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Flashpoint to end after fifth season
TVThe primetime drama about an elite Toronto SWAT team, which airs on CTV and ION Television stateside, will go off-duty after 75 episodes.
Google to receive innovation tribute at Banff festival
TVWEBThe U.S. search engine company’s chief business officer Nikesh Arora (pictured) will be in Banff to receive the second annual award of excellence for innovation.
Slice renews Four Weddings Canada for second season
TVThe reality series from Proper Television has received a ten-episode order from Shaw Media for a sophomore run.
Why China is an ace in the hole for Canada’s Imax Corp.
FILMThe Toronto-based company is betting that a growing international network of theatres, especially in China, coupled with a slate of Hollywood tentpoles on its super-sized screens, will assure a profitable future for the Canadian company.
How to monetize digital content by pushing pleasure buttons
INTERACTIVETVWEBInnovation guru Alexander Manu told the Playback Summit that content producers need to encourage play in behavior spaces, much as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter already have.
B.C. producers urge province to follow Ontario to stay competitive
FILMINTERACTIVETVWEBA consortium, including the Canadian Media Production Association, urged Victoria to develop a creative clusters strategy overseen by an umbrella agency like the Ontario Media Development Corp. to sustain growth in a converged digital world.
TV network toppers wrestle with industry quandaries
MOBILETVWEB“It’s a strange world to have come off our most popular season,” Kirstine Stewart, executive VP of English Services at the CBC, told Playback Summit delegates of the recent government cuts at the pubcaster.
Rogers’ earnings dips from mobile and cable headwinds
MOBILETVTough competition in the mobile and cable TV sectors has the media company feeling the heat, judging by its first quarter financial results.
Michael Rosenberg promoted at Entertainment One
FILMTVRosenberg will oversee the Canadian producer’s TV slate, based in Los Angeles, after Noreen Halpern left the company in February.
Phillipe Falardeau, Gabriel Pelletier films take foreign festival prizes
FILMFalardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar took the audience award at the RiverRun International Film Festival, while Pelletier’s La peur de l’eau took the Grand Prize at the International Festival of Detective Films in Belgium.
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DGC 50th Anniversary Open House - Feb. 24, 2012 - DGC Director of Communications Alex Sosa in conversation with DGC President Sturla Gunnarsson Photo Credit: Tony Zhao