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Ontario dragged into studio squabble
Battle over bid to turn Toronto studio into a big-box outlet escalates as both sides appeal to provincial authorities
Doc revisits Cinar scandal
Portrait of fallen CEO Micheline Charest suggests name-changing on scripts was common with indie producers
Toronto professor to speak at Banff
Richard Florida, author of Rise of the Creative Class, to give keynote speech
Entertainment One takes ThinkFilm titles
Deal for 235 titles ends distributor’s long goodbye from the Canadian market. E1 plans to push titles through Seville
Decode, Neptuno land in Poppets Town
Broadcasters Disney International, Canal J and Télé-Québec sign on for new 2D animated preschool series from Canuck and Spanish toon houses
Durham, Swingtown set for Global
Homegrown crime story and imported tale of open marriages finally land on network’s May schedule, flanked by family movies and Indiana Jones
Crawford to host Maria series
Comic and 22 Minutes regular Gavin Crawford will host CBC’s reality casting call for The Sound of Music, set to air in June
Alliance loses New Line
Profitable output deal to end this year, dealing another blow to the troubled distributor, says report
TVO strikes Yahoo! deal
Educaster’s move to make parent-aimed programming available on the site follows CBC content appearing on BitTorrent
CFC sends filmmakers to Tribeca
Expanded meet-and-greet program at New York festival welcomes teams behind coming-of-age and vampire dramas
Online push for 4Real
Homemade eight-parter cheers community leaders from Rio to Vancouver, arrives with multi-platform oomph from MTV
Maple Flavour doc debuts at all-Canadian fest
Talking to insiders and the public for his Maple Flavour Films, Michael Sparaga says he was surprised ‘how much people want to like Canadian movies’
Maple takes over Young People movie
Controversial feature Young People F***ing pushed back to June following drop by Christal Films. Maple Pictures readies early summer ad campaign
Draft drama ‘not a political film,’ says producer
First-time feature helmer Simon Lavoie and producer Réal Chabot put a human face on the conscription crisis of the 1940s with Le déserteur
Jericho wraps on A-Channel
CBS drama cancelled after seven episodes of second season drew lackluster audiences
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