The planned ceremonial opening for Toronto’s Filmport has been postponed due to a conflict with Mayor Miller’s appearance before a Senate Committee hearing on controversial Bill C-10. The Mayor was to officiate at the Filmport event on June 5th.

Paramount Vantage has completed international sales of Michael Moore’s follow-up to his record-busting political documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Vantage president Nick Meyer announced Moore’s sequel-of-sorts two weeks ago on the eve of this year’s Festival de Cannes, where the documentarian won the Palme d’Or in 2004. The Oscar-winning Moore has just begun production on the film, a broader examination of America’s foreign policy and tarnished status in the world throughout the Bush administration. “Fahrenheit” grossed $220 million worldwide, the largest boxoffice haul for a doc.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is bolstering its U.S. content supply even further this fall after a period in which the broadcaster jettisoned American programming.

Sharon Stone’s “karma” comment is having an instant effect on her movie-star status in China. The 50-year-old actress suggested last week that the devastating May 12 earthquake in China could have been the result of bad karma over the government’s treatment of Tibet. That prompted the founder of one of China’s biggest cinema chains to say his company would not show her films in his theaters.

Canadian distributor Maple Pictures will test-screen a homegrown film with a risque title for an unlikely audience today: Canada’s top politicians and bureaucrats. The romantic comedy, set for a June 13 theatrical release, has caused a media furor as the federal government attempts to pass Bill C-10 into law. The distributor said it aims to make the film available to government officials who might “influence” the passage of Bill C-10 through the Canadian Senate.

MONTREAL – Canuck production company Sphere Media Plus has signed with APA Talent and Literary Agency for representation with the aim of selling rights to develop English adaptations of Sphere French-language hits in Hollywood.

Sphere produces “Sophie,” which is an English adaptation of the popular French Quebec comedy series “Les hauts et les bas de Sophie […]

One of the longest and most prolific producing collaborations in television is coming to an end. After more than two decades at 20th Century Fox TV, Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelley is moving to Warner Bros. TV with a three-year overall deal. Under the pact, said to be around eight figures, Kelley will develop new scripted and unscripted series for broadcast and cable as well as digital projects.

The major cable operators and Sony have announced a plug-and-play agreement that likely will break the logjam that has threatened the widespread introduction of two-way digital TV sets in the marketplace.

It was as tense and dramatic as any primetime drama’s season finale: The industry was left in a holding pattern Tuesday, waiting for word about whether AFTRA had inked a deal on its primetime TV contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers.

Indy made his comeback at Cannes, and Woody came back as usual. Angelina showed off her baby bump on the red carpet, and Madonna sold off everything in her handbag at a charity auction. This year’s Cannes Film Festival, which ended Sunday, had plenty of celebrities to please the star-watchers - but moviegoers were more disappointed. . .