Robert Lantos has boosted his stake in Entertainment One as part of a just-completed buyout…

Global ad spending is expected to drop by 4.4% to $425 billion this year — more than four percentage points worse than…

Pierre Karl Péladeau will be busier at Quebecor for some time, following the departure of Louis Morin…

Nadir Mohamed has been confirmed as president and CEO of Rogers Communications, following weeks of speculation…

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+ CBC’s Heartland has won the 2008 Actors’ Fund Canadian TV Charity Challenge, raising a total of $11,700 for The Actors’ Fund of Canada. The fund has provided millions in emergency aid for over 10,000 entertainment industry workers since it was founded in 1958.

Has it been a year already? So many movies that we didn’t get a chance to see. But why should that stop us, or anyone else for that matter, from making predictions about who will go home happiest after this year’s Genie Awards? And so we ask: Predictions for Genie night?

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Big Bird is watching his back after the Sesame Workshop announced that one-fifth of its 355-member staff would be let go. Beyond money raised through sales and government funds, the non-profit relies heavily on corporate donations and has been seriously impacted by cutbacks brought on by the recent economic downturn.

Speculation has it that 52-year-old telecom exec Nadir Mohamed has been tapped as the new CEO of Toronto TV and wireless giant Rogers Communications. The position has been vacant since the passing of Ted Rogers last December. Company chairman Alan Horn has been acting CEO since October.

A move by New York State to pour another $350 million into its stalled film/TV incentive program has been called too little and too late…

Entertainment titans Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb face likely jail time after they were found guilty of cooking the books…