Will pratfalls and penguins beat out the third go-round of Resident Evil at the box office? Or will Universal take the top spot with its teen laugher Sydney White?

Host of The Hour and team to put their experience with the glitzy MuchMusic Video Awards to work for CBC broadcast from Regina

Second miniseries about legendary politician in production for CBC and SRC, revisiting the 1980 referendum. ‘This man had a huge impression on everyone in Quebec,’ says producer. ‘We knew there was going to be another’

Out-of-nowhere distributor to handle Summit titles in Canada and the U.K. into 2010, through Seville and newly acquired Contender Films

Post-takeover shuffling sends VP of content, together with execs Heather Conway, Errol Da Ré and Jackie Saad, to the exit. Social network blogtv.ca going dark after just six months

Animation industry expected to approach $160 billion by 2008, says Toon Boom boss at opening of Television Animation Conference

Veteran newspaperman John Cruickshank to take over as publisher of CBC News, returning to Canada after a seven-year run at the Chicago Sun-Times

Days of Darkness has been sent to Hollywood for consideration at the Oscars, looking to repeat the best foreign-language glory of its predecessor The Barbarian Invasions

Docs Cracked, Not Broken and Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom and Pop picked up for worldwide distribution, set to debut at next month’s MIPCOM

Tenth annual copro meet up in Halifax draws a crowd, including Peter Greenaway and French producer Georges Campana. Camelia Frieberg reports ‘good progress’ on her new projects

Sarah Polley’s Away from Her has already shipped more units than Mongrel’s last homemade hit, Water, and the distrib hopes an Oscar nod will move a few more

Toronto shop will take CG preschooler series to MIPCOM along with recent addition Clang Invasion