Add l.a.-based Live Entertainment to the mix as the fate of Paragon Entertainment gets decided behind brokers’ doors….

Montreal: Quebec Finance Minister Bernard Landry has committed to a foreign film and tv production tax measure or rebate program, which is expected to be tabled formally in the next provincial budget early this spring….

vancouver: A consortium of b.c. talent agents is claiming that up to 50% of Vancouver’s 40-odd talent agencies may be put out of business by government intervention and have come together to fight the expected regulation….

In addition to The Sweet Hereafter’s two Oscar nominations, Sylvain Chomet’s La Vielle Dame Et Les Pigeons (The Old Lady and the Pigeons) is vying for an award in the short animated film category….

The guaranteed ctcpf renewal by the federal government was merely the capper on a good news couple of weeks for Alliance Communications….

Baton/ctv has acquired the free television rights from Alliance Communications for eXistenZ, director David Cronenberg’s next feature film which begins lensing in Toronto this April….

Described as a ‘classic horror film,’ The Clown At Midnight began a 13-day shoot in Winnipeg this month. A production of GFT/Paquin Entertainment, the $2.5-million film stars Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder, Sara Lassez, James Duval and Tatyana Ali….

In the Feb. 9 story ‘Hot Docs! announces nominees,’ the science/ tech/environment-nominated Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve was incorrectly identified as a Greenspace Production. The company is Good Earth Productions. However, Greenspace’s The Dolphin: Born To Be Wild is also nominated…

That’s one large step for indigenous…

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Vancouver: The Union of B.C. Performers ratified its first master collective agreement with Hollywood studios Feb. 6….

Born out of the CFP/Lions Gate Films project Jerry and Tom, director/actor Saul Rubinek, producer Elinor Reid and executive producer Ralph Zimmerman have formed a new production company, Creative Differences, and secured a ‘non-restrictive,’ first-look housekeeping deal with New York indie…