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Studios are busy, camera package suppliers are busy, production service companies are busy, and all are making investments to enable their businesses to grow and hopefully prosper. Where’s the traditional Canadian doom and gloom?…

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Montreal: Twenty-one feature films from around the world have been selected to compete for the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the 20th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival, Aug. 22 to Sept. 2….

Montreal: Post-producer and transcoder Global Vision is expanding in a major way with the acquisition of a Philips FDL Quadra film-to-tape transfer unit….

With less than three weeks until the 21st Toronto International Film Festival takes off, the international buy-and-sell brass scheduled to man the sales office at the Rogers Industry Centre guarantees producers and distributors will be tiff-bound with more than just flick-feasting…

On the other side of its $30 million investment in 1996 Summer Olympics rights, the cbc, boosted by the International Olympics Committee’s new rules, scored ratings gold for the two weeks through Aug. 4 with eyeballs consistently eclipsing ctv’s ’94 Barcelona…

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Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting earned $740,000 on 42 screens across the country in the first 12 days of release by distributor Alliance Releasing….

Under the leadership of former tvontario exec Bill Roberts, the North American National Broadcasters Association is stepping up pressure on the u.s. Congress to end the use of journalists as covers for international espionage, and is asking Canada and Mexico to…

Montreal: A massive $8 million North American publicity blitz is in the making for the Sept. 5 launch of The Beatles Anthology, a 10-hour, eight-cassette home video collection which will retail for $175.99. The collection is being distributed in Canada by…