Vancouver: Two Vancouver producers have launched a Los Angeles-based entertainment company, while maintaining a satellite office in their home town. Voyager International Entertainment was unveiled May 19 as a company that will provide independent producers a ‘direct pipeline’ for their product…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks at Toronto’s Atlantis Communications. The company received a series order from a u.s. weblet, secured a $60-million banking facility, and released its first-quarter financials….

Some dub it a circus act that amounts to little more than spectacle. Others deem it a great way to generate some buzz around a project. But all generally agree that ringleader Pat Ferns’ Market Simulation is a must-see at Banff….

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As audiences and creative types debate the merits of the final Seinfeld episode, it is befitting to remember the stir caused when Newhart went off the air in 1989, after an eight-year run, because Bob Newhart decided to call it quits…

With six years of commercial direction under his belt, Circle Productions’ Shin Sugino makes his big-screen directorial debut this month with a 60-second cinema ad for Panasonic DVD Palm Theatre….

In a busy factory just North of Nowhere, ‘one man devotes his life to dreaming up new ways to tickle the tongue and blow the minds of even the most experienced candy lovers.’ He’s ‘Willy Wonka, after all.’…

The Film Liaison Industry Committee has fielded a suggestion from Absolute Location Support Services’ (Partners’ location arm) Paul Kenyon that he hopes will facilitate the observation of permit guidelines on commercial shoots in Toronto by adding the names of producers and…

The Partners’ Film Company director Clay Staub and dop Miroslaw Baszak had three days in Vancouver and one day in Toronto for Labatt Breweries’ Budweiser Lite through Bozell Worldwide. David Baxter handled the edit at Panic & Bob….

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Recognizing that ones and zeros are not just about coproduction deals anymore, the 1998 Banff Television Festival is reprising its technology showcase to bring producers a look at the technology and trends which are having a growing impact on all areas…

Following the success of Cochrane Entertainment’s mow Pit Pony, which aired on cbc last December, the Halifax-based prodco is gearing up to shoot the 26 half-hour Pit Pony drama series with the cbc….