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Hot Sheet: Top 10 films

Real Steel tops the overall box office for the week of Oct. 14 to 20, 2011, as Breakaway slides to #11.

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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs

Fast Five is #1 on the Nielsen Company DVD sales charts for the week of Oct. 3 to Oct. 9, 2011

Gary Howsam and Bill Marks reteam on The Truth

The action thriller, starring Andy Garcia, Kim Coates and Deborah Kara Unger, is shooting in Ontario and the Dominican Republic.

Pen and paper (Photo: OrinZebest, Flickr Creative Commons)

Tracey Forbes and Calum deHartog to adapt Dennis Lehane story

The duo are planning a feature film adaptation of the Vietnam war-era short story Running Out of Dog.

B.C. film industry production dips by $300 million in 2010: report

The B.C. film industry’s annual report shows an overall decline in production, attributed to increased Ontario and Quebec tax credits, a high dollar and a slowdown around the Olympics.

Farpoint Films to produce doc on prairie rockers The Sheepdogs

The Rolling Stone cover boys from Saskatoon will be the subject of a new doc slated for Super Channel in 2013.

Reviewed! Down the Road Again

Don Shebib’s follow-up to his 1970 classic receives mostly warm reviews from the nation’s critics.

ACCT modifies Genie rules, releases 2012 date

Reduced entry fees in two categories and wider eligibility for feature films are two of the changes made for the 32nd edition of the awards.

Cineplex pilots in-cinema interactive ad product

The new ad venture will allow cinema goers to interact directly with the ads that appear during a movie’s pre-show.

Kim Cattrall to mentor next-gen actors at CFC

The veteran thesp will participate in the Canadian Film Centre’s Actors Conservatory in Toronto.

Ascot Elite buys Starbuck for German-speaking Europe

The Quebec comedy was sold by eOne Films International after a recent Toronto International Film Festival bow.

Rogers Documentary Fund announces more grantees

The fund has awarded $1.6 million in grants to 25 doc projects in a move that it is calling “an unprecedented show of support for independent documentary producers.”