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He has 30 book titles to his name, and has sold an estimated 25 million copies worldwide. He has starred in 52 episodes of an ongoing animated series airing on cbc and Nickelodeon. Now Franklin the turtle has a feature-length film…

Montreal: A group of u.k. insurers is suing Royal Bank in a matter related to the Canada/u.k. coproduction Hysteria and a us$1.6-million ($2.2-million) claim paid to the bank with some measure of fanfare more than a year ago….

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for the 1999/00 Daytime Emmy Awards, airing May 19, which include a handful of Canadian talent and properties, especially in the children’s programming categories….

Montreal: Immediately following Sunday night’s Oscar win in the best animation short film category, the team from The Old Man and the Sea was invited to screen the 22-minute imax production at both the DreamWorks and Disney studios. Those screenings are…

* Imax Corp. has named Richard Inrator to the newly created position of president, Imax Enterprises, and exec vp, Imax Ltd. Imax Enterprises will be charged with developing new business initiatives for Imax’s giant-screen theatre business, as well as in the…

CanWest Global’s interactive division, CanWest Interactive, is set to buy up to 40% of Medbroadcast, in a $20 million deal inked late last month….

Three new comedy series are among the offerings Halifax-based Salter Street Films announced at its 2000 annual general meeting, held in March. The prodco’s production slate also includes new episodes of some older favorites….

The finalists for the Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Awards, honoring excellence in Canadian screenwriting for feature films, mows, series, docs, comedy, radio and youth/children’s programming, include:…

Until bce decided to download a ton of cash to see if it could upload ctv, telcos in Canada were just pipeline manufacturers that did good phone. At least, that’s what lots of us thought of them. ok, there was lots…

*Write-downs contribute to Rainmaker losses…

Super 16mm has its place, too…