One year after shareholders approved a merger to create Alliance Atlantis Communications, the new company’s first annual report shows earnings per share have dropped 25.6% as of the year ended March 31, 1999….

The advent of electronic cinema is about five years away and will revolutionize not only the way films are screened but could also save the film industry hundreds of millions in distribution costs. This was the message Chuck Collins of Digital…

Don’t be fooled by the name. Canadian Actor Online may have been created with Canuck thespians in mind, but it has quickly evolved into one of the most comprehensive Web-based Canadian production resources around….

*Imax acquires DPI…

How do you make a nice little animated bee look like a fiercely competitive runner in the race of the century? That was the challenge facing the creative team at The Animation House, the commercial division of Evening Sky Productions, when…

She walks up, greets you and takes you on a tour of her home. She has a cartoon smile but answers your questions directly and even gives you a stern look when you inadvertently swear. Amazingly she also remembers what you…

*U.S. giant buys Electrohome division…

It would be impossible to accuse Quebec filmmaker Lea Pool of putting distance between her life and subject matter. Pool’s films are often highly personal, sometimes autobiographical, explorations of her inner self. This tendency was apparent onward from her first feature,…

Buoyed by US$10,000 in development funding from nhk, Japan’s national public broadcaster, Montreal doc-maker John Curtin is moving ahead with his hdtv project Ten Seconds of Eternity….

If it weren’t for the Studer D950 digital mixing console and the absence of popcorn kernels on the plush wall-to-wall carpet, you’d swear you had just stepped into some luxurious theatrical screening room….

You might think producing audio for a film called Rollercoaster would be a pretty straightforward job. After all, how many ways can you record a rattling track and kids screaming?…

It might not have been as daunting as raising the Titanic, but for the animators at Toronto’s Optix Digital Post & fx, floating Napoleon’s Lost Fleet was challenge enough….