Discussing the relative advantages of physical effects with those who deliver the models and miniatures, the creatures, the gadgets, the pyrotechnics and the prosthetic transmogrifications, one core idea is repeated numerous times: nothing beats getting a rise out of people and…

Vancouver: For Vancouver’s Northwest Imaging and FX, completing Zenon Girl of the 21st Century was remarkable not only because of the scope and demands of the sci-fi MOW but that the company could rally from a summer of poaching by rival…

Computer software and film cameras have come together to give camera assistants a simpler and more efficient way of getting the job done….

*Cori Doern has been appointed to the newly created position of commercial representative at Toronto’s Command Post & Transfer. Previously, Doern was Command Post’s – and later TOYBOX’s – senior scheduler and producer….

Montreal: Cinar Films and Shanghai Animation Film Studio, a subsidiary of Shanghai Television, have signed a coproduction agreement to produce a $10-million animation series….

Montreal: Groupe tva has established a new executive committee aimed at accelerating the broadcast/production company’s business development plans….

Working on prosthetics for Universal hit Bride of Chucky, Paul Jones Effects Studio had the fun of delivering a stomach-churning image for a scene in which affable human Bride of Chucky star John Ritter gets a face full of nails, courtesy…

‘If you’re a person who likes attention, this is one way to get it,’ says effects creator Ron Stefaniuk of the process of creating a recent spot for Tri-Mark Mutual Funds, which involved a herd of sheep-people dressed in suits marching…

Montreal: Quebec’s newly launched film industry awards showcase, Les Prix Jutra, will have its inaugural gala broadcast live Feb. 28, 1999 on Reseau tva….

Vancouver: If, by Dec. 23, Torstar Corp. is successful in wooing 67% of Sun Media’s common shares through an offer equivalent to $16.60 per share, the change in ownership may create potential synergies for the companies’ minor television assets….

Toronto-based Gordon Smith, founder of FXSmith, has long been a player in high-end special effects creation for feature films and is now involved in the creation of new prosthetic technology with the potential to not only save faces, but production time…

In a move that will delay the reporting of revenues from film and tv projects for up to a full year, Alliance Atlantis Communications has changed its accounting policies to more closely reflect the standards of the u.s. Financial Accounting Standards…