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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs Nov. 5 to Nov. 11, 2012
Amazing Spider-Man climbs to the top of DVD sales for the week of Nov. 5 to Nov. 11, 2012.
Epitome Pictures “exploring its options” for The L.A. Complex
This could give fans a complex: The indie producer is looking to keep the homegrown soap going by bringing another Canadian network on board after MuchMusic decided against a third season.
Best of the year: Playback’s Winter 2012 issue
Check out our digital edition, where we feature the best of 2012, zoom in on 3D, and pay tribute to Comedy.
Exclusive: No more The L.A. Complex for MuchMusic
Bell Media confirmed Monday it will not be ordering more episodes of the homegrown soap from Epitome Pictures.
Inside the Digis: Hunted aims to push consumption boundaries
The best cross-platform fiction nominee was tied to Cinemax’s new series and was supported by not only social media pushes but also out of home advertising.
DHX Media completes key sales in Asia
Canada’s DHX Media has signed a bouquet of new TV deals and renewals across Asia for its children’s library including new preschool series Monster Math Squad (pictured).
Canadian actors and producers agree on new labor deal
ACTRA members will vote on whether to ratify the new collective agreement in the coming weeks.
nextMEDIA: Creators should capitalize on mobile, digital video
“At the end of the day, with video usage, you’re extending [content] reach, not cutting reach,” comScore VP Canada Bryan Segal (pictured) told Playback ahead of the conference taking place Dec. 3 and Dec. 4.
Super Channel bankrolls its first original drama series
Forgive Me, written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald and produced by Emotion Pictures, tackles the challenges to religious beliefs such as same-sex marriage and reproductive technology.
CTV, Insight to bring The Amazing Race to Canada
Insight Productions will produce the local version of the international franchise, slated for summer 2013.
Black Tree Pictures production shingle unveiled
The Vancouver-based prodco, run by actress Nicole Leier (pictured) and director of photography Brendan Uegama, have multiple projects currently underway.
David Mortin’s metaphoric Mad Ship premieres in Whistler
Director David Mortin told Playback that the film is as much a study of a man’s great optimism and ruined dreams as an ode to indie filmmaking.
Kate Melville’s Picture Day takes Borsos award in Whistler
The rookie feature director’s coming-of-age story won the top $15,000 prize for best Canadian feature at the West Coast festival.
Indiecan Entertainment acquires Slaughter Nick for President
The documentary portrays Rob Stewart as an out-of-work Canadian actor who discovers via Facebook that he has been a media sensation in Serbia for two decades owing to a past role as a beach-bum detective in a cheesy Canadian drama.
BuzzTaxi takes Jack the Ripper, Mob Stories to Europe
Toronto-based BuzzTaxi Communications has sold assorted factual and doc series, including Mob Stories (pictured), to broadcasters in Poland, Germany, France and Russia among other territories.
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