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Quebec union talks resume
Quebec’s technical unions, AQTIS and IATSE, have resumed talks after a three-week break.
A look inside how the HGF works
Celebrating 20 years as Canada’s leading supporter of script development hasn’t changed the hard-working ethos of industry veteran John Galway and his staff of three at The Harold Greenberg Fund at the Toronto offices of Astral Media.
Le Fonds: 10 years backing the Quebec film boom
Astral Media’s evolution into a pure-play media company in the last decade has paid dividends for French-language film and TV producers in the form of Le Fonds Harold Greenberg, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year as the English stream fetes its 20th.
Kigali hits the million-dollar mark
The Quebec political romance Un dimanche à Kigali passed the million-dollar mark at the provincial box office late in May, going on to net $5,600 over the June 2 weekend, according to distributor Equinoxe Films.
Blockbuster adds eight Canuck titles to Festival Collection
Blockbuster Video has added eight Canadian features to its growing Festival Collection series, and will ship Eve and the Fire Horse, The Cabin Movie, Niagara Motel, Mouth to Mouth, The End of Silence, Lucid, Things to Do and Paper Moon Affair to all of its 444 stores across Canada for June 13.
Hot Sheet
The Hot Sheet tracks Canadian box-office results for the period May 26-June 1, 2006 and DVD sales in Canada for the period May 15-21, 2006.
Harold Greenberg: remembering the man
An officer of the Order of Canada and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec, the man for whom The Harold Greenberg Fund is named was a passionate Canadian cultural figure with a larger-than-life personality.
CHUM ups the ante for fall
CHUM Television’s mission at the L.A. screenings was to come back with more simulcast programming from ‘the big four’ U.S. nets for its Citytv stations this fall. Mission accomplished, says Ellen Baine, VP, programming.
MOWs wow at CTV, hockey scores at CBC, TSN
Demonstrating there is still a market for TV movies in Canada after all, CTV aired its original MOW Eight Days to Live on May 28 at 9 p.m. to two million viewers.
Top 20 TV Programs
Top 20 TV Programs tracks ratings for the top 20 television shows in Canada for the period May 29-June 4, 2006.
L.A. is ‘one big Rubik’s Cube’
Canada’s private broadcasters made surprisingly short work of the Los Angeles screenings when, on May 25, they ended a week of previewing new U.S. pilots and started bargaining for potential primetime hits.
Sold!
* Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel has been picked up by Union Station Media and is set for a six-city U.S. release on June 16.
QuickPlay takes top prize at CNMAs
QuickPlay Media walked away with the top honors at last month’s Canadian New Media Awards – taking the annual fete’s prize for company of the year, beating out Vancouver’s Blast Radius and Calgary’s Elluminate.
CTV getting too greedy?
As Playback goes to press, the private networks are putting on their annual dog-and-pony shows, trotting out stars of their programs and trumpeting the new series they picked up at the recent L.A. screenings. The occasion, of course, is upfronts season, and, as always, this year contains its share of subplots, the main focus again being the CTV-Global rivalry.
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