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Lauren Malyk

Lauren Malyk is a staff writer at Playback. She joined the publication in 2018 following stints with the Ottawa Citizen, the Ontario Association of Former Parliamentarians and TVO's flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin. A graduate of Ryerson University’s bachelor of journalism program, she also has experience in communications. You can follow her on Twitter at @lmalyk.

Posts by Lauren Malyk

Mongrel Media nabs Sean Garrity’s latest

Written, directed and produced by the My Awkward Sexual Adventure director, I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight will open this March.

February 24, 2020

Hangar 18 gets to work on The Fight Machine

Produced under Raven Banner Entertainment’s joint venture with 9 Light Entertainment and Red Square Motion, the film sees Raven Banner’s Andrew T. Hunt direct.

February 24, 2020

Incendo, Further South Productions team for Ice

Created and written by John Forte, the Canada/U.K. copro sees Lionsgate serve as the thriller’s international distributor.

February 21, 2020

Krempelwood extends its reach across the pond

The U.K.-based program financier plans to invest $17 million towards Canadian projects that have the potential to run for multiple seasons and sell internationally.

February 21, 2020

Pilote preps Maria Chapdelaine

MK2|Mile End is set to distribute The Fireflies Are Gone writer/director’s fourth feature film in Canada.

February 20, 2020

Gravitas Ventures takes on James vs. His Future Self

The sci-fi comedy up for best original screenplay at the Canadian Screen Awards is expected to be released theatrically in the U.S. this May.

February 19, 2020

Building Landscape Artist of the Year Canada

Blue Ant Media’s Sam Linton and marblemedia’s Matt Hornburg discuss the path to the Canadian adaptation of the hit U.K. competition series.

February 19, 2020

CSAs ’20: Antigone, Body Remembers among best pic noms

Anne at 13,000 ft, White Lie and The Twentieth Century round out the category, while Francois Girard’s The Song of Names received the most nominations with nine.

February 18, 2020

Deals: Raven Banner, Untitled, Discovery Kids Media

Raven Banner Entertainment signs deals for two SXSW Midnighters, while Untitled Entertainment picks up the TV and digital rights to Better Luck Next Time, and more.

February 14, 2020

MacLeod unveils Ontario film and TV advisory panel members

Cinespace VP Jim Mirkopoulos will serve as chair, while Shaftesbury’s Christina Jennings has been tapped as its vice chair.

February 13, 2020

DOC appoints NFB’s Michelle van Beusekom as executive director

The former executive director, programming and production for the NFB’s English program replaces Mathieu Dagonas.

February 12, 2020

CBC, NBCUniversal Int’l Studios team for Lady Dicks

Co-created by Sherry White and Tassie Cameron, the buddy cop drama stars Baroness von Sketch Show‘s Meredith MacNeill and Orange Is The New Black‘s Adrienne C. Moore.

February 11, 2020