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News Round II: Post-Remembrance Day

The New Age of Personalized Digital Media Boxes (PRNewsFoto/Stream Player Media)
The New Age of Personalized Digital Media Boxes (PRNewsFoto/Stream Player Media)

(Via WireService.ca) Kiefer Sutherland will be honoured at the Whistler Film Festival with the WFF 2015 Trailblazer in Acting Award, followed by the Western Canadian premiere of his latest film, Forsaken. Robert Carlyle will also be honoured at the Festival, receiving the WFF 2015 Maverick Award. There’s a whole lot more going on at WFF, of course, including the Variety 10 Screenwriters to Watch for the fourth consecutive year. Variety will publish the names on the 20th.

Lionsgate announces it’s going to make a strategic investment in Pilgrim Studios, one of the world’s leading producers of unscripted programming. (Buying into an unscripted production company — would that make a good reality show?)  A media release says the transaction gives the two companies a combined roster of nearly 80 television series across 40 networks.

(Via PRNewswire) Are the days of picking TV network bundles, programming packages and monthly movie subscriptions becoming obsolete? asks Stream Player Media. As makers of digital media boxes, the Quebec company is promoting this technology as the best way to customize your viewing while saving money. See photo of the product above.

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