+ Frantic Films’ popular reality series ‘Til Debt Do Us Part is headed to U.S. cable channel CNBC, following a deal reached on behalf of the producers by Toronto’s Picture Box Distribution. The sale gives Debt – which previously aired stateside on the smaller American Life TV Network – more prominent exposure in the U.S. on CNBC, which reaches 97 million American homes.

Susan Croome, B.C. film commissioner

Recently, I watched ITV’s new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, and was puzzled to see an opening sequence in which some unseen person or creature thrashes menacingly through the undergrowth.

He’s not a cop, far from it, but Michael Cram – who you could just as easily envision as the corny dad in a cereal commercial or the deranged serial killer in an MOW – has played one on TV so many times over in his 18-year acting career he’s lost count.

Pinewood Toronto Studios may have its prized 46,000-square-foot megastudio, but Toronto rival Cinespace Studios is converting an old steel plant on Chicago’s west side into a studio complex for Hollywood shoots, with five film stages of more than 50,000 square feet in size.

Exhibition giant Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund continues to ring up record box office during the economic downturn. The theater chain recorded third-quarter earnings up 11% to $20.4 million, as total revenues rose 7.7% to $257.5 million with lift from 3D titles like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

Alberta’s Niobe Thompson and CBC promise devastating expose of oil sands at IFDA

Holmes gets his own magazine, Twilight looks to pull stakes for the U.S., and Mosca readies a bio of Winnie Mandela

Paying for product puts dent in half-year numbers. Turnaround coming, says Throop

Nominee leader takes home best drama, direction and actor. Dillon misses, but takes trophy for Murder mini. Alberta announces plans for $26 million studio build