Beat Bugs, an animated series from Thunderbird, Grace: A Storytelling Company and Beyond Screen Productions, debuted on Netflix around the world yesterday (and on Channel 7 in (…)

The Canadian lineup at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival features a range of docs, dramas, animation, dystopian sci-fi, comedy and a classic of Canadian film history. The festival will (…)

This week at the Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland’s Interior Minister Alain Berset unveiled plans to bolster Swiss cinema’s role on an international level. Berset said that the Interior Ministry (…)

Shooting has begun for The Book of Second Chances. The comedy series is produced by Caracol Television and distributed by Caracol Internacional. The show focuses on Federico, an ordinary man whose life is changed forever when he discovers a (…)

Insurgent Media has signed a first-look deal with film and television producer Cathy Konrad. Cicada 3301, an espionage thriller series based on the online codebreaking phenomenon of the same (…)

This year’s Rio Games will dominate the airwaves. With 6,755 hours of total viewing on NBC and its affiliates (and deals with social media sites), the coverage of the (…)

Corus Entertainment has named Athena Georgaklis head of Development for Nelvana. Georgaklis will lead the acquisition of rights and the development of all original content for Nelvana, working with the studio’s producers, (…)

Canal 13 Chile premiered Preciosas, an original production distributed by Comarex. The debut reached a peak share of 29.6%, and the hashtag #Preciosas was a worldwide trending topic. The (…)

André Forcier’s Embrasses-moi comme tu m’aimes (Kiss Me Like a Lover) will open the 40th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival. This is Forcier’s fourth feature in the (…)

Entertainment and tech stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Gary Vaynerchuk and will.i.am have joined Planet of the Apps, a new unscripted series co-produced by Propagate and Apple. The series delves into the world (…)