Just thought it was worth noting that despite the massive list of stars in the ensemble cast of “Valentine’s Day,” there isn’t a Canadian among them.

The film led the U.S. box office over the weekend with $67 million, nearly doubling the second-place film “Percy Jackson.”

“Valentine’s Day” was completely assailed by critics, earning just 15 percent approval on RottenTomatoes.com.

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about Olivia Newton-John’s unlikely hockey connection as the Australian starlet has signed up to take part in “Score: A Hockey Musical.”

This bit of casting news makes a little more sense. WENN.com is reporting that Canadian Nelly Furtado is set to make her big-screen debut, playing a woman obsessed with the game, in the movie musical that is set to begin filming soon in Toronto.

Director Michael McGowan says, “Nelly is an incredible entertainer and, after speaking with her, I realized that she fully relished embracing her inner hockey fanatic.”

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Kiefer Sutherland has reportedly received the green light to bring his tick-tock drama “24″ to the big screen, although it isn’t clear exactly when a film version of Jack Bauer’s escapades might be released.

The show is currently in its eighth season and is set in New York City for the first time. Last season, it went from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., marking the first location change in the show’s history.

“24″ has been down the movie route before, but only in a made-for-TV sense. “24: Redemption” was a two-hour film that served as a bridge between Seasons 6 and 7.

According to many reports, “State of Play” writer Bill Ray is lined up to write Jack’s big-screen endeavor, which would still reportedly take place over the course of one day, but would obviously not be in real time — because, well, that would make for a hell of a day at the movie theater.

Do you think “24″ could work as a film franchise?

The directorial showdown is complete, but Canadians are looking at one other than the highly reported one between “Avatar” director James Cameron and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who directed “The Hurt Locker.”

Canadians might be a little more drawn to Cameron’s head-to-head matchup with Jason Reitman, who was nominated for directing “Up in the Air.” It makes for the first time since 1997 that two Canadian directors are nominated in the same year. Cameron was also part of that mix, with “Titanic,” and went against Atom Egoyan, who directed “The Sweet Hereafter.”

Other Canadian nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards include: writer-director Neil Blomkamp, who was born in South Africa but grew up in Vancouver, who was nominated for best adapted screenplay for “District 9,” which was also nominated for Best Picture.

Set decorator Gordon Sim of Toronto is also part of the team nominated for Best Art Direction for “Nine.”

Canadians did manage to escape the Razzie nominations that were announced a day earlier, and will be handed out the day before the Oscars.

One of Canadian of the Week’s favorite new blogs is Ghouls on Film (ghoulsonfilm.net), where the horror movie genre is written about women, by women, and for women. You could maybe say it’s like Lifetime, but maybe Deadtime, if you know what I mean…

Anyway, the site is beginning a series of tributes to some classic scream queens and it just so happens they’ve started with Vancouver’s own Yvonne De Carlo.

As it turns out, she wasn’t always Lily Munster. In fact, the show only ran for two seasons (followed by two movies), and the 1940s and ’50s were considered the prolific period in the life of the actress who was once dubbed “the world’s most beautiful woman.”

Check out ghoulsonfilm.net for the rest of the story.

While she’s no stranger to getting physical, we can’t help but wonder what Australian pop star and actress Olivia Newton-John knows about hockey.

Nonetheless, she’s starring in a new Canadian musical film that will begun production next week in Toronto, according a story in the National Post.

“Score: A Hockey Musical,” has every indication of being a sort of reverse “Billy Elliott.” Newton-John is set to play a hippie-intellectual mom who homeschools her son (newcomer Noah Reid), feeds him organic food, takes him to the art gallery and becomes dismayed when he reveals a love for hockey, and turns out to be exceedingly good at it, the National Post reports.

The world of movie musicals is obviously nothing new to Newton-John, who has “Grease” and “Xanadu” to her credit. She’ll also be appearing with Calgary’s Cory Monteith on “Glee” in the spring,

The movie is set to come out in Canada in October.

