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Weekly round-up: War Witch honours, more Canucks Sundance-bound
Kim Nguyen’s War Witch (pictured) receives multiple accolades; When I Walk, Le Futur Proche headed to the Utah fest; female industry execs make Canada’s power list.
Blue Ant acquires Cottage Life Media
The company has purchased the lifestyle hub’s four consumer magazines, as well as its custom publications, books, social media apps and consumer shows.
Integration inspiration: Putting a Canuck face on formats
Independent ad industry execs weigh in with how sponsorships and product integrations could work for the upcoming Canadian editions of Big Brother and The Amazing Race.
Concert film Burlesque: Raunch and Roll to shoot in 2013
Directors Jason and Brett Butler and producer Jonathan Hlibka will get cameras rolling on Dec. 31 as they spotlight top Canadian burlesque artists.
Cinemax action drama Strike Back debuts on Showcase
The drama channel, unveiling its winter schedule Wednesday, said it will also air the second seasons of Justified, XIII and Rizzoli & Isles (pictured).
Sudz Sutherland’s The Phantoms promises cathartic TV for Canadians
The three-hanky TV movie from the CBC is less about whether a ragtag bunch of high school basketball players win or lose, but how a small New Brunswick town turns true-life tragedy into unlikely triumph.
Eight digital projects get ideaBoost from Canadian Film Centre
The advanced training centre is breaking new ground by accelerating high-risk entertainment content plays from the idea stage, with the help of voting by the internet community.
MIPCOM12: Attendance up this year but still below 2008 peak
According to the market’s organizers, some 12,900 delegates made their way to the market this year, a slight increase versus 2011 but still below the 2008 record of approximately 14,000.
Manon Briand ponders directing an English-language movie
The draw of Hollywood A-list actors and international financing has the Quebec director looking to possibly make a movie in Toronto or stateside (Briand’s Liverpool pictured).
TIFF12: “Take money where you can get it,” HBO’s Nevins advises
HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins kicked off TIFF’s Doc Conference in Toronto Monday, advising filmmakers not to turn their noses up at brand funding.
Bite TV calls for reinvention
The Blue Ant Media channel is launching a rebrand and campaign this October to better target a younger male audience.
Space orders Bitten TV series, based on Kelley Armstrong novels
The suspense drama comes from No Equal Entertainment, Hoodwink Entertainment and Entertainment One
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