Bell Media’s vice president of news Michael Melling will be taking leave from the company following the exit of Lisa Laflamme, an internal memo obtained by Global News says.
In the memo, Karine Moses, senior vice president of content development and news, said Melling “has decided to leave from his current role effective immediately to spend time with his family.”
“His decision reflects our shared desire to support the newsroom and do what’s best to help the team move past the current circumstances to focus on delivering the stories that matter to Canadians,” the memo read.
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Melling, the former general manager of CTV News Toronto, CP24 and Bnn Bloomberg, joined Bell Media in 2003.
The news comes just weeks after Laflamme, the long-time anchor of CTV National News, announced she would be leaving the network.
In the memo, Karine Moses, senior vice president of content development and news, said Melling “has decided to leave from his current role effective immediately to spend time with his family.”
“His decision reflects our shared desire to support the newsroom and do what’s best to help the team move past the current circumstances to focus on delivering the stories that matter to Canadians,” the memo read.
Read more: Wendy’s Canada backs Lisa Laflamme, swaps mascot’s red hair for grey
Melling, the former general manager of CTV News Toronto, CP24 and Bnn Bloomberg, joined Bell Media in 2003.
The news comes just weeks after Laflamme, the long-time anchor of CTV National News, announced she would be leaving the network.
- 8/27/2022
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
We all knew that this day was coming. They ran out of small-time J-horror films to remake, so they're finally taking on the big bad of the genre. That would be Takashi Miike's gonzo horror classic Audition - long thought to be untouchable in Hollywood by fans and executives alike. Well guess what, people? Audition is about to be touched. It's about to be touched hard. Deadline reports/warns that superproducer Mario Kassar has been put in charge of an English-language redo of Audition, bringing on filmmaker Richard Grey to write and direct. The claim is that this movie is based more on the 1997 novel by Ryu Murakami than the Miike adaptation of the same name.. But come on: you know that the ad campaign for this film is going to focus on the specific iconography that made the original Audition a horror classic. The rubber gloves. The wires.
- 6/28/2014
- cinemablend.com
If you like football stars, scandals and stuff like that, then Blinder is the perfect movie for you. The film, described as an Australian rules football drama, comes from director Richard Grey and has quite interesting cast on board. Today, we’re here to share the official poster and trailer for the whole thing, hope you’ll like it! Richard Gray directed the movie from a script he wrote with Scott Didier and Michele Gray, which revolves around an aspiring football star named Tom Dunn who fled Australia following a football scandal. There’s nothing more tightly-knit than a small town footy club. So when a scandal blows...
- 3/13/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Sharmill Films director Natalie Miller says she believes in small releases, and is confident in the distributor’s first Australian film, Summer Coda, after its success at Miff.
What were your strongest performing films of the 2009/2010 financial year?
Our best releases were Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin and the French romance Mademoiselle Chambon, and our alternate content with the Metropolitan Opera from New York, National Theatre of London, Paris Opera Ballets.
What titles didn’t necessarily meet your expectations?
Eden is West and Amreeka.
How experimental are Sharmill’s plans in terms of distribution models?
We are not experimental, but do believe in small releases; there are not too many cinemas for art house films. We distribute our cultural content, operas, plays and ballets in an alternate way with selected screenings only, to make them an event.
Are you focusing your promotional efforts across a wider range of platforms?
Yes.
What were your strongest performing films of the 2009/2010 financial year?
Our best releases were Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin and the French romance Mademoiselle Chambon, and our alternate content with the Metropolitan Opera from New York, National Theatre of London, Paris Opera Ballets.
What titles didn’t necessarily meet your expectations?
Eden is West and Amreeka.
How experimental are Sharmill’s plans in terms of distribution models?
We are not experimental, but do believe in small releases; there are not too many cinemas for art house films. We distribute our cultural content, operas, plays and ballets in an alternate way with selected screenings only, to make them an event.
Are you focusing your promotional efforts across a wider range of platforms?
Yes.
- 8/15/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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