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Weekly roundup: Festival screenings and industry pitch competitions
This Friday’s news includes details on The Immigrant (pictured) and My Father and the Man in Black securing festival screenings in the U.S. as well as the names of pitchers at the JFL ComedyPRO conference in Montreal.
Mario Cecchini joins Corus
The former Astral Radio sales and marketing SVP will oversee Corus’ Eastern Ontario radio stations, and the company’s Quebec specialty TV and radio assets being acquired from Bell-Astral.
Bell Media adds Astral execs to leadership team
Jacques Parisien, currently Astral Media EVP and COO and president of Astral Radio, becomes Bell Media president, national specialty and pay TV, radio and OOH as the BCE-Astral transaction closes July 5.
Canucks invited to join U.S. Academy
Multiple Canadians have been invited to join the organization that hands out the Oscar Awards.
Fall TV: Primetime battlegrounds 2013
With the battle lines drawn, a panel of media industry experts predicts the winners and losers for the upcoming season.
Telefilm invests $13.8 million in nine features
Films including David Hewlett’s Debug, Atom Egoyan’s Queen of the Night and Greg Jackson’s Bunker 6 received backing from the Canada Feature Film Fund.
TC Media launches digital product development lab
The TC Media Incubator will be led by Bruno Leclaire (pictured), who has been promoted to chief digital officer at the company.
Pacific Rim first movie to get Cineplex SuperTicket treatment
As part of the bundle, movie-goers will be able to purchase an SD digital download of the film for $19.99, plus the cost of a movie admission ticket.
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles buy Trailer Park Boys IP
The purchase includes all prior TV series, specials and the first two feature films but excludes the yet-to-be-released third feature.
Media agency execs on the BCE-Astral deal
Sunni Boot, Bruce Neve, Shelley Smit and Michael Neale weigh in on the implications of the $3.4 billion deal getting the green light from the CRTC.
Screen content-makers among new Order of Canada appointments
The list of 74 new appointees includes seven from the screen production sector, including Paul Gross, Deepa Mehta and Lea Pool.
Ole buys part of Sony Pictures’ film, TV music catalogue
The deal covers the period 1993 and 2012, and includes shows such as Wheel of Fortune and Breaking Bad and films Legends of the Fall and Hotel Transylvania (pictured).
Netflix expands PBS programming for Canada, U.S.
The expanded multi-year licensing deal includes U.K. murder mystery series The Bletchley Circle (pictured).
Genre pics by Anthony Dixon, Matt Johnson to screen at Fantasia
The film festival is also giving world premieres to Robert Morin’s Les 4 Soldats (pictured) and Discopath, Renaud Gauthier’s feature directorial debut.
History’s Yukon Gold starts second season shoot
The Paperny Entertainment doc series sees four mining crews dig for the precious metal in the Great White North.
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