Montreal-based Softimage, a subsidiary of production technology giant Avid, will release its new 3D animation package, code-named Sumatra, at the end of March….

* II addresses digital video compatibility…

The one-year reprieve on the withholding tax for foreign actors – which was to end Jan. 1, 2000 – has been extended by Revenue Canada for an undetermined period of time, says Robin Chetwynd, chief administrative officer at actra, Toronto….

Montreal: Cinar Corp. has sold 52 half-hour episodes of Arthur to China Central Television in what the company is calling ‘a breakthrough acquisition,’ and at the same time has announced a codevelopment deal for a new animation series with China International…

The crux of the ctv/NetStar hearings, held Dec. 6 and 7 in Hull, Que., was concentration of ownership in sports programming services, the potential effects on programming rights, questions of rebranding, the suggested tangible benefits package, and the role espn would…

Canada’s public and private broadcasters, as well as a growing collective of Canadian producers, are taking legal action to stop iCraveTV.com from broadcasting their unlicensed programs over the Internet….

Spawned from writer/director Clement Virgo’s (Rude, The Planet of Junior Brown) first film Save My Lost Nigga Soul, winner of the Best Canadian Short Film award at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1993, Love Come Down is an urban drama…

Montreal: Motion International president and ceo Guy Crevier says the company is on the lookout for an acquisition, likely in a sector complementing its three existing production divisions. At Motion’s Dec. 9 agm, Crevier noted that with the exception of the…

The National Film Board will begin offering ‘cinema on demand’ – video streamed in realtime over the Internet – under a project called CineRoute….

Montreal: Banque Nationale de Paris (Canada) has withdrawn its petition of receivership against Behaviour Communications….

Montreal: The principal buyers of Behaviour Distribution’s assets, David Reckziegel and John Hamilton, have joined forces with distrib veteran Pierre Brousseau to form Seville Pictures, an integrated production and distribution company….

Sullivan Animation, recently launched by mothership Sullivan Entertainment, is the newest animation house to hit the Toronto scene….