The new owners of Labatt Communications Inc. say their principal strategy is to keep the assets of the company together….

Andras Hamori, former vp of production and a founding partner of Alliance Communications, has returned to the company as president of the newly formed Alliance Pictures….

* Shaw Communications added $210 million to the till when it sold its 50% of u.k. cable and telco joint venture company, British Telecential Communications, to partner Telus Corp., which then flipped the interest to Netherlands cable giant, KPN Kabel. The…

On the basis of enthusiasm alone, up-and-coming commercial director Clay Staub has a great career in store….

Fountainhead Pictures has joined forces with C.C. Films to produce a commercial for a Chinese wine cooler called Trust through Chinese agency Good Choice Film Productions. Yan Cui, a recent resident at the Canadian Film Centre, will direct the spot and…

Commercials are on the back burner now for The Partners’ Film Company’s Bronwen Hughes, who signed on to direct Paramount Pictures’ $15 million production of Harriet The Spy this month….

According to the recently published annual report from the Maclean Hunter Television Fund, a record $3.7 million was invested in the production of 99 hours of Canadian fiction and children’s television series in 1994. The ’94 investment is an increase of…

Vancouver: Who’d have thought British actor Hugh Grant’s recent automotive audition with a hooker in l.a. would have a ripple effect all the way to Vancouver. But indeed it has. Grant’s girlfriend, Estee Lauder model/ actress Elizabeth Hurley, who was signed…

Playwright Brad Fraser, best known for his hip, fearless plays about sex and sexuality (Poor Superman, Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love) is deep into the world of cinema these days, and not only as a writer. Fraser…

(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.)…

Montreal: The producers of 10-07, Telefiction’s four-hour police miniseries, have signed two of the city’s top cops as the shoot’s creative and technical advisors….

* ChumCity International will now be handling international distribution for Citytv, MuchMusic, MusiquePlus and Bravo! titles….