– Famous Players has released its plans for Paramount 15, the 15-screen multiplex theater complex to be built at Richmond and John Streets in downtown Toronto. With more than 3,500 seats, the development, which is scheduled to open in 1997, will…

Jackson Hole, wy.: Four years ago, filmmakers Wolfgang Bayer and Barry Clark initiated the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. It has quickly attracted the world’s most respected producers of natural history films and many high-level executives representing major distributors and buyers….

The following is a complete list of the 1995 Gemeaux winners….

Sony of Canada is offering some serious new toys to the amateur video enthusiast in the form of digital video cameras….

Electric Eye Multimedia, a multimedia consulting company, has launched a site to lure Web crawlers to info about the many facets of multimedia. Multimediator, ‘your multimedia mentor,’ features The Essentials, a guide to multimedia associations, publications, Internet resources and employment; and…

In a business where the competition is fierce – whether it comes from your own backyard or south of the border – the strategies are consistent from one post-production operation to the next: build a facility which provides virtually anything a…

As cocooning masses acquire ever more proficient sound and entertainment systems, there exists a growing number of high-living ears spoiled by digital quality sound and expectant of superior aural stimulation in a moviegoing experience. Since Canadian productions have yet to fully…

As most will attest, it’s a poor workman who blames his tools, a maxim that stands up just as well in the world of post-production as in any other domain. Now that nonlinear editing systems are the norm for commercial, television…

Montreal-based Hybride Technologies’ major assignment this year has been the creation of 11 minutes of multilayered special f/x sequences for the high-definition sci-fi movie Habitat, a huge assignment representing some 10 months of work for Pierre Jasmin, the company’s head of…

The audio community is mourning the loss of one of its most respected colleagues. Jim Frank passed away on Friday, Sept. 15 after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer….

If all your skin were to peel off your body, what kind of sound would that make? These and other essential questions make foley artists smile….

Engineers in the midst of testing the distribution of digitally compressed broadcast signals advise post houses to caveat emptor if they’re thinking about investing in low-end equipment….