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U.S. shop buys Van. neg cutter

Vancouver: The 15-year-old negative cutting business built by Gay Black and her late husband Wayne in Vancouver was recently purchased by interests from Seattle….

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Shannock sells shares to Video One

Vancouver: Burnaby, b.c.-based TSC Shannock Corp. – one of Canada’s largest home video distribution companies – has agreed to sell all of its Class a shares to competitor Video One, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Broadcasting….

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Meier facing eviction

Vancouver: Meier Worldwide Intermedia, a studio management company that operates the huge A-Frame studio in Delta, b.c., is facing eviction….

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Low looney contributes to production jam in Vancouver

Vancouver: Not a crew is to be had in Vancouver as the West Coast enjoys an Indian summer of production bolstered by the deflated looney….

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Sound Kitchen doing it all

About 20% of the work done at The Sound Kitchen in Vancouver comes from longer-form television work such as documentaries and television series, says co-owner Judy Harnett. Another 30% of the business is claimed by television and radio commercial production work,…

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B.C. Council of Film Unions faces complaints, lawsuit

Vancouver: The former business manager of the B.C. Council of Film Unions is planning to sue the Council for breach of employment contract after allegations he was ‘constructively’ dismissed….

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Red Sky inks Stratosphere

Vancouver: At the Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver distributor Red Sky Entertainment finally confirmed its output deal with New York-based distributor Stratosphere Entertainment….

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Producers roundtable: There’s no place like home

For the second year, Playback convened Vancouver-based producers to chat about doing business on the West Coast….

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Old-style architecture, new-style tax incentives: Victoria: the new production frontier

Chances are good that if the Canadian dollar continues to languish at 64 cents compared to the u.s. greenback and the tight Vancouver production center becomes even more jammed, Victoria will become b.c.’s new production frontier faster than its lobbyists expected….

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New blood: the up-and-comers

B.C. Finance Minister Joy McPhail recently said that the local film industry was one of the only sectors in the province not falling into economic recession. And by all other accounts, the industry is growing at a better-than-healthy clip that is…

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B.C.’s biggest service client: MGM feeding $150M in Van. production

Entertainment news is filled with gloomy stories about the ailing fortunes of veteran u.s. studio mgm, but you’d never know it by looking at the company’s television operations in Vancouver….

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Kuzui targets Japan

Fran Kuzui says it’s best to describe her multifaceted company as a ‘mini-studio.’ Kuzui Enterprises – owned by senior vp Kuzui and her husband – has in its 15 years been a producer and distributor of films, with Kuzui acting on…