Vancouver: Lions Gate Entertainment of Vancouver posted a $1.3-million loss on revenues of $24.3 million for 1999’s second fiscal quarter (ended Sept. 30)….

Vancouver: A clash with the former ctcpf (now the Canadian Television Fund) resulted in a $1.4-million write-off for Mainframe Entertainment of Vancouver in the second quarter of fiscal 1999….

Vancouver: A lackluster California market continues to throw cold water on what would otherwise be a stellar financial year for Rainmaker Entertainment Group. The Vancouver company is showing strong growth from its home-base operations, but the l.a. division is flat….

Vancouver: For fiscal year 1998 (ended Aug. 31), Vidatron Entertainment Group of Vancouver posted a 36% increase in revenue to $32.5 million. In 1997, the company grossed $23.6 million….

Montreal: During three months of shooting on location in Montreal this summer, dailies from the syndicated Rysher Entertainment action-adventure series SOF: Special Ops Forces were piped nightly via the broadband Jazz Media Network to Encore Video in Santa Monica, California….

Neutral observers will complain that I have had my say about the sorry state of feature filmmaking in Canada, in my piece last month in The Globe and Mail, and then the other day in the first issue of the Writers’…

It’s late October, and in a corner of the vast exterior of one of Toronto’s most upscale hotels, a film crew is preparing for a take while 400 miles away across the Quebec border, the provincial election campaign has kicked into…

*Gajdecki lands CBS mega miniseries…

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* Marketing industry executive Rene Guimond is the new president of Television Quatre Saisons. Guimond takes over from tqs chairman Wilbrod Gauthier, who had held the post since Franklin Delaney’s resignation last fall. Gauthier remains chairman….

CBC has unveiled a revamped CBC New Media Group online service that includes a more comprehensive Internet news site, CBC News Online….