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Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian Films (January 21 – January 27, 2011)
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian Films (January 21 – January 27, 2011)
Hot Sheet: Top 10 Films (January 21 – January 27, 2011)
Hot Sheet: Top 10 Films (January 21 – January 27, 2011)
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (January 10 – January 16, 2011)
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (Jan. 10, 2011 – Jan. 16, 2011)
CRTC opens CTV/BCE transaction hearings
BCE on Tuesday defended its tangible benefits package for taking over CTV, contending it’s offering “significant commitments” to new Canadian content production.
WIFT-T appoints Webb
The Toronto chapter of Women in Film & Television (WIFT-T) has brought on Heather Webb as executive director, effective February 28.
McGonigal: Games can change the world
Be happy. Play games. That’s the message from game designer and theorist Jane McGonigal, who insists video games are anything by wasteful time and energy, and can instead can positively impact people and a real world found wanting.
NFB lands two international awards
Highrise/Out My Window and A Drummer’s Dream have snagged two international awards for the National Film Board of Canada.
Proper serves up new eps and season orders
It’s been a good start to 2011 for Proper Television, as the Toronto prodco begins production on 80 new eps of Come Dine With Me Canada and gets the greenlight for new seasons of Canada’s Worst Driver and Canada’s Worst Handyman.
Gritty showcase drama tells cold facts of Aboriginal reserves
The APTN and Showcase drama Blackstone is challenging. It’s also riveting, in-your-face and as smart as Canadian dramatic TV gets these days.
Shatner, Tapping to lead in The Zenoids
William Shatner and Amanda Tapping have signed on to top-line the animated webisode series The Zenoids.
King’s Speech reigns atop Canadian box office
Top film prizes and Oscar nominations have The King’s Speech reigning atop the Canadian box office.
The CW acquires Canadian zombie script
U.S. network The CW has acquired the zombie script Awakening from veteran Canadian writers William Laurin and Glenn Davis (The Listener) for development.
Shaw bids for sports channel license
The odds on a joint bid coming from Shaw Communications and the CBC for NHL or Olympic Games rights got better on Friday when the western Canadian cable giant submitted an application for a sports specialty channel to the CRTC.
Paperny to shoot season two of Dussault Inc.
Vancouver’s Paperny Films is following Jason Dussault to L.A. to film season two of Dussault Inc. for Rogers Media Television.
Antic Entertainment tops indie game development competition
Canadian indie game studio Antic Entertainment has won a game development competition mounted by Korean games publisher Nexon, with $1 million in project financing at stake.
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