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Canucks vie for Oscars
In addition to The Sweet Hereafter’s two Oscar nominations, Sylvain Chomet’s La Vielle Dame Et Les Pigeons (The Old Lady and the Pigeons) is vying for an award in the short animated film category….
Ontario Scene: The Way Things Work at Canamedia
It took two years of ‘wooing,’ says Canamedia Productions’ Les Harris, to convince u.k. publisher Dorling Kindersley that his prodco should turn their top-selling kids book The Way Things Work into a tv series….
On set: More Tears
The Newsroom was a critical hit in Canada, where the satirical take on the inner workings of a public tv news program captured viewers with its audacious originality and local references. But it also established a cult following among pbs viewers…
F/X down, Highlander spinoff planned
F/X: The Series is among the first of this season’s Canadian series to receive notice of cancellation after u.s. syndicator Rysher Entertainment did not renew its option. ctv, which broadcasts the Fireworks Entertainment-produced series, followed suit….
Openings: Mon Oncle kicks off national tour at $16,500
The Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Film Circuit and the National Film Board launched a cross-Canada tour of the restored version of Claude Jutra’s 1971 classic Mon Oncle Antoine simultaneously at Toronto’s Cumberland Theatre and Montreal’s Loews and the Parisien theaters…
Hot Docs! announces nominees
CBC programs garnered eight nominations for the upcoming Hot Docs! Canadian International Documentary Awards, to be announced March 22 in Toronto….
Ontario Scene: Lockwood picks up Korman book and CBC deal
Lockwood Films has optioned This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book in Gordon Korman’s series of adventures centering on the shenanigans of Bruno and Boots, classmates at a conservative boarding school….
Hitting The Screens: when 2,000 people packed the Princess of Wales Theatre for the premiere screening of the made-for-tv doc Hollywoodism, Jews, Movies and the American Dream, Associated Producers convinced Behaviour Distribution…
After all, if that many people would pay anywhere from $36 to $180 for the fundraising event, surely there was potential for viewers to flock to the cinema. The only snag in the plan was that cbc holds first window exploitation…
Bell OKs $2M in production
Three months behind its launch, the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund has spent more than $2 million on 12 tv programs twinned with a multimedia component. Projects receiving funding in 1997 were Empire Of The Bay, produced by Jennifer Puncher…
Onatrio Scene: Behaviour’s Koffman opens Toronto’s Hurricane Pictures
Jennifer Koffman, a three-year acquisitions veteran at the Toronto office of Behaviour Distribution, has left the company to open Hurricane Pictures, a joint venture with Sanjay Burman of Burman Films. The new prodco is currently working out a deal with Germany-based…
Special Report on the Geminis: Director Nominees: Cassar: the fix-it guy
When a director walks onto the set of a tv series, the show style is set and continuity is a must. As many directors point out, their job is basically to figure out what the producer wants and give it to…
Special Report on the Geminis: Director Nominees: Thompson with a bullet
When a director walks onto the set of a tv series, the show style is set and continuity is a must. As many directors point out, their job is basically to figure out what the producer wants and give it to…
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