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Incendo goes Hollywood
Montreal shop posts Lifetime vet Libby Beers in L.A. — looking to break into the high-end drama game
Beach finds Love
Star of Moose TV and The Rez lands on HBO polygamy series
Ratings didn’t save Dore
Comedy Network ends show after two seasons despite ratings bump
Family Channel readies for fall
Shaftesbury’s Overruled! to bow along with teen comedy Zeke and Luthur
Cineflix’s Simon Lloyd: With a little help from my friends
The first thing you’re struck by when you enter Simon Lloyd’s office are the white boards hanging on his wall – each covered in neat rows of colored ink, warding against the chaos that accompanies a 250-hour-strong slate.
Will the cultural issues in Quebec kill the Conservatives?
Quebec’s campaign to push culture to the top of the Canadian political agenda – again – has begun. And this time the talk might get constitutional.
Moves & Signings
MOVES
Feedback: A little perspective, please
I just read with interest Carl Mrozek’s article on the Red Ray DVD player unveiled at the ‘Red’ event in Las Vegas (Playback, June 22). This article is similar, it seems, to everything else being written about the Red system these days, in its total absence of critical objectivity with regard to the company or its products.
Hot Not &….
HOT
The Burning Question
There are certain things that the Brits do very, very well. But breathing new life into a wheezing, white elephant of a studio isn’t as simple as naval warfare or drinking three pints of stout at lunch. Now that the storied U.K. company is running the troubled Toronto mega-studio, we can’t help but wonder: Can Pinewood turn Filmport around?
Straight Up & Down
+ Quebec actor Pierre Lebeau will receive a special tribute at the 33rd Montreal World Film Festival (Aug. 27 to Sept. 7). The actor, who sprang to fame after appearing in the four Les Boys movies, will be given the festival’s highest honor, the Grand Prize of the Americas.
Correction
In the July 6 issue of Playback, new Canada Media Fund board member Ron Osborne was inaccurately credited with a previous leadership role at Southam. Osborne has had leadership roles at Ontario Hydro, Ontario Power Generation and Maclean Hunter, as well as a number of boards.
Oscar doubles your chances
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that there will be 10 nominees for best picture at the 82nd Academy Awards next March, any producer could have been excused for swooning.
Shaw Rocket Fund’s Agnes Augustin: Funding the fight for kids TV
Agnes Augustin is an ardent advocate of Canadian children’s programming. And it’s not just because of her eight-year association with the Shaw Rocket Fund – first as a member of the board and, since 2004, as president. She’s also a mom.
Personnel pickups at Cineflix
Cineflix has added several high-profile names to the roster lately, including:
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