HOLLYWOOD NORTH

Silver-screen movers and shakers

guillermo del toro Filmmaker

The guy who helped resuscitate the city’s film industry is still showing love to his adopted hometown: he wrote and produced the Toronto-shot horror flick Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark, curated a Mexican film festival at the Lightbox and, this winter, will film a remake of the ’40s classic Nightmare Alley, starring Bradley Cooper.

J. miles dale Producer

Dale, who’s been financing films in Toronto since the early 2000s, is Del Toro’s most trusted local collaborator—they first teamed up on Mama in 2013 and shared Best Picture honours for The

Shape of Water. Dale is handling producing duties on the horror film Antlers, which was shot this year and stars Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons.

dahvi waller Showrunner

The TV veteran, who was a producer and writer on Mad Men and Halt and Catch Fire, spent the year creating your favourite new show of 2020: Mrs. America, which filmed this summer in Toronto and stars Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly, the bouffanted social conservative who lobbied to block the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.

mike bruce, robbie david & Jeff anders Partners, Aeon Studio Group

The studio boom has crept west to Hamilton. Aeon will construct two million square feet of livework-play space for creative industries, including 500,000 square feet of sound stages and facilities for post-production, animation and visual effects. The first few stages are expected to be open by summer 2020.