Vancouver: For Vancouver’s Northwest Imaging and FX, completing Zenon Girl of the 21st Century was remarkable not only because of the scope and demands of the sci-fi MOW but that the company could rally from a summer of poaching by rival…

Vancouver: If, by Dec. 23, Torstar Corp. is successful in wooing 67% of Sun Media’s common shares through an offer equivalent to $16.60 per share, the change in ownership may create potential synergies for the companies’ minor television assets….

Vancouver: Lions Gate Entertainment of Vancouver posted a $1.3-million loss on revenues of $24.3 million for 1999’s second fiscal quarter (ended Sept. 30)….

Vancouver: A clash with the former ctcpf (now the Canadian Television Fund) resulted in a $1.4-million write-off for Mainframe Entertainment of Vancouver in the second quarter of fiscal 1999….

Vancouver: A lackluster California market continues to throw cold water on what would otherwise be a stellar financial year for Rainmaker Entertainment Group. The Vancouver company is showing strong growth from its home-base operations, but the l.a. division is flat….

Vancouver: For fiscal year 1998 (ended Aug. 31), Vidatron Entertainment Group of Vancouver posted a 36% increase in revenue to $32.5 million. In 1997, the company grossed $23.6 million….

Vancouver: Veteran production manager Ron French and Vancouver talent agent Andrew Ooi flew to Singapore Nov. 12-17 to attend a Filmmakers’ Roundtable hosted by the Canadian High Commission to coincide with Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s recent state visit and to inaugurate…

Radke Films director Mark Mainguy and dop Simon Mestel had a day for the Ontario Lottery Corporation out of Communique Group. Mark Hajek handled the edit at Stealing Time….

Vancouver: Upstart distribution company Red Sky Entertainment of Vancouver has evolved quickly enough in its first year of business to attract long-term investment from b.c.’s Working Opportunity Fund and the Royal Bank Capital Corporation….

Five hundred and fifty non-technical staff at Rogers Cable Systems in b.c. may join the Telecommunications Workers Union that represents labor at BC Tel among others. If the twu’s efforts are successful it will create the first such unionized shop for…

Vancouver: Despite efforts to quell ongoing union strife in b.c., labor representatives were back at the Labour Relations Board Nov. 10 to argue over who gets to run crews at The New Addams Family series….

Vancouver: Unreel Effects of Strathmore, Alta. has expanded its core business to include film and television production….