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Film
Genies return to network
It’s been a big year for Canadian film; big enough that the Genies are back on network. The 31st Annual Genie Awards in Ottawa will be broadcast live on CBC this year: Thursday, March 10, time TBD.
TIFF launches mentoring program to showcase Canadian actors
The Toronto International Film Festival is to pick the most likely Canadian actors to break out onto world cinema screens in 2011.
Jumpwire jumpstarts Restrepo Oscar hunt with marketing tools
Recruiting cross media producer Jumpwire Media to help market the documentary Restrepo paid off for co-directors Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger with an Oscar nomination and other award season glory.
Universal to shoot next Beethoven in Manitoba
Universal Studios Home Entertainment kicks off production of the new Beethoven holiday movie in the province next month, Manitoba Film & Music reveals.
Choke lands Sundance HM
Latimer’s Choke does anything but in Sundance.
Captain Canuck creator finds local producer for action-adventure movie
A Captain Canuck movie is finally on the horizon.
Toronto Fest confirms awards season value with Oscar noms
It was all smiles at Bell Lightbox Tuesday after 38 films that screened last September at the Toronto international Film Festival snagged Oscar nominations.
Villeneuve makes the final Oscar cut – Updated
It’s official: Denis Villeneuve is going for his Oscar.
Maple Pictures picks up Sundance pic My Idiot Brother
Maple Pictures has acquired the Canadian rights to My Idiot Brother after the Weinstein Company earlier snapped up the Paul Rudd-starrer from Big Beach Films at Sundance.
Dolan up for Cesar for Les Amours imaginaires
Montreal filmmaker Xavier Dolan, who will start shooting his third feature, Laurence Anyways, at the end of February, has been nominated for a Cesar Award, the French Oscar, for Les Amours imaginaires (Heartbeats).
eOne picks up Foreverland rights
Entertainment One has grabbed the Canadian distribution rights to Foreverland, Maxwell McGuire’s feature about a young man stricken with cystic fibrosis who goes on a road trip to Mexico.
Canadian producer options script for The Last Days of Pompeii epic
Indie producer Platinum Image Film has optioned the screenplay for The Last Days of Pompeii from British writer Henry Cobbold to produce a sword-and-sandals epic feature from director Sergio Navarretta.
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