Alliance Films reports the Michael Dowse-directed hockey comedy beat out the Hollywood competition on its opening weekend.
Playback Daily investigates whether the City of Toronto or Astral Media ultimately ordered the removal of the posters, and whether it mattered given the free publicity for the hockey comedy ahead of its theatrical bow this weekend. (Updated with correction.)
The clothing brand is giving out Mockingjay-emblazoned gift cards to shoppers as part of a promotional partnership for The Hunger Games.
The original Insidious picture cost a reported $1.5 million to make and grossed $155 million worldwide.
Brad Pelman has left Alliance Films six months after Maple Pictures, which he co-founded in 2005, was acquired for $38.5 million.
Series exec producer Thomas Howe tells Playback Daily about the latest addition to the Canadian business reality TV genre: W Network’s Undercover Boss Canada.
Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Investissement Quebec have put their stakes in Canada’s largest indie film distributor in play.
The broadcaster responds to CAFDE’s assertion that its pay TV licence fees have declined in recent years, and refutes Alliance’s claim that it was not interested in carrying Breakaway.
A charged atmosphere surrounds the CRTC’s hearings into a group-based approach to French television licencing.
The project is Nadda’s follow-up to Cairo Time, which won the best Canadian feature prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The $5 million film, directed by Quebec’s Daniel “Podz” Grou, tells the true story of a man jailed for a rape he insists he never committed, and a single mother who sets out to prove his innocence.