Robert Lantos

Robert Lantos, CM BA MA D.Litt (born 3 April 1949) is a Canadian film producer.

Life and career

Lantos was born on 3 April 1949 in Budapest, the son of Agnes (Bodor) and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of his childhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his family fled after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He immigrated to Canada in 1963.

Lantos studied literature at McGill University in Montreal and graduated with a BA (1970) and an MA (1972).

Following graduation from McGill, he founded Vivafilm which imported and distributed foreign films across Canada. He later started a production company RSL Entertainment which produced fifteen films most notably George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women and Ted Kotcheff's Joshua Then and Now.

Lantos co-founded the Canadian film and television company Alliance Communications Corporation with partners Victory Loewy, John Kemeny, Stephen J. Roth, and Denis Héroux. He was chairman and CEO until 1998 when he sold his controlling interest in Alliance. He now produces films through his production company Serendipity Point Films.

Men with Brooms

Men with Brooms is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. Centred on the sport of curling, the offbeat comedy tells the story of a reunited curling team from a small Canadian town as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the championship for the sake of their late coach.

The cast also includes Connor Price, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Outerbridge, Kari Matchett, Molly Parker and Polly Shannon. Members of the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip make a cameo appearance in the film as a competing rink representing Kingston, Ontario, the band's home city. Winnipeg curler and three-time Brier champion Jeff Stoughton also made a cameo appearance throwing his trademark "spin-o-rama" shot.

A television adaptation, also titled Men with Brooms debuted October 4, 2010 on CBC Television for the 2010-11 television season.

Plot

Men with Brooms (TV series)

Men with Brooms is a Canadian television sitcom, which debuted on CBC Television on October 4, 2010. It is a television adaptation of the 2002 film Men with Brooms, and was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The series stars Brendan Gall, William Vaughan, Joel Keller, Anand Rajaram, Aliyah O'Brien, Glenda Braganza, and Siobhan Murphy. The show's producer, Paul Gross, narrates and makes occasional appearances as Chris Cutter, his character in the original film.

Men with Brooms aired for one season and was not renewed.

Plot

The series is set in the fictional town of Long Bay, Ontario, and focuses on the members of a local curling club.

DVD release

On November 22, 2011, Entertainment One released Men with Brooms- Season 1 on DVD in Region 1.

References

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Men with Brooms (soundtrack)

Men with Brooms is the soundtrack album to the Canadian film Men with Brooms, released in 2002.

Track listing