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Hot Docs hotter than ever in 2010

Fest reports 10% increase in box office, names Thunder Soul as audience favorite

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Teletoon, Bejuba! join forces on Sherlock

Companies to develop new live-action tween series based on original book

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Golick to lead Writers Guild

Instant Star and Blue Murder writer elected for two-year term, looking to focus on digital

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Hot Docs honors Family

Shelley Saywell’s film receives best Canuck feature prize while international award goes to A Film Unfinished

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Natali readies Neuromancer

Feature based on seminal sci-fi book among projects okayed by Harold Greenberg Fund

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Priestley on board Mud Puppy

90210 star to helm rom-com set in B.C.’s Okanagan region

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Ottawa ready to try again on copyright, says Geist

Professor and e-rights activist says strict, U.S.-style bill to be tabled by June — lining up with creators’ demands

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Star power, scripts add up at Incendo

Montreal shop marks milestone with Wandering Eye

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‘F’ as in ‘Fox Searchlight’

The Hollywood studio has picked up Marc Stephenson’s The F-Word, handing the adaptation of the Fringe play to director Alex Holdridge

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EyeSteel at it again with fruit doc

Chalk up another win for the Montreal shop, which wowed the crowd at TDF with Fruit Hunters. ‘Heart of Darkness meets fruit,’ says CBC

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Hard times look good to Nightingale

New series Living in Your Car sprang from renewed focus on development during economic downturn

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Releases roundup: Summer lifts off with Iron Man 2

Paramount sequel arrives all but unchallenged, already well on its way to besting the 2008 original

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In other news…

Gandolfini hails Taxi 22, Rohmer steps down at CP24 and Tierney takes a crack at adapting Doris Lessing — with a dash of FLQ

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Greenberg upped at Astral

Longtime exec to oversee original programming slate for TMN and HBO Canada

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Dream come true for drummers

John Walker’s doc watches master musicians teach the next generation