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Frantic spinning off Debt series
Broadcasters likely to start spending again this year or next, predicts CEO
E1 goes Down Under
Toronto shop to distribute DVDs in Australia and New Zealand, with an eye on digital and further expansion
‘Anne can teach us how to find happiness’
Why are the Japanese so crazy for Anne of Green Gables? Ask Montreal’s Takako Miyahira
Gay rights group keeps at RDS
Apology for remarks aimed at figure skater not enough, as complaint goes into broadcast council
York U. looks into 3D
Research hopes to boost post-production efforts in Ontario
The eternally optimistic Sally Catto
Unlike Erica Strange, Sally Catto has few regrets. None that she’d want to travel back in time to change anyway, like the title character in the show she okayed for CBC.
Drama is far from dead
It’s time to bury the myth that the Canadian drama is doomed.
Test patterns
Media consumption is changing, but is that good or bad for TV?
Remote, yet immediate
Technology has changed storytelling – especially when it comes to the worst disasters
Doug Taylor, one of the last working-class screenwriters
Few Canadian writers approach their art as a business and even fewer dedicate their talents to long-form, make a living and never move to the States. But ever dry-witted screenwriter Doug Taylor has stayed fiercely loyal to his native Montreal, where he churns out scripts like an assembly line and runs his screenwriting career with the prudence of an entrepreneur.
Dolan casts transex film, polishes Heartbreaker
Quebec’s 20-year-old prodigy Xavier Dolan just put the polishing edit on his $1.6 million sophomore feature Heartbreaker and is already casting the ‘impossible love’ story Laurence Anyways, a copro with France budgeted at $6.5 million.
Canada fares well at subdued Sundance
With five feature films and six shorts screening, Canada was very much in attendance at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
3 things you may not know about… Roma Khanna
Roma Khanna, president, global networks & digital initiatives, NBC Universal, and chair, CFC board of directors
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