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Soft launch for kids service
Internet start-up AmebaTV has soft-launched its new children’s service, and says it is in the process of shipping set-top boxes to parents around Canada. The Winnipeg-based company looks to deliver child-appropriate and ad-free shows directly to viewers via the Internet, and recently took delivery on its first proprietary set-top boxes, made by U.K.-based CompleteTV.
York U looks into 3D
A team of filmmakers, scientists and psychologists has raised over $1.4 million in funding for York University’s 3D FLIC – a two-year effort with assorted film industry partners intended to spur on more 3D film production in Toronto and throughout the province.
Popular art films mingle at MoMA
Showcase runs the gamut from Polytechnique to horror-musical-comedy Suck
Oscar snubs Canucks
Up in the Air and District 9 duo go home empty-handed. Young Victoria takes costume design from Imaginarium
Mountain comes back to Montreal
Spike series part of upswing in service work around the province
Bridge can’t top Dan, Hiccups
Good but not stellar start for heavily promoted cop show
Big boost for Oscars
Sunday’s three-hour awardathon clocks in as CTV’s most-watched in 12 years
Peep goes Spanish
Preschooler series to run weekdays on V-me
Dufferin Gate for sale
Asking price: $3.9 million. Peace Arch sheds Toronto studio amid shift towards TV production and film distribution
Avrich downplays Weinstein difficulties
The former Miramax boss may be oddly camera-shy, but hasn’t tried to shut down production of his biopic, says director
Slice gets an online Life
Web series JacLife looks to draw advertisers, branded content
Nat Geo booked into Hotels
Fremantle passes lifestyle series to Adventure channel
Asper bows out at Canwest
Son of late Canwest founder Izzy Asper announces his resignation to ‘avoid conflict of interest’
Canadian culture at stake, unions warn
Integration of telecommunications and broadcasting sectors means foreign ownership could change cultural landscape, unions say
Cronenberg, Natali score at OMDC
Twelve feature films will divide $1.6 million in development and production funding from Ontario
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