Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (November 1 – 7, 2010)
Looking for full status before the Ontario Labour Relations Board to resolve contract disputes, local unions and guilds on Monday gave their support to a private members bill in the Ontario legislature.
Quebec director Daniel Grou, also known as Podz, grabbed the top prize this weekend at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival for his coming-of-age indie film 10 1/2.
Canadian sketch comic John Catucci is hosting the Lone Eagle Entertainment’s You Gotta Eat Here! for Food Network Canada.
Chalk one up for the little guy: upstart Wind Mobile scored a victory Friday when the Competition Bureau slapped Rogers Communications with a lawsuit over a “misleading” advertising campaign for its discount Chatr text-and-talk brand.
Astral Media’s Super Ecran pay television channel will not face competition in the French-language market from TVA Group’s proposed pay TV movie channel Cine-TVA service, the CRTC ruled Friday.
Randy Quaid’s on-going bizarre journey to stay in Canada has taken him to Rogers Arena in Vancouver for an on-ice interview with Mark Critch of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Indie filmmakers Bruce McDonald and Monte Hellman are to receive lifetime achievement tributes at the upcoming Whistler Film Festival.
Unveiled at the pubcaster’s upfront yesterday, the Ceeb is embarking on a cross-platform campaign to get Canadians to live healthier
Molly Parker (Swingtown, Deadwood) has landed the lead in Lifetime Network’s drama pilot Meet Jane from producer Warner Horizon.
UK indie film distributor Dogwoof has snapped up nine NFB docs for its catalog.
White Pine Pictures’ Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould has been shortlisted as one of 15 docs vying for Best Documentary Feature at the upcoming 83rd Academy Awards.
Kicking off Discovery Canada’s Dino Week is what VP of programming Ken MacDonald is calling their “most ambitious project of the year.”
Former founder of Alchemy Nick Witkowski has joined Cineflix Studios in London, bolstering its script division.
An ambitious census project by Pixel to Product Research is aiming to fill what it sees as a gap in available data on the burgeoning industry.