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Matt Sylvain
Laurence Anyways, War Witch lead Jutra nominations
Six films are vying for the Golden Ticket prize, awarded based on a weighting system that considers box office, festival entries, award wins and international distribution sales: Bestiaire, Truck, Laurence Anyways (pictured), Monsieur Lazhar, Starbuck and War Witch.
Weekly roundup: Festival lineups, new apps and renewals
Among other news, Kim Nguyen’s War Witch (pictured) will play at the up-coming Toronto Black Film Festival, and Vancouver’s Core Music Agency unveils a host of new composers it’s managing.
CCI Entertainment promotes two executives
The prodco and distributor has promoted Federico Vargas (pictured) to the position of VP sales, while VP marketing and licensing Kristin Lecour has taken on all Canadian TV and digital sales.
Holmes Makes it Right international rights sold
Los Angeles-based Sierra/Engine Television has acquired the international distribution rights to the third spin off to the successful franchise fronted by renovator extraordinaire Mike Holmes (pictured).
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Jan. 20
The third installment of the top Canadian-made programs based on Seevibes’ social media index shows that Lost Girl managed to stay on top thanks to Twitter.
New BlackBerry store touted with TV and film offerings
BlackBerry World, which was unveiled Monday, replaces BlackBerry App World, features the mobile-format availability of programs from a slew of Canadian and international distributors, according to RIM.
South Asian Zee TV to launch in Canada
Zee TV Canada will be the flagship of a five-channel entertainment offering by the South Asian-focused broadcaster whose international viewership reportedly stands at 650 million people.
Income Property renewed, expanded to one hour
The production company for the Scott McGillivray-hosted reno series, RTR Media, also unveils a slate of productions, including the greenlighting of Lost and Sold (McGillivray pictured).
9 Story distribution expands into acquired programming
For its first foray into managing completed programming, the Toronto-based kids prodco and distributor takes on Slap Happy Cartoon’s Nerds and Monsters (pictured).
New Sony online store available in Canada
Purchases from the store (pictured) can include films and TV shows that can be played on Sony Media Go-equipped PCs and Sony Xperia smartphones and tablets.
Weekly roundup: Conferences, indie distribution and VFX news
Among the briefs included this week are news on Heidi Tao Yang (pictured) being named producer of the Toronto Screenwriting Conference, Pacific Northwest Pictures’ theatrical releases and Canadian Press distributing video content.
D Films gets Canuck rights to Paul Haggis’ Third Person
The drama follows three couples as their international love stories intertwine in Rome, Paris, and New York, and stars Kim Basinger, Adrien Brody, Liam Neeson, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Olivia Wilde and Maria Bello (Haggis pictured).
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