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Rainmaker looks to rule CG with Mainframe pickup
Vancouver’s top post-production shop, Rainmaker, is buying Mainframe Entertainment for $13.8 million – a move announced July 20 that stands to create the largest animation and visual effects house in Canada.
Hollywood returns to Montreal despite union deadlock
Despite the stalemate between its rival technical unions, Quebec’s production sector has nonetheless lured some major film shoots from south of the border.
Shavick buys OutTV
OUTtv has again found new owners, this time at Shavick Entertainment.
Mustos on sabbatical
Bill Mustos is taking a break from CTV and will be on sabbatical until next year, making good on a lifelong dream to live in France, according to a network spokesman.
No payoff from BGM
An ownership shuffle at Bell Globemedia will not pay off as hoped for producers because, according to the CRTC, the new boss of the media giant is the same, more or less, as the old boss.
Street smart
Ian Tracey, as gangster Jimmy Reardon, on the set of Intelligence. The 13 x 60 crime drama is shooting in Vancouver for the coming season on CBC, exec produced by Chris Haddock (Da Vinci’s Inquest).
Secret hits $1.7 million
Le Secret de ma mère is the latest member of the million-dollar club, having pulled in a total of $1.7 million after four weeks on screens in Quebec, maintaining momentum against competition from major U.S. releases including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
Mongrel handling Human Cargo, One Dead Indian
Toronto’s Mongrel Media will make its first foray into the distribution of Canadian television properties with the CBC miniseries Human Cargo and the CTV MOW One Dead Indian, streeting on Aug. 22.
Hot Sheet
The Hot Sheet tracks Canadian box-office results for the period July 21-27, 2006 and DVD sales in Canada for the period July 10-16, 2006.
Will CBC go forward with The Canadian One?
Despite the abrupt cancellation of ABC’s The One, CBC programming boss Kirstine Layfield says the Canadian version of the singing competition, scheduled to air during the pubcaster’s 2006/07 season, may still happen.
Top 20 TV programs
Top 20 TV Programs tracks ratings for the top 20 television shows in Canada for the period July 24-30, 2006.
Videogames score Telefilm cash
Gnosis Games was among the 28 companies that scored funding for various videogames, websites and mobile projects in the latest round of the Canada New Media Fund – which cut a cheque for development of Broken Saints: The Game.
Playback on set in Rwanda for Dallaire film
Kigali, Rwanda: It’s more red tape than red carpet as the feature Shake Hands with the Devil shoots on location in this once-bloody African nation.
The $10-million production dramatizing the 100 days the 1994 Rwandan genocide – as seen through the eyes of retired Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire – first had to contend with 400,000 pounds of production gear being shipped from Canada, including eight cameras for two units, which got held up in customs for a month.
Briefs
OIAF unveils lineup
Alliance readies for fall
The specially channels under the Alliance Atlantis umbrella have revealed their plans for the coming fall season, putting foul-mouthed cowboys, second-hand goaltenders and genealogists into primetime. Highlights of the lineup, all times Eastern, include:
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