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Whizbang Films

Toronto, Canada(approximate location)

Film and Television Production program alum is the CEO of Whizbang Films and producer of The Handmaid’s Tale It’s been an eventful and successful career for...

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TypeProduction Company · Film · Television
Statusactive2024 credit i

How their work is rated

Average rating
6.5IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

25 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

30 wins from 109 nominations across all awards

Box office
$704,802

Combined US gross, 2 of 29 titles

Mostly
drama, romance, comedy
Active
2002–2024
Rotten Tomatoes
40%
Best known for
Hobo with a Shotgun

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 27 of 29 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
514 seasons

2004–2015

Television rating
7.1IMDb

Their films average 6.2, so the television rates 0.9 higher.

Networks
  • Hallmark Channel1
  • The CW1
  • The Movie Network1
  • Global TV1
  • Showcase1
  • CBC Television1

Across 5 series matched to TMDB, 159 episodes.

Longest runningGood Witch · 7 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 29

25 films · 4 TV titles

Titles per year29 titles · busiest 2008 with 6

29 titles across 23 years, averaging 1.3 a year. The last five years average 0.2 a year, below their long-run rate. 11 of those 23 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time25 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
357their average 6.5200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 6.7 across 9 titles. The 7 titles since 2015 average 6.6, holding at their 6.5 overall. 12 of 25 rated titles sit above their 6.5 average.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Craig Pryce7
  • Paul Gross2
Writers
  • Rod Spence5
  • G. Ross Parker4
  • Paul Gross2
  • Karen McClellan2
Notable cast
  • Catherine Bell6
  • Catherine Disher5
  • Chris Potter5
  • Rossif Sutherland2
  • Paul Gross2
Genres
  • Drama18 of 27
  • Romance9 of 27
  • Comedy6 of 27
  • Fantasy6 of 27
  • Family6 of 27

Names appearing on two or more of Whizbang Films’s produced titles, across the 27 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with11 companies

Companies that appear alongside Whizbang Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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