Muse Entertainment Enterprises
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Founded in 1998, Muse Entertainment is a Canadian producer of films and television programs. Muse Entertainment produces dramatic series, television films, mini-series for family programs.

Muse has a large volume of projects in development and in production with free and cable television networks in the United States as a result of the opening of Muse's Los Angeles offices in 2007.

Muse has become one of the most active companies in the world in co producing television projects with international partners.

Under Canada's official film production treaties, Muse has produced with companies in France, England, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Romania, Hungary, Morocco, Australia and South Africa.

Michael Prupas is Muse Entertainment's President, CEO and Chairman of the Board.
Joel Rice is President of Muse Entertainment USA.
Jesse Prupas is Vice-President of Development and Distribution.
Irene Litinsky is the head of production in Quebec.

Muse has staff specializing in project development, production, post production, publicity, legal and business affairs, financial structuring, tax credit collection, government and union relations, internet and multi-media as well as sales and distribution.

Productions

Muse's productions include two made-for-television films funded by Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

 and Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

 and aired on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 as a time buy
Brokered programming
Brokered programming is a form of broadcast content in which the show's producer pays a radio or television station for air time, rather than exchanging programming for pay or the opportunity to play spot commercials...

: Secrets of the Mountain
Secrets of the Mountain
Secrets of the Mountain is the first in a series of a made for TV movie produced by Procter & Gamble and Walmart aimed at families.The movie and other in the series feature embedded marketing of Procter & Gamble and Walmart products....

 and The Jensen Project
The Jensen Project
The Jensen Project is the second in a series of a TV movies produced by Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart aimed at families. The movie featured embedded marketing for the Kinect, a motion sensor add-on to the Xbox 360, several months before the product's launch. Ratings for the July 16, 2010 airing on...

.

Original feature films

  • Flood
    Flood (film)
    Flood is a British disaster film from 2007, directed by Tony Mitchell It features Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, David Suchet and Tom Courtenay, and is based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Richard Doyle.-Synopsis:...

  • I'm Not There
    I'm Not There
    I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw...

  • The Deal
    The Deal (2008 film)
    The Deal is a 2008 American satirical comedy film directed by Steven Schachter. The screenplay by Schachter and William H. Macy is based on the 1991 novel of the same title by Peter Lefcourt. Macy and Meg Ryan co-star....

  • Blades of Glory
    Blades of Glory
    Blades of Glory is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, and starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder. The movie was released on March 29, 2007 by DreamWorks and MTV Films...

  • The Fountain
    The Fountain
    The Fountain is a 2006 American romantic drama film, which blends elements of fantasy, history, religion, and science fiction. It was directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starred Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz...

  • Niagara Motel
    Niagara Motel
    Niagara Motel is a 2006 Canadian drama film directed by Gary Yates. The film earned numerous nominations, including a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for Caroline Dhavernas.- Plot :...

  • Savage Messiah
    Savage Messiah
    Savage Messiah is a 1972 British biographical film of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, made by Russ-Arts and distributed by MGM. It was directed and produced by Ken Russell with Harry Benn as associate producer, from a screenplay by Christopher Logue, based on the book Savage...

  • The Guilty
    The Guilty (2000 film)
    The Guilty is a 2000 American crime film directed by Anthony Waller and starring Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Gabrielle Anwar, Angela Featherstone and Joanne Whalley.-Plot summary:...

  • The Tracker
    The Tracker
    The Tracker is an Australian drama film produced in 2002. It was directed and written by Rolf de Heer. It is a set in 1922 in outback Australia where a racist white colonial policeman used the tracking ability of an Indigenous Australian tracker to find the murderer of a white woman...


Television films

  • Rise of the Gargoyles
  • Hellhounds
  • Taking a Chance on Love
    Taking a Chance on Love (film)
    Taking a Chance on Love is the sequel to the hit Hallmark Channel television movie The Note that aired on January 31, 2009. The film was written by Douglas Barr...

  • Sand Serpents
    Sand Serpents
    -Cast:*Jason Gedrick as Lieutenant Richard Stanley*Tamara Hope as Captain Jennifer Henle*Elias Toufexis as Private Andrews*Sebastian Knapp as Private Oscar Kaminsky*Michelle Asante as Private Susan Eno*Chris Jarman as Sergeant Wilson*Imran Khan as Amal...

  • Carny
    Carny
    Carny or carnie is a slang term used in North America and, along with showie, in Australia for a carnival employee, as well as the language they employ...

  • High Plains Invaders
    High Plains Invaders
    High Plains Invaders is a 2009 science fiction television film that aired on Syfy. The film stars James Marsters.-Plot:A man goes to a small Colorado town to be hanged for his crimes in 1892...

  • Unstable
  • Swamp Devil
    Swamp Devil
    Swamp Devil is a 2008 Canadian horror film directed by David Winning and stars Bruce Dern, Cindy Sampson and Nicolas Wright.-Plot:Melanie Blaine returns to their homeland in a small town called Gibbington because here her father, a former sheriff, suspected because of multiple murders is cruel and...

