The release of Foolproof Oct. 3 has for many in the film and TV business brought the practice of product placement front and center. The film is rife with strategically placed brands and it also features a tie-in with Pizza Hut.

Sharon Groom is a partner in the Toronto law firm McMillan Binch LLP and a member of the firm’s KNOWlaw group.

This issue is the last for a while for Playback publisher Marcelle Wallace. She’s having a baby.

After two years in development, Amaze Film + Television has just wrapped its first feature project Saint Ralph, an ‘overcoming impossible odds’-type heart-warmer about a teenage boy running the Boston Marathon.

Vancouver: Princess, the preying mantis, is the muse for the animation artists at Vancouver-based Bowes Productions, which is creating and manipulating the stop-motion insects used in the $3-million Monster Island, MTV’s homage to B-movie monster flicks.

Emmy win Critical

Calibre’s Foolproof F/X

Fred Brennan has worked in every aspect of sound editing during his 27 years in sound post in Toronto. As a supervising editor, he specializes in dialogue and ADR editing. His name appears on sound editing Genies for Sunshine, Love Come Down and Max.

Doug McClement, chief recording engineer at Toronto’s LiveWire Remote Recorders, was part of the team that helped bring the music alive for viewers tuning into the Rolling Stones SARS concert that took place at Downsview Air Force Base on July 30.

Sheridan College is known worldwide for animation – the Oakville, ON campus turned out Jurassic Park’s boy wonder Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams, among others – and it is hoped, as the school moves forward with new projects, that some of that sterling reputation will rub off on the new Advanced Television and Film program.

The Canadian production industry is an ever-evolving animal, and the Canadian Film Centre likes to keep the makeup of its programs fluid enough to be able to adapt to changes in the biz.

East Coast postsecondary arts school, NSCAD University (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), has grown in size and stature with a new graduate program in film and a new building in which to house the program, thanks to Alliance Atlantis.