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Gearshift Films inks deal for Home Sweet Home
The deal covers all rights in Canada and the U.S., including pay TV, home entertainment and VOD, for the France-Canada co-venture thriller from the Toronto-based indie and France’s CountessFilms.
How Degrassi’s new chat app helps build show’s brand online
The app was developed for Epitome Pictures by Ottawa mobile app developer Bitheads using Mobovivo’s application programming interface.
Weekly roundup: Award noms, renewals and premieres
Lionsgate’s B.C.-shot Cabin in the Woods (pictured) received a best sci-fi/horror movie category nomination in the Critics’ Choice Awards, and word comes that Film Nova Scotia is being overhauled.
Careless Teens ushers in MTV Canada’s winter schedule
The specialty channel’s winter schedule includes rookie series Buckwild, about nine teenagers in West Virginia, and Washington Heights, a docu-drama about reckless youth in New York City (Careless Teens pictured).
CTV gives Motive a Super Bowl push
The Bell Media channel is airing the first episode of the new Canadian series following the big game.
Doc festival turns to Indiegogo to finance youth screenings
The Montreal International Documentary Festival is looking for $10,000 to be raised via the crowd-funding campaign to back a second year of film screenings for young audiences.
Best of the year: Kevin Crull
The Bell Media topper talks strategy, TV everywhere, and what year three will bring.
Time spent online to reach TV levels by 2014: Study
The most recent data from Mobilens suggests the reach of smartphones and other devices has grown quickly in the Canadian market in the past year.
NSI announces first trainees in aboriginal doc course
The director-producer teams will participate in a two-week training and mentorship boot camp starting Jan. 14.
The Weather Network travels to Middle-earth
The meteorological media company has partnered with Warner Bros. to promote the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Alberta, Manitoba producers to tap development fund from Rogers Media
The Rogers Development Fund will back film, TV and digital formats from established and emerging producers, via a revolving loan fund.
Stars in Danger dives into Canada
Canadian French-language network V has licensed Banijay International’s format Stars in Danger: High Diving.
In the writers’ room with Flashpoint
Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern, Adam Barken and Larry Bambrick on writing the final season, and the best pitches that didn’t make it to screen (including Barken’s alternate theme song).
Hot Docs issues $266,000 in grants via Shaw Media, Blue Ice
Hot Docs has awarded grants to 16 documentaries, with $125,000 issued via its Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund, and $141,000 granted via the Shaw Media-Hot Docs Funds.
Mychael Danna nets Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice nominations
The multi-award winning Canadian composer has secured the twosome this week for his scoring of Ang Lee’s Life of Pi.
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