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Quebec Scene: SDA to coproduce latest Lelouch film Apres tout

Montreal: Productions sda and famed French filmmaker Claude Lelouch have signed a coproduction agreement to shoot the director’s next film, Apres toutet meme plus….

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Binchmarks: Lower thresholds, top-ups highlight new LFP guidelines

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

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Word: Disney goes to Cuppaland

As the company already bought out the venerable Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who did Disney call when it needed help – selling itself?…

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Storyboards: Southern exposure

A teenager struts through a shopping mall to the upbeat sounds of a drum. Mannequins turn his way, athletic shoes kick up their heels and a bright orange sweater hurtles itself towards him while a matching pair of sunglasses land on…

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Commercial Directions: Hackett, Tarko shoot McD’s

Maxx Productions director Dan Hackett scored a pool of spots for McDonald’s, lensed by dop Gabor Tarko and assigned through Cossette. Flashcut’s Tim Kirkwood edited. Barry Dukoff manned the camera and the director’s chair for Benckiser Lime-A-Way through Bates Canada. Post…

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CanPro ’97: Casters converge on Toronto

Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle will be a hub of activity April 5 to 7 as leading Canadian television producers, programmers, broadcasters, and public relations folk gather in Toronto for the 24th annual CanPro….

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Confab takes on national focus

Shifting to include network and national programming in a once exclusively local festival and improving program quality are a few of the items on the broadcasters’ agenda for CanPro 97….

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VOD hearings begin

Issues of access to broadcast distribution undertakings will be the hot buttons in Hull as the licensing hearings on five video-on-demand services begins March 17 and it may be the Alliance Communications/Shaw Communications application that takes the heat….

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The deal for TQS

Montreal: As many as half a dozen potential buyers of Television Quatre Saisons are going over the books. There’s a flurry of near-secret meetings between potential dealmakers, with the early money on a mixed Quebec-based consortium of broadcast and production company…

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At Press Time

Fredericton-based Star Choice Communications and Shaw Communications have announced a partnership which will merge the dth services of both companies. Star Choice Communications will acquire 100% of the assets of Homestar, Shaw’s proposed dth service which was licensed January 31. Assets…

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Another CBC Gemini coup

‘We cannot guarantee your safety,’ warned Red Green-er and Trader Patrick McKenna as an opener for night two of the 11th Annual Gemini Awards. And no wonder he feared for his well-being, as the set was spinning like Wheel of Fortune…