Rosenberg will oversee the Canadian producer’s TV slate, based in Los Angeles, after Noreen Halpern left the company in February.
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.
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.”
Industry reps and the government are set to meet in coming weeks to discuss possible plans for a new tax break.
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.
Screenwriters from the film, TV and digital media communities honoured their peers at a celebration at Maro restaurant in downtown Toronto.
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.
The Hunger Games stays at #1 for the week of Apr. 13 to Apr. 19, 2012.
War Horse is the top-selling DVD for the week of Apr. 2 to Apr. 8, 2012.
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.
Australian prime minister Julia Guillard: “Without this effective tax offset incentive, the producers of The Wolverine would not have chosen Australia as the location.”
The festival’s Forum and market director Elizabeth Radshaw talks about breaking ground with emerging technologies and projects to watch.