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Unlike last year's two filmmaker/film horse race between Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique and Xavier Dolan's J'ai tué ma mere, this year it was all "Villeneuve" and "Incendies". Repeating his wins in all the same categories it won at the Canadian Oscars (Genies) this week (this includes Editing, Screenplay, Best Cinematography by the excellent André Turpin, Best Actress in Lubna Azabal (who forced here co-star Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin to give her own thank you speech).

Today we begin what will be a Friday tradition here on the site. IONCINEMA.com's Weekend Watch is a basic rundown of cinematic opening weekend offerings with Erica Elson guiding your choices in U.S Indie, Foreign, Documentaries and Studio film releases. This weekend you'll definitely want to skip the studio picks and the duelling alien items and if you're lucky enough to be in L.A or NYC you'll want to check out Abbas Kiarostami’s gem Certified Copy.

In a relatively quiet weekend for specialty debuts, its holdovers like “The King’s Speech” and “Black Swan” making all the news. Both passed the $100 million mark, but it’s “Speech” that overtook “Swan” on its way to $6.5 million in its 13th weekend. Amidst an overall decline at the box office, Tom Hooper’s drama experienced only a 9.9% decline despite withdrawing from 177 locations.

Baz Luhrmann has announced that shooting of his next film, the literary giant The Great Gatsby, will take place in Australia. The film will primarily be shot at Fox Studios in Sydney, where both Australia and Moulin Rouge were shot, with further shooting throughout NSW. New York, the location of the original novel was snubbed in favour of a Sydney production base with the film also being shot in 3D.

For Guy and Madeline, if I had wanted to riff off Meet Me In St. Louis, I would have had to shoot in color. But if this movie’s a love letter to anything, it’s to the first musicals, when the genre was still this crazy and unpredictable beast that directors didn’t quite know what to do with.