Labatt Breweries will likely end up owning all of The Partners’ Film Company now that a group of minority shareholders has declined an opportunity to buy the company….

It’s official, feature film producer Alex Raffe is taking the reigns at the Ontario Film Development Corporation. Raffe, who has a solid background in the film industry, takes over from acting head William Mustos. Last year, she executive produced I Love…

Vancouver: This story has all the plot thickenings of a great tv miniseries – one that could even be produced by its central characters. After many months of rumored rivalry among the major equity shareholders of WIC Western International Communications, two…

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The National Film Board has released its 1994/95 production slate, and with it, a three-year action plan designed to help it cope with continuing money problems. The plan arose out of cutbacks that will take the board from its present fiscal…

Martin joins Avanti…

A tone of ‘woe is us’ pervades the opening of nearly all of the essays submitted to us by members of the Bessies judging panel. Playback had solicited these essays – reflecting on the quality of spots submitted to the Bessies,…

Point was missed…

Following are amendments to Playback’s April 11 Investment & Finance Special Report….

>Atlantis Communications’ first annual report since going public Dec. 15, 1993 shows growth in revenue, production volume and distribution. Revenues for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 1993 were $76.1 million, up $23 million from 1992. Revenues were derived almost exclusively…

CBC appoints indie production directors…

Montreal: Groupe Coscient, a publicly traded production and distribution holding company, has filed a preliminary prospectus with security commissions across the country for a new public share offering expected to raise approximately $20 million….