Vancouver: Industrial inquiry commissioner Stephen Kelleher has been appointed by b.c.’s Ministry of Labour to help resolve the nine-month dispute between the 60-member b.c. Projectionists Union and cinema operators….

Vancouver: Lions Gate Entertainment is selling its 14-acre studio complex in North Vancouver two years after acquiring it for $26 million in cash and debt….

an eight-year-old girl with severe arthritis lies in a tiny blue smock on a hospital daybed. Her mom stands to her right and a rheumatologist sits on her left carefully explaining the details of the upcoming procedure. This is the first…

nelvana’s us$40-million deal to produce six animated series for pbs’s new Saturday morning kids’ block is part of the company’s strategic plan to increase shelf space for its proprietary projects, gain a hold over the u.s. preschool market, and increase merchandising…

montreal: Telescene Film Group and MTV: Music Television in the u.s. have announced a coventure agreement to produce Live Through This, a music-driven, coming-of-age dramatic tv series. The one-hour pilot will shoot on location in Montreal in mid-September, with plans to…

Montreal: Souvenirs intimes, the new Jean Beaudin feature, will compete in the official competition at this year’s 23rd edition of the Montreal World Film Festival, Aug. 27-Sept. 6….

Vancouver: From the helicopter, the devastation of New York City is vast. City Hall has collapsed, the Manhattan Bridge is in tatters, One Police Plaza is crumpled beneath a shorn-away skyscraper….

Ever had a dream you were a human pinata and were being battered by everyone you know as you dangled helplessly from some tree branch? If so, you’re not alone. The animation and effects team at Toronto’s Stargate Studios will likely…

It might not have been as daunting as raising the Titanic, but for the animators at Toronto’s Optix Digital Post & fx, floating Napoleon’s Lost Fleet was challenge enough….

Canadian production companies were well represented when the Primetime Emmy nominations were announced on July 22 in Los Angeles….

Separate deadlines for each genre of production, mechanisms to balance support of new series versus renewals, and a removal of coproduction caps are among the proposals being reviewed by a series of subcommittees established by the Canadian Television Fund….

Montreal: Muse Entertainment Enterprises and its production affiliates in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are producing more than $60 million in proprietary Canadian film and tv this year….