwide, the film — the first to be shot in 3-D — grossed more than $280 million, making it the most successful Canadian production in history. Producer Don Carmody said those results mean a fifth instalment is in the planning stages, to be shot — like I, II and IV — in Toronto.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=224
He’s the man who “made it cool to make films in Canada,” noted moderator Ray Sharma of producer Don Carmody, who delivered a keynote interview at GameON: Finance yesterday to discuss the success of his game-to-film adaptations. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=215
Canadian Film Centre will roast and toast the Oscar-winning film producer after he passed the 100-film industry milestone.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=213
Alliance Films’ biggest pay-days came from Dear John and Don Carmody’s Resident Evil: Afterlife, both of which accounted for around 10% of the distributor’s 2010 box office take.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=211
Canadian indie movie producer Don Carmody will participate in a keynote interview at the upcoming GameON: Finance 2011 conference. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=210
BNN speaks with Don Carmody, producer, "Resident Evil" and "Porky's".]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=208
TORONTO – Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) is proud to congratulate Don Carmody and the production team of Resident Evil: Afterlife on worldwide box office receipts that recently topped $280 million -- making it the most successful production in Canadian feature film history, surpassing previous box office champion PORKY’S, also produced by Don Carmody. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=206
"Resident Evil: Afterlife" is the top-grossing Canadian film ever, with a global box office take of $280 million, it was announced Monday. It has beaten previous title-holder "Porky's." Both pics were produced by Toronto-based filmmaker Don Carmody.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=207
French producer Samuel Hadida has joined forces with Don Carmody to kick-start Michael J. Bassett's Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, scheduled to shoot this year in Toronto. The duo are back in business after recently teaming on Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D. Hadida's Davis Films also produced Bassett's Deathwatch and Solomon Kane movies. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=199
Cult Film Favorite Blasts Its Way into the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad Trailer: Check out: http://www.boondocksaints.com/mobile-game.php (Game trailer and extended fan version featuring Troy Duffy and David Della Rocco) LOS ANGELES, CA--(October 28, 2010) – Boondock Saints, LLC® in conjunction with Split.A.Nickel and Binary Hammer, LLC, announced today the launch of the Boondock Saints Mobile Game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad, now available through the Apple App Store. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=187
Despite an extensive film resume, which includes Meatballs, Chicago, Polytechnique and Goon (currently shooting in Winnipeg), Carmody says his first steps in becoming a producer was to do the jobs at film school that no one else wanted to do.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=212
Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel are lacing up their skates for "Goon," an indie hockey comedy. Alison Pill and Marc-Andre Grondin are jumping onto the ice for the movie, which begins shooting in Winnipeg mid-October with Michael Dowse behind the camera. Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, the frequent collaborator of Seth Rogen, wrote the script, inspired by the book "Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey" written by Doug Smith and Adam Frattasio. Baruchel is also a producer on the project, which is being produced by DCP Productions' Don Carmody along with David Gross and Jesse Shapira. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=184
Don Carmody, producer of the international box office hit Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, is one of five producers on the cross-cultural hockey drama Breakaway starring Rob Lowe, which has begun principal photography in Toronto. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=186
Carmody, who flanked by six actors dressed as zombies after his "Resident Evil: Afterlife" won the weekend box office, praised the feature creatures. "I've made a lot of genre movies. But I've stayed away from vampire movies because my keen sense of taste tells me they can never be sexy," Carmody said with a wry grin.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=181
Last night, the Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame and Playback magazine hosted the “Ten to Watch” Awards Ceremony in Yorkville, Toronto. Guests included Ellen Page, Norman Jewison, Gordon Pinsent, Missy Perygrym, Nicholas Campbell and young up-and-comers Kyle Mac, Holly Deveaux and Tara Joshi of Family Channel’s Baxter. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=182
Seven industry icons, including screen legend Donald Sutherland, multiple Oscar winner Paul Haggis and beloved actor John Candy are to be inducted into Playback's fourth annual Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame. The awards will be presented on Sept. 13, during TIFF, at ET Canada's Festival Central Yorkville. This year's select group of seven inductees include:]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=178
Don Carmody Joins Distinguished Line-up of 2010 CFC Film Mentors August 12, 2010 Toronto, August 12, 2010 – The CFC (Canadian Film Centre) is delighted to welcome the 2010 mentors on board to support and nurture Canada's next generation of talented filmmakers. New mentors include: Producer Don Carmody (BOONDOCK SAINTS, RESIDENT EVIL, CHICAGO), Director Ruba Nadda (CAIRO TIME, SABAH), Producer Damon D'Oliveira (POOR BOY'S GAME, RUDE), Director Lynne Stopkewich (KISSED, SUSPICIOUS RIVER), Editor Jeff Warren (BEOWOLF & GRENDEL, SEX LOVE & THE EATING OF BONES); Producer Paul Barkin (AMREEKA, THE CON ARTIST) and Editor Reginald Harkema (HARD CORE LOGO, FUBAR 2) who will share their experiences and expertise in the industry and on the craft of directing, writing, producing & editing with the residents of the Cineplex Entertainment Film Program, currently in session.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=179
IMAX Corporation and Sony Pictures Releasing announced that Resident Evil: Afterlife, the highly-anticipated fourth installment of the popular film series based on the video game, will be released to digital IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film’s wide release on September 10, 2010. The film, which was photographed in 3D, will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience with proprietary IMAX DMR (Digital Re-mastering) technology and presented in IMAX 3D. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=175
Producer Don Carmody is no stranger to feature adaptations of video games, with Silent Hill under his belt, a sequel on the way, and credits on all the Resident Evil films. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=174
Jim here. Got an exclusive update for you on Don Carmody's HIDDEN 3D. What movie is that you ask? Good question! I had not heard of it before either, but I do have some scoops for you on its current status and talent after you read the following to catch up...]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=173
DVD Review: The Boondock Saints II by Jeff Ritter Columbine shootings. It's a shame that such a fun film got locked away and killed (so to speak) due to some bizarre connection an overly cautious executive made between a violent movie and a violent real-life incident, even though violence was the only common denominator. Fortunately, the DVD caught on by word of mouth and has become a best-selling cult classic. ]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=172
"Polytechnique," a French-language movie that relives a 1989 Montreal college massacre of 14 women by a crazed gunman, on Monday night dominated the Genies, Canada's film awards, with nine trophies, including best film. Denis Villeneuve earned a Genie for best director for "Polytechnique," Karine Vanasse won for best actress, and Maxim Gaudette, who played the role of gunman Marc Lapine, earned the best supporting actor prize.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=169
Montreal: If it's business as usual this summer for movie producer Don Carmody, then he's in some Canadian city overseeing the production of a major motion picture. A big part of his job is reassuring other production executives, who are generally quite far away, that all is well, while keeping huge daily expenditures on track, and, occasionally, reading the riot act to cast and crew.]]> http://www.doncarmody.com/news-details.php?ID=171