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Sonoda shooting Beasts

Sword’n’sorcery telemovie Merlin & The Book of Beasts underway around Vancouver for Sci-Fi and Starz. Laura Harris and James Callis star

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Viewers donate $20,000 toward Sex Slaves

Airing of sex-trade doc by Associated Producers brings surprise charitable contributions from audience

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McLean set for Dexter

Hank and Mike actress lands recurring role in Showtime series

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Actors blast Harper

PM under heavy fire at ACTRA rally over anti-culture funding remarks. ‘Idiotic’ says Colm Feore. Union makes economic argument for the arts

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UDA leader looks beyond Quebec

Surprise move calls for protection of culture across Canada, and ‘one penny per dollar’ funding

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Greenberg fund to invest in music docs

Funding left over from Standard buyout will back music-minded films, with a focus on the West

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E1 seals deal for Blueprint, Barna

… and Oasis and Maximum Films, wrapping up 9,300 hours of programming. Lantos joins board

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Studio backs out of small town

Minds Eye Pictures and its partners have dropped plans to build a studio outside of Regina

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Distraction takes O.J. doc

Monster or Myth? arrives amid former football great’s current trial in Las Vegas

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Teletoon wants more Total

Third round of cartoon ‘reality’ series Total Drama ordered from Fresh TV, plus 52 eps of new arrival Stoked

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Montreal to fete Egoyan, Wenders

Directors on the guest list for Festival du nouveau cinéma, alongside John Boorman. Olivier Asselin’s A Sentimental Capitalism to open

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Rankin rejoins CTV

Contract keeps indie vet at work on Flashpoint, plus other scripted series

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Carmody readies Boondock sequel

Shooting set for Toronto and Boston at $8 million, looking to build on cult status of direct-to-video hit

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Terra tops in Ottawa

Festival gives high honors to CG sci-fi feature and NFB experiment Drux Flux

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Smiles all around over HBO Canada

The Movie Network, Movie Central and even the competition at Super Channel say they are happy to see the U.S. giant come north