– CBS inherits #1 with Alliance MOW…

‘so I left a note on his car saying I had to talk to him.’…

Sandra Richmond is a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch….

– BCTC: three years $1.5 billion…

Vancouver: The West Coast’s largest dedicated studio complex is booked until next January and maybe 1998 and the B.C. Film Commission is scouring the Lower Mainland for empty warehouses to fit in all the production expected this summer….

Montreal ntsc-pal conversion and transfer house Global Vision has opened a lab and transfer unit in its New York City sales office on Times Square near to clients such as Walt Disney Co. and MTV Networks….

At Rave Films, director David Straiton shot one day for Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain through Leo Burnett. Rhett Morita was dop and Brian Noon at Flashcut edited….

In a ‘step back to the future,’ comm.bat films director/cameraman Derek Vanlint is once again moving toward photographing feature films. Vanlint cites improved film technology and the desire to create within the feature framework as the motivating forces behind his initiative….

For the ninth consecutive year, Playback asked Canadian film and television production companies what they spent on independent production in the previous calendar year. Responses from 93 prodcos revealed that total independent production expenditures for 1996 topped $983 million, including almost…

Canada’s film, television and multimedia production companies are expanding their horizons, with small companies aiming for midsize status and midsize operations seeking new business opportunities as they develop international partnerships….

Amount spent on production and development in 1996:…

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