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Principal photography has begun on “Plan C,” the feature directorial debut of Scott Anthony Cavalheiro, known for his acting role in “Schitt’s Creek.”

The film is currently shooting on location in the Greater Toronto Area and Windsor/Essex, with production scheduled to continue through August.

The crime thriller tells the story of siblings Clare and Danny on the run after a robbery gone awry. The film promises a mix of action and suspense, with car chases, difficult decisions and unexpected twists.

The cast features Claire Cavalheiro (“Man Seeking Woman”) and Daniel DeSanto (“Mean Girls”) in leading roles, with Hollywood veteran Vivica A. Fox rounding out the top-billed performers. Supporting cast includes Jamie Spilchuk (“Defining Moments”), Joris Jarsky (“Saw V”), Kris Holden-Ried and Kylee Evans (“Luckiest Girl Alive”).

Claire Cavalheiro and Scott Anthony Cavalheiro are producing under their Stained Tie Films banner, with Gerry Lattmann of The Dot Film Company serving as line producer.

Exclusive: Vmi Releasing, the North American distribution arm of Vmi Worldwide, has hired Dan Fisher as Executive Vice President.

Fisher has previously served as Director of Worldwide Acquisitions for Entertainment One, Senior Director of Acquisitions for Gravitas Ventures, and VP of Acquisitions for Freestyle Digital Media. Before Vmi Releasing, he was the founder and principal of Poppy Pictures, a boutique film distribution and sales consulting firm. He also recently served as a visiting professor of film at Kenyon College in Ohio.

Vmi Worldwide launched in 2010 under CEO Andre Relis. They’ve produced titles such as Darkness of Man, The Price We Pay, The Last Son, Come Out Fighting, Arkansas, Wander, and The Humanity Bureau. Vmi Releasing first launched in 2021. They have released Freaks vs The Reich, a Venice 2021 selection, Defining Moments, starring Burt Reynolds in his final performance, Death on the Border, starring Shannon Elizabeth and Danny Trejo. Vmi’s...

Sex and the City is one of the most impactful TV shows of all time. Set in the late ’90s and early 2000s in New York City, the show followed best friends Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) as they navigated their personal and professional lives.

The show was revolutionary for its time, but there was one hated episode of the show that still stands out today.

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When Sex and the City debuted on HBO back in 1998, it was unlike anything seen on TV. The series followed four single women in their thirties (Samatha was in her forties) who all wanted different...

“Aware: Glimpses Of Consciousness” will have its U.S. Theatrical Release Starting In Los Angeles On Friday, September 24 (Laemmle Theaters) And New York On Friday, October 8 (Cinema Village).

Directors Frauke Sandig and Eric Black follow scientists delving into the greatest of mysteries, having to confront the ‘Big Questions’. It presents some of the world’s most brilliant researchers approaching consciousness – each from radically different perspectives, including Roland Griffiths, the renowned Johns Hopkins University psychedelics researcher, plant biologist Monica Gagliano, Christof Koch, Chief Scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and the famed Tibetan Buddhist monks, Matthieu Ricard and Mingyur Rinpoche.

The film opens as a science film but emerges well beyond the explicable, ultimately leading one on a voyage upon the ocean of consciousness, a contemplative, sensual, cinematographic meditation. The networks of consciousness are reflected in ‘grand’ imagery revealing the vast interconnectedness of Nature – from the smallest organisms, to...

Exclusive: Film finance, production and sales outfit Vmi Worldwide is expanding into the U.S. distribution space, launching Vmi Releasing. In a partnership with Nela Media, Kendall Anlian has been tapped to head distribution for the new venture, which already has set its first release: the comedy Defining Moments, which is Burt Reynolds’ final film. It will now bow in theaters and VOD on August 27, 2021.

“Film distribution remains a complex space to navigate, particularly amidst this pandemic and the ever-changing landscape,” Vmi Worldwide CEO Andre Relis said. “We are thrilled to have Kendall Anlian join our team to lead the distribution venture. Her storied experience and forward-thinking acumen are the exact combination to successfully manage the distribution channels for our films and filmmaker partners.”

Anlian, who founded Nela Media to provide distribution across theatrical, TV networks, Ott/VOD and DVD markets, will also run development and sale of original TV content at Vmi Releasing.

Company becomes latest sales agent to enter releasing arena.

Vmi Worldwide has become the latest US sales agent to expand into US distribution and announced that Vmi Releasing will kick off with comedy Defining Moments starring the late Burt Reynolds on August 27.

In partnership with distribution company Nela Media, Kendall Anlian has been hired to head distribution for the new venture. Anlian founded Nela Media and will also run development and sale of original TV content at Vmi Releasing. As vice president of sales for The Asylum, Anlian oversaw sales of 25 new releases a year including the series Z Nation.

In just a couple of weeks, Burt Reynolds was slated to go in front of the camera of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. Reynolds, who died suddenly today of a suspected heart attack, was to play rancher George Spahn in the movie, set in Los Angeles in the summer of 1969 before the Manson Family murders were committed.

Reynolds, who was cast back in May and attended the Leonardo DiCaprio- and Brad Pitt-starring film’s table read in June, had received a straight offer from Tarantino, who had seen Reynolds in the 2018 release The Last Movie Star.

That feature, in which Reynolds played an aging movie star, created a host of new opportunities for the 1970s movie icon. (You can read The Last Movie Star writer-director Adam Rifkin’s remembrance of his friend and childhood hero Reynolds here.)

“I don’t know how long I’m going to be around,...