Author and former spy Martin McGartland contests a recent statement from the producers of Fifty Dead Man Walking, saying he was left out of key creative decisions in adapting his autobiography

Ce qu’il faut pour vivre, the feature drama debut for Quebec docmaker Benoît Pilon, opens Friday with a twist on the old story of cultural alienation

Former Cinema Libre director recalled as a ‘man of heart who took on the cause of independent cinema’

Western digichannel becomes MovieTime, doing away with series and one-offs. Movies drive the most viewership, says Williams

Music channel to air ABC Family drama picked up earlier this year by parent CTV

Long-awaited megastudio opens to cheers from city and industry officials despite empty stages. ‘It’s now my Notre Dame, my cathedral,’ says Cronenberg

• Animation exec Rick Mischel has found a new home at Technicolor as EVP of animation and interactive services, a posting that puts the former Mainframe boss atop a unit that combines the video game and animation divisions that service game, broadcast and DVD titles. Mischel joins the Burbank outfit following the wrap-up of his time at Rainmaker where, following its purchase of Mainframe in 2006, he stayed on through 2007 to assist in the changing of the guard.

• The Comedy Network wants more Jon Dore, and has ordered a second season of his reality-ish series from Insight Productions. Work began mid-August on another 13 half-hours of The Jon Dore Television Show in Toronto, following the local comic through halfhearted efforts at self-improvement.

Grace Park has joined the cast of CBC’s The Border, taking over for Sofia Milos as the series’ new Homeland Security agent. The Vancouver native is best known for her role as an android on Battlestar Galactica, and this summer has been starring alongside Benjamin Bratt in the A&E series The Cleaner. She is represented by Tyman Stewart of Vancouver-based Characters Talent Agency.

No disrespect to the fine folks behind Death Race or The House Bunny, but by mid-August the summer is pretty much over as far as movies are concerned. And so – looking back on Indy, WALL-E, Zohan, Prince Caspian, Mulder, Scully and all those superheroes – we ask:

Millions quietly cut from film and TV programs, raising fears CTF and New Media Fund are next. Tories have shown ‘true colors,’ says Ira Levy

Former Alliance exec signs on as new head of sales