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Reliance Big Pictures will release "Kites: The Remix", in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary, May 28. "...A supremely romantic tale of star-crossed lovers destined to be together but doomed to be apart, 'Kites' is Bollywood as you’ve never seen it before. Filmed almost entirely in English and Spanish, and completely set in America and Mexico, the film is far more international in appeal than most traditional Indian super-productions. Impossible to categorize, it blithely leaps from romance, to musical, to action adventure, to western, referencing any number of Hollywood genres while reveling in each of them..." Officially billed as "A Brett Ratner Presentation", Ratner’s version of "Kites", is a 'remix' of the original "Kites" feature, now running 90 minutes as opposed to the 130–minute original. Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Kites: The Remix"...

CBS will launch the third season of the Toronto-lensed action cop series "Flashpoint" , Friday, June 4, at 9 PM. The show was created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and stars Enrico Colantoni, Amy Jo Johnson, Hugh Dillon and David Paetkau. "...'Flashpoint' follows an elite tactical unit, called the 'Strategic Response Unit' (SRU), styled after the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force (ETF). The SRU are tasked to resolve extreme situations that regular officers are not trained to handle including hostage-taking, bomb threats and heavily armed criminals. Equipped with high-tech tools and a cache of weapons and explosives, members use negotiation tactics and intuition to try to avoid the use of force..." "Flashpoint" is currently being distributed by New York's Alchemy Television and Tele München Group to all international markets outside of North America. TV networks airing the series in more than 50 countries include Tv2 in New