Baruchel rocks with 'Rebel'

VANCOUVER -- Jay Baruchel is placed to star in "The Digital rebel Kind," with different memoir by John Remedy, also known as Buck Cherry, frontman of eighties Vancouver-based band, "The Modernettes." Pic stories the emergence from the city's punk-rock scene using a effective band that throws within the towel, recognizing the deep price of going after superstardom. "The Digital rebel Kind" is going to be helmed by Reg Harkema ("Monkey Warfare," "Leslie, I'm Evil") that has also inked the script. Patrick Carroll, Andria Spring ("Donovan's Echo," "The Thaw") and Kevin Eastwood ("Fido," "Eco-Sailing: The Storyline of Paul Watson") are affixed to produce via Eastwood's Optic Nerve Films. Finances are around $5 million with a few financing from Telefilm, Movie Central and eOne shingle, Hidden Agenda. The pic will lense next fall in Vancouver. "Many people don't understand that Vancouver would be a huge hotbed of musical activity in early 80s," stated Eastwood, who spent seven years at Anagram Pictures being an in-house producer. "At that time, Vancouver was among the three axis points from the world -- there is London, NY -- after which there is Vancouver." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com