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A harrowing trip to the Oscars
In the international film business, independent producers often fantasize about their Oscar speech before a single frame of film has been shot. But not Denise Robert.
Record-breaking De père en flic acquired by Sony
De père en flic became the highest-grossing French-language film ever released in Canada as its box office ascended to $11 million in Quebec alone.
APTN’s Jean LaRose: Balancing business and social conscience
Jean LaRose, CEO of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, says the hardest part of his job is balancing the expectations of over 600 First Nations communities, hundreds of Métis settlements, and northern Inuit, each with their own language and experiences.
Sony to redo De père
Sony Pictures plans to make an English-language version of De père en flic, giving the Quebec box-office smash the Hollywood treatment via the producing team of Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
Millar sees gold in Pan Am Games
Channel Zero CEO Cal Millar looks to have made a prescient $12 bet on CHCH.
CRTC goes easy on CHEK
The CRTC has okayed the sale of CHEK, and issued a new seven-year licence to the tenacious Victoria station that lifts many of the conditions of licence placed on the broadcaster when it was owned by Canwest.
Patron Media launches in B.C.
Former Canwest and Insight Film Studios execs have teamed up to launch Patron Media, a new Vancouver company that will serve as the unscripted development arm of established West Coast producer Reunion Pictures.
CFC kicks off cross-border initiatives
Even as American authorities try to batten down the hatches and secure the border, the Canadian Film Centre has plans to throw them wide open. The film institution has announced the CFC North-South Marketplace – an effort intended to ‘support, foster and build’ U.S. relationships for Canadian talent.
Canwest-Goldman dispute erupts over specialties
An insolvent Canwest Global Communications and Goldman Sachs & Co. are fighting it out in a Toronto courtroom to resolve a dispute over whether 13 Canadian specialty channels are included in the broadcaster’s court-directed restructuring.
Mom-and-pop studios make a comeback
Richard Hughes has been a location manager in Toronto for 15 years. He has seen the rise and he has seen the fall. But last February, Hughes saw the light – and now he is working with the Devil.
Calgary’s new studio — for real, this time?
Area producers have heard talk of purpose-built soundstages before, only to be disappointed. So what makes the city’s latest plan any different?
Flashpoint wraps with 1.8M
Second half of season makes gains, despite falling out of simulcast
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