Vancouver: Unless federal Finance Minister Paul Martin or Revenue Minister Herb Dhaliwal intercede in Revenue Canada’s hard-line approach to taxing foreign actors, the first big casualty will likely be Disney’s us$100-million feature Mission to Mars….

Vancouver: Producer John Curtis is back in the saddle again as president of Prophecy Pictures and Prophecy Entertainment and has just wrapped the first feature since his days with defunct Everest Entertainment….

Vancouver: After a three-year absence, the Leo Awards will roar again May 15 at the Hotel Vancouver….

Vancouver: Revenues were halved but losses greatly improved in the year-over-year comparison of financial results at Vancouver’s International Keystone Entertainment, which trades on the Montreal Exchange. Fiscal 1998 was the lull between delivery of the first two installments of the Air…

Vancouver: A Place Called Chiapas (by Vancouver’s Canada Wild Productions) has picked up a u.s. distributor after two successful weeks at the Film Forum in New York in November….

Vancouver: The producers of Cold Squad have to await the outcome of audience tallies during the January airings to find out whether Baton’s Bill Mustos will okay a third season….

Vancouver: The labor dispute between the 66-member B.C. Projectionists union (IATSE Local 348) and the exhibition companies Famous Players and Cineplex Odeon escalated Dec. 5….

Vancouver: While there are no specific provisions to entice runaway production in the new Alberta film incentive program, domestic and international coproductions that offer equal ownership and generate expenditures for Albertans are eligible for the new Alberta Film Development Program, announced…

Vancouver: Last week, CanWest Global and Shaw Communications were back at the table renegotiating the sale of WIC Western International Communications….

Vancouver: Pacific Motion Pictures, a division of Rainmaker Entertainment Group since July, is finally exploiting its exclusive Canadian distribution and licensing agreement with Hallmark Entertainment, a major American producer of television product….

Vancouver: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, a division of Walt Disney, has augmented its scheduled video release of Summer of Monkeys this month with a limited theatrical release in the u.s. The family feature – produced by Saskatoon’s Edge Entertainment and shot…

In Rupert’s Land, the b.c. delegate in the Genie’s best picture category this year, two long-separated brothers reunite for a road trip to attend their father’s funeral….