In this report, Playback looks at the people and forces involved in the development of three new Canadian kids’ programs and the marketing and merchandising thrusts behind those and some other kids’ properties….

In this report, Playback looks at the people and forces involved in the development of three new Canadian kids’ programs and the marketing and merchandising thrusts behind those and some other kids’ properties….

Revenues for Cinar Films’ third quarter, ending Aug. 31, 1997, increased 74% to $17.8 million from $10.2 million for the comparable period in 1996. Net earnings for the quarter rose 71% to $2 million or $0.16 per share from $1.2 million…

The close to $200 million in Canadian Television and Cable Production Fund money injected into primetime Canadian programming triggered a major boom in production across the country, generating cumulative production and services valued at $625 million in 1996/97, according to the…

Behind the stabilizing of the video market, the flux in pay television, the changed definition of ‘independents,’ new studio affiliations and the limited amount of cash in the market, the distribution sector is in the process of what Jeff Sackman, president…

A group of high-profile producers have formed an ad hoc lobby group to advocate changes to current Telefilm Canada policies which they say are making Canadian mows aimed at the local market increasingly difficult to produce….

Director Ann Kennard has experience filming in none too accessible places….

Montreal: With Space: The Imagination Station beaming down this week and Pulse 24 not long behind, CHUM Television is batting two out of five in its bid to lift its specialty licences off the paper and onto analog…

*Soop’s On…

Vancouver: Details of the replacement for Production Services Limited Partnership tax shelter began leaking out during the Vancouver International Film Festival Trade Forum….

Montreal: The Cinematheque Quebecoise tribute to Moses Znaimer on the occasion of Citytv’s 25th anniversary concludes Oct. 30 with a screening of some 20 recent short films and videos produced with Bravo!fact funding….

Nearing the end of this month’s f&t dramas, it’s good to be Vancouver. It’s good to be one of the nine-odd new Canadian specialties. It’s not particularly pleasant being a mid-sized theatrical distribution company or a filmmaker attached to Canada-branded mows….