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Streaming deals drive WildBrain to revenue growth
Recent deals for Yo Gabba Gabba! and Sonic Prime helped to up the company’s total revenue by 6% to $452.5 million in fiscal 2021.
How Scarborough’s documentary origins gave it a fresh voice
TIFF ’21: The filmmaking team behind the Discovery world premiere share how the year-long $300,000 shoot led to one of Canada’s most buzzed about titles.
maxine bailey wants to do a ‘damn good job’
The Canadian Film Centre’s new executive director talks soul searching, the responsibility of her new role and ambitions for a new iteration of the organization.
Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs for Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, 2021
Fantasy Island and America’s Got Talent come in at No. 3 and 4, respectively.
9 Story hires first chief inclusion officer
Farrell Hall has held DEI roles at several not-for-profit organizations and will apply that expertise to the prodco’s content creation and production process.
Cineplex, Cineworld trade salvos as trial opens
Both sides are seeking financial reparations after the $2.8 billion merger was scuttled.
Cineflix bolsters leadership team with promotions, new hire
The media company has tapped Cineflix Rights exec Adrienne Curran as COO, along with a new hire and additional promotion in the U.S. and Canada.
EXCLUSIVE: WIFT names first participants for Indigenous writers program
Sponsored by Hollywood Suite and the Foundation for WIFT Toronto, selected participants will take part in a four-day training and networking intensive between Sept. 23 and Oct. 8.
NSI launches eight-month series incubator
The program aims to help writer/producer teams from underrepresented communities transform their scripted series ideas into a fully produced proof-of-concept.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films for Sept. 3 to 9, 2021
Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, led by Mississauga, ON-raised Simu Liu, leads the Canadian box office.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films for Sept. 3 to 9, 2021
Maria and Le guide de la famille parfaite continue to lead the Canadian films at the box office.
Quickening director hopes debut feature expedites bigger opportunities
Pakistani-Canadian Haya Waseem’s debut feature, world premiering at TIFF ’21, portrays an immigrant family’s Canadian dream – as she too aspires to break cultural confines and take on larger projects.
ACTRA Toronto council names new executive director
Alistair Hepburn will succeed veteran Sue Milling after the pair helped develop pandemic protocols that put the screen industry back to work.
What animated Voss’ interest in Thunderbird?
CEO Jennifer Twiner McCarron explains how the company drew interest from a U.S. hedge fund, and what it plans to do with the investment within its factual, animation and consumer products divisions.
Learn to Swim director on hitting the right notes for jazz romance
TIFF ’21: Thyrone Tommy shares notes on his debut feature film’s musical path from the director’s program at the Canadian Film Centre, all the way to its world premiere.
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