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Kaboose sells to Disney

Disney Online is bringing a whole new group of websites into its fold, purchasing Internet assets from Canada’s…

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Throop, Lantos buy more E1

Robert Lantos has boosted his stake in Entertainment One as part of a just-completed buyout…

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Mann drops Anvil, Universal goes Fast

Theme parks and fast cars are set to dominate the weekend box office through Maple Pictures’ comedy…

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CFC sides with Satan

A series of five-minute shorts about mismatched roommates — one of them, Old Nick himself — has gone to camera at…

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Predictions worsen for ad spending

Global ad spending is expected to drop by 4.4% to $425 billion this year — more than four percentage points worse than…

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Coyne, Burns think Big

Editors, production designers and actors are getting the opportunity to don a director’s hat for the new initiative Little Films…

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Deadline extended on E! stations

Canwest Global Communications has given its five E! stations until the end of the summer to be sold or shut down, extending…

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CFO exits Quebecor

Pierre Karl Péladeau will be busier at Quebecor for some time, following the departure of Louis Morin…

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Sitcom goes to Africa

Breakthrough Films & Television has found a new home for Less Than Kind, following a pickup that will take…

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Cronenberg hopes to shoot Matarese near home

If everything goes according to plan, David Cronenberg hopes to bring his next project to Filmport this fall, though in the meantime…

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Specialties flush with cash

Ad revenue continued to grow in 2008 for specialty TV, while over-the-air networks were being crippled by…

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Mohamed new top man at Rogers

Nadir Mohamed has been confirmed as president and CEO of Rogers Communications, following weeks of speculation…

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One million for One Week

Just three weeks and change after arriving in theaters, One Week has brought in $1 million at the box office…

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Charlotte Mickie: A force to be reckoned with

Atom Egoyan, one of Charlotte Mickie’s biggest fans, says there’s a cult built up around the veteran feature film sales executive, one who has left an indelible stamp on the industry she has served for 23 years.

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Getting from page to screen

‘Mandate creep’ is an insidious bureaucratic disease whereby an institution draws more and more elements into its orbit, until it can’t keep track of them anymore…