Television presales have become an increasingly important part of financing scenarios in Canadian feature filmmaking, especially since the advent of the Canadian Television Fund. In response to growing demand from filmmakers, broadcasters are finding their involvement in feature films on the…

On a cold November night in 1976 at the Global Television studios, three men sit around a table in the midst of a late-night brainstorming session that is dragging on for hours. Israel Asper, Paul Morton and Seymour Epstein, three of…

With the launch of its new line of visual computing workstations, high end graphics hardware maker Silicon Graphics has made its much anticipated first move onto the desktop PC playing field. The Silicon Graphics 320 and Silicon Graphics 540 comprise SGI’s…

Toronto production company Fireworks Entertainment has closed a deal with Nickelodeon to produce a 26-part, half-hour tween series, Stray Dogs, for the cable network….

Citing the new regulations for the Canadian Television Fund as the reason, ctv may postpone the spring premier of its high-profile drama series Flesh and Blood until next fall….

‘The challenge tomorrow is the same as it was a day ago: to tap the vast pool of talent stretching before us, to find those among us with a passion to tell a new and another story.’…

Vancouver: After a three-year absence, the Leo Awards will roar again May 15 at the Hotel Vancouver….

Montreal: London-based industry risk-insurers Screen Partners has paid the full amount on a $1.5 million `gap’ insurance claim made by Royal Bank. The claim is the first for Screen Partners in Canada and is based on Royal’s gap financing on the…

Roughly 50 television writers will divvy up $350,000 from tvontario, following a settlement in a dispute between the Writers Guild of Canada and the educational broadcaster over profits from tvo shows sold to the international market….

After shooting 13 episodes, the Alliance Atlantis Communications production of Little Men which runs on u.s. weblet Pax Net has been canceled. But in a strange twist to the usual cancellation procedure, it was the producer not the broadcaster that chose…

Francois Macerola has been reappointed to an extended two-year term as executive director of Telefilm Canada. His extended term expires January 2001….

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