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Tsarouchas to co-lead comedy

Comedian Angelo Tsarouchas has been cast in the U.S. indie picture Fred and Vinnie, starring alongside…

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City may shuffle Filmport ownership

Britain’s Pinewood Studios Group is set, at long last, to join the Toronto megastudio, but as a manager and not an equity…

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ER dominates on final night

County General Hospital closed its doors for good as the venerable medical drama bowed out with its largest…

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Flashpoint boosts Costello’s Spectacle

Elvis Costello has found an audience for his musically minded talk show and, despite a trying Friday timeslot, scored…

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Corus backs Thorne’s Killers

Chaz Thorne is turning the corner on his adaptation The Serial Killers Club, in part because of a boost…

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Product placement made easy

A web startup is moving product placement deals from behind closed doors to the faster, simpler and…

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CFC sides with Satan

A series of five-minute shorts about mismatched roommates — one of them, Old Nick himself — has gone to camera at…

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Coyne, Burns think Big

Editors, production designers and actors are getting the opportunity to don a director’s hat for the new initiative Little Films…

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Deadline extended on E! stations

Canwest Global Communications has given its five E! stations until the end of the summer to be sold or shut down, extending…

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Sitcom goes to Africa

Breakthrough Films & Television has found a new home for Less Than Kind, following a pickup that will take…

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Cronenberg hopes to shoot Matarese near home

If everything goes according to plan, David Cronenberg hopes to bring his next project to Filmport this fall, though in the meantime…

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Specialties flush with cash

Ad revenue continued to grow in 2008 for specialty TV, while over-the-air networks were being crippled by…