Gross loses his Eastwick gig, CBC readies a Mountie biopic and Jason Priestley turns to drug-running with Nomadic
Higher prices at Imax and other screens boost returns at Cineplex
Gaming is a massive media growth area – and it’s a market looking to the film and television community to help it evolve.
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+ Alliance Vivafilm’s De père en flic made an appearance on Parliament Hill, where Heritage Minister James Moore and other MPs screened the Quebec box-office hit. The high-flying Père has grossed almost $11 million since its release in July. Moore himself arranged a similar event in the spring, putting his colleagues in front of One Week.
As a fall chill descends on the Canadian landscape and holiday parties begin to be penciled into the calendar, a young media mogul’s mind turns to one thing: quarterly results. And they are largely positive.
Telefilm Canada has named five teams to its Comedy Lab program, putting their feature projects into a three-month mentoring and workshop process.
Nelvana sends cartoons to Playhouse Disney, Nickelodeon and Oz’s ABC
Toronto studio head buys 48 acres on city’s west side for new film and TV production complex
U.S. broadcaster signs on for three seasons of Frantic Films’ reality ‘Til Debt Do Us Part
Hot numbers for CTV’s V, Shaw launches Spanish TLN and NFB doc wins German prize