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Moves

+ Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and the Quebec-shot Enter the Void have been tapped for Cannes. The famously troubled Imaginarium, left without a leading man following the death of Heath Ledger, was the last project by producer William Vince. Vince – head of Vancouver’s Infinity Features, which copro’ed the movie with Samuel Hadida of Paris-based Davis Films and Gilliam’s daughter Amy Gilliam – died of cancer last summer, shortly after Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in for Ledger.

If Canwest can keep dodging bullets, then clearly anything is possible. Even a new SAG agreement, which is now tantalizingly close to getting Hollywood back on its feet and back in Canada, where it belongs. Hot air will continue to come out of Ottawa in May, however, as network bosses migrate back to the CRTC, looking to spawn new licences.

In the U.K., Channel 4 has successfully defended a US$800,000 libel case brought against the U.S. version of Da Ali G Show. The plaintiff claimed that Sacha Baron Cohen used her name in a defamatory way during an interview with Gore Vidal, referring to her as a ‘minger’ and accusing her of always trying to ‘amend herself.’

Boards at the William Morris and Endeavor agencies have ratified a merger which will see the creation of a huge talent agency with annual revenues estimated at