December 14

• The Genie nominations are in and Molly Parker is up for an award.  Actually, Molly Parker has been nominated for her work in two movie, The War Bride and The Last Wedding.  Both of these nominations in the Supporting Actress category.  We'll find out if Molly Parker wins in either movie when the Genie awards will be presented on Thursday, February 7th, 2002 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) at 8:00 pm EST.  The Genies celebrate excellence in Canadian cinema.  It is most often said that the Genie is like the Canadian Oscar.  Molly Parker has won the Genie before in 1996 for her role in Kissed.

• The Canadian-United Kingdom co-production The War Bride, which stars Molly Parker will start being shown at the Canada Square cinema in Toronto on Friday, December 7th, 2001.
• The movie Suspicious River has yet to appear in Toronto.  When it does, it will be reported on here.

• Lynne Stopkewich's second film Suspicious River is to have a limited release on Friday, November 23rd, 2001.  This information according to the Toronto Sun.
• For a trailer of Suspicious River you can download it here.
• Here is the image of the teaser poster for Paul Gross' movie Men With Broom.  The image is courtesy of an article that appeared in the Sunday, November 18th, 2001 Toronto Star.  In the article it talks about the movie's spring release and advertising campaign.  The movie will be heavily promoted during the CBC's broadcast of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.  This is the deal the CBC signed to get the TV rights to the movie in 2004.
• To visit the official web site for Men With Brooms at Serendipity Films go here.

• Bravo, The Film and Arts Network in the United States will be showing the first season of Twitch City starting November 4th, 2001 at 12:30 AM EST.  Here is the schedule so far :

    Episode 1 :  November 2nd at 12:30 AM, November 4th at 11 PM, 1 AM and 4:30 AM
    Episode 2 :  November 4th at 11:30 PM and 1:30 AM
    Episode 3 :  November 18th at 11:30 PM
    Episode 4 :  December 9th at 11:30 PM, 4:30 AM
    Episode 5 :  December 16th at 11:30 PM
    Episode 6 :  December 23th at 11:30 PM
    Episode 7 :  December 30th at 11:30 PM, 4:30 AM

Check the web site for details.

• Center of the World will be released December 18th to Region 1 (North America).  This according to a major US video trade paper.  The DVD will include Select Scene Commentary by director Wayne Wang and post production consultant Patrick Lindenmajer, deleted scenes and alternate endings and widescreen format.

• Molly Parker is a nominee in Chanel and Fashion Magazine's Most Alluring Canadians.  She is in the actress category along with Sex in the City's Kim Cattrall, ex-Law and Order prosecutor Jill Hennessy, Planet of the Apes' Estella Warren and the Matrix's Carrie-Anne Moss.  There are two ways of voting.  The first way is to vote online at the Fashion Magazine web site.  However the direct link can be found here.  The other method of voting is in person at the Chanel booth in The Bay stores across Canada.  According to the web site the ballot closes on December 15th, 2001.  The winners will be announced in the April 2002 issue of Fashion Magazine, this piece of news coming from Star! TV.
• Last Wedding, in which Molly Parker stars has opened to a limited run in Toronto and is in it's second week of release.
• Expect the movie Suspicious River to open soon.  In the Toronto Sun, the movie starring Molly Parker and Callum Keith Rennie , will have a opening in the early part of November.  Most likely a limited release in the Toronto area.
• Web site is undergoing a new design.  Come back for more details.

• Added an article about Molly Parker from the 2001 Flaunt Spring Fashion Issue.  The article and images can be found it the articles section.  Or read it here.

• Molly Parker's next piece of work is Men With Brooms.  Shooting will begin on April 16th, 2001 in Toronto.  The director of the movie will be Paul Gross.  Some of you will remember him as the famous mountie Constable Benton Fraser from the show Due South.  Not only will Paul Gross direct he has co-written and will star in the movie.  Peter Outerbridge who starred with Molly Parker in Kissed will also be in the film with another notable name Leslie Nielsen.  The announcement of the film was made on Sunday, April 1st, 2001 by Serendipity Point Films and Alliance Atlantis.  All of this was reported in the Toronto Star on Monday, April 2nd, 2001.
• Men With Brooms is about the realization of four old friends and their late coach's dream of the big curling trophy.  These friends dust off their brooms and sweep the past behind.

• Wayne Wang's film Center of the World will get it's world premier screening at the 44th San Francisco International Film Festival on Thursday, April 19th, 2001.  One day before the movie gets it's limited release on Friday, April 20th, 2001.  The screening is opening and after that there will be a party.  Here is some information on the screening :

    OPENING NIGHT / 21 & OVER
    Castro Theatre
    7:00 PM
    U.S. $70.00 - U.S. $75.00
 

• Here is the link for the movie at the film festival's web site : http://www.sffs.org/titleDetail.asp?title_id=86

• Two movies in which Molly Parker stars in will be screened at Edmonton's Local Heroes International Film Festival.  Suspicious River will make it's usual festival run, and the Alberta made The War Bride. The War Bride will close the festival on Friday, March 23rd, 2001.  The date, as of the update on this site, for Suspicious River is unknown.  Edmonton's Local Heroes International Film Festival runs starts on Friday, March 16th, 2001.  Contact info:

    Tel: (780)421-4084
    Fax: (780)425-8098
 

• Added six images from Waking the Dead.  They can be found on the Waking the Dead page in the Film section of the site or go here to view it.  Special thanks to Mads Brevik who kindly captured the shots from the movie.  Mads runs a tribute site for Jennifer Connelly, one of the stars of Waking the Dead.  If you're a big fan of Jennifer Connelly's make sure to visit his site.

 

 

    A Tribute to Jennifer Connelly
    http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~madsb/jc/

• Jeremy Podeswa's The Five Senses is now out in video.  Check the rental store shelves in your area for a copy.
• Lynne Stopkewich's Suspicious River will be screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.  The movie will be screened each day from Thursday, February 1st to Saturday, February 3rd.  Check the festival's web site for times and locations here.

• Upcomingmovies.com reports that Center of the World will have a theatrical release date for April 20th, 2001 instead of the March 9th, 2001 release date mentioned before.  The movie will be a limited release, that much hasn't changed.

• Welcome to the new Millennium!  All past news items can be found in the Archive page.  2001 will be a great year for Molly Parker fans.  Already we are looking forward to the video release of The Five Senses this month.  Not only that a possible release of the epic Sunshine that topped one of 2000's best movies.  Also other theatrical releases such as Center of the World and Suspicious River all due in the spring time.  Finally, the site will be redesigned throughout the new year.  Wishing you the very best for 2001.
• The Five Senses directed by Jeremy Podeswa and in which Molly Parker stars in, will be released on DVD and VHS in North America on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2001.  For more details visit the official web site here.