Vancouver: Raymond Massey is line producing Lynne Stopkewich’s follow-up narrative feature Suspicious River, a film packaged by Cassian Elwes, who heads up the production unit of William Morris Agency….

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Vancouver: The Vancouver film Better than Chocolate has quietly become a minor art-house hit in the u.s. and Canada and has the Canadian distributor talking about a $9-million worldwide theatrical gross….

Vancouver: Four broadcasters have filed formal proposals to the crtc to provide Vancouver and/or Victoria with a new television licence….

Vancouver: Talent agents in B.C. – rated among the 10 worst industry sectors generating complaints at the local Better Business Bureau – now face regulations that are designed to protect performers from unscrupulous operators….

Vancouver: The killer behind the horrific b.c. news headlines has contributed interviews, script analysis and his own psychological profiles to the development of Scorn, a new cbc mow by producer Chris Bruyere and director Sturla Gunnarsson….

Vancouver: Tired of persistent rumors that Lions Gate Entertainment is on the block, ceo Frank Giustra strains to be unequivocal. ‘No, the company is not for sale,’ he says. ‘I’m definitely not looking for a bailout. No, I’m not going to…

Vancouver: Shavick Entertainment of Vancouver is the service producer for the first mow greenlit by u.s. specialty E! Entertainment Television. Production began last week on Best Actress, a wry comedy about the race for the best actress Oscar and one actress…

By all accounts, this summer was yet another business blockbuster for the Vancouver film and television industry. But with the unprecedented business has come unprecedented unease about the city’s ability to absorb the work….

At this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, 57 of the 114 films in the Canadian Images program hail from b.c. – a staggering figure that is the first quantitative proof of what the grassroots industry here has believed for years. The…

The residents of Queens Park in New Westminster have grown used to, or even a bit weary of, the carnivals of trucks and herds of crews that come to their neighborhood with repeated production work….

vancouver: A quarter century of quietude in Vancouver’s television broadcast community was obliterated in 1997 when the crtc awarded the first television licence in southern b.c. since ckvu launched in the early ’70s. The local market has been turbulent since, with…