Monday night producer Stephen Hegyes was among the crowded lineup of ticket holders at the Uptown, trying to keep tally of the tickets to be saved for buyers and industry pals, dealing with last-minute requests from acquisition people for extra seats,…

Industry and public screenings were sold out by Sunday afternoon; prescreening meetings with Fox Searchlight, Trimark and FineLine among others suggest serious interest and set the stage for future talks; and Miramax was calling early Monday morning in a panic looking…

As the 22nd Toronto International Film Festival shifts into high gear, a record number of international buyers grounded in Hogtown for the week are placing high expectations on market opportunities for film sales….

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With the wheels of free publicity still spinning from festival press at Montreal and Toronto, Guy Maddin’s latest surreal effort Twilight of the Ice Nymphs will unspool at Toronto’s Carleton Cinema Sept. 26….

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Microsoft cofounder and Dreamworks’ largest outside shareholder Paul Allen is making the official launch of his feature film company Clear Blue Sky Productions at the Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 6. This is where the company’s first two projects, Inspirations and…

Playback is keeping tabs on the day-to-day hustling of producer Stephen Hegyes as he works to land distribution deals for director Mina Shum’s Drive, She Said, screening in the Perspective Canada program….

The Canadian Film Centre is planning to launch a new television drama initiative as early as March 1998 geared to the development of drama series and sitcoms….

In a bid to increase its market share, generate new revenue sources, and increase the profile of French-language educational programming, Ontario’s tfo network is aggressively pursuing national distribution….

The scene being played out around the unfolding Bre-x film rights saga has Alliance Communications and the writing team of John Hunter and Martin O’Malley waiting in the wings with film options in hand, an in-house cbc producer vying for a…

Dale Taylor at ytv will go into prepro this fall on his pet project Control Shift, the first live-action series to be produced by the kids’ specialty….