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Rising from its Portlands location since a controversial inception in 2007, development at Filmport has reached the point where its largest stage—the Mega-Stage—is ready for business. The stage is a dizzying 45,900 square feet of uninterrupted floor space, the largest purpose-built stage in North America. The Mega-Stage compares with the famous 007 Stage at Pinewood [...]

ART: “Off Camera” is an exhibition at the new Filmport Studios, featuring more than 200 works from 50 artists currently working in the Toronto film industry. The reception tonight will include musical performances and a silent auction, and did we mention you get to go inside Filmport Studios? Filmport Studios (Studio 7, 225 Commissioners Street), [...]

Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we’ll feature one of those portraits here. Suggestions for subjects welcome. David Cronenberg was on hand for last week’s Filmport opening. With a 46,000 square foot stage, there’s room enough to shoot the world’s largest [...]

Toronto may bill itself as Hollywood North, but with a strong Canadian dollar, leaner American budgets and limited facilities, the city is finding itself scrambling to keep our important film business from defecting elsewhere. Though more than $700 million was dumped into Toronto’s film industry last year, that was a nauseating 22% drop from the [...]