  • The Christmas Choir
  • The Watch
    The Watch
    "The Watch " is the forty-sixth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. It is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the series, and first aired on September 30, 1992.-Plot:...

  • An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
    An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
    An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving is a television movie based on a short story by Louisa May Alcott. Filmed on location in Canada, the movie premiered on Hallmark Channel on November 22, 2008...

  • Accidental Friendship
    Accidental Friendship
    Accidental Friendship is a 2008 Hallmark Channel original film written by Anna Sandor, an award-winning screenwriter. It is based on a true story.-Plot:...

  • Black Swarm
    Black Swarm
    Black Swarm is a 2008 Canadian suspense film directed by David Winning. Actor Robert Englund plays a mysterious beekeeper who has a secret to hide in the small town of Black Stone. The movie was filmed in Montreal and surrounding small towns in July and August 2007...

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
  • Infected
  • Girl's Best Friend
    Girl's Best Friend
    "Girl's Best Friend" is a 1999 single by rapper Jay-Z that features vocals from Mashonda. It was released as a single to promote the 1999 comedy film Blue Streak and appears on its soundtrack Blue Streak: The Album. In the same year, it appeared as a hidden track on Jay-Z's fourth album Vol. 3......

  • I Me Wed
    I Me Wed
    I Me Wed is a 2007 made-for-TV romantic comedy directed by Craig Pryce.When Isabel Darden, a successful, attractive 30-year-old woman, grows tired of people asking her "when are you going to get married?," she decides to honor the person she loves the most by tying the knot with herself. But then...

  • Too Young To Marry
    Too Young to Marry
    Too Young To Marry is a 2007 television film about romance, drama and comedy. It involves two 17-year old teenagers named Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter . When the two think that they are in love they decide to get married despite their parents disapproval. Shortly after the two begin to realize...

  • The Wind in the Willows
    The Wind in the Willows
    The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England...

  • The House Sitter
  • The House Next Door
    The House Next Door (film)
    The House Next Door is a 2006 Lifetime Television movie, directed by Jeff Woolnough and starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Lara Flynn Boyle and Colin Ferguson.-Plot:...

  • Tipping Point
  • Proof of Lies
  • Answered By Fire
    Answered by Fire
    Answered by Fire is a two-part mini-series based on the 1999 East Timor conflicts that led to East Timor's independence. The mini-series was based on "Dancing with the Devil, A personal Account of Policing the East Timor Vote for Independence", which was written by David Savage, an Australian...

  • Recipe for a Perfect Christmas
  • Black Widower
    Black Widower
    "Black Widower" is the 21st episode of The Simpsons third season, originally airing on the Fox network in the United States on April 9, 1992. It was written by Jon Vitti, directed by David Silverman, and saw Kelsey Grammer guest star as Sideshow Bob for the second time. In the episode, Sideshow...

  • Mind Over Muder
  • Murder in the Hamptons
    Murder in the Hamptons
    Murder in the Hamptons is a true story made for TV movie, based on the events leading to the murder of multi-millionaire Ted Ammon and the conviction of Ammon's estranged wife's lover Daniel Pelosi.-Plot:...

  • Plain Truth
    Plain Truth
    Plain Truth is a novel written by Jodi Picoult about a murder on an Amish farm, first published in 2001.-Plot summary:The book tells the story of how a dead infant found on an Amish farm shakes the entire community. As the police investigate the death, they discover that the baby was not stillborn,...

  • Icebound
  • Silent Night
    Silent Night
    "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...

  • Deadly Friends
  • Infected
  • Cyberbully
    Cyberbully (film)
    Cyberbully is a film that premiered on July 17, 2011 on ABC Family. ABC Family worked with Seventeen Magazine to make the film, and hopes it will "delete digital drama". The film tells the story of a teenage girl who is bullied online...



  • Picking Up & Dropping Off
    Picking Up & Dropping Off
    Picking Up & Dropping Off is a TV movie starring Scott Wolf and Amanda Detmer. It premiered on ABC Family in 2003 on their 25 Days of Christmas programming block.-Plot:...

  • The Many Trials of Jane Doe
  • The Clinic
    The Clinic
    The Clinic is a Chilean satirical/investigative newspaper founded by Patricio Fernández Chadwick in November 1998. The name was inspired by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's October 1998 arrest in Britain at The London Clinic, which bears the name The Clinic on its façade...

  • Stork Derby
  • The Investigation
    The Investigation
    The Investigation is a science fiction/mystery novel by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem, published in 1959....

  • Chasing Cain II:Face
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    The Hound of the Baskervilles
    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an...

  • The Royal Scandal
    The Royal Scandal
    The Royal Scandal is a non-canonical Sherlock Holmes film which is an amalgam of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Bruce-Partington Plans". The film was produced in 2001 for The Hallmark Channel as part of an on-going series of Hallmark Sherlock Holmes films....

