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Live-action hits for 8 to 12s
Tweens, tweens, tweens. This powerful demo has spawned a trend toward developing more live-action fare for the eight to 12 set. …
Canada at the market – tweens live action
Canada at the market – tweens live action…
New channels hike doc demand
With channel numbers around the world on the rise, there is increased demand for documentaries and factual programming. Canadian arts programmer Rhombus International’s president, Sheena Macdonald, welcomes this trend: ‘More and more specialty and digital channels are popping up, which is…
Canada at the market – factual
Canada at the market – factual…
MIP-TV wish list
Canadian buyers heading to mip-tv have needs as closely targeted as the various channels for which they are buying….
The Claim strikes Canadian and U.K. government gold
Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski and Wes Bentley rush the silver screen later this year in the gold fever epic The Claim, directed by Michael Winterbottom. While the lead characters compromise their futures over the dream of Canadian gold, the film’s investors…
Canadian prodco ties with small country, big tax credit
Veteran Toronto producer and international coproducer Chesler/Perlmutter Productions has been cheerfully exploiting ties to a little European partner with a big tax credit….
Equicap eyes Stateside
Boutique financier Equicap Financial Corporation (efc) has made its anticipated move into the u.s. market to supplement its existing Canadian-based film financing operation. efc’s established strengths include interim financing for international coproductions and gap financing where the estimated value of the…
Canada: Ideal coproduction partner
The treaty coproduction is an efficient, complex and viable vehicle for producing quality film and tv productions with Canadian coproducers and an effective alternative to the studio system….
Canucks brace for strike-induced downturn
Vancouver: The Canadian film industry may not want to ‘paint the devil on the wall’ and speculate about the fallout from potential U.S. labor disruptions this summer, but most are now bracing for a dramatic downturn in business.
Across the country, the outlook is pessimistic that American members of the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America will ratify new contracts in time to avoid picket lines and work stoppages. And there is little confidence that Canada’s domestic industry will be able to fill the void to any positive effect.
Cassaday sells Family to buy Women
No longer holding off for the CRTC to change its policy on cable ownership, Corus Entertainment finally bit the bullet and sold its 50% interest in Family Channel to the most likely bidder, Astral Media.
And in an almost simultaneous move, Corus sold its pay-per-view channel Viewer’s Choice to its separately traded mother corp., Shaw Communications, and bought the highly sought-after Winnipeg-based Women’s Television Network.
Astral leads the way with pay
After losing the independent film channel licence to Salter Street Films back in December and then again to Alliance Atlantis Communications in February, Lisa de Wilde, president and CEO of Astral Television Networks says, ‘We’ve moved on.’
‘We figured out that with our first pay-TV window of international independent movies, we can do a lot of what we wanted to do with that niche through our main network, so that’s where our strategy is focused.’
Atlantic production: N.B. shines in 2000
Production in 2000 was hit and miss for the four Atlantic provinces, according to the East Coast film commissions. The major production centre of the region, Nova Scotia, dipped slightly while regional dark horse, New Brunswick, managed to more than double its production.
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