+ Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and the Quebec-shot Enter the Void have been tapped for Cannes. The famously troubled Imaginarium, left without a leading man following the death of Heath Ledger, was the last project by producer William Vince. Vince – head of Vancouver’s Infinity Features, which copro’ed the movie with Samuel Hadida of Paris-based Davis Films and Gilliam’s daughter Amy Gilliam – died of cancer last summer, shortly after Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in for Ledger.

– Vancouver’s Insight Film Studios, one of Canada’s largest production

companies, says smaller is better in the current volatile global economy.

Insight – which shot about $125-million worth of production in 2008 – is reducing its production slate by half this year, and has so far cut 28 of its 100 employees. The restructuring process also saw the company closing its casting and transport divisions, and selling off its grip and gaffing equipment.

+ E1 is on a roll. After signing a multi-picture distribution deal with Marco Weber’s new Senator Distribution for Canadian rights to five upcoming titles, E1 also landed a 13-episode series on a U.S. network. ABC has picked up Global Television’s Copper, a character-driven series about five rookie cops fresh from a police academy from E1 Television. The deal did not include a pilot – ABC bought the series based on a draft script and a pitch in March by veteran Canadian screenwriters Ilana Frank and Tassie Cameron.