The fate of the 280 Atlantis, and 350 Alliance employees affected by the mega-merger remains largely unclear but the new entity’s top heavy Atlantis management structure has Alliance staffers nervous….

A pair of Canadian distribution companies have lost their service agreements with u.s. majors….

Combining the impressive Alliance catalogue of feature films and tv shows with Atlantis’ tv library will give the Alliance Atlantis Communications distribution operations serious international muscle in the form of worldwide rights to more than 2,500 hours of programming….

Radical Sheep Productions, the producers of The Comfy Couch, are currently shooting two separate pre-school shows Ruffus The Dog and Panda Bear Daycare in Toronto….

Fueled by a high volume of both foreign features and indigenous commercial production and a low Canadian dollar, business for film studios in Toronto has rarely boomed louder than this summer….

In a move that threatens to lay bare long-standing exclusive relationships between exhibitors and distributors in ‘competitive zones,’ Quebec independent exhibitor Les Cinemas Guzzo has filed an official complaint with the Competition Bureau of Industry Canada against Cineplex Odeon and Famous…

Former president and interim ceo of Paragon Entertainment, Richard Borchiver, and real estate entrepreneur Paul Wynn (The Wynn Group), have formed a new Toronto production company, Annex Entertainment….

alliance Releasing has finally filled the long-vacant position of senior vp/gm with the appointment of former Miramax vp and general sales manager Jim Sherry….

Salter Street Films’ first acquisition since going public was a small one with the purchase of fellow Halifax production company Charles Bishop Productions….

Still beaming from The Tale Of Teeka’s (L’Histoire De l’oie) double win for best children’s tv program and best independent English-Canadian program at the 1998 Banff Television Festival, Toronto’s Triptych Media is in development on a number of theatrical and tv…

Veteran sound engineer David Beare thinks location sound is too often treated as an afterthought by commercial production companies and directors alike. So Beare is developing a new system through his company, Camp David, that promises to handle commercial production sound…

While the battle for news eyeballs has traditionally been fought on the ratings front, with CBC Newsworld and new competitors CTV News 1 and CP24 vying for audience share, the crtc offices in Ottawa have recently emerged as perhaps the most…