In Toronto, Brett Heard has begun production on his first film Stag, which will be released in 2012.

The film stars Donald Faison (Scrubs), Eva Amurri(Californication) and Jon Dore (The Jon Dore Show, Funny As Hell).

Ken Andrews (Faison) has been the orchestrator of the hazing pranks at all of his buddies' stags - elaborate, hilarious pranks that have left many emotional scars and a few physical ones, including Luke (Dore). And nowtoday is Ken's stag! He nervously awaits the fate that his pals surely havein store for him, comforted only by the knowledge that Carl (Pat Thornton)will be there to watch his back ­ that is, so long as Carl can extracthimself from the Hollywood celebrity, Veronica (Amurri). Ken will soondiscover that payback is worse than he could ever imagine.

On Sept. 7, Held Up, the 16-part web series starring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson, The Wire’s Cyrus Farmer, The Jon Dore Show’s Jon Dore, and writer-producers Randy and Jason Sklar, premieres on Crackle.com. Below, we’ve got your exclusive first look at the trailer. The story: Bored bank teller/standup comic Ray (Dore) gets his wish for some excitement when two teams of crazy robbers disguised as Rocky I (Farmer), Rocky II (Olson) and Batman and Robin (the Sklar brothers) hold up his branch. It’s a character piece, and one of things...

Toronto -- Toronto-based Insight Production Co. and FremantleMedia Enterprises, already first-look partners, took their relationship a step further Monday, unveiling a development financing deal to co-fund scripted and unscripted projects.

Insight founder and CEO John Brunton said that he and FremantleMedia will pool development money, with a focus on co-venture opportunities for both scripted and non-scripted content.

He added that Insight and FremantleMedia intend to partner with international broadcasters and producers, including U.S. players, to get projects the script funding.

Projects already underway at Insight and FremantleMedia include a new version of the "Ripley's Believe It or Not" TV franchise that will be unveiled at Mipcom later this week.

The project will be done in partnership with Ripley Entertainment, a division of the Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group, and shopped in the U.S. market by the William Morris Agency.

Meanwhile, Insight will continue to have first option for Canada on new FremantleMedia formats,...