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B.C. Scene: Kissed by success: Stopkewich film makes necrophilia pay

Vancouver: Propelled by the Big American PR Machine, two thumbs up and reviews in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, director Lynne Stopkewich’s little-necrophilia-film-that-could, Kissed, has made sex with the dead trendy and should be the biggest grossing indigenous…

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Special Report on Distribution and Exhibittion: Producers seek a little ingenuity

Much ink was spilled, much rhetoric expelled, and the debate grew from a policy discussion about an individual company to heated disputes on the merit of Canadian cultural policies as a whole….

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Special Report on Distribuition and Exhibition: Theatre executives gather for ShowCanada confab

Over 450 delegates from all aspects of Canada’s motion picture theater industry will converge at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa May 6-9 to take part in the Motion Picture Theatre Association of Canada’s 11th annual ShowCanada….

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Special Report on Distribuition and Exhibition: Alternative circuits

To say it’s unusual to see Mort Ransen’s Margaret’s Museum at the top of the list of box office draws with total gross of $39,270 and a $1,090 screen average, is an understatement. More still to see Bruce McDonald’s Dance Me…

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Special Report on Investment and Finance: CTCPF’s role ‘skyrockets’ as domestic financing is tightened

As the big companies get integrated, and the midsize companies look for partners to share the risk, the ’emerging’ producers try quilting together public funding pieces that shrink each time the finance minister buys a new pair of sh’es. Rapid and…

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Special Report on Investment and Finance: Binchmarks: New CAVCO rules take tougher line

As the big companies get integrated, and the midsize companies look for partners to share the risk, the ’emerging’ producers try quilting together public funding pieces that shrink each time the finance minister buys a new pair of sh’es. Rapid and…

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Special Report on Investment and Finance: National sources of investment, funding

As the big companies get integrated, and the midsize companies look for partners to share the risk, the ’emerging’ producers try quilting together public funding pieces that shrink each time the finance minister buys a new pair of sh’es. Rapid and…

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Special Report on Investment and Finance: Multimedia financing

As the big companies get integrated, and the midsize companies look for partners to share the risk, the ’emerging’ producers try quilting together public funding pieces that shrink each time the finance minister buys a new pair of sh’es. Rapid and…

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At Press Time

Greenlight Communications and Everest/Greenlight Motion Pictures have signed a deal with Francis Ford Coppola, Chris Brancato, and John Curtis to produce 22 episodes of First Wave, a one-hour weekly sci-fi series….

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The view post-MIP

Cannes: Atlantis Communications’ new output deal with TV3 New Zealand and Ellis Enterprises’ distribution coup for New York-based Unapix Entertainment’s non-fiction programming were amongst Canadian industry highlights, as the usual frenzy of MIP-TV ’97 came to a close April 16….

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NAB: the future is wide open

it is said that the really momentous nab shows skip a year, and if that homespun theory holds true, next year’s confab will assume epic proportions. NAB 97, held April 5-10 in Las Vegas, heralded what seems to be a new…

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Indie production: Total static, kids boom

While the amount of cash spent on animation and kids’ programming skyrocketed, 1996 was a relatively static year for Canada’s independent production industry and the overall growth of production volume was modest….