The Montreal festival boss has dropped his lawsuits and made nice with the Quebec and federal agencies, ending two years of legal and policy fireworks

Rural Quebec shoot underway for coming-of-age story My Mother Is at the Hairdresser’s, with producers Lyse Lafontaine and Michael Mosca at Equinoxe

Latest round of funding puts cash into an adaptation of the play Consecrated Ground and the follow-up to Hard Core Logo

CBS has pulled the plug on Mark Burnett’s reality series of the high seas. CTV to fill gap with Law & Order: SVU

A U.S. channel thinks Canucks are ready for interactive and on-demand content for babies and toddlers

On the make for a suitor, boss John Levy says Score Media might find a match in the world of broadband. But the door still isn’t closed on Alliance, he says

Proposed multicultural channel would not stand out from Canada’s already diverse pack, says CRTC

An American activist is offering $5,000 for footage or stills of the most recent seal hunt in Canada, alleging that the media were banned. Not so, says Ottawa

Life with Derek is set to air in Portugal, the Netherlands and Norway following a trio of deals at Shaftesbury

The BBC’s Hiroshima and a rerun of the homemade six-parter Sex, Truth and Videotape are among the 13 docs set for next month on CBC Newsworld

Competition for U.S. film shoots is fierce, and Hollywood producers are warning Toronto to take note.

After a three-year hiatus from directing feature films, Atom Egoyan is back in preproduction on Adoration, a drama set for a Sept. 17 start date in Toronto. His eleventh movie – and seventh with producer Robert Lantos – explores familiar thematic territory for the Oscar-nominated auteur, exploring intimacy and the nature of our relationship to media.