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Fromer fronts The List
Casting is underway for The List – the new lifestyle show from Cineflix that will help Canadians cross items off their life’s ‘to-do’ list – for Slice.
Storm blows through B.C.
Vancouver-based Front Street Productions (We Don’t Live Here Anymore) has wrapped its $3-million shoot of Anna’s Storm, an action-drama MOW about a meteor strike in small-town Colorado. The action-drama shot last month in the suburbs outside Vancouver – taking advantage of the regional tax credit and grabbing headlines when it blew up some empty storefronts and cars in nearby Abbotsford.
Make Believe commits Murder
Fact and fiction converge in True Pulp Murder, a documentary TV series shooting in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Grande dame
Avril Lavigne struts her stuff in the 90-minute special Avril Lavigne: Exclusive, airing April 2 on CBC. The special – in support of Lavigne’s new album The Best Damn Thing – was shot at the Grand Theatre in Calgary by White Iron Pictures, and steps into a frame recently vacated by Doctor Who and more recently filled with ice skating, comedy and other performance specials. It is produced by Braun Farnon, Jack Stuart and Lisa Cichelly.
NAB2007 Googles digital content
With headliners that include the who’s who from Google, TiVo, HP, Sling Media and NHK, this year’s National Association of Broadcasters conference that runs from April 14-19 in Las Vegas may mark the shift of NAB from a hardware-driven extravaganza to an exhaustive multimedia state of the union.
Five NAB2007 sessions you don’t want to miss
Navigating the technology can be daunting, let alone the expanded show floor and the multitude of conferences, sessions and exhibits. If last year’s NAB showcased the coming digital revolution, 2007’s version reveals just how much the media landscape has shifted into hyperdrive. Playback has picked five no-brainers that will help you stay on the curve.
NAB2007 stays mobile with MoTV
Continuing the pervasive theme at NAB2007 of ‘anytime content,’ the second annual MoTV: Mobile Video and TV Forum on April 17 looks to bring together key industry players and spark some interesting discussion about the technologies needed and the opportunities out there to make content mobile, interactive – and lucrative.
What to look for on the show floor
Let’s face it – to many, NAB is all about the latest, coolest gear. Playback approached three regular attendees to see what they are most looking forward to from this year’s exhibitors.
Frantic Films: A decade of innovation
The Winnipeg-based firm, with a hand in VFX, production, software and commercials, has taken diversification to new levels in a busy first decade
The hardest working man in showbiz?
To many, Jamie Brown is the face of Frantic Films.
Sharkwater tears into box office
Alliance Atlantis took the top spot at last week’s Canadian-made box office on the surprise strength of the eco-minded doc Sharkwater
A Capital idea from Asselin
Montreal filmmaker retells the run-up to 1929’s Black Tuesday in his fantasy feature Un capitalisme sentimental
What is it about animated dads?
Is the coming Simpsons flick building buzz for the series and other animated comedies? The long-running cartoon is consistently getting millions of eyeballs for Global, and Family Guy is showing up on the national Top 30
Scarry show for CBC
Cookie Jar Entertainment has sold its Busytown Mysteries, adapted from the books of Richard Scarry, to CBC for its preschooler block
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