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On set: The Planet of Junior Brown
Given that feature film director Clement Virgo (Rude) has very specific ideas about the level of realism captured in his first television movie, it’s no surprise that the producers of The Planet Of Junior Brown selected their cast of extras among…
Cinar targets library opps, classrooms
Montreal: Speaking at Cinar Films’ agm earlier this month, ceo Micheline Charest said the company ‘has the corporate culture’ to access the educational market and intends to acquire a u.s. educational supplementary publisher with annual revenues of $10 million or more…
New DECODE to focus on family, kids market
The key to success in today’s complex and intensely competitive production industry is the ability to manage and exploit all aspects of a tv or film project….
Ten share spotlight at first WGC awards
About 200 writers filled the dimly lit Opera House in downtown Toronto earlier this month to celebrate the best in Canadian screenwriting and salute the winners of the first-ever WGC Top Ten Awards….
Programming
– CBS inherits #1 with Alliance MOW…
Ontario Scene: Big Star nabs a star for its first feature
‘so I left a note on his car saying I had to talk to him.’…
Binchmarks: Ins and out of the CTCPF Equity Investment Program
Sandra Richmond is a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch….
News Briefs
– BCTC: three years $1.5 billion…
B.C. Scene: Studio space chock-a-block but execs say ‘no problem’ – yet
Vancouver: The West Coast’s largest dedicated studio complex is booked until next January and maybe 1998 and the B.C. Film Commission is scouring the Lower Mainland for empty warehouses to fit in all the production expected this summer….
News Brief: Montreal in Big Apple
Montreal ntsc-pal conversion and transfer house Global Vision has opened a lab and transfer unit in its New York City sales office on Times Square near to clients such as Walt Disney Co. and MTV Networks….
Commercial Directions: Keats gets 9 Quality days
At Rave Films, director David Straiton shot one day for Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain through Leo Burnett. Rhett Morita was dop and Brian Noon at Flashcut edited….
Word: Vanlint coveting big-screen return
In a ‘step back to the future,’ comm.bat films director/cameraman Derek Vanlint is once again moving toward photographing feature films. Vanlint cites improved film technology and the desire to create within the feature framework as the motivating forces behind his initiative….
Special Report on Independent Production
For the ninth consecutive year, Playback asked Canadian film and television production companies what they spent on independent production in the previous calendar year. Responses from 93 prodcos revealed that total independent production expenditures for 1996 topped $983 million, including almost…
Special Report on Independetnt Production: The next level: Growing up with the broadcasters
Canada’s film, television and multimedia production companies are expanding their horizons, with small companies aiming for midsize status and midsize operations seeking new business opportunities as they develop international partnerships….
Special Report on Independent Production: Production companies by volume
Amount spent on production and development in 1996:…
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