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Foundation date 1 april 2005
Maple Pictures Corporation was the distribution arm of Alliance Films. It was formed on April 13, 2005 when Lions Gate Entertainment demerged to two companies—Lions Gate Entertainment and Maple Pictures (formerly Lions Gate Films, and before 1998, Cinepix Film Properties). Maple Pictures was the official distributor for Lionsgate's films and video library throughout Canada.
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(2009)Filmography of Maple Pictures (12 films)
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The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)
, 1h37Directed by Ben Palmer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Le thème des vacances, Films about virginity
Actors Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas, Emily Head, Laura Haddock
Teenage friends Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright, and Neil Sutherland have finished their A-levels and are about to leave Rudge Park Comprehensive, much to the relief of Mr. Gilbert, their sardonic sixth form tutor. Within their final week of school, Jay's grandfather dies, Simon is dumped by his girlfriend Carli D'Amato, and Will's divorced father tells him he has married his much younger mistress. The boys decide to go on holiday together and Neil books them a trip to Malia, Crete.
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)
, 1h28Directed by Eli Craig
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, Chelan Simmons, Brandon Jay McLaren
Two young people are shown investigating the site of a murder while filming suspecting the police missed something. They are then attacked and presumably killed by a mysterious scarred figure.
The Con Artist (2010)
, 1h27Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Rossif Sutherland, Rebecca Romijn, Donald Sutherland, Sarah Roemer, Terra Vnesa, Greg Germann
When Vince (Rossif Sutherland) is paroled after five years in prison for a heist gone wrong, his dangerous and controlling former boss, Kranski (Donald Sutherland), forces him back into a life of crime. Working for Kranski as a car thief, Vince finds solace in welding sculptures out of metal and old car parts in Kranski’s chop shop. When Vince’s raw and evocative sculptures are discovered by the calculating art dealer, Belinda (Rebecca Romijn), his chance for a new life as an artist emerges, as well as romantic complications with Belinda’s gallery assistant, Kristen (Sarah Roemer). Caught between the pressure from Kranski and the demands of the art world, Vince has to cleverly maneuver his way out to become his own man and his own artist.
Pontypool (2009)
, 1h33Directed by Bruce McDonald
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Stephen McHattie, Georgina Reilly, Rick Roberts, Harant Alianak, Boyd Banks, Tony Burgess
In the small town of Pontypool, Ontario, former shock jock turned radio announcer Grant Mazzy drives through a blizzard on his way to work. When poor visibility forces him to stop his car, an underdressed woman appears on the road, startling him. Grant calls out to her, but she disappears into the storm, ominously repeating his words and visibly disturbing him. Grant eventually arrives at the radio station, where he works with technical assistant Laurel-Ann Drummond, who has recently worked in Afghanistan, and station manager Sydney Briar, a divorcée who is very critical toward Mazzy's shock jock style.
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
, 1h33Directed by Grant Heslov
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang, Robert Patrick
In a short prelude, U.S. Army General Hopgood (Stephen Lang) is painfully thwarted in an attempt to pass paranormally through a solid wall by simply running into it. The film then follows Ann Arbor Daily Telegram reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), whose wife leaves him for the newspaper's editor. Seeking an escape, Bob flies to Kuwait to report on the Iraq War and to prove to his wife and himself that he is a man. However, he stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he meets a retired U.S. Army Special Forces operator, Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who reveals that he was part of a U.S. Army unit training psychic spies (or "Jedi Warriors") to develop a range of parapsychological skills including invisibility, remote viewing, and phasing. The back story is told mainly through flashbacks.
New York, I Love You (2008)
, 1h50Directed by Jiang Wen, Shekhar Kapur, Natalie Portman, Yvan Attal, Andreï Zviaguintsev, Scarlett Johansson, Fatih Akın, Albert et Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner, Mira Nair, Joshua Marston, Shunji Iwai
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Anthology film, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Hayden Christensen, Bradley Cooper, Andy García, Justin Bartha, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom
New York, I Love You est, comme pour Paris, je t'aime, un travail collectif de onze courts-métrages, faisant chacun environ dix minutes. Les réalisateurs ayant participé au film ont filmé leur segment dans les cinq boroughs de New York. Chaque segment n'a pas de lien direct avec les autres mais tous tournent autour du même thème : trouver le grand amour et le plaisir du sexe.
