With satin ears in New York and Chicago already on film, Toronto’s Up Front Entertainment is home to wrap final interviews for the a&e/ctv special The Bunny Ears….

Eaton’s ‘Construction Worker’ introduces a whole new way of ogling women and puts actor Joe Pingue in the Top Spot for performance….

The Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters and the Motion Picture Theatre Association of Canada, representing the country’s major and regional exhibitors, will meet in Toronto Nov. 25 to discuss ways of increasing joint promotion for Canadian movies….

To capture the imaginations of Top Spots judges and the 1998 craft award for animation/effects, Toronto’s Cuppa Coffee combined a broad array of artistic elements with some smash-mouth hockey scenes using high- and low-tech methods in espn’s very funny efforts to…

When dop David Stockton and Jolly Roger director Robert Logevall shot a spot designed to draw people to the relatively unspoiled haven of Prince Edward Island, they didn’t forget to let the land’s own beauty speak for itself – sometimes the…

After years of sitting in her room pounding the keyboard, Semi Chellas’ words and visions come to life for the first time and all at once….

Citing the diversification of its business, Cinar Films will ask shareholders to approve a company name change at a special shareholder meeting Dec. 10 in Montreal. If approved, Cinar’s new name would be Cinar Corporation in English, Corporation Cinar in French….

Sheffield, Eng.: Few in this South Yorkshire city would doubt the power of the moving image to obliterate obscurity. The home of The Full Monty – which opens with the cliched, boosterish and scratchy stereotypical industrial promotion documentary – Sheffield is…

The following is a listing of Canadian commercial production houses in alphabetical order. Information is based on questionnaires completed by companies which chose to respond to Playback’s survey.[ A | B | C | D |…

Helped by the sale of its investment in ctv, CHUM Ltd.’s 1998 year-end results show a healthy earnings increase, but fourth-quarter net earnings indicate a $3.2-million drop from last year….

Vancouver: The Canadian Association of Broadcasters Gold Ribbon Awards were handed out Nov. 3 at a gala ceremony capping the cab’s 1998 convention, held Nov. 1-3 in Vancouver….

After completing Mickey Blue Eyes, his first big-budget studio film for Castle Rock Entertainment, LTB Productions director Kelly Makin has returned to Toronto ready to get back into commercial directing….