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After much hoopla and media blitzing, Alliance Communications’ $32 million feature Johnny Mnemonic hit the screens in Canada and in the u.s. May 26. Box office numbers for the first five days were $1.1 million in Canada and us$7 million stateside….

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Cannes: After what many are calling a decidedly lackluster issue of the Cannes International Film Festival, the reception of the Canadian films here has taken on a new significance. While the media remained divided on the merits of almost all of…

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After seven months of negotiations, the Writers Guild of Canada, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association and the Association des Producteurs de Films et de Television du Quebec have come to an agreement on changes to the Independent Production Agreement….

Or, Interactive TV is now…

* Toronto-based Movie Marketing is a new company which acts as an agency to create partnerships between advertisers and studios releasing feature films on video geared to their target audience. Advertisers can place 30- or 60-second spots in certain video releases…

Under Construction, a recent report commissioned by the Canadian Independent Film Caucus, explores the issues facing documentarists in the digital age….

segments abroad…

Michael Allder is a producer at the National Film Board and is one of the organizers of postput, a selection of films from INPUT ’95 that will be playing in Toronto and other cities in the fall. Allder attended this year’s…

In response to the rising costs of newsprint, Brunico Communications Inc., publisher of Playback, announces that, effective June 1995, the cover price of the newspaper has increased from $2.50 to $3.50. This is the first increase in the single-copy price since…