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Théroux joins Entertainment One
The former top man at Motion Picture Distribution has been tapped by the Toronto distributor to launch an international releasing business based in Canada
Ottawa outsourcing search for new CBC boss
Breaking from the usual, some say too-political process, the feds have hired a private company to find a replacement for Robert Rabinovitch
CRTC does not love New York
The feds have told History Television to stop airing CSI: NY, ruling that it does not count as programming about past or current events
Khanna joins NBC
The former CHUM exec has been hired at NBC Universal International, overseeing its plans for expansion and greater digital content
Post-takeover plans revealed by CanWest, Goldman
Alliance Atlantis channels and the Global network will go into a new joint venture controlled, for now, by the Winnipeg broadcast giant, according to new details of the $2.3-billion deal
New media, digital growing, says CRTC
TV viewership was down last year, while Internet on cell phone and other new media continued to rise, according to the new Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report
Jihad comes to Toronto
Buzz-making doc about the intersection of Islam and homosexuality among the additions to TIFF’s documentary program. Latest by Dario Argento and Takashi Miike to play Midnight Madness
Chabat to attend WFF
French actor Alain Chabat and his director Eric Lartigau will be in Montreal for a screening of Prête-moi ta main, ahead of its release from Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm
Pay channels pick Branagh
The HBO-produced adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It is set to debut later this month on The Movie Network and Movie Central
Summer still sizzling, say exhibitors
Reliable franchises and a few surprise hits have made up for the shortcomings of the season’s few flops, say exhibitors, keeping summer on track to set box-office records
Whizbang makes drama, not war
Despite being set in a demilitarized zone and shot in Bosnia, the eight-parter ZOS isn’t really about war, according to executive producer Frank Siracusa
Cineplex to screen David Gilmour
Exhibitor plans to run a concert by the Pink Floyd frontman on 54 screens this fall, getting back to its experiments with non-movie entertainment after the high season of summer
Teletoon unveils fall plans
Studio B’s Ricky Sprocket to be sneak previewed online and via VOD in August
Cochran heads east for CBC
Halifax-based maker of Pit Pony and Theodore Tugboat to replace Ron Crocker as regional head of the Maritimes
Raymont on The Border
The CBC action drama will arrive in new year with costar Sophia Milos of CSI: Miami and an online component by Stitch Media’s Evan Jones, says Peter Raymont of White Pine Pictures
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