Patricia Bailey

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Anti-digital holdouts hard to reach

The latest study of TV habits notes that nearly half of satellite and cable subscribers still aren’t sold on digital signals

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CTF hands out BPE cash

Latest funding round cuts cheques for CBC minis and the second season of CTV’s Whistler, while APTN scores for Hank Williams series

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Bohbot tracks Bigfoot

Montreal producer says believers in the big guy ‘make a good case,’ after wrapping a doc for Space

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Women shut out of business, say Quebec filmmakers

In an open letter to the industry and its public funders, a coalition of mostly female filmmakers say that they’re not getting their fair share of cash

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Profits dip at AAC

Yaffe blames slip on high tax bill, looks ahead to ”stronger’ future with CanWest

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Vallée to helm Scorsese’s Victoria

MONTREAL: For Jean-Marc Vallée, making his next film with Martin Scorsese is the chance of a lifetime.

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CEP slams feds’ handling of CHUM buy

The CRTC’s upcoming hearings into CTVglobemedia’s purchase of CHUM are a rushed charade, says Canada’s largest media union

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IATSE wins Quebec coin toss

Luck of the draw hands five out of six big-budget movies to IATSE following its short-term cease-fire with cross-town rival, the AQTIS

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Heritage chair defends Shaw, Videotron

Stopping payments to CTF was a last-ditch effort to be heard in Ottawa, says MP Gary Schellenberger, as Tories on the heritage committee prepare a minority report on the recent crisis

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CTF is not broken, so don’t fix it, say MPs

A report from the heritage committee, drafted after days of hearings into the workings of the Canadian Television Fund, recommends keeping the battered fund intact

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Mummy moves back to Montreal

Following a Friday night peace accord between Quebec’s battling unions, Universal has changed its mind and now plans to shoot the US$100-million adventure horror The Mummy 3 in Montreal

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Long road to Borderline

Producer Roger Frappier recounts the roundabout route of his latest feature, now underway in Quebec under director Lyne Charlebois