Film

Michael Rosenberg promoted at Entertainment One

Rosenberg will oversee the Canadian producer’s TV slate, based in Los Angeles, after Noreen Halpern left the company in February.

Phillipe Falardeau, Gabriel Pelletier films take foreign festival prizes

Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar took the audience award at the RiverRun International Film Festival, while Pelletier’s La peur de l’eau took the Grand Prize at the International Festival of Detective Films in Belgium.

Why Netflix is starting to print money in Canada

Despite local spending like Netflix Canada licensing Dragon’s Den, Mr. D and Arctic Air from the CBC, the U.S. video streaming giant said Canada is “sustainably profitable.”

Film reels (Photo: Lisa Eglinton, Flickr Creative Commons)

Saskatchewan film and TV industry rallies for new tax incentive

Industry reps and the government are set to meet in coming weeks to discuss possible plans for a new tax break.

Brad Peyton tapped to helm Lobo

The Newfoundland-based director, fresh off his success with Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, is set to bring the DC Comics anti-hero to the big screen.

Scribes exchange pens for prizes at WGC Screenwriting Awards

Screenwriters from the film, TV and digital media communities honoured their peers at a celebration at Maro restaurant in downtown Toronto.

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Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films – Apr. 13 to Apr. 19, 2012

Monsieur Lazhar maintains its high and keeps the top spot for Canadian films at the box office, for the week of Apr. 13 to Apr. 19, 2012.

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Hot Sheet: Top 10 films – Apr. 13 to Apr. 19, 2012

The Hunger Games stays at #1 for the week of Apr. 13 to Apr. 19, 2012.

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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs – Apr. 2 to Apr. 8, 2012

War Horse is the top-selling DVD for the week of Apr. 2 to Apr. 8, 2012.

New Bell Lightbox film series gets Cameron Bailey as curator

The TIFF festival artistic director will join Noah Cowan to program a weekly subscription series focused mostly on foreign language film titles from around the world.

How Australia beat Vancouver to catch The Wolverine movie shoot

Australian prime minister Julia Guillard: “Without this effective tax offset incentive, the producers of The Wolverine would not have chosen Australia as the location.”

Hot Docs preview pt.1: Forum to focus on feel-good flicks

The festival’s Forum and market director Elizabeth Radshaw talks about breaking ground with emerging technologies and projects to watch.