Hot Sheet: Top 10 Films (February 11 – February 17, 2011)
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (January 31 – February 6, 2011)
Kiefer Sutherland looks to be headed back to episodic TV as the lead in Touch, a drama pilot from 20th Century Fox TV and Chernin Entertainment.
Paul Giamatti, Juliette Binoche and Mathieu Amalric will be joining Robert Pattinson in David Cronenberg’s thriller Cosmopolis, eOne announced Friday.
The Canadian production sector received good news Thursday with word that Michigan is proposing ending its film tax credits.
So You Think You Can Make TV? Vancouver-based indie prodco Paperny Films wants young filmmakers to prove it with its new digital video contest.
The wisdom of vertical integration among Canadian content carriers to fend off Netflix and other competing U.S. digital platforms has quickly dominated conversations at the Prime Time conference in Ottawa.
The Shaw Media channel has its biggest ratings day yet as The Vanilla Ice Project debuts.
Centennial College’s Centre for Creative Communications is looking for the next big thing in children’s media, and it has ten $50,000 federal development grants to help you out.
The Toronto International Film Festival has tapped Rasha Salti to program African and Middle Eastern cinema.
Astral Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund is getting into the awards business. The industry fund is sponsoring the inaugural Planet In Focus Green Screen Award for eco-friendly filmmakers.
North America’s largest showcase of Quebec film, the 29th annual Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois unspooled last night with the Canadian premiere of award-winning helmer Stephane Lafleur’s En terrains connus (Familiar Ground).
Nelvana Studio’s new live-action comedy from Hannah Montana co-creator Michael Poryes will begin principal photography at the CBC studios in Toronto.
The CBC has lost long-time comedy exec Anton Leo to the Just For Laughs festival.
The icebreaker at the CMPA’s Prime Time conference this year for industry rivals breaking bread in Ottawa: Netflix.