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Shaftesbury appoints Jay Bennett to new post
Bennett becomes the prodco’s SVP creative and innovation, while continuing to oversee Shaftesbury’s digital studio Smokebomb Entertainment.
Discovery, Liberty Global take stakes in Lionsgate
Each company will have a 3.4% stake in Lionsgate, and both Liberty Global’s Mike Fries and Discovery’s David Zaslav (pictured) will have seats on the board.
Newton Landry Management opens Sudbury office
The talent agency is expanding into Northern Ontario to capitalize on the growing film/TV market. (Sudbury office head Matthew J. Guthrie pictured.)
CBC developing Katie Ford, Katie Boland series
The comedy will be produced by Sienna Films and Boland’s Straight Shooters Productions.
Kids’ CBC greenlights Randi Zuckerberg’s Dot.
Dot., a 52 x 11-minute animated TV series, is based on the debut children’s book from bestselling author, digital lifestyle expert and entrepreneur Randi Zuckerberg.
Province invests $12.8M in Northern Ontario Heritage Fund
The funding will go towards film and television productions, as well as infrastructure projects.
Cord-cutting up in first nine months of 2015: study
Numbers have jumped significantly over 2014, but continue to represent a small part of the market, according to a new report from Boon Dog Professional Services.
Michael Eklund, Camille Sullivan win UBCP/ACTRA Awards
Five members of the Union of British Columbia Performers, an autonomous branch of ACTRA, were honoured at an awards gala held in Vancouver Saturday. (Eklund pictured.)
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs Oct. 19, 2015 to Oct. 25, 2015
Jurassic World tops the DVD chart for the week of Oct. 19 to Oct. 25, with San Andreas at #2 and Aladdin at #3.
Steve Nash-backed series in development at CBC
The in-development dramatic series is produced by Insight Productions and Nash’s Meathawk Productions.
Letterkenny to premiere on Super Bowl Sunday
The series from New Metric Media will bow on CraveTV with a sneak-peek world premiere this November at the Canadian International Television Festival.
CRTC, NFB’s French-market discoverability event
The two organizations are co-hosting the second round of the pre-discoverability summit focusing on the French-language content market.
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