Quebec star steps into role of 1960s hood Lucien Rivard for $6.5-million feature from Charles Binamé and Aetios Productions

Deal with San Francisco-based company puts The Hour, The National and others on a network of sites and portable media players

The latest from horror veteran William Friedkin and Lionsgate/Maple Pictures looks to lure moviegoers away from the summer’s next mega-sequel. ‘Counter-programming works,’ says analyst

Exclusive four-year pact for tennis championship the latest in recent sports wins for CGM family

Cirrus Communications and Dream Street Pictures roll cameras on MOW recounting ill-treatment of an American hockey team in Canada

BloodRayne director Uwe Boll and Brightlight Pictures reteam for the action adaptation Far Cry, while distributors pick up Dungeon Siege and Seed

Sister networks Global and E! have unveiled the names, if not the timeslots, for 15 new shows for their fall primetime lineups, including Darren Star’s Cashmere Mafia, the sci-fi redo Bionic Woman and Back to You, starring Kelsey Grammar

Oscar and Golden Bear winners among the 250 films selected for the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, set to draw 300-plus buyers and sellers next month

The director of the forthcoming The Stone Angel is in final talks to sign Ben Kingsley in the lead of her IRA drama Fifty Dead Men Walking

The busy B.C. company is working on four thrillers this spring, including three MOWs for Lifetime and the Laurence Fishburne feature Tortured

Network scoops football rights and the Super Bowl ‘crown jewel’ away from longtime broadcaster Global Television

Deal worth $6 million will see the Toronto service house rebranded as Peace Arch Studios, which top executive John Weber hopes will offset a lull in business