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WIFT-T names Crystal Award winners
Discovery Networks’ Edwina Follows and Ontario Creates president and CEO Karen Thorne-Stone are among this year’s recipients.
The key ingredients to the Devour film festival’s success
The Nova Scotia festival’s unique pairing of celebrity chefs, films and food-focused experiences has helped it attract new and bigger audiences.
Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs, Oct. 8 to 14, 2018
The Big Bang Theory comes in at #1, followed by The Good Doctor landing at #2, while Murdoch Mysteries cracks the top 30.
Barb Williams to retire
The veteran broadcasting exec is exiting Corus Entertainment at the end of the month.
On the MIPCOM sales floor
Playback caught up with a few of the companies and execs who headed to the Palais to discuss how their corporate and content strategies paid off.
Mars Films picks up Dolan’s latest for France
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, which is distributed in Canada by Les Films Seville, does not yet have a Canadian release date.
Bell Fund awards $5.5M across 33 TV projects
Seven24 Films and Project 10’s upcoming comedy Jann and season four of Cardinal are among the projects that received support.
Andrew Cividino’s Furies nets $540K from Eurimages
The Sleeping Giant director’s sophomore feature project is produced by Rhombus Media and based on a play from screenwriter Nicolas Billon.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films Oct. 12 to 18, 2018
A Star Is Born shines at #1, followed by Venom coming in at #2 and First Man landing at #3.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films Oct. 12 to 18, 2018
La Disparition Des Lucioles comes in at #1, followed by Anthropocene: The Human Epoch at #2 and Pauline Julien, Intime et Politique at #3.
Peter Williamson departs Breakthrough Entertainment
The company’s co-founder is stepping down as part of a management buyout, with Michael McGuigan and Nat Abraham taking control of the producer/distributor.
Amanda Strong, Lisa Jackson win prizes as ImagineNative fest wraps
Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown’s Edge of the Knife also won the festival’s special Sun Jury Prize.
Miranda de Pencier, Kari Skogland win DGC Awards
The Grizzlies director walked away with the DGC’s Feature Film award, while Skogland won the drama series prize for her work on The Handmaid’s Tale.
Pinewood Toronto ‘ignites’ expansion plans
New sound stages are set to open a year from now, extending the facility’s capacity to around 525,000 square feet.
Myriad Pictures picks up Clara, Through Black Spruce
The L.A.-based distributor will take both Serendipity Point/Distant Horizon projects to AFM.
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