Just in time for the summer high season, Cineplex Entertainment has launched a cross-country ad campaign spotlighting the best feature of its theaters.

Quebec’s technical unions, AQTIS and IATSE, have resumed talks after a three-week break.

Celebrating 20 years as Canada’s leading supporter of script development hasn’t changed the hard-working ethos of industry veteran John Galway and his staff of three at The Harold Greenberg Fund at the Toronto offices of Astral Media.

Astral Media’s evolution into a pure-play media company in the last decade has paid dividends for French-language film and TV producers in the form of Le Fonds Harold Greenberg, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year as the English stream fetes its 20th.

The Quebec political romance Un dimanche à Kigali passed the million-dollar mark at the provincial box office late in May, going on to net $5,600 over the June 2 weekend, according to distributor Equinoxe Films.

Blockbuster Video has added eight Canadian features to its growing Festival Collection series, and will ship Eve and the Fire Horse, The Cabin Movie, Niagara Motel, Mouth to Mouth, The End of Silence, Lucid, Things to Do and Paper Moon Affair to all of its 444 stores across Canada for June 13.

The Hot Sheet tracks Canadian box-office results for the period May 26-June 1, 2006 and DVD sales in Canada for the period May 15-21, 2006.

An officer of the Order of Canada and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec, the man for whom The Harold Greenberg Fund is named was a passionate Canadian cultural figure with a larger-than-life personality.

CHUM Television’s mission at the L.A. screenings was to come back with more simulcast programming from ‘the big four’ U.S. nets for its Citytv stations this fall. Mission accomplished, says Ellen Baine, VP, programming.

Demonstrating there is still a market for TV movies in Canada after all, CTV aired its original MOW Eight Days to Live on May 28 at 9 p.m. to two million viewers.

Top 20 TV Programs tracks ratings for the top 20 television shows in Canada for the period May 29-June 4, 2006.