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TVO takes a look at the FUTURE

When TVOntario executive producer and director Stan Lipsey was faced with a shrinking budget combined with an increasing arts mandate, he came up with his own solution, the future….

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Pip Wedge bids adieu to the CTV

When Pip Wedge was a child, his parents never worried that he was watching too much television, because there wasn’t any….

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Abbott produces athlete profiles

An Olympian shoot for Coke…

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Word on the Street

Ms. Lambert promises to keep in touch ‘regularly’….

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Commercial Directions

January is toy month at LTB…

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Armes, Roberts

Song strikes right note for Olympics…

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It was a very good year

The economy may be stagnant but Canada’s film and television production industry was buoyant in 1993. Production levels were up everywhere last year….

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Gratton quits OFDC

With the flurry of specialty channel applications, industry executives are busy playing musical chairs. The latest participant in the game is Paul Gratton….

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Public offering planned for Imax

WGIM Acquisition Corporation, whose principal shareholders are U.S. executives Bradley Wechsler and Richard Gelfond, is the new front-runner in the bid to buy Toronto-based Imax Systems Corporation. If Investment Canada approves the sale, Jonathan Barker, Imax’s vice-president of film, says the…

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At Press Time

After a relatively slow opening weekend, Roger Cantin’s Matusalem has chalked up box office receipts of $610,000 in just under three weeks. The film opened Dec. 17 on 41 Cineplex Odeon and independent screens across Quebec, earning $88,000 in its first…

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B.C. union merger fizzles

Vancouver: Financial accountability and regional autonomy remain the primary bones of contention in the recent breakdown of a signed merger agreement between rival labor organizations, the Union of B.C. Performers and actra….