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Montreal: There were few surprises at this year’s Prix Gemeaux, with the Cite-Amerique historical drama Blanche winning seven awards, including best dramatic series, and Productions Sovimage/Productions Sagittaire’s courtroom drama Les Grands proces garnering four….

alliance Communications has joined the music publishing business with its purchase of Toronto-based Partisan Music Productions. The film and tv distributor/producer struck a partnership deal with Vancouver’s A&F Music, a full-service music agency and management company, whereby a&f gets 25% of…

DeNure, Zayed step up…

While the arrival of big-budget video game filmmaking to Canada may have come as a surprise to the Canadian public, film producers here have been aware of the game for some time….

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‘I can design a funhouse that’s so much fun that I can charge people to visit it on-line and I’ll make my living by sitting there and elaborating on it each day.’ – Will Wright, creator SimCity…

With a new $16.5 million injection from Onex Corporation, a leveraged buyout specialist based in Toronto, Alliance Communications is looking to expand its interests in music publishing, new media and animation….

Within days of Paragon Entertainment’s annual shareholders meeting Sept. 29, president Richard Borchiver and chairman Jon Slan were off to London, Eng. to discuss a financing package for u.k.-based HandMade Films, which Paragon acquired in May. Slan and Borchiver have said…

Following the bad news that its Robocop tv series may not be renewed, Skyvision Entertainment has announced a multimillion-dollar booty. The deal with Los Angeles-based Fred Dryer Productions will initiate at least us$50 million in television and film production activity, with…