Love and other Dilemmas (2008)
, 1h28Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Actors Gabrielle Miller, John Cassini, Janet Wright, Stephen Lobo, Fred Ewanuick, Mark Acheson
It's Ginger Shapiro's wedding day. It's going to be perfect even though she's eight months pregnant, been robbed, kidnapped and thinks her fiancé Henry is dead—he's not—and then there's her grandmother's curse! It's a race to the altar in this escalating comedy of errors where Ginger and Henry might just stand a chance of living happily ever after.
Young People Fucking (2007)
, 1h30Directed by Martin Gero
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Carly pope, Kristin Booth, Aaron Abrams, Sonja Bennett, Josh Cooke, Peter Oldring
The film intertwines the story of four different couples and one threesome over the course of one sexual encounter, with specific chapters for each one: prelude, foreplay, sex, interlude, orgasm and afterglow. Each couple represents a specific archetype. The first out of five is called The Best Friends because the characters, Matt and Kristen, decide to become friends with benefits. They discover romantic feelings for each other.
Canada Russia '72 (2006)
, 3hDirected by T.W. Peacocke
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Booth Savage, Judah Katz, David Berni, Gabriel Hogan, Mike Dopud, Sébastien Roberts
The miniseries begins in medias res on September 8, 1972, as Team Canada takes the ice for Game 4 of the series in Vancouver. The team is shocked from the boos they receive from their home crowd and the cheers for the Soviet team. The film then cuts back five months earlier to April 1972 with Alan Eagleson meeting with Gabrielle Fournier, an official with External Affairs Canada, and the heads of the Soviet (headed by Alexander Gresko) and Canadian hockey programmes (headed by Joe Kryczka and Charles Hay) in Prague, Czechoslovakia. They iron out the deal for an eight game hockey series between the USSR and a team compiled of the best Canadian NHLers.
Hard Candy (2005)
, 1h44Directed by David Slade
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Serial killer films
Actors Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Holmes
The film opens with a sexually charged, flirtatious online chat between two people with the screen names Thonggrrrl14 and Lensman319. Lensman319 is a photographer who admits to "fantasizing" about Thonggrrrl14. Thonggrrrl14 entices Lensman319 to meet at a café to "hook up". At the café, Thonggrrrl14 – Hayley Stark – meets Lensman319 – Jeff Kohlver. Hayley makes several references to her age (14 years old), yet succeeds in convincing Jeff to take her to his house. After showing her around, Hayley makes them both screwdrivers and asks him to take photographs. Before he can, Jeff gets dizzy, his vision blurs, and he falls to the floor unconscious.
Hank Williams First Nation (2005)
, 1h32Directed by Aaron James Sorensen
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Gordon Tootoosis, Jimmy Herman
The film follows the story of a seventy-five-year-old Cree tribesman named Martin Fox who has been reading too many tabloids and learning that Elvis and Lady Di are still alive. From this he begins to wonder if his hero Hank Williams, Sr. is not still alive as well. Before he dies he commits to making a Greyhound trip to Nashville to find out more about the country music legend.
Beyond the Sea (2004)
, 1h58Directed by Kevin Spacey
Origin German
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Bob Hoskins, Bobby Darin, John Goodman, Sandra Dee
Rather than providing a straightforward biography, the film weaves fantasy sequences with scenes containing somewhat fictionalized accounts of events in Darin's life, and throughout it, the adult singer interacts with his younger self. It chronicles his determination to rise from his working class roots as Walden Robert Cassotto, a frail Bronx boy plagued by multiple bouts of rheumatic fever, and become a singer more famous than Frank Sinatra. To achieve that goal, he forms a band and struggles to find gigs at any nightclub that will hire him.