Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams hails from Ontario, Canada – a province far removed from his farm in the rolling hills outside San Francisco. Repped in Canada by Mad Films, the commercial director, best known for his work as supervising animator on such…

Toronto’s Imported Artists has signed a deal with Atlas Pictures of Santa Monica, Calif., to represent directors Jim Byrkit, Chris Woods and Paul Boyd exclusively in Canada….

The past year has brought many new developments in the investment and finance areas of film and television. Fluctuations in the public finance sector were offset by gains in the private sector….

Almost six weeks ahead of schedule, Shaw Communications and GT Group Telecom have completed their $760-million transaction that merges Shaw FiberLink with gt to form one of Canada’s largest, independent facilities-based clecs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers)….

Television viewers may not see a decline in Canadian programming on the cbc this fall, but Canada’s independent producers and Corp. employees are already feeling the hit from budget shortfalls identified by the pubcaster earlier this month….

The announced closing of Walt Disney Animation Canada has some policy makers rethinking how best to employ fiscal incentives to encourage foreign producers to set up and maintain operations in Canada….

Less than a week after a Pittsburgh court imposed a 90-day injunction on website iCraveTV, president Bill Craig says his company has almost completed development of a new technology that would block Americans from accessing the site and subsequently allow iCraveTV…

Montreal: TVA Group president and ceo Daniel Lamarre recently told tva’s board of directors he is out to double the size of the company. But the gathering of new resources following Rogers Communications’ $5.6-billion stock merger with Groupe Videotron, tva’s principal…

Spin Productions, one of Canada’s busiest commercial post houses, has opened an entertainment division specializing in long format and has begun developing its own proprietary animated series….

Convergence, consolidation, content. If Canadian media companies do not join forces, hop online and become big fast, they haven’t a surviving chance in the fast-approaching global economy. Oh ya, and content is king….

Despite the demise of series Harsh Realm and Millennium, Chris Carter will be back in Vancouver to do an X-Files spin-off called The Lone Gunmen, based on the popular conspiracy theorist characters created by Dean Haglund, Tom Braidwood and Bruce Harwood….

Nelvana has signed an exclusive merchandising deal with Sears, Roebuck and Co. in the u.s. to promote Franklin, one of the prodco’s fastest growing character brands….