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Vancouver: Producer Harold Tichenor says he was a signature away from an Alliance okay to begin shooting in September the feature Marine Life when the merger with Atlantis was announced July 20. Now the deal making has been slowed in the…

Combining the impressive Alliance catalogue of feature films and tv shows with Atlantis’ tv library will give the Alliance Atlantis Communications distribution operations serious international muscle in the form of worldwide rights to more than 2,500 hours of programming….

As the industry bobs in the wake of the Big Deal, waves of curiosity and anticipation wash over the shores of the post-production community, which waits to hear of any changes in the way the new Studio will apportion its vast…

Vancouver: Global Media, a direct-to-home distribution company with a 6,000-square-foot operation based in Nanaimo, b.c., has launched an entertainment division in advance of its plan to go public on NASDAQ’s OTC Bulletin Board….

The church windows are boarded-up. Homes and shops bear ‘Closed’ or ‘Out of Business’ signs. An old weather-beaten banner draped across the main street reads, ‘Welcome To Exceptional Vista,’ an isolated, stagnant little North American town forgotten by time. It’s the…

The 18th Atlantic Film Festival, Sept. 18-26, will feature four up-and-coming Atlantic scriptwriters at the third annual Script Development Workshop. The four winning writers and their scripts, selected from a record 49 submissions for this year, are Nova Scotia’s Don Aker,…

Montreal: the Quebec producers association, the apftq, has withdrawn from Initiative Quebec, a service and producer umbrella group established to promote Quebec as a shooting location….

A six half-hour cbc series about fictional women in history in now in production in Toronto….

The Edmonton, Alberta-based National Screen Institute has embarked on its national expansion effort by staffing a recently opened Winnipeg office and developing a slate of new program initiatives….

Taking its first steps into the unchartered waters of international coproduction, Red Ochre Productions has taken a minority stake in the $7.5 million feature Misery Harbour, the first official venture with Norway under the recently signed treaty….

Vancouver: Echo Lake could be the first Canadian dramatic feature to be shot entirely on digital cameras and might also be the forerunner for the next wave of cost-crunched independent production….