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Corrections
The Writers Guild of Canada says it did not concede on fees in order to get the CFTPA and the APFTQ to negotiate on a single contract, as reported in the May 29 story ‘Negotiations with B.C. actors going to mediation.’ The WGC was not contacted for the story.
Cody crumbles
Fetching Cody
Readership Poll Results
The strong performances of summer movies X-Men: The Last Stand and The Break-Up seem to bear out Playback’s latest poll results. Asked online, ‘How will the movie box office fare this summer?’ 43% of respondents believed that better films would mean better business. But 32% predict that more media choices will lure audiences away, while 25% think this year’s receipts will be on par with last year’s slump.
Features
Blatt comes to Life
Payback time
Project coordinator Heidi Holm (of Technicolor Creative Services Toronto), crew member Georgina Lopez and production manager Redd Knight hold up their Payback Awards at the Canadian Film Centre’s 2006 Short Dramatic Film Premiere at Toronto’s Varsity Cinemas on June 5. The Payback Awards, sponsored by Playback, recognize industry volunteers who made outstanding contributions to the CFC’s latest round of five shorts.
Rep cinemas killed off by DVDs and artsy first-runs
Small-title distribution and exhibition in Toronto took a blow last month with news that four of the city’s oldest, most established rep cinemas are shutting down – pushed out of business by shrinking DVD windows and mounting competition from first-run mega-chains.
Camera changes hands
News of the Festival closures comes shortly after Mongrel Media boss Hussein Amarshi and director Atom Egoyan took a step back from Camera, passing day-to-day management of their west-end bar/screening room to gallery owner and next-door neighbor Stephen Bulger.
China kills Hamster
Larry Kent has run afoul of censors again as his latest film, The Hamster Cage, has been shut out of the Shanghai International Film Festival following a screening by Chinese officials.
Briefs
Sniffer snags Palme d’Or
Anash leads latest round of IPF projects
A new APTN animated youth program is the only new English-language series given an injection of cash from the Independent Production Fund.
Zone3’s Cotoons snags top honors at ACT French-language awards
The best and most kid-friendly of French-language programming was feted in Montreal on June 1 at the Alliance for Children and Television awards – with the highest praise of the night going to local toon house Zone3 for its preschool-aimed Cotoons.
Screen Door, Filmworks scale Everest
Calgary: Producer Heather Haldane sounds exhausted on the phone from Calgary after spending most of last month high in the Rocky Mountains making the 2 x 120 CBC miniseries Everest ’82, a copro between her Toronto-based Screen Door and Calgary’s Alberta Filmworks.
Just the facts – and entertainment
Montreal-based Cineflix is adding to its roster of documentary-style programming with four new factual series now shooting or in prep in southern Ontario.
Broadcast
Kahn does Murder on Spec
Service
Scott gets Saved
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