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The Burning Question

Seems like for every silver lining in the doc business, there’s a cloud. On one hand, people stampede to see Up the Yangtze. On the other, even more prefer Michael Moore. And so we asked attendees at the Hot Docs press conference:

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Letter

History missed

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Correction

Muse Entertainment is a producer on Durham County, along with Back Alley Film Productions. Incomplete information appeared in the March 3 issue.

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Gloomy projection for ad growth

Ad agency ZenithOptimedia downgrades earlier estimate for advertising year in North America and in western Europe. Prospects rosier for online properties

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Ontario dragged into studio squabble

Battle over bid to turn Toronto studio into a big-box outlet escalates as both sides appeal to provincial authorities

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Doc revisits Cinar scandal

Portrait of fallen CEO Micheline Charest suggests name-changing on scripts was common with indie producers

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Toronto professor to speak at Banff

Richard Florida, author of Rise of the Creative Class, to give keynote speech

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DHX buys Bulldog

Ownership of high-tech gyms for kids provides outlet for properties from Decode, Halifax and Studio B

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Playback founder bids farewell

Twenty-two years atop Playback parent company Brunico Communications started with a failed bid for a radio licence in 1985, recalls founder and out-going chairman Jim Shenkman

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Peace Arch looks to boost production

Troubled company reports higher revenues in delayed report, eyes making higher-end theatrical releases and more of The Tudors

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People

• Six weeks after she exited Showcase, Rachel Fulford resurfaced this month at Blueprint Entertainment, joining the border-straddling company as VP of creative affairs. She arrives in step with U.S. veteran Michael Rosenberg, who has been posted to the company’s L.A. office as SVP of creative affairs.

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The Burning Question

The Tories say it will bring federal tax credits in line with the criminal code, while critics, since taking notice of Bill C-10, have been running out of synonyms for ‘Orwellian.’ By now we’ve all heard plenty from Ottawa, so instead we ask plain ol’ taxpayers: