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Whizbang shooting Lawyers
Crime pilot for Canwest stars Luke Kirby as insurance adjuster in the Hamilton underworld
Deepa Mehta, Salman Rushdie making Children
Director plans to adapt acclaimed novel Midnight’s Children, collaborating with British author. Shooting likely to follow Kamagata Maru project, says producer David Hamilton
Fairfax buys up more Canwest
Ups overall stake in troubled media conglom to 12.5%
Equinoxe courts Kaufman fans
Ingenious? Or inaccessible? Distributor takes it slow with Synecdoche, New York — looking to build buzz into markets outside Toronto
Maximum joins Animal Kingdom
Prebuys international sales and Canadian releasing rights for Guy Pearce thriller
Family Channel launches new online portal
Addition to family.ca lets kids design their own site with Family’s online and on-air properties
Doc directors tapped at CFC, NFB
Joint effort to turn out feature docs brings in Yung Chang, Shelley Saywell, John Walker and Sarah Polley. Project head Jerry McIntosh ‘over the moon’
Colbert, Stewart thrive in primetime
Obama’s winning night hands high numbers to hour-long special on CTV and Comedy Network
Alliance to buy back debt
Market downturn has an upside for distributor, getting a deal on repurchase of $400 million
Canwest strikes online deal with Fox
Broadcaster secures streaming rights to shows including Prison Break, Bones and Family Guy
EyeSteelFilm on a roll
Doc shop behind RiP: A Remix Manifesto and Up the Yangtze has an unusually dedicated, co-operative staff, says cofounder Daniel Cross
Transmission buys Nadda’s Cairo Time
Maximum Films closes deal with Aussie company at opening of American Film Market
New Fox channel coming to Canada?
Rogers Cable has gone to the CRTC, seeking an okay to carry Fox Business Network
CTV sells another series to U.S.
Defying Gravity marks third team-up by CTV with international partners. James Parriott of Grey’s Anatomy to showrun, Ron Livingston and Germany’s Florentine Lahme to star
Shaw unfair to gay channel, says CRTC
Commission sides with OUTtv in squabble over marketing and channel placement
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