Vancouver: After two lackluster quarters, Vancouver’s Mainframe Entertainment made good on its promises and delivered 21 half-hours of animated television in fiscal 1999’s third quarter (ended Dec. 31, 1998). As a result the company posted an impressive 66% increase in revenues….

Vancouver: Lions Gate Entertainment – a Vancouver film company that has appeared to want to run before it could walk – seems to be finding its feet according to its third quarter results announced March 1 and the closure of a…

Vancouver: Representatives from Revenue Canada, the Motion Picture Association of America and an ad hoc group of Canadian producers convened in Vancouver Feb. 23 to come up with solutions to the simmering taxation crisis for the service production industry in Canada….

Vancouver: b.c. continued its double-digit volume growth trends in 1998 when it posted another record year….

Vancouver: Gavin Wilding – the Vancouver-based creator of low-budget, high-cleavage b-video fare such as The Raffle, Listen and Stag – has signed a five-year deal to release films in the u.s. through Merv Griffin Entertainment….

Vancouver: Federal Revenue Minister Herb Dhaliwal granted a one-year reprieve against stepped-up taxation on foreign actors – a move that promised to devastate the Canadian service production industry….

Vancouver: The brief era of free money for b.c. production companies is over as British Columbia Film says good-bye to its Market Incentive Program and switches back to loans from grants….

Vancouver: Producer James Shavick of Vancouver’s Shavick Entertainment is inaugurating a new prize for the best emerging director in Western Canada on June 7….

Vancouver: In the first quarter of fiscal 1999 (ended Nov. 30, 1998), Vancouver’s Vidatron Entertainment reports a 61% increase in revenue over the same quarter in fiscal 1998 to $15.1 million….

Vancouver: Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy – a series that romances the pioneering spirit in b.c.’s hinterland 50 years ago – was given the go-ahead by cbc brass for a second season of 13 episodes last month. The series is…

Vancouver: The Canadian production industry will split along regional lines if Sheila Copps pushes Cabinet to scrap the year-old 11% Federal Production Services Tax Credit, b.c. interests warn….

Vancouver: Although the government is predictably vague, the b.c. chapter of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association is convinced funding for b.c.Film is in jeopardy….