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– In a surprise move, Toronto’s CORE Digital Pictures has closed its doors, with the apparent loss of around 150 jobs at the ambitious visual effects and animation house that William Shatner built. Shatner launched CORE in 1994 along with Bob Munroe, John Mariella and Kyle Menzies.
Fink joins Cinram
Disc maker increasing its presence in L.A.
Short is the Man
Fox pilot casts comic as IRS boss
Feds clear way for Icahn
Competition Bureau okays play for Lionsgate
Icahn gets cold shoulder
Lionsgate again rejects takeover offer — calling it too little and ‘coercive’
The Olympics, BBC cuts & Murdoch’s anti-Christ
Dear Canada: Let me congratulate you on the great job you did hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics. While I’m at it, I’d like to apologize for the behavior of the British press… Most of them couldn’t even host a dinner party let alone the most complex multi-sports event on the planet.
Op-Ed: The screen-based industry and the 2010 federal budget
Brian Anthony is national executive director and chief executive officer of the Directors Guild of Canada.
3 things you may not know about… Catherine Winder
Catherine Winder is president/executive producer at Rainmaker Entertainment
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+ Jay Switzer is back on the industry scene, and is banking that the CRTC will okay not one, but two channels all about action, and another two about romance. The former top man at CHUM is attached to applications for the proposed Category 2 channels Velocity and Adventure, and Kiss and The Love Channel.
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