Montreal: Equinox Entertainment is delivering on its promise to raise its industry profile in Canada….

Montreal: Radio-Canada and its partners and Bravo! and partner Astral Media are readying rival applications for a national French-language arts channel….

Ottawa-based Funbag Animation has signed a $93.6-million agreement with South Asia’s UTV Toons. The deal calls for a creative and business relationship between the two companies on nine 26-episode original animated children’s series, which will reportedly unspool over the next three…

When you enter the law offices of Goodman Phillips and Vineberg, the…

Muse Entertainment has launched a new division to distribute international and re-versioned domestic television properties to French-language broadcasters and cable companies in Canada….

The relationship between new media and film production continues to expand with the launch of Scout, an Internet-based movie location database….

The cbc and partner Power Broadcasting have sold their two u.s.-based cable television channels – trio and Newsworld International – to USA Cable for a combined sum of $155 million – $75 million of which goes to the cbc, which is…

While Alliance Atlantis Communications continues to shed personnel who came from the Alliance side of the merger, it also continues to ink first-look deals that secure some of Canada’s most noted filmmaking talent….

Montreal: Dogme pioneer and Danish director Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark won the Palme d’Or at the 53rd Cannes International Film Festival. The film stars Catherine Deneuve and quirky Euro pop star Bjork and is the first top prize…

The last issue of Playback erroneously referred to Norm Bolen as head of programming for History (Channel) and Life Network….

Rewind 15 years. Picture a young, hard-working, ebullient journalist, flying Air Canada from the Canadian heartland of Saskatchewan to Ontario on a rare visit home. Collapsing into her seat after the rush to finish that last assignment and still make the…

In the May 1 issue of Playback – ‘Onwards and upwards with the arts’ – Robert Armstrong noted that ‘Vision tv became profitable in 1991.’…