The Quebec-made romantic comedy Duo was a box-office disappointment in its opening June 16 weekend but rebounded somewhat in the week of June 23, taking a per-screen average of $1,486, up from $1,121, and claiming the number-one spot among domestic films.

Representatives of Quebec’s film community say they are optimistic about the province’s lack of film funding following a meeting with Minister of Heritage Bev Oda.

Montreal: Mary Walsh is hoping for a fall release and possible festival tour for her latest film and directorial debut, Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With.

Amid complaints that their funds are being stretched too thin, Telefilm Canada and SODEC have put their support behind a number of new films, including Denys Arcand’s follow-up to Les Invasions barbares, L’Âge des ténèbres.

Six of Quebec’s film and advertising associations have agreed to limit the sound level of ads and trailers in the province’s theaters.

Gorgeous weather over the June 16 weekend is being blamed for a slump in ticket sales at the Quebec box office, for one film at least.

The Quebec Film and Television Council has appointed the first members of its administration, effectively launching the council as a functioning organization.

Montreal: Ernest Webb says the whole idea behind Moose TV is to get the native people on television away from social issues. ‘It seems like when we’re concerned, everything has to be issue-obsessed,’ he says.

Montreal – The idea sounded just creepy enough that Montreal producer Vivianne Morin of Cité-Amérique got involved with Bon Voyage. The three-part, Canada/U.K. copro miniseries – set to air on The Movie Network, Showcase, Super Écran and ITV late this year – is a taut $6.2-million thriller in which a couple and their two children are repeatedly tormented by a freakish couple while on a camping trek across France.

Montreal ­- The scripts for Macha and Friends, a new sitcom from Montreal’s Cirrus Productions, draw heavily from the cast’s own personal experiences.

Quebec’s technical unions, AQTIS and IATSE, have resumed talks after a three-week break.

The Quebec political romance Un dimanche à Kigali passed the million-dollar mark at the provincial box office late in May, going on to net $5,600 over the June 2 weekend, according to distributor Equinoxe Films.