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Meteor, Hybride pumped blood into 300

The gore-spattered sword ‘n’ sandal epic arrives in theaters Friday covered in blood and other unmentionables CG’ed by the Montreal post houses

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Bohbot tracks Bigfoot

Montreal producer says believers in the big guy ‘make a good case,’ after wrapping a doc for Space

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Real Estate deal for Summerhill

More than 400 home and gardening eps by the Toronto shop will be cut into searchable webisodes for the new VOD channel

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Cookie hires Clinton alum

The Montreal toon house has brought in Brook Hefner, formerly of Fox Sports Net and Bill Clinton’s media team, as its public relations manager

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Fight Network takes it outside

The digichannel has signed with the startup movy.tv to air its live and archived programming on cell phones and PDAs

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Women shut out of business, say Quebec filmmakers

In an open letter to the industry and its public funders, a coalition of mostly female filmmakers say that they’re not getting their fair share of cash

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CHUM joins Joost

MuchMusic, Space, and FashionTelevision are on board for the launch of Joost.com, which is racking up deals with content owners around the globe in a bid to rule Internet television space

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Eight docs from Global

The return of the newsmagazine Global Currents is putting eight docs by indie filmmakers on the Saturday night schedule, starting with a look at the hard lives of military families

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Kalangis opens filmmakers fest

The Canadian Filmmakers Festival returns with 11 homemade features — including a new entry in the growing subgenre of zombie comedies

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Robertson, Pinsent added to Walk

Toronto’s star-studded sidewalk welcomes its first newsman and seven other Canuck celebs

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Pyman fondly remembered

Producer Rick Pyman, who was set to launch a new game show on Global, was killed in a freak roadside accident on Monday

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A lot for On the Lot

The casting call for On the Lot — the filmmaker reality set for this summer on CTV and Fox — has drawn a strong response from Canadians