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Kino to handle Hot Docs
KinoSmith has partnered with Hot Docs on a new line of DVDs. The distributor will launch The Hot Docs Collection, a joint effort that will include films seen at the festival and others chosen in consultation with its programmers. Kino will donate a portion of the revenues to Hot Docs’ education programs, while the festival will help promote the sale of the DVDs.
Cancellations ‘a disaster,’ says doc group
CBC’s cancellation of both The Lens and Wild Docs is ‘a disaster for independent documentary filmmakers,’ according to John Christou, the co-chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada.
Trogi to open WFF
The world premiere of Ricardo Trogi’s 1981 will open the Montreal World Film Festival on Aug. 27. The autobiographical movie chronicles the Trogi family arriving in a new home in a Quebec City community. Ricardo, the sixth-grader of the family, promises all his more affluent classmates Playboy magazines to gain acceptance.
Clarkson sets date
Wayne Clarkson has set a date, and will bow out of his post atop Telefilm Canada on Jan. 17.
British-made Darwin bio to open TIFF
Call it evolution, a snub to Canadian film, or just clever programming as the Toronto International Film Festival picks the British-made Charles Darwin biopic Creation to open its 34th installment on Sept. 10.
Corus buying SexTV, Drive-In Classics
Corus Entertainment is moving to buy SexTV and Drive-In Classics from CTVglobemedia – putting up $40 million for the cable channels.
Canwest to shutter two E! stations
Canwest Global Communications is set to close two E!-branded local TV stations and rebrand another as a Global Television affiliate as the broadcaster finally sheds its secondary free, over-the-air network.
New player buys Brandon station
Bluepoint Investment Corporation has bought CKX, taking the Brandon, MB station from CTV for the modest price of $1. The company plans to reprogram it with ‘extremely local’ and what it calls ‘wow television,’ says founder and owner Bruce Claassen.
New programming for Pattison
The three E!-branded stations owned by the Jim Pattison Group have secured a new pipeline of U.S. series from Rogers Broadcasting, as Canwest sells off its share of the underperforming network. Starting Sept. 1, Pattison’s CFJC, CKPG and CHAT stations in Western Canada will receive around 40 hours of programming per week from Rogers as part of a new output deal. The move was prompted by the pending demise of Canwest’s E! network, which supplied content to the three Pattison E! stations, including U.S. series Deal or No Deal and The Apprentice.
Shaw buying Ontario cableco
Shaw Communications is moving to buy Mountain Cablevision, adding one of the country’s last family-owned cablecos to its holdings.
Shaw playing ‘dirty pool’ says rival
Novus Entertainment turns to feds and B.C. court over allegedly unfair pricing
New deal at CHCH
Canwest clears hurdle on sale as union okays one-year collective agreement with Channel Zero
Topalovich joins composers
Former Academy chief steps in at musical guild
Waterlife flows into the web
Content-heavy site for NFB doc emerges after months of work at design shop Jam3
Reitman, Clooney added to TIFF
Young director and leading man return to festival with comedy Up in the Air
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