As one of the largest video distributors in Japan, Pony Canyon acquired the features Cube, Wings of the Dove (with Ace Pictures) and Spanish Prisoner after attending the Toronto International Film Festival for the first time last year. And at the…

Vancouver’s Red Sky Entertainment has 14 titles on the program for the Toronto International Film Festival, a substantial feat when the distribution company is not yet one year old….

Vancouver: Motion Works is in the process of shutting down its Vancouver operations, selling its special effects technology and moving in with its parent company in Toronto….

Vancouver: In the second quarter of fiscal ’98, Rainmaker Entertainment Group is back in the black, pushed by strong growth in its visual effects and new media departments….

Vancouver: Nettie Wild’s 90-minute documentary A Place Called Chiapas (Canada Wild Productions) will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, its theatrical premiere in Vancouver and primetime airing on cbc, all within an 11-day window….

Vancouver: Once the dust settles on the latest deal in the WIC Western International Communications asset shuffle, Vancouver will be left without a strong broadcast entity, a situation that is expected to negatively affect production and ruffle political feathers….

Vancouver: Sept. 21’s special shareholder meeting will ask investors of Vancouver’s International Keystone Entertainment – producer of family features Air Bud i and ii – to approve a share consolidation, an acquisition and a nominee to the board….

Vancouver: P.S. Films is making the move from special event television producing to series producing with not one, but two, shows….

Vancouver: At press time, Calgary’s Shaw Communications was still deciding whether to appeal by Sept. 4 the recent decision by the crtc to deny the cable giant its proposed acquisition of 48% ownership in the broadcaster that operates Headline Sports….

Vancouver: The newly created Motion Picture and Entertainment Industry Foundation is holding focus groups to determine which charitable initiatives are high priorities for the production community’s philanthropists….

Vancouver: Producer Harold Tichenor says he was a signature away from an Alliance okay to begin shooting in September the feature Marine Life when the merger with Atlantis was announced July 20. Now the deal making has been slowed in the…

Vancouver: Global Media, a direct-to-home distribution company with a 6,000-square-foot operation based in Nanaimo, b.c., has launched an entertainment division in advance of its plan to go public on NASDAQ’s OTC Bulletin Board….