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Flamingo flies to Disney
Breakthrough Animation has closed a two-season order for its Captain Flamingo with Toon Disney, to air on its Jetix block
East Coast heart shines in Shaye
Have you tried to make a wife happy? How about four wives? Paul Kilback, producer and director of the upcoming 4 x 60 doc Shaye, has. Kinda.
Pitch This! winners working with Budapest animators for Giantland
A bit of cash is always a good thing, and as the winners of the 2007 Telefilm Canada Pitch This! competition and bearers of a giant $10,000 cheque, writer/director Jim Goodall and producer Paul Lenart joked that their victory allows them to ‘eat and sleep for a week without having to worry about a job.’
Peaks and valleys at Haggis conference
In the Valley of Elah is a tautly paced detective thriller set among American war vets from Iraq — so it’s no surprise that the press conference for Paul Haggis’ new feature dived passionately into politics. What was surprising was the degree to which Haggis and star Tommy Lee Jones sparred with CBC broadcaster Evan Solomon.
TVA, SRC square off on Sundays
Fall schedules pit Quebec version of Deal or No Deal and the reality dater Occupation Double against pubcaster’s Tout le monde en parle. TVA will take top spot, predicts buyer
Historic movie cars on the block
Looking for a 1925 Hupmobile Roadster? After five decades of providing vintage cars to movie and TV shoots, Ron Fawcett is cashing out, and will auction is family’s 400 autos this weekend.
New workshop for film writers
Mongrel Media has teamed with two Toronto prodcos to hold monthly meetings for a select group of movie writers to talk, read and get feedback from producers
Pelley to steer Olympic coverage
Veteran sportscaster will step down as president of the Toronto Argos to lead coverage of the 2010 and 2012 Games
Funding comes together at finance forum
Lynn Hendee, president of Los Angeles-based Chartoff Productions (Rocky, Raging Bull), says she’s piecing together two movie projects already attached to Hollywood studios — Wolfgang Petersen’s Ender’s Game and Julia Taylor-Stanley’s Nothing But the Blues.
Big names in small room at Canadian Music Café
‘Do you want to hear a genuine Hollywood fantasy story?’ asks Chris Teeter, coordinator of the Canadian Music Café. ‘Last year, Molly Johnson got up on stage and sang three songs. At the end of the third one, an American music supervisor… went out to Queen Street West where he could get a cell phone signal, made a call and placed her in the closing credits of a film.’
Mustos not returning to CTV
Network confirms that, after a year on sabbatical in France, its SVP of dramatic programming has left to ‘pursue another challenge’
Loewy to head new Alliance distributor
Motion Picture Distribution reshaped as Alliance Films with the AAC vet in the big chair, and up against former colleagues Robert Lantos and Patrice Théroux
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