Saloon Media promotes Steve Gamester to creative director

Gamester, who is a founding partner of the prodco, will be responsible for expanding its factual slate.

Hasbro puts eOne’s film and TV business up for sale

Hasbro says it has received interest from “several parties” for eOne’s TV and film business as it looks to make a strategic investment in its own core IP.

Playback Film Summit: Telefilm Canada’s evolution and future

Telefilm executives Francesca Accinelli and Mehernaz Lentin outline the Crown corporation’s modernization efforts in the past two years.

Playback Film Summit: Inside the making of three Canadian films

The filmmaking teams behind Rosie, Concrete Valley and Riceboy Sleeps shared how they financed and shot their features during discussions on day one of the summit.

Playback Film Summit: Navigating financing challenges

Industry experts weighed in on the current ecosystem of financing film in Canada and the state of distribution and exhibition during the summit’s day one panels.

Blink49 Studios partners with Vanguarde Artists

The deal will see the studio and the management company develop and produce original IP for the global market.

CMPA reveals Indiescreen Awards nominees

The winners of the Established Producer and the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer awards will be announced at the Whistler Film Festival on Dec. 2.

Demand Film acquires Sean Cisterna’s The Long Rider

Demand Film will release the feature doc in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., and Ireland in early 2023.

Black Panther sequel breaks November record for Cineplex

Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever propelled Cineplex to new heights for the month, exceeding pre-pandemic levels.

CBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation renew MOU

The continued partnership comes as two projects from their Kindred ABC/CBC Animation Collaboration enter development.

Omnifilm works out new revenue stream with DTC fitness channel

The Vancouver prodco’s fitness channel Movement by NM is now CAVCO-certified, allowing it to tap into additional resources to fund new content.

How CBC’s Sort Of implemented its trans mentorship program

Co-creators Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo discuss using the program, created in partnership with the Trans Film Mentorship, to train trans and non-binary creatives while filming season two.

Newcomers to Canada less likely to own TVs, says study

The MTM study says the vast majority of newcomers own a cellphone and subscribe to SVODs such as Netflix and Prime Video.

Crave orders unscripted series Katherine est dans le pré

The series, hosted by Katherine Levac and directed by Miriam Laquerre Tantawy, will be released in French on Crave in January.

Motel Pictures filming queer indie music film We Forgot to Break Up

Karen Knox is tapped as director of the feature, adapted by Noel Baker, Zoe Whittall and Pat Mills from the novel Heidegger Stairwell by Canadian writer Kayt Burgess.