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Pamela Cuthbert
Toronto International Film Festival
Perspective Canada lineup…
New
firm…
Rogers promises production
fund as part of MH buyout bid…
Ontario Scene
And the productions just keep coming and comingÉ…
TVO postings spell
good news for indies…
$50M
Viacom Canada Inc. has announced a $50 million slate of productions over the next 12 months for u.s. specialty network Showtime. The news comes just weeks after American media conglomerate Viacom International set up vci with $1 million a year over…
$10M alliance
Catalyst Entertainment has struck a strategic international alliance that will boost its program buying power, distribution and development activities, and its presence in the industry….
Cogeco loosens repayment rules
The Cogeco Program Development Fund, an arm of Maclean Hunter Television Fund to assist Canadian television series, is giving its borrowers a break. Producers now have until the first day of principal photography to pay back loans made by the fund….
National labeling system one step closer to realiy
Distributors may soon have fewer levels of red tape to deal with. Industry and government are working together in Ontario to develop a home video labeling standard that could be adopted by all the provinces. At the same time, film/video classifiers,…
Bravo!
Bravo! president Paul Gratton isn’t ready to discuss specifics about CHUM Ltd.’s new entertainment and perfoming arts channel, but says maybe that’s due to his ‘style.’…
Showcase
Showcase president Phyllis Yaffe says the all-drama channel will be licensing 15 original half-hour dramas over its six-year licence period, with a fee of $250,000 attached to each project. There will be a competition for the original segments, which is ‘accessible…
Ontario Scene
A summertime sizzler is about to hit the streets of Toronto…
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