Lonesome Dove results…

Fear and loathing in Scandinavia…

In 1980, Canada’s burgeoning feature film industry announced its intention to become a world-class force in cinema with a record number of entries at the Cannes Film Festival – 24 – and the first installment of the Academy of Canadian Cinema…

It’s a jolly, well-attended annual sport: cut up the Genie Awards, and get diligent about it. Take the host(s) and sets to task, rip apart the production values, snore through acceptance speeches, and snicker knowingly at the missing names on the…

Montreal director Michel Poulette is this year’s winner of the Claude Jutra Award for direction of a first feature film for his Louis 19, le roi des ondes. Runners-up Gary Ledbetter (Henry and Verlin) and Mina Shum (Double Happiness) are featured…

Gary Ledbetter was almost a lumberjack….

Few Canadian parents are elated when their child decides on a career in the movie business. Mina Shum’s certainly weren’t. They fled China for Hong Kong then immigrated to Canada in search of a better life for their children – university…

In late September, 160 of Canada’s leading film industry pros gathered in Toronto for a three-day, bring-on-the-Visine movie marathon to determine this year’s Genie Award nominees. Fifty-nine films (36 features and 23 documentaries and shorts) were entered into competition this year….

Unparalleled…

Cinar Films and Sony Music Canada are partners in a five-year label deal to distribute kids’ tv product in video and audio formats. This month, A Bunch of Munsch and The Busy World of Richard Scarry videos ($14.95) hit 1,000-plus retail…

action against Bolt…

squeezed…