It used to be a screen test propelled an actress from the casting couch to the big screen. Now we need a different kind of screen test: one that features her to advantage on all types of screens. Or, even better, a test that proves once and for all what type of content looks good on what type of screen. Until then, here are FanTrust’s picks and pans for screens large and small. The rationale not so much to answer: “can we cross-purpose our content?” (yes we can) or “does anyone ...

Vancouver, BC - April 15, 2008 - Studio B Productions, a production subsidiary for DHX Media Ltd. and a leader in the field of kids' entertainment, has closed a US broadcast deal for Kid vs. Kat. Targeted at kids aged 6-11, Kid vs. Kat is about the exaggerated conflict between a demonically malevolent cat and Coop, the beleaguered ten-year-old boy, to whom it has taken a demented dislike. When Coop's spoiled little sister Millie brings home Kat, a stray kitty of mysterious origin, his idyllic ...

View the February 13 National Film Board newsletter featuring Madame Tutli-Putli, and read the February 16 Globe and Mail Review article profiling the NFB producer of Madame Tutli-Putli, entitled "Marcy Page: She Walks Talk Among the Shorts".

The FanTrust blog goal is to unite entertainment fans and entertainment professionals and inspire new kinds of collaboration. Share your fandom and your fan strategies. Riff on the blur between user generated and professional content. Grapple out loud with your rights issues versus your open source ethic. Above all, please join us as the story unfolds. To kick off the FanTrust blog, "where fans and entertainment meet", it had to be The Simpsons. There is no better example of multiplatform success, gigantic demographic appeal and a Mobius strip of life-imitating-art-imitating-life ...

Microsoft and Disney announced at the E3 Media and Business summit that a selection of films are available for download on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Classic films and new releases from fifteen of Disney's partners will be available for download in high definition and standard definition based on Microsoft's points system. This announcement marks yet another collaboration on digital delivery and cross-platforming of HD entertainment, not to mention, the increased partnering of video games and films. This was a no-brainer for Disney given that in seven months Xbox Marketplace ...