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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.
French films take a dive: report
French-language films continued to lose market share last year, while those in English were up very slightly, thanks in part to Passchendaele, according to the year-end report from Telefilm Canada. The funder recently released its numbers for 2008/09, touting its bridge-building with foreign partners and overseas sales.
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.
Third quarter flush from 3D
Exhibition giant Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund continues to ring up record box office during the economic downturn. The theater chain recorded third-quarter earnings up 11% to $20.4 million, as total revenues rose 7.7% to $257.5 million with lift from 3D titles like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
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?
$11.2 million for New Moon
Opening weekend sales second only to Dark Knight. E1 rings in another £11.7 million in the U.K.
Flashpoint wraps with 1.8M
Second half of season makes gains, despite falling out of simulcast
Docmaker faces Dirty job
Alberta’s Niobe Thompson and CBC promise devastating expose of oil sands at IFDA
Laing joins Steele bio
Earth to Sky boss partners with Knight on CBC MOW
Grandpa sells overseas
Broadcast and licensing deals for Decode’s kiddie series
RBC puts $12 million into Starz
Financing deal will grease the wheels for Hollywood clients, says Toronto toon shop. Toy Story team sells marionette script
Hockey Theme gets Rush treatment
Drummer Neil Peart will put his spin on the hockey tune for TSN
Set the bar higher, says APFTQ
Quebec producers side with CRTC on key issues, but call for even more cash for Cancon
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