Surprising news here:  Word is out that Fox has pulled the plug on the McG produced American remake of classic UK sitcom Spaced. Hurray!  Be a good boy or girl and buy the North American DVD release of the original show when it hits this summer. 

Oh, look!  Another festival down, another audience voted prize as best picture for Chile’s Mirage Man.  The festival was Brazil’s RIOFAN and the complete list of winners has just been announced with a good selection of Twitch favorites in the winner’s circle.  What won?  Pakistani splatter picture Hell’s Ground took the jury award, Mirage Man got the aforementioned audience award along with a special jury prize for Marko Zaror’s performance, Bruce LaBruce’s gay zombie picture Otto took the Visions award, Sebastian Silva’s La Vida Me Mata took a special jury award for achievement in editing and cinematography, Richard Gale’s Criticized took best international short and Gustavo Brandau’s Gravidade Zero took best Brazilian short.

Mirage Man has now taken home major prizes at pretty much every festival it has played - and expect more major festival announcements for the film soon - and yet, strangely, has only released in its native Chile with the United States being the only other territory to pick the film up.  All you international sorts may want to take not that the film is screening in the Marche Du Film on May 15th.  Get it while you can.

Well, its now week 2 in the Summer 2008 box office race and the next film up is “Speed Racer”

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The web monkey has been keeping tabs on upcoming comedy Hank And Mike for a good while now.  The film is something of a local product, a feature length expansion of a short film by a pair of young Canadian film makers, and the premise is just stellar.  Easter bunnies, unemployed and unhappy.  The first official teaser has just arrived and it lives up to the premise.  You’ll find it in the Twitch Player below the break.

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While the final lineups won’t be announced until May 21st the box office for the 2008 edition for the Worldwide Short Film Festival here in Toronto is now open for business, with tickets available at a reduced rate until the selections are announced.  And while I’m not allowed to say what’s what until the official press release goes out I can say that I was directly responsible for both Midnight programs of horror and cult shorts and also had a hand in a special program of Japanese animation that local readers will not want to miss plus a special program of shorts from South East Asia that features a prominent name or two.  It’s going to be a very good year ...

I suppose with Singaporean films like Royston Tan’s 15 and Kelvin Tong’s Eating Air, you’d probably know by now we’re not all that squeaky clean. Of course at this point in time I’m speculating that it’s Young and Dangerous-ish, but from the key poster art, stills and the likes, this is one upcoming Singapore movie on my radar that I can’t wait to watch when it makes its screening here in the later half of this year.

Here’s the synopsis:

Based on a true story – “THE DAYS” tells a cautionary tale between two brothers, set between 1989 and 1990. In a misguided effort to teach BABY (IVAN LIM) independence, and to make him feel protected, ZI LONG (JUSTIN CHAN) brings him into his own gang of delinquents. Unknowingly, his decision has thrown them both into a tumultuous and violent world that will, in different ways, imprison them both.

The Days will be at this year’s Marché du Film, Festival de Cannes, so to lucky folks heading there, let us know what you think. The rest of us mortals can hit those links below to learn more about the film!