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Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films Oct. 12 to Oct. 18, 2012
In Canadian films, Resident Evil: Retribution tops the box office for another week.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films Oct. 12 to Oct. 18, 2012
Hotel Transylvania 3D, which received its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, tops the box office for the week of Oct. 12 to Oct. 18, 2012.
Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs Oct. 8 to Oct. 14, 2012
The Big Bang Theory tops TV for the week of Oct. 8 to Oct. 14, 2012.
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs Oct. 1 to Oct. 7, 2012
The Avengers tops DVD for another week.
Bell slams CRTC for ignoring market realities in Astral decision
The phone giant in an appeal to the feds said the regulator relied on a 1978 working paper “developed at a time when Canadians watched three or four channels via rabbit ears.”
eOne grabs North American rights to Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s
The doc about the famous luxury goods and fashion retailer is directed by Matthew Miele.
The saucy Soska twins’ remedy for Canadian film: shock and awe
“There’s a stereotype that we’re (Canadians) sweet and polite and love our hockey, which is true. But we’re also really weird. We have a really strange sense of humour,” Jen Soska tells Playback as American Mary plays the Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
American Mary cleans up at Screamfest Horror Film Fest
The film (pictured) from IndustryWorks took the top prize for best picture and earned Jen and Sylvia Soska the best director trophy.
WIFT-T announces Crystal Award winners
Shaw Media’s Tara Ellis and Pink Sky Entertainment’s Anne Marie La Traverse (pictured) are among this year’s winners, in the awards recognizing achievements of Canadian women and men in the screen-based industry.
A Dangerous Method, Borgias, Kennedys sweep DGC Awards
The period costume dramas swept the awards, taking honours for best series and mini-series, sound editing and production design (The Borgias pictured here).
Package Deal begins production with live studio audience
Thunderbird Films’ upcoming comedy series for Citytv, starring Canuck comedians Harland Williams (pictured) and Jay Malone, will be shot live in Burnaby, B.C.
Charlie Zone big winner at imagineNATIVE festival
Elle-Maija Tailfeathers’ A Red Girl’s Reasoning won for best Canadian short drama and Danny Teece-Johnson’s Songline to Happiness took top honours for best short documentary (Charlie Zone pictured).
Michael Gross, Jeremy Hotz cast in Call Me Fitz
The HBO comedy from creator Sheri Elwood has started production on its fourth season in Halifax (Gross, Hotz pictured here).
Rogers Media completes acquisition of Score Media
The deal has been closed into trust, pending final CRTC approval.
It’s official: BCE to appeal to feds to acquire Astral Media
The formal request to the federal cabinet will be made Monday under section 7 of the Broadcasting Act, and follows the CRTC denying its $3.38 billion transaction in a shock decision on Thursday.
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