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Julie Snyder: TV host dynamo and blockbuster producer

Dynamo TV personality and heavyweight producer Julie Snyder once wore a paper bag over her head to interview legendary actress Catherine Deneuve.

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Discovery, Galafilm have liftoff with $20M multimedia Mars project

With a $20-million price tag on its mega-Mars project, Discovery Channel and Galafilm Productions know the stakes are out of this world.

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Race to Mars as ‘real’ as possible, says director Mihalka

Trekking to Mars and back had its challenges, says George Mihalka, the seasoned Montreal-based director who helmed the four-part miniseries Race to Mars.

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Falardeau shooting feature drama C’est pas moi

Genie and Jutra award-winning writer/director Philippe Falardeau is probing the complexity of childhood love – and loss – in C’est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear!), his latest feature.

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Family scores A+ with High School Musical

The much-anticipated sequel to the Disney TV movie phenom was watched by more than one million Canadians, bringing Family Channel a record audience

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Cochons hogs box office

Patrick Huard’s feature directorial debut ‘turns to gold’ for Christal Films, ringing in $1.6 million after less than two weeks on Quebec screens

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DVD release a Party for Christal

Hot after its successful run on Quebec screens, domestic teen flick A vos marques…Party! is now a hit in home video

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Small numbers for Best Years

Ratings for Global’s freshman college drama trailed off at season’s end; no word yet on a sophomore run

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Motor City set for November

Six-part mystery series will face Shark and Big Shots on most Citytv stations when its goes to air in late November

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Croc Hunter tribute spans two specialties

One year after his death, ‘Croc Hunter’ Steve Irwin will be celebrated on Discovery Channel and Animal Planet with a week’s worth of specials and episodes

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Entertainment One buys Seville

With TIFF fast approaching, the upstart distributor makes a splash in the film and TV world with the pickup of Seville’s ready-made infrastructure

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Alliance Atlantis execs get pink slips

Following the close of its takeover by CanWest and Goldman Sachs, AAC’s execs David Lazzarato, Andrea Wood and Ted Riley are gone; Michael MacMillan and Phyllis Yaffe remain as ‘consultants’