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- Cronenberg adapting another book: report
- The Guardian says David Cronenberg is set to helm the screen version of Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table.
- District 9 writers asked to join Academy
- Vancouver-based Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, his co-writer on the acclaimed film District 9, have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Dolphin-killing film off limits to protesters
- A judge has ruled that protesters must keep away from a Japanese cinema planning to screen The Cove, a documentary about an annual dolphin slaughter in a Japanese town.
- Geddy Lee nabs film rights to Bidini book
- Rockers Geddy Lee of Rush and former Rheostatics frontman Dave Bidini are heading from the stage to the screen with a new collaboration.
- Academy weighs earlier Oscars
- Academy Awards organizers are considering an earlier date for the glitzy annual film awards, possibly as soon as the 84th annual edition in 2012.
- Heritage minister rakes copyright bill critics
- Heritage Minister James Moore says opponents of the copyright legislation he tabled in May are "absolutists" and "radical extremists."
- Trailer Park Boys wins 1st Goldie film prize
- Telefilm is celebrating Canadian box office hits with a new $40,000 award toasting the highest grossing English-language feature film of the past year.
- Soccer's lost boys lured by glory: film
- With the glory of international soccer prominently on show at the World Cup in South Africa, a documentary filmmaker has exposed a trap that the sport poses for some young African players.
- Twilight fans camp out for Eclipse premiere
- Twilight fans have erected a tent city outside the downtown Los Angeles theatre where Thursday's night's premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will unspool.
- Less Than Kind leads comedy nominees
- Canadian sitcom Less Than Kind, sketch troupe The Second City and the late stand-up comedian and TV writer Irwin Barker are among the nominees for the upcoming Canadian Comedy Awards.