British Columbia Ontario Nova Scotia Alberta QuebecBRITISH COLUMBIAAcklands Ltd.Burnaby, b.c.Contact: Mitchell Cramp(CB Richard Ellis)Tel (604) 662-5172Fax (604) 684-9368Specs:Soundstage 1 – 40,000 sq. ft.Soundstage 2 – 30,000 sq. ft.Special features: 20,000 sq….

For the folks at the PS Production Services’ locations across Canada, supplying equipment is nothing new – they’ve been doing it for more than 25 years. What is new, say ps staffers, is a trend to shrinking equipment budgets while at…

Remstar Distribution and acquisition financing affiliate Placements St-Mathieu have withdrawn an offer to buy 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Behaviour Distribution. The decision to back out of the deal, with an initial estimated value of $3 million to…

Vancouver: Chris Brough, a founding principal of Vancouver’s Mainframe Entertainment, has unexpectedly left the pioneering computer animation company and his positions as ceo and vice-chair….

Cannes, France: It was a simple, funny idea, simply and skillfully executed, but ‘Poem’ from Palmer Jarvis ddb and Avion Films represented a bold approach to selling shampoo, and for its efforts, brought home the most coveted bauble in adland -…

Montreal: The new Pierre Falardeau film Elvis Gratton II – Miracle a Memphis opened on an unprecedented 91 screens across Quebec Thursday, July 1, and pulled in more than $1 million over the four-day holiday weekend….

Imported Artists’ Wayne Craig added a tasteful clear Lucite slab of victory to the existing hardware on his mantle as the winner of the fourth annual Saatchi & Saatchi/Playback First Cut Awards for new directors, held in Toronto July 6….

High River, Alta: While Calgary has become known as the location shoot for the long-running American kids’ show Honey I Shrunk the Kids, it now boasts an indigenous Canadian family series….

Sullivan Entertainment’s recently initiated public offering could be in jeopardy with the recent public announcements by the heirs of Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald’s estate relating to a long-running claim against Sullivan over profits from the Anne of Green Gables movies; and…

The recent appointment of Hatty Reisman as president of Salter Street New Media is the first major shift in the infant company’s move to become a leading player on both the Internet and the stock market….

Montreal: A new study on u.s. ‘runaway’ production jointly commissioned by the Directors Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild points an accusing finger at the Canadian government, which it says has adopted a pattern of ‘comprehensive and aggressive’ policies aimed…

Montreal: Telefilm Canada and tvnc have announced the winners of their 1999 Aboriginal Production Awards. The winner for best English- or French-language aboriginal production is Stories from the Seventh Fire, a 23-minute animation short from Storyteller Productions, Vancouver. The producers are…