Articles for 2011

eOne optimistic on six-month performance outlook

The indie estimates better results from its filmed entertainment division will offset a fall in distribution revenue owing to the DVD slump.

CTV launches social iPad app

Featuring a curated chat environment, CTV is also sweetening its branded social media experience with on-demand streaming of some of its new primetime shows.

Pitch Guide: Michael Claydon, CBC’s Doc Zone

From realscreen’s global pitch guide, a series of profiles of Canadian non-fiction commissioners and what they’re looking for this year.

Shaftesbury’s From Spain with Love heads to EMEA

The first production from Shaftesbury’s nascent factual division has been picked up by Scripps Networks Interactive’s Food Network in overseas markets.

Teletoon orders Camp Lakebottom for full season

The animated comedy, created by ex-Walt Disney Imagineer Eric Jacobson and ex-Kids WB! exec Betsy McGowen, is from Skywriter Media and Entertainment.

Murdoch Mysteries bidding adieu after fifth season

The Shaftesbury Films drama on Citytv is shooting its last season until early November.

Harold Greenberg Fund lifts five film scripts to pre-production

The industry fund has given another 29 new and ongoing film projects key early-stage financing.

Meet the media buyers: Sunni Boot, CEO, ZenithOptimedia

A new series of videos takes a behind-the-scenes look at some of Canada’s biggest media agencies, which bridge the gap between broadcasters and the world’s biggest brands.

Paperny to open NY office, hires Lynne Kirby

Kirby, a former Discovery Communications and Sundance Channel exec, will run the new office.

CRTC chair Finckenstein to end term in 2012

Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore in a tweet Tuesday signaled the search for a new CRTC chair has already begun.

Best Boy Entertainment hires Brit rainmaker Mike Prince

The veteran British dealmaker will help launch a new UK office to forge possible Canadian-European coproductions.

Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs

X Men First Class is the top-selling DVD for the week of Sept 5 to 11, 2011.