Two of the Ontario Film Development Corporation’s smaller funds have been chopped, and while there is nothing good about the loss, reading between the lines suggests there is hope for the future of the provincial agency….

Las Vegas: ‘Let’s not be disoriented by the thunder and the buzz.’…

Production volume for the country in 1995 reached about $1.3 billion overall and, according to the findings of a Playback survey of the industry at large, to which 85 companies responded, $951 million was spent on indigenous, independent production (see chart,…

Vancouver: The value of production budgets in b.c. will balloon by $140 million to $200 million in the next 12 months thanks to a historic labor agreement that simplifies union negotiations, predicts the chief negotiator for the major u.s. studios….

Vancouver: A new production studio complex was unveiled unofficially April 16 at a Vancouver City Council hearing into land-use planning for a 300-acre area called False Creek Flats….

Roman Bittman, senior administrator of the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, has been placed under temporary suspension. As well, the nsfdc has announced it will not be involved in the construction and operation of a long-debated soundstage on the Halifax waterfront….

Atlantis Films posted a 19% revenue increase in fiscal 1995, but due to a devaluing of its program library, earnings were at a net loss of $10.5 million compared to net earnings of $7.9 million in 1994….

I looked at this ad for a long time to try and establish what it was about the ad that caught my attention and put me off at the same time….

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Re: ad for Soho Post & Graphics, (Playback, April 8, p. 24):…

The list of Cancon drama series that were either launched in 1995 or financed and produced in the same year is nothing short of impressive. Traders, Wind at My Back, Jake and the Kid, Urgence and Omerta: The Code of Silence…

A story on WIC Western International Communications in the March 11 issue (‘wic making big plans for wireless system,’ p. 6), erroneously reported that the Allard family, as a concession in recent legal wranglings with the controlling Griffiths, got an extra…