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Rogers sets Second Jen return
Season two of the Don Ferguson Productions’ comedy will return to OMNI Television next month, nearly two years after its debut.
CMF awards $5.5M across 14 docs
Rezolution Pictures’ Red Fever and 90th Parallel’s Michelle Latimer-directed Inconvenient Indian are two of the projects to receive funding.
Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs, July 9 to 15, 2018
The Amazing Race Canada hits #2, followed by Private Eyes coming in at #12 and Toronto-shot The Handmaid’s Tale landing at #26.
Ron Mann’s Carmine Street Guitars to debut at Venice
Two Canadian virtual reality projects have also been selected to compete at the Italian festival.
Film financier MovieCoin partners with TV-Two
Smart TV viewers will be rewarded with cryptocurrency for watching trailers and sharing their personal data on the TV-Two platform.
Vertical Entertainment acquires The Reckoning for U.S.
Barry Avrich’s follow up to his 2010 film Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project will be released stateside later this year.
Banger Films brings the ‘Metal’
Shredders of Metal, a competition series from Toronto’s Banger Films, launched this week on the prodco’s YouTube channel.
Hot Sheet: Top 10 films July 13 to 19, 2018
Hotel Transylvania 3 comes in at #1, followed by Ant-Man and The Wasp at #2, while Denis Arcand’s La Chute De L’Empire Americain cracks the top 10.
Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian films July 13 to 19, 2018
La Chute De L’Empire Americain tops the list, followed by Metamorphosis coming in at #2 and Nelly et Simon: Mission Yeti landing at #3.
SODEC selects 11 docs to receive production assistance
Galafilm’s Odyssee sous les glaces and Cinemaginaire’s La parfaite victime are among the docs to receive funding.
TIFF ’18: Gala lineup revealed, but no Canadian titles included
Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project and Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece are among the Canadian projects selected for special presentations.
DHX closes Peanuts minority stake sale
The deal sees Sony Music Entertainment Japan buy 49% of the media co’s 80% interest in the Peanuts brand for $235.6 million in cash.
Wynonna Earp gets back in the saddle
Following its season-three premiere last week, Seven24 Films’ supernatural western got the greenlight for a fourth season of demon hunting.
Don Ferguson Productions partners with Rivas brothers
The Toronto prodco is developing the Rivas’ Rapp Battlez live comedy show for television.
CMF awards $9.5M across 12 digi media projects
VR projects from Secret Location and Cream Digital are among those selected to receive support through the funder’s Experimental Stream – Innovation Program.
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