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Tussle over critics ban is all bluster
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Alliance Films CEO Victor Loewy can be dramatic.
Ceeb has Olympics all covered
Have you ever been frustrated because your favorite Olympic event is not the one being shown on TV? Not to worry, because at long last broadcasters are finally able to give you the power to choose the events you watch. All it took was the miracle of broadband video streaming.
DHX gobbles up imX
Chalk up another win for the Halifax heavyweight, which has bought the shop behind Margaret’s Museum and Love, Sex and Eating the Bones. Zimmer to stay on
Writers, producers buy time
Writers Guild of Canada extends contract with CFTPA and APFTQ to end of ’09, waiting out license renewals at CTV and Global
Big ideas at Blueprint
Blueprint Entertainment’s kids division is developing a preschool series – dubbed ‘Sesame Street for the Soul’ – based on the award-winning Dewey Doo-it books.
Flashpoint cools, but still tops
Ratings drop below one million, but cop show still wins the night on CTV and CBS. U.S. net hints at another season
Strombo stands up
George Stroumboulopoulos is set to stand up and host Just For Laughs Toronto – The All-Star Ethnic Show, a CBC special taping live on July 23 at Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre during the five-day spin-off festival.
On the road to Ruins
Toronto’s Open Door has again joined with Emmy winner Hanson Hosein for Independent America: Rising from the Ruins, a sequel doc on the plight of business owners in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Hop on Pop
Toronto’s Hop To It Productions is hoping cash from the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund will help get kids off the couch through its Pop It! series of shorts. The 26 x 7 show, set for TVO in September, teaches kids hip-hop culture through break-dancing and original songs and was one of 10 titles that drew cash from the spring round of Bell Fund applications.
Paperny goes east
CBC has renewed The Week the Women Went for a second season, paving the way for Paperny Films to pull all the female residents from Tatamagouche, NS.
Dark Knight rocks Canuck box
Record-breaking bow of Batman sequel pays off for Cineplex, while Journey hangs on for Alliance
Space nabs Battlestar spin-off
Sci-fi series Caprica to test-fly with two-hour pilot following Vancouver shoot
Canuck FX shops dazzle on summer blockbusters
When the Hulk, Indiana Jones, Maxwell Smart and ‘a love guru’ swing into town – not to mention a host of plesiosaurs and a T. rex – it makes for some large-scale entertainment. It also means great special effects years in the making, with shops from Winnipeg to Toronto and Montreal having a hand in their creation.
Ex-Meteor Studios workers seek pay
Journey to the Center of the Earth scored US$20.6 million at the box office in its opening weekend in North America, yet dozens who worked on its special effects at Montreal’s Meteor Studios have yet to be paid in full for their handiwork, according to Meteor’s bankruptcy filing document obtained by Playback.
Flash cards bring producers new options
Fred Brennan has worked in every aspect of sound editing for more than 30 years. As a supervising editor, he specializes in dialogue and ADR editing. He has won Genies for his contributions to Max, Love Come Down and Sunshine. More recently, he was supervising dialogue editor on Fugitive Pieces and All Hat.
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