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Classic horror films conjure up famous scenes of creatures and psychos ­- from Lon Chaney’s Wolf Man to the girl in the well in The Ring. But without subtle (and not-so-subtle) sound design behind them, the images would lose their power to scare us with those memorable ‘jump’ moments.

Kelly Senecal says his CTV primetime soap Whistler needs a needle-drop soundtrack to deliver a ‘different kind of energy’ than a traditional musical score.

Daniel Pellerin is a Toronto-based Genie and Gemini Award-winning sound supervisor, rerecording mixer, music supervisor and contractor. Daniel Pellerin Digital Sound Productions recently sound designed and mixed the HD live-action and CGI documentary The Exodus Decoded for executive producers Simcha Jacobovici of Associated Producers and James Cameron.

Ottawa: CBC’s Richard Stursberg fired back at critics at the CFTPA Prime Time conference last month, defending the performance of CBC president Robert Rabinovitch within hours of presenting his own plan to revive the pubcaster with mainstream shows looking for big audiences.

David Cronenberg has added a second feature to his already crowded dance card, and will direct Eastern Promises, from an original script by Steve Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), after helming the satirical drama Maps to the Stars this fall.

TSN has announced plans to take its flagship news program SportsCentre into high definition by September, making the channel the first in Canada to provide its news in HD.

Ottawa: The state of domestic TV production provided producers with one of few sources of optimism in Profile 2006, the economic study of the Canadian film and TV industry unveiled at CFTPA’s Prime Time conference (Feb. 15-17).

Karen Thorne-Stone has been tapped as the new film commissioner of Toronto and, on March 20, will take the wheel of the city’s efforts to boost movie, TV and commercial productions.

Samantha Weinstein beams for the cameras after taking best female performance at the ACTRA Toronto awards on Feb. 24. The fifth-grade student won for her leading turn in Renuka Jeyapalan’s short, Big Girl, playing a tyke who clashes with her mom’s new boyfriend. She’ll be seen next in Ken Finkleman’s At the Hotel.

Sarah Polley has started work on her feature directing debut, and is in Hamilton, ON until next month with Away from Her – an adaptation of an Alice Munro short story starring Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie.

Despite a strong medal haul for Canada, the CBC’s Winter Olympics coverage achieved only half the viewers in primetime as it did with the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Although the Ceeb’s live afternoon broadcasts were up 14% over Salt Lake, the mostly recap and tape-delayed coverage in the evenings paled in comparison to what rival nets offered.