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Hot Sheet: Top 10 films June 28 to July 4, 2013

Monsters University tops the box office for the week of June 28 to July 4, 2013.

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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs June 17 to June 23, 2013

Jack the Giant Slayer tops DVD for the week of June 17 to June 23, 2013.

No Heart Feelings gets multiplatform release

The indie feature, which first had a domestic theatre run in 2010, is being released on iTunes and south of the border on the inDemand VOD service.

Canadian doc The Manor earns special mention in Karlovy Vary

Shawney Cohen’s film (pictured) about a family running a Guelph strip club had its world premiere at this year’s Hot Docs film festival.

Weekly roundup: Festival screenings and industry pitch competitions

This Friday’s news includes details on The Immigrant (pictured) and My Father and the Man in Black securing festival screenings in the U.S. as well as the names of pitchers at the JFL ComedyPRO conference in Montreal.

Canucks invited to join U.S. Academy

Multiple Canadians have been invited to join the organization that hands out the Oscar Awards.

Telefilm invests $13.8 million in nine features

Films including David Hewlett’s Debug, Atom Egoyan’s Queen of the Night and Greg Jackson’s Bunker 6 received backing from the Canada Feature Film Fund.

Pacific Rim first movie to get Cineplex SuperTicket treatment

As part of the bundle, movie-goers will be able to purchase an SD digital download of the film for $19.99, plus the cost of a movie admission ticket.

Ricky, Julian and Bubbles buy Trailer Park Boys IP

The purchase includes all prior TV series, specials and the first two feature films but excludes the yet-to-be-released third feature.

Screen content-makers among new Order of Canada appointments

The list of 74 new appointees includes seven from the screen production sector, including Paul Gross, Deepa Mehta and Lea Pool.

Ole buys part of Sony Pictures’ film, TV music catalogue

The deal covers the period 1993 and 2012, and includes shows such as Wheel of Fortune and Breaking Bad and films Legends of the Fall and Hotel Transylvania (pictured).

Netflix expands PBS programming for Canada, U.S.

The expanded multi-year licensing deal includes U.K. murder mystery series The Bletchley Circle (pictured).