  • The Sign of Four
  • The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire
    The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire
    The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire is a non-canonical Sherlock Holmes film utilizing an original story. The film was produced in 2002 for The Hallmark Channel as the last installment in a series of Hallmark Sherlock Holmes films.-Plot:...

  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820...

  • Ricky Nelson: Original Teen Idol
  • Class Warfare
    Class Warfare
    Class Warfare is a book of interviews with Noam Chomsky conducted by David Barsamian. It was first published in the UK by Pluto Press in 1996.-Contents:* Introduction...

  • The Stalking of Laurie Show
    The Stalking of Laurie Show
    The Stalking of Laurie Show is a 2000 movie made for television and based on the real-life account of the murder of a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, native named Laurie Show.-Plot:...

  • Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story

Television series

  • Being Human
  • Crusoe
    Crusoe (TV series)
    Crusoe is a television adventure drama based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008-2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years...

  • Durham County
    Durham County (TV series)
    Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises...

  • Family Biz
    Family Biz
    Family Biz is a Canadian television show, filmed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada starring Doug Murray, Ephraim Ellis and Kate Corbett. According to YTV, Muse Entertainment and IMDB, twenty-six episodes have been shot. Created by James Nadler, the show is currently airing on YTV and France 2. The first...

  • Hubworld
    Hubworld
    Hubworld is a children's news magazine television series airing in the United States on The Hub, and produced by Natural 9 Entertainment with an association with Hasbro Studios. The program premiered on November 5, 2010 and is hosted by actor/magician Justin "Kredible" Willman...

  • Largo Winch
    Largo Winch
    Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis.The principal character is Largo Winch whose birth name is Largo Winczlav. Other important characters include Nerio Winch , senior Group W executives John D. Sullivan and Dwight E...

  • The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
    The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog
    The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog, a.k.a. Les Mystères d'Alfred, is an animated French-Canadian co-production made by Gaumont-Alphanim with distribution by Muse Entertainment Enterprises that airs on several broadcast and cable networks around the world. The show's characters consist of mainly...

  • See Robin Jones
  • Tales from the Neverending Story
    Tales from the Neverending Story
    Tales from the Neverending Story is a one season-only TV series that is loosely based on Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story, produced and distributed by Muse Entertainment, and aired on HBO in 2002. It was aired as 4 two-hour television movies in the US and as a TV series of 13 one-hour...

  • This Is Wonderland
    This Is Wonderland
    This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series is a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F...

  • Twice in a Lifetime
    Twice in a Lifetime (TV series)
    Twice in a Lifetime is a Canadian mystery/drama series that originally aired from 1999 to 2001. Created by Steve Sohmer, the series aired on CTV in Canada and PAX in the United States.-Synopsis:...


Mini-series

  • Answered by Fire
    Answered by Fire
    Answered by Fire is a two-part mini-series based on the 1999 East Timor conflicts that led to East Timor's independence. The mini-series was based on "Dancing with the Devil, A personal Account of Policing the East Timor Vote for Independence", which was written by David Savage, an Australian...

  • Ben Hur
    Ben Hur (TV miniseries)
    Ben Hur is a TV miniseries that first aired in 2010. Based on Lew Wallace's1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the series was produced by Alchemy Television Group in association with Drimtim Entertainment and Muse Entertainment in Montreal...

  • Flood
    Flood (film)
    Flood is a British disaster film from 2007, directed by Tony Mitchell It features Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, David Suchet and Tom Courtenay, and is based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Richard Doyle.-Synopsis:...

  • Human Trafficking
    Human Trafficking (TV miniseries)
    Human Trafficking is a television miniseries about an American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent going undercover to stop an organization from trafficking people, and shows the struggles of three trafficked women. It premiered in the United States on Lifetime Television on October 24 and...

  • impact
    Impact (TV miniseries)
    Impact is a mini-series about a meteor shower which eventually sends the moon on a collision course with Earth. The two-part mini-series premiered February 14 and 15, 2009 on the Canadian premium television channel Super Channel and was also shown on ABC on June 21 and 28, 2009 and on Alpha TV on...

  • Killer Wave
    Killer wave
    Killer Wave is a 2007 joint American-Canadian action-thriller TV mini-series, directed by Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald and written by Tedi Sarafian, George Malko, William Gray.-Plot:...

  • The Kennedys
  • The Last Templar
  • The Pillars of the Earth
    The Pillars of the Earth (TV miniseries)
    The Pillars of the Earth is an eight part 2010 TV miniseries, adapted from Ken Follett's novel of the same name. It debuted in the U.S. on Starz and Canada on The Movie Network/Movie Central on July 23, 2010. Its UK premiere was on Channel 4 in October 2010 at 9pm...

  • The Phantom
    The Phantom (miniseries)
    The Phantom is a 2009 miniseries inspired by Lee Falk's comic strip of the same name, and directed by Paolo Barzman. It first aired on The Movie Network and then on Syfy in June 2010...

  • University

Non-fiction

  • Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae
  • Back from the Brink
  • Lonesome George: The Loneliest Animal in the World
  • Human Nature
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