An emergency room doctor said on Tuesday that watching Canadian director James Cameron’s “Avatar” contributed to a 42-year-old man’s death.

The Taiwanese man, who suffered from hypertension, had a stroke after watching the movie. He was unconscious when he was brought to the hospital and his brain was hemorrhaging.

“It’s like that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms,” the doctor told AFP.

The man died 11 days later and the China Times is calling it the first death linked to watching “Avatar.”

Somehow calling it “the first” doesn’t bode well.

If ever there was a true honorary Canadian, it’s Brendan Fraser. He was born in the United States, but his parents were both Canadian and he holds the distinction of being the first American-born actor to get the honor of induction to Canada’s Walk of Fame.

Fraser took a moment — really, just a moment — to open up about his Canadian side to Sara Castillo, Comcast.net’s movie editor. She asked him about his “Canadian alter-ego and here’s what he had to tell us:

“I’m half-Canadian,” he said. “The lower half. That’s why I’m such an amazing dancer.”

Thanks for that, Brendan.

You might have heard Fraser has a new movie out today, co-starring with Harrison Ford in the based-on-a-true-story docudrama, “Extraordinary Measures.” (Click here to see Sara’s full interview with Fraser, where he talks about working with Ford and taking such an emotional story and trying to keep it from becoming melodramatic.)

Click below to check out a trailer for “Extraordinary Measures”:

While George Clooney and Co. are running a star-studded telethon across several networks on American television, some of Canada’s biggest names will gather for an hourlong event that has a list of celebrities that more than holds its own.

The CBC reports:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean are scheduled to deliver messages, and the Tragically Hip and K’naan will perform live.

Other prominent Canadians from music, film, television and sport to appear on the special include:

Musical acts Nelly Furtado, Measha Brueggergosman, Justin Bieber, Céline Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, David Foster, Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida and Simple Plan.

Directors James Cameron, Jason Reitman and Norman Jewison.

Actors William Shatner, Joshua Jackson, Pamela Anderson, Eugene Levy, Sandra Oh, Tom Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, Michael J. Fox, Rachelle Lefevre, Will Arnett, Hugh Dillon and Brent Butt.

TV personalities Mike Holmes, Rick Mercer and Alex Trebek.

Sports stars Gretzky and Steve Nash.

Humanitarian Craig Kielburger.

The money raised during the telethon will be distributed equally amongst a coalition of 10 large Canadian non-governmental organizations — including World Vision Canada, Canadian Red Cross Society, UNICEF Canada, Oxfam Canada and Save the Children Canada — with the funds exclusively earmarked for Haiti.

Canadians came up big at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, with director James Cameron taking home the top prizes as he won for Best Director and his film, “Avatar,” claimed the trophy for Best Motion Picture, Drama.

The Kapuskasing, Ontario, native who’s long lived in Los Angeles has had a heck of a year with the release of his long-awaited and highly anticipated adventure film to the far-off planet of Pandora. The film was Cameron’s first since a little thing called “Titanic” was released 12 years ago, and it seems the wait didn’t hamper the new film’s performance. In addition to claiming some major awards, it’s approaching $500 million gross revenue at the box office, according to boxofficemojo.com, putting it third place all time after “Titanic” ($600 million) and “The Dark Knight” ($533 million).

Elsewhere, screenwriter and director Jason Reitman took home a Best Screenplay award with co-writer Sheldon Turner for “Up in the Air,” which starred George Clooney. Reitman, of Montreal, also directed the film, but lost in that category to the aforementioned Cameron.

FInally, Calgary’s Cory Monteith was not nominated for an individual acting award, but his show “Glee” won the top prize for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, knocking off heavy hitters such as “30 Rock,” “The Office” and “Entourage,” and another highly touted newcomer, “Modern Family.”

See all the Golden Globe results here.