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Low-budget film-making duo announce plans to take advantage of Canadian copyright laws and adapt the Ian Fleming story. Ideally, with Ryan Reynolds

A duo of low-budget Canadian film-makers have announced plans to remake the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, thanks to a loophole in copyright laws.

Lee Demarbre and Ian Driscoll, whose back catalogue includes the Mexican-wrestler thriller The Dead Sleep Easy and comedy musical Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, say they are planning to take advantage of Canada’s 50-year copyright limit to start work on a new adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1960 short story. Unlike most other major film markets, Canada does not enforce the Berne convention that extended authors’ copyright to 70 years after death, meaning that Fleming, who died in 1964, is in the public domain in the country.

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Your Hands Are Bleeding! Your Hands Are Bleeding! Lee Demarbre Talks About His New Film Smash Cut

Lee Demarbre, the Ottawa-based talent behind Canadian cult films Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter and The Dead Sleep Easy turns in his most self-reflexive work to date - a tribute to pioneering exploitation director Herschell Gordon Lewis set in the unsympathetic world of contemporary independent filmmaking!

Grindhouse titan David Hess (The Last House On The Left, House On The Edge Of The Park, Hitch-hike) stars as Able Whitman, a down-on-his-luck horror filmmaker subject to relentless mockery from obnoxious critics and jaded audiences alike. It seems that nobody likes his latest film Terror Toy, or finds its killer – a foot-high clown named 'Bobo' – very believable. After a car accident with no witnesses leaves a stripper friend dead and in pieces, Whitman is struck with a revelation - he'll use real body parts in his film!

• Anyone seeing Smash Cut without knowing anything about it could be forgiven for thinking it's a bad film.  But when viewed within its context as a tribute to the filmic ouevre of Herschell Gordon Lewis (Color me Blood Red, 2000 Maniacs), the king of grindhouse and exploitation cinema of the 60s and 70s, director Lee Demarbre's (Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, The Dead Sleep Easy) homage can't be seen as anything but good, bloody, campy fun.  And there's nothing wrong with that.  Featuring a cast of grindhouse and/or B-movie legends like David Hess (the original Last House on the Left), Michael Berryman (the original The Hills Have Eyes), and Ray Sager (the original Wizard of Gore himself!), plus a H.G. Lewis appearance and a mainstream(!) film debut for adult film starlet Sasha Grey, Smash Cut tells the story of down-and-out movie director Able Whitman (Hess, looking like he's having

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Zed Filmworks recently released this brand new movie poster from the upcoming horror comedy “Smash Cut” by director Lee Demarbre (The Dead Sleep Easy) and starrin David Hess (Zodiac Killer, The Last House on the Left), Sasha Grey (The Girlfriend Experience), Jesse Buck and Michael Berryman (The Devil’s Rejects, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). Synopsis: Smash Cut is a satire of the filmmaking industry and the challenges of independent filmmaking, with a story that draws on the filmmakers’ real-life experiences. It follows the murderous exploits of Able Whitman, a horror-film director whose films are panned by critics and audiences alike - until he starts killing people and using their body [...]...

New York -- A family of serial killers has drawn "Twilight" star Ashley Greene into their web in the edgy indie thriller "Summer."

Stephen McHattie, Barbara Niven and Peter Mooney play the deranged kinfolk that Greene's character encounters on her quest to find the father she's never known.

Horror filmmaker Lee De Marbre is directing the tentatively titled film for producers Rob Menzies, Donald Osbourne and Curtis Crawford of Ottawa-based Zed Filmworks ("The Dead Sleep Easy"). Pierre David ("Internal Affairs") and Neil Bregman are executive producing from Sean Hogan and Christine Conradt's original screenplay.

The Innovative Artists/McKeon-Myones Entertainment-repped Greene next will be seen in December in the vampire thriller adaptation "Twilight" from Summit Entertainment. McHattie will be seen in another anticipated cult project, the Warner Bros. film "Watchmen." Mooney stars in the ABC Family series "Falcon Beach," and Niven has appeared in numerous telefilms.

The film is halfway through its Ottawa shoot,...