Okay, ‘return’ might be a questionable choice of wording, because, after all, the Toronto filmmaker hasn’t really gone anywhere ­- except perhaps to the Big Apple, where this summer he remounted his theatrical production of Samuel Beckett’s Eh Joe, starring Liam Neeson.

After 10 years of politicking, posturing and false dawns, Toronto finally officially has a megastudio.

MONTREAL — Friends and family are mourning the loss of Claude Forget, renowned supporter of Quebec independent film and former director of distribution company Cinema Libre. Forget died Aug. 17 in Sainte-Julienne, QC, the village of his birth, succumbing to cancer-related complications. He was 57.

• Bruce McDonald’s latest feature is headed to the Toronto International Film Festival with Maple Pictures, which has acquired the Canadian rights to his horror Pontypool. The deal was negotiated by Maple co-president Brad Pelman and SVP of theatrical John Bain, and producer Ambrose Roche and executive producer J. Miles Dale on behalf of the film. Pontypool will have its world premiere in TIFF’s Vanguard program.

• Canwest has promoted Kenton Boston to VP of Global National News, a new position that puts him in charge of ‘strategic editorial direction’ at the network, and of overseeing the launch of its four new foreign bureaus. The network has also tapped Neill Fitzpatrick as Global National’s executive producer, another new position that puts him in charge of day-to-day operation of the national newscast. Fitzpatrick was most recently at the Global station in Edmonton.

Savvy buyers and sellers will, of course, keep their best insights to themselves. And film festival markets are unpredictable at best. But with every Toronto International Film Festival comes speculation about trends in the deal-making. And so we ask:

Shaftesbury Films has put Kelly Rowan (In God’s Country, Eight Days to Live) and John L’Ecuyer (In God’s Country, Prom Queen) to work again on The Good Times Are Killing Me, an MOW now shooting in Toronto for CTV.

VANGUARD: DERRIÈRE MOI

While crowing about its summer ratings spikes, the channel unveiled a diverse line-up of proven and original series, new documentaries and hit movies from around the world

Creators look to follow up on the success of the original movie with sequel currently shooting in Halifax

Distributor unleashes Disaster Movie and Traitor, which will face off at multiplexes, while Vivafilm looks to score with drama Le banquet in Quebec

Strong buzz at the Montreal fest surrounds Alison Reid’s low-budget mockumentary feature about a female couple who look to make a baby without a man