Ron Mann’s Grass made us$23,000 per screen after its first week in New York and San Francisco, not us$3,200 as Mann mistakenly reported to Playback First Take (June 9)….

Here, in the space normally reserved for the de rigueur dissection of worthy events and momentous trends in production and broadcasting, I invite you to let all that slip away, just this once. Let loose your reader’s sensibilities, let languish the…

Serge Losique is president and ceo of the Montreal World Film Festival….

One aspiring filmmaker or filmmaking team will be awarded $6,000 at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, as the Rogers Industry Centre presents Telefilm Canada Pitch This!…

Montreal: The National Film Board’s English Program unveiled a slate of some 60 highly diverse documentaries, animation shorts and productions for young people in a cross-country preview promotion earlier this month….

ACTRA has given the go-ahead for its actors to work in u.s. commercials during the strike by sag and aftra against the u.s. producers of radio and television commercials. The strike has been in effect since May 1….

Montreal: The crtc has issued a call for comments (PN 2000-86) on its proposed regulatory amendments to the definition of a Canadian program (2000-42). The amendments are being issued for the purposes of the crtc’s New Television Policy as set out…

Vancouver: Though it has yet-to-produce-anything, children’s programming company EnterCor Entertainment of Vancouver has signed another coproduction deal to expand its international reach….

Montreal: By a majority vote, the crtc has approved a series of applications from Canal Indigo to reduce its Canadian program contributions to 5% of gross annual revenues from 10%, applicable to Indigo’s pay-per-view, direct-to-home ppv and video-on-demand services….

As part of its fall launch schedule presentation, the cbc announced that the new national supper-hour newscast that will surrender a half-hour to local newscasts from 14 stations across the country, will be headquartered in Vancouver and anchored by Ian Hanomansing….

One-hour dramas are king. At least that’s what ctv’s Bill Mustos says, in response to the broadcaster’s recently announced 2000/01 schedule and as a rebuttal to Global Television spokesperson Doug Hoover’s earlier rant on the prevalence of the sitcom….

A 42% decline in production of one-hour English drama series in 2000 – with seven series shooting this year compared to 12 in the June-November period last year – is being blamed on changes in government tv policy, and other factors….