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Special Report on Commercial Production: Commercial Cost Breakdown
The following chart is a summary of basic production costs, using average industry figures. Costs are based on a 30-second, English-only, sync-sound spot shot in one day in studio. Although averages are hard to arrive at with such a diversity of…
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Newfoundland and Labrador has, with $1 million over five years from the Canada/Newfoundland Agreement on Economic Renewal, established the Nfld. and Labrador Film Development Corporation to direct the growth of the indigenous industry and market the province for location shooting. It…
Cdns. chase U.K. $
It can’t be the climate or the food. It could be, as the u.s. trades suggest, that Canadian producers are building bridges with the Brits to help ward off the u.s. culture vultures, as per Minister Copps and this month’s mission…
New series: Baton preps Van.
Vancouver: Programming executives are scrambling to complete a new primetime Canadian drama, in time for the Sept. 1 launch of civt in Vancouver….
Indies band together on CTCPF lobby
An informal coalition of independent feature film producers is addressing the Canada Cable and Television Production Fund to ask that two-thirds of the ctcpf envelope for features be earmarked for production companies without distribution affiliation….
Traders getting third season
Although an official announcement has yet to surface, sources say a third season of Traders is a go….
Video Innovations: ReBoot retools for worlds beyond Mainframe
Vancouver: The value of Mainframe Entertainment’s library of ReBoot characters and backgrounds reputedly the world’s largest catalogue of computer-generated images is quickly becoming apparent as the computer animator embarks on two peripheral projects based on the ReBoot franchise….
Video Innovations: SunDog on The Cusp
‘He is forever looking for sundogs little rainbows way up in the sky in the early morning, streaks of two or three colors, and wherever you see them that’s where the wind is going to come from the next day.’…
Cinar bankroll to hit $65M this year
Montreal: Cinar Films president Ron Weinberg is projecting a 54% hike in production investment by the production/distribution company in 1997 to over $65 million, up from $42.9 million for the 12-month period ending Nov. 30, 1996….
Sundance due for changes: Canucks
Maybe it’s because Canadian distribs are spoiled by the bending over backwards which characterizes the Canadian festivals, but while reps from Sundance and some u.s. companies are crowing about the maturation of the Utah festival, Canadian buyers and sellers characterize last…
Video Innovations: Animatics: online to interactive in the here and now
In the 1940s a guy with the spark of an idea placed a camera in front of a group doing a radio drama. Someone else came along and decided to experiment a bit further, adding a second camera to see what…
Man. credit in wings
Looking to revamp how it supports its film and television industry, Manitoba is the latest province poised to enact a refundable tax credit program piggybacking on federal efforts….
Correction
Punch! International, Montreal, is the producer of the series Dog’s World, not Prisma Communications as was incorrectly reported in the Jan. 13 Special Report on Post, Animation & SFX….
Editorial: Stability: a pipe dream
As the industry gathers to summit, (ideally carving out strategy and partnerships but more likely playing dueling agendas and clashing survival tactics), the helter-skelter feel about the broadcasting system got b-shots this month via Minister Copps’ directive to the crtc to…
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