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The world’s a stage for Romeo Candido’s Prison Dancer
The transmedia series from the writer-director mixes musical numbers and mockumentary storytelling with blogging and social media elements – all in a bid for Broadway.
AToMiC: Teletoon starts a vampire-human street fight
The game will let players choose – in 3D – how the My Babysitter’s a Vampire series will end.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 films – Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, 2011
Monsieur Lazhar is Canada’s top-grossing film of the week. Click through to find out which other films made the top five.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films – Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, 2011
No surprise here: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn takes no. 1 at the box office for the week.
Principal photography begins on The Lesser Blessed
Christina Piovesan tells Playback Daily about financing, casting and shooting her latest film in northern Ontario.
TV handyman Mike Holmes restructures production shingle
The co-CEOs of The Holmes Group have been split up, with Pete Kettlewell to head up a new spinoff production company, Point Load Pictures.
eOne to release Studiocanal’s Special Forces stateside
The acquisition of the $25 million Diane Kruger-starring thriller follows the Canadian distributor announcing an expansion into the U.S. theatrical releasing market.
Vampires, rock stars and practical jokers join Teletoon’s winter sked
My Babysitter’s a Vampire hits the youth channel’s lineup this January, alongside two new Canadian series and the debut of the Vancouver-shot The Haunting Hour.
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs – Nov. 7 to Nov. 13, 2011
The latest and last installment of the Harry Potter franchise takes over the DVD chart for the week.
Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs – Nov. 14 to Nov. 20, 2011
Once again, The Big Bang Theory takes the top spot, while Global’s House rises to #2.
Exclusive: Reunion taps 24’s Jon Cassar to helm Out of Time pilot
Lensing the Vancouver-set police procedural follows Cassar directing all eight episodes of The Kennedys miniseries for Shaw Media.
CBC study: Ad-free pubcaster would be bad public policy
CBC/Radio-Canada has released a new study concluding that an end to its dependence on TV ad dollars would have a significant negative effect on its Canadian programming budget.
How two superfans got Score Media to fund their bucket list
Laurence Payne and Ethan Cole tell Playback Daily about getting Buster Douglas to box in Ohio and Ben Johnson to stalk Carl Lewis in New Jersey.
CRTC approves Bell Media’s ‘Bella’ channel
The new specialty will target young women with lifestyle-based programming.
Bardel Entertainment expands to Kelowna, B.C.
The animation studio and production company is adding a new office in B.C.’s Interior, and working on new-talent incubation with Okanagan College.
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