According to financial terms of the ctv/NetStar deal revealed last week, ctv’s interest in specialty channels Outdoor Life Network and CTV Sportsnet must be transferred to NetStar Communications within 12 months of regulatory approval….

With $250,000 in ticket sales from 18 prints in just three weeks, Sturla Gunnarsson’s Such A Long Journey is Vancouver-based distributor Red Sky Entertainment’s first legitimate box office ‘hit,’ says company president Tony Cianciotta….

Montreal: Producer Kevin Tierney has announced his resignation from Productions La Fete, effective the end of June, and says he plans to pursue feature film, miniseries and mow projects as an independent producer….

One technically astute, yet somewhat speculation-weary post type was recently heard to intone: ‘We’ve all heard and talked about high definition for so long, that it’s a painful subject anymore.’ Given that the above sentiment is widely shared across many planes…

The skewed, stylized look of Alliance Atlantis Communications’ new kids’ series I Was a Sixth Grade Alien incorporates a colorful mix of temporal and esthetic references, combining low-tech visuals, b-movie-grade effects and retro design with high-end, high-tech gadgetry and physical and…

Stuart Hurst, product manager for Sony Canada, acknowledges the kind of dense issues which must be negotiated before dtv and hdtv broadcasting rolls out successfully, here and in the u.s. ‘Even if we were to get the terrestrial broadcasting issues sorted…

Vancouver: As the strike by cbc technicians stretched into a month and the threat that journalists and office workers might join the picket lines loomed ever darker, cbc advertising executives were steadfastly upbeat about ad revenues as Playback went to press….

nelvana’s strategic shift to produce exclusively proprietary productions and shun service work has paid off to the toon of $8.6 million ($1.21 per share) in 1998 net earnings, a 75% increase from $4.9 million the year before….

Not content to bask in the current box-office success of its production Such A Long Journey, The Film Works has an even more ambitious project slated as its next feature….

Montreal: Montreal-based children’s producers Henri Desclez and Norma Denys have formed Mimosa Productions, a children’s program producer in the La Fete Group. As a member in La Fete, producer of the Tales for All feature series and the new Barnum miniseries…

The New Brunswick government will remove caps on the province’s generous 40% labor tax credit in response to the Film nb task force report which was presented and approved in the legislature earlier this month….

Vancouver: Temple Street Productions, Nelvana and Devine Entertainment are among the Canadian nominees at this year’s annual Daytime Emmy Awards in May….