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The SAG-a continues
The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors voted 53.38% to 46.62% to approve and recommend to members a new two-year agreement which would give film and TV actors a 3.5% annual increase in year one – a 3% wage increase and a 0.5% pension and health contribution increase – and a 3.5% wage increase in year two.
What’s another million?
In the ‘life imitating art imitating life’ category, U.S. net ABC is bringing back Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for its tenth anniversary – five years after it was dropped from primetime on the network. The two-week run this coming August will unfortunately feature original host Regis Philbin and not Anil Kapoor, the actor who played host Prem Kumar in the surprise hit Slumdog Millionaire. Slumgdog’s success surely has to be credited for single-handedly resuscitating the tired format.
Super-agency created
Boards at the William Morris and Endeavor agencies have ratified a merger which will see the creation of a huge talent agency with annual revenues estimated at
Canada corners new Rockie category
The U.K. leads the race going into this year’s Rockie Awards with 37 nominations, followed by Canada and the U.S….
Blue Jays up on Sportsnet
The Toronto team enjoyed its best April in seven years — and it showed in the ratings, as TV audiences for…
Houlihan joins Cineflix
Cineflix Productions has hired the former RDF topper as its SVP of programming…
Shaw, Corus pair up on 3D
A new partnership between is sending 3D television into Canadian homes…
Pixar to open B.C. studio
Canadian animation got a boost Friday on news that the Hollywood giant will open a new studio…
Leos laud sci-fi series
Stargate Atlantis was the big winner at the Leo Awards as the annual honors for achievements in the B.C….
City, Village win big at Hot Docs
Documentaries are often referred to as ‘windows on the world,’ to the point of cliché. But, as seen by the winners of two of the top prizes…
Numbers up at Cineplex
Further evidence that the box office is recession proof, or at least resistant, with Cineplex’s first-quarter…
Larouche launches another Christal
E1 Entertainment is looking to boost its presence in Quebec through a partnership with Christian Larouche that will see…
Double duty for Moore
The CBC sports boss will take on additional duties at the pubcaster having been named GM of media sales…
Big win for White Pine
The Toronto Documentary Forum concluded on a high note when Canwest commissioning editor Sara Jane Flynn handed the $40,000…
Kino takes two at quiet Hot Docs
There’s more buzz than money circulating at the documentary festival this week as few theatrical deals have so far…
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