rumors that F/X Training Corporation has gone into receivership are inaccurate, said Syd Kessler, president of The Kessler Group, in a prepared statement….

i was interested to note the comments in your June 19 Quebec Scene by Leo Rice-Barker regarding the McKenna brothers’ documentary The Valour and The Horror….

in the article ‘Sound like you’ve never seen it before’ in the July 31 Special Report on Sound & Music, Master’s Workshop is listed as working on Screamers, which is a Columbia/TriStar release in the u.s….

In the natural process of growth and maturation, some stages of evolution seem more critical than others….

in the story ‘lhf system solved sound quandary’ (Playback, July 17, p. 13), the cost of a Leader Hollywood Format Signature Sound System was incorrectly reported. The system is valued at over $140,000. The rental fee for use of the system…

after 25 years in the business as an agent, Ralph Zimmerman, president of Great North Artists Management, doesn’t believe a star system is in the cards for Canada….

vancouver: The B.C. Motion Picture Association is organizing a group booth for b.c. film and television executives at both MIPCOM 95 in Cannes this October and natpe in Las Vegas in January. It will be the first time that b.c. has…

* Groupe Videotron reports nine-month net income of $46.4 million or $0.37 a share compared to $19 million or $0.12 a share for the same period last year. Revenues for the period ending May 31 were $557.9 million, up more than…

* Rogers Communications reports an increase of 10.9% in revenues for the six-month period ending June 30, 1995, citing the 23.1% increase in wireless communications revenue as the primary driver….

jerusalem: Telefilm Canada may have yanked its travel grant for Canadian filmmakers invited to last month’s Jerusalem Film Festival, but that did not stop director/ coproducer Ric Esther Bienstock from traveling to the Holy Land with her film Ms. Conceptions in…

jerusalem: The Israeli film industry is not unlike the Canadian film industry of the mid-’80s. Service production of big American pictures like Rambo iii and Not Without My Daughter dried up in 1991 when government incentives were withdrawn, u.s. independent production…

simon chester is the research partner and a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch. This article was prepared with the assistance of malcolm j. andrade….