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Global pushes News Hour in Toronto
Local impact of supper-hour newscast touted in largest-ever ad campaign
Citytv slots My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad
Supermodel series and Pussycat Dolls bumped to make room for game show simulcast with NBC
Rogers calls for market-driven fund
Cable giant breaks silence on CTF, telling CRTC that distributors need a separate fund to turn out shows that will click with audiences, while shooting down talk of money for new media
Canada AM looks to boost ratings in B.C.
CTV has expanded its morning newsmagazine in a bid to close the gap with ahead-by-a-mile Global, and to prepare for coverage of the Winter Olympics in 2010
William Morris to rep Shaftesbury
Partnership with Beverly Hills-based agency sets the stage for further expansion into U.S. market, following this week’s deal for The Listener
Morse mourned at Actors Fund
Actor best known as the relentless lawman on The Fugitive cofounded the charitable group in 1958
Hulk producer says going green is easy
Gale Anne Hurd isn’t as famous as her movies. But the producer of the Terminator trilogy, Aliens and the upcoming The Incredible Hulk made sure that the latter’s US$125-million production was ‘as green as possible’ when it shot at Toronto Film Studios last summer.
The Establishing Shot: Cancon success comes at the right time
It seems that every time producers get together, it coincides with an industry crisis of some kind.
Eastern Promises and Shake Hands lead Genie noms
David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and Roger Spottiswoode’s Shake Hands with the Devil are set for a head-to-head battle at this year’s Genie Awards.
Canwest shuffles AA execs with its own
Canwest Broadcasting has named a new nine-member executive management team that will report to president Kathy Dore, bringing a few names from newly acquired Alliance Atlantis into its fold.
People
• Doug Frith is leaving his post as president of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association to start his own consulting company. The group, responsible for the Hollywood majors in Canada, has put general counsel Wendy Noss in his place on an interim basis.
Sales
• Zeitgeist Films beat the competition to the EyeSteelFilm/National Film Board doc Up the Yangtze! on the eve of its premiere at Sundance. The doc, focusing on the changing natural and social landscape of China, is scheduled for domestic release in April.
The Burning Question
It’s been four weeks, that must mean the Canadian Television Fund is about due for another round of changes, right? Though, this time, the 12-year-old work-in-progress will get a going-over by the CRTC, which will start public hearings on Feb. 4 about how to fix what may or may not be broken. A ruling on its future is expected from Gatineau later. And so we ask anyone brave enough to speak up:
Cheap shots
What a nasty little piece of writing Mr. Vlessing offers up in his Big Screen column of Jan. 7 (‘Canadian cinema takes a step back in 2007’).
Boom time for Canuck shows
There’s lots of speculation about who the winners and the losers of the WGA strike are going to be, but one thing’s for sure – this stoppage is a godsend for our homegrown stuff. You know, that which is made ‘for, by, and about Canadians.’
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