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Film
Breakaway to hit $1 million theatrical box office this week
The Indo-Canadian hockey drama is connecting with Canadians at the multiplex.
CMPA unveils six more film and TV producer trainees
The half-dozen emerging producers will be mentored at six indie production houses.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films
Cafe de Flore leads the Top 5 for its debut week, taking in over $350,000 at the domestic box office.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films
Jean-Marc Vallee’s Cafe de Flore breaks the Top 10 films list for the week starting Sept. 23, 2011
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs
Paramount’s Thor tops Nielsen’s VideoScan DVD list for the week ending Sept. 18, 2011.
MIPCOM 2011 briefs: Best Boy Entertainment, Lionsgate, Vuguru
Canadians are busy in Cannes unveiling international TV deals to bolster their business strategies.
A vision in financing: Hozer, Raymont take on Tom Thomson
The directing duo tell Playback about reaching out to the private sector to fund their latest doc, West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson, and finding surprising success.
As DVD slump bites, Cinram considers strategic alternatives
The Canadian replicator is the latest Canadian player to feel heat from falling packaged media sales as content increasingly shifts to digital platforms.
Reviewed! Breakaway
Director Rob Lieberman’s Sikh hockey movie gets mixed reviews from the nation’s critics.
CMPA calls for hearing into ‘caster support for Canadian film
The producers’ association unveiled two studies this week to back a call for more investment by domestic broadcasters in homegrown feature films.
Malin Akerman and Tyler Labine topline Cottage Country
Whizbang Films’ Frank Siracusa tells Playback about producing the dark comedy, which marks the first film to be produced solely by the prodco he co-founded with Paul Gross.
Who Loves the Sun named best feature at Film North
The Huntsville-based film festival hands out six awards during its three-day run, including Matt Bissonnette’s film about a drama-filled family cottage weekend.
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