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Jonathan Barker, a producer and executive who co-founded the giant-screen producer-distributor SK Films and was its CEO, died Thursday morning of cancer in Toronto. He was 66. Also a board member of the Giant Screen Cinema Association, Barker launched SK Films two decades ago with Bob Kerr, who had co-founded Imax…

On the heels of the debacle over ABC‘s summer series Weird Desk, the network has signed a first-look deal with Weird Desk producer Shaftesbury Films, Christina Jennings' long-running Canadian production company. Weird Desk would’ve been the first U.S. series for the company, which in August 2011 set up a Los…

Canadian Indie Shaftesbury Films To Launch U.S. Branch & Tap Tom Mazza To Run It TORONTO, August 30, 2011 – Shaftesbury, one of Canada’s leading creators and producers of original programming for television and multiple platforms, today announced the launch of Shaftesbury U.S., a new division focused on development…

EXCLUSIVE: Another leading Canadian production company, Christina Jennings’ Shaftesbury Films, is launching a U.S. arm. I hear veteran U.S. TV executive Tom Mazza is leaving Toronto/Burbank-based Cookie Jar Entertainment, where he served as EVP and head of worldwide TV for the past year and a half, to run…