Montreal: Major u.s. movie buyers attending this year’s Montreal World Film Festival Aug. 22 to Sept. 2 admit they don’t have many openings for foreign fare, but both the mega and smaller American distributors point to new u.s. and international specialty…

As part of a solution to its much publicized struggle with cutbacks, the cbc will be offering a comprehensive array of production and post-production services from the CBC Broadcasting Centre in downtown Toronto….

Production on the second season of Cinar’s children’s puppet series Wimzie’s House has been suspended….

Things are going swimmingly for Atlantic Canada’s film and tv industry. The evidence is everywhere. Audio production companies and post houses are starting up – as are film commissions….

Vancouver: Broadcasters applying for a new tv licence in Vancouver are mishandling the facts when they attack kvos, says the general manager of the u.s. border-town station….

After a choppy two years, Paragon Entertainment wraps fiscal 1996 with revenues, margins and earnings showing improvement across the board over fiscal ’95….

Montreal: The new French-track pay-per-view service Canal Indigo premieres Monday, Aug. 26 at 6:30 p.m. on four cable channels, but vp/gm Rene Bourdages says the plan is to expand to 10 channels as soon as possible, perhaps within months….

Behind two weeks of David Asper’s invading living rooms and three months into rerun season, The Riot at Christie Pits winds up one of few CanWest Global properties that have ably matched er in the Thursday at 10 p.m. time slot….

Though still two or more years away, high-definition television was brought closer to North American living rooms with the North American National Broadcasters Association’s endorsement of a made-in-the-u.s.a. digital tv standard for Canada, the u.s. and Mexico….

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In the Aug. 12 issue of Playback, director Guy Maddin’s name was misspelled in the p. 1 article ‘Madden’s Madness’ and the financial contribution of fund to Maddin’s production of Twilight of the Ice Nymphs was omitted….

As well as a vast, diverse Panorama Canada and strong international film presence, the Montreal World Film Festival is attracting the right kind of people – buyers….