Saban Films is partnering with Toronto-based Mongrel Media in a deal that will see Saban’s 2018 titles be released via Mongrel in Canada. Movies involved include Roland Joffe’s The Forgiven with Forest Whitaker and Eric Bana, True Crimes starring Jim Carrey and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Small Town Crime starring John Hawkes and Octavia Spencer. Mongrel, which worked with Saban on its first release in The Homesman, has distributed Sony Pictures Classics films in Canada since 2001. Saban’s Bill Bromiley and Jonathan Saba negotiated the deal with Mongrel’s Andrew Frank.