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Film
Michele Maheux to retire
The “engine that has kept TIFF running for decades” will exit the organization next summer.
Canada top production destination for highest-grossing films
An annual study from FilmL.A., which analyzes the top 100 hits at the U.S. box office, found Canada hosted more film shoots and VFX than any other jurisdiction in the world.
VIFF unveils M/A/D lineup, sustainable production awards
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable and The Man Who Stole Banksy will have their Canadian premieres at the fest.
TIFF ’18: Midnight Madness, Docs, Int’l Shorts lineups revealed
Just two Canadian copros were added to the festival’s programs, including Naziha Arebi’s Freedom Fields.
Inside Out receives funding boost through CCIF
The Toronto festival received $84,000 through the Endowment Incentives component of the Canada Cultural Investment Fund.
TIFF ’18: 10 world premieres added to Platform lineup
Twelve international projects including Tim Sutton’s Donnybrook and Ho Wi Ding’s Cities of Last Things are among the films competing.
WIFTV program for Indigenous creators enters second phase
Screenwriters and filmmakers have been paired up with story editors including Zoe Hopkins and Penny Gummerson to work on their feature scripts.
Deals: Cineplex, CTV, DHX Distribution, Premiere Entertainment
(Updated) Newfoundland-shot drama Crown and Anchor heads to Cineplex in T.O and St. John’s, CTV picks up the Roseanne spin-off, plus more.
Vincenzo Natali’s latest heading to Netflix
Production is underway in Toronto on the writer/director’s adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill’s novella In The Tall Grass.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films July 27 to Aug. 2, 2018
Mission Impossible: Fallout comes in at #1 with Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! at #2, while Ricardo Trogi’s 1991 breaks the top 10.
Hot Sheet: Top 3 Canadian films July 27 to Aug. 2, 2018
1991 leads the list, followed by La Chute De L’Empire Americain coming in at #2 and The Accountant of Auschwitz landing at #3.
HGF backs four through BC Shorts Program
Writer/director Alysse Leite-Rogers’ Tea With Lemon is among the projects to receive $20,000 through the fund’s inaugural round.
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