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Eastern Promises, Shake Hands lead the pack
It’s been an incredible year for Canadian cinema.
Second Toronto megastudio takes shape
But even as work crews head in, partners in the project are still weighing the feasibility of putting up another high-tech studio in city’s west end
Rogers buying Aurora
Media giant signs deal for neighboring cable operator, serving parts of southern Ontario
Hit-maker Albie Hecht opens KidScreen
CEO behind SquarePants and Dora the Explorer to discuss shifting landscape of kids media at start of New York conference
Laverdière to manage $10-million CBC fund
Exec in charge of programs at France’s TV5 Monde returns to the pubcaster to head up new cross-cultural fund
Canada’s first carbon-neutral studio
Vancouver Film Studios has gone carbon neutral, said to be Canada’s first soundstage facility to have done so, in part to attract green Hollywood productions
Big numbers at Cineplex
Net income at Canada’s largest theater chain more than tripled last year, despite sluggish returns at the holiday box office
Morse mourned at Actors Fund
Actor best known as the relentless lawman on The Fugitive cofounded the charitable group in 1958
The Establishing Shot: Cancon success comes at the right time
It seems that every time producers get together, it coincides with an industry crisis of some kind.
People
• Doug Frith is leaving his post as president of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association to start his own consulting company. The group, responsible for the Hollywood majors in Canada, has put general counsel Wendy Noss in his place on an interim basis.
Sales
• Zeitgeist Films beat the competition to the EyeSteelFilm/National Film Board doc Up the Yangtze! on the eve of its premiere at Sundance. The doc, focusing on the changing natural and social landscape of China, is scheduled for domestic release in April.
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