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Distraction takes O.J. doc

Monster or Myth? arrives amid former football great’s current trial in Las Vegas

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Montreal to fete Egoyan, Wenders

Directors on the guest list for Festival du nouveau cinéma, alongside John Boorman. Olivier Asselin’s A Sentimental Capitalism to open

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Terra tops in Ottawa

Festival gives high honors to CG sci-fi feature and NFB experiment Drux Flux

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Falardeau tops AFF

Festival closes with top honors for C’est pas moi, je le jure!, and best Atlantic bragging rights for Down to the Dirt

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Will Maple’s Girl feel the Burn?

Alliance and the Coen brothers fight to hold on to top spot at the box office with competition from the Maple comedy My Best Friend’s Girl

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Pilon picked for Oscars

Quebec filmmaker’s The Necessities of Life is Canada’s submission for best foreign-language film

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Tory-bashing at Ottawa toon fest

Animators urged to ‘vote for culture,’ as politics dominate opening night of Ottawa International Animation Festival

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Sherry shakes up Maple

Former MPD exec steps up to co-presidency at Toronto distributor, on the make for output deals beyond Lionsgate. Pelman sidesteps to COO post

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New financing for E1

Four-year $150-million credit line led by JP Morgan

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The Big Screen: The unbearable lightness of TIFF

The twin Canadian military tanks set up outside the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex for TIFF’s opening-night party – a nod to the screening of Paul Gross’ epic WWI movie Passchendaele – provided an apt metaphor for a festival under siege.

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New Line returns to Alliance

Turns out Alliance Films didn’t lose its output deal with New Line Cinema, after all.

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Mills wins Pitch This! with quirky comedy

A story about an outcast, dorky 12-year-old girl won over judges at the 2008 Telefilm Canada Pitch This! competition, which on Tuesday handed Toronto filmmaker Pat Mills a $10,000 cheque and bragging rights for his Don’t Talk to Irene.