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Peace Arch picks up three
James Franco-starring crime drama and Tim Roth’s Peter Smalls Is Dead among titles being shopped at Cannes
McInnis upped at music channels
MTV exec credited with success of The Hills After Show and Peak Season
NFB moves fast on web project
Documentary charts ups and downs of 13 people hit by the recession, posting footage within weeks
D Films picks up Picnicface
East Coast comedy troupe to make feature debut in Roller Town
Kino hitches with Winnebago doc
Foul-mouthed YouTube sensation to make big screen debut this fall
Bell puts HBO online
Big Love, True Blood and Entourage among series up for grabs online
Chef’s language too salty
BBC Canada slapped on the wrist over Gordon Ramsay’s The F-Word
MTV orders Skins
E1 gets green light for imported teen drama amid flurry of film deals in Europe, Australia
More Mosque, Erica for CBC
Aging sitcom brought back for a fifth season, joining Erica and Doyle on the ‘yes’ pile, despite a drop in funding
Shorts fest to include Twilight star
Robert Pattinson stars in 14-minute The Summer House, part of the lineup at CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
Passenger lands U.S. deal
Festival darling picked up by Strand Releasing
Ubisoft ramps up in T.O.
With $806 million to invest in the local entertainment industry, and jobs for almost 1,000 technical- and creative-oriented people, Ubisoft has officially arrived in Toronto.
Three reasons to feel good about the Canadian film business
Someone has been reading Telefilm Canada’s dream book. It’s a fantasy featuring not one but two golden girls, a golden boy and a host of bright lights.
Sportscasters see money in mobile video
It’s NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs time again, and just as sure as a Maple Leafs no-show, sportscasters have launched their latest digital offerings to bring up-to-the minute action to puck-heads everywhere. This year’s ramp-up is in mobile, which is evidently where the money is.
Off with his head?
I was alarmed when SODEC head François Macerola said he’d back a Quebec version of Avatar with as much enthusiasm as a film by Cannes prize-winner Xavier Dolan. (Does the world need another Avatar, I thought, or worse, a French-language copy of it? A vision of joual-speaking blue and white Na’vi swinging to the beat of a Céline Dion song sent a shiver down my spine.)
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