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Alliance ties up talent for major hit in ’98/99
Cannes: Surely unprecedented in Canadian production history, Toronto-based Alliance Communications has 30 television movies and eight series in development with American end users, including major networks and cable networks. According to Alliance’s chairman and ceo Robert Lantos, it’s more than double…
‘Biggest and best yet’: VIFF Trade Forum sets new records
Vancouver: The 11th annual Trade Forum at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival generated more energy and more revenues than years past, says the business event’s producer….
Recruiting frenzy at toon fest
Ottawa: Not since Expo ’67 has Canadian art talent been wooed as openly and brazenly. A gold rush quality surrounded the Ottawa Animation Festival as corporate animators fought for talent to feed their animation machines….
Hitting the Screens
This column explores releasing strategies. Anyone out there with an interesting theatrical, video or cd-rom release campaign coming up, please give Playback a shout. maddever@brunico.com…
Telefilm commits $37.6 million to 62 projects
For the period June 1 to Aug. 31, 1996, Telefilm Canada committed a total of $37,597,447 to 62 new Canadian television and feature film projects….
Openings: Crash nudges $1 million
David Cronenberg’s Crash drew in a healthy $920,000 at the Canadian box office in its first 11 days, generating an average of $21,900 on 42 screens….
ITV.NET broadcasts wireless to Internet
Vancouver: A Vancouver Internet company is claiming the world’s first live wireless broadcast to cyberspace….
News Brief: CBC wins at Columbus
Up against more than 750 entries from around the world, the cbc will receive 27 bronze and 65 honorable mentions at this year’s Columbus International Film & Video Festival in Columbus, Ohio, slated for Oct. 24….
Programming: TSN to cash in with hockey docs
Although tsn’s sked, due to its nature, is pretty much tied to event programming, the network has traditionally tried to feature a special in the fall lineup, usually a one-off in the vein of Eye On The Diamond (a 20-year history…
News Brief: Asia Update:
Camille Gueymard, Telefilm Canada’s officer of marketing development, Asia, reports in Zoom Asia that Japan-based Ace Pictures is seeking potential subjects for coproduction. nhk is looking for tv dramas and Sony pcl is interested in tv, video and multimedia entertainment and…
B.C. Scene: Hundreds of Vancouver film festival goers get Kissed off
Vancouver: More than 300 people were turned away from the front door of the Ridge theater the night that necrophilia film Kissed screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival Oct. 4. The homemade movie, which caused a stir and a bidding…
Ontario Scene: Catalyst signs with CBC for Tales From The Long House
In addition to everything else going on over at Toronto’s Catalyst Entertainment – the theme park in Malta and a rash of international sales – the company has signed a joint development agreement with the cbc for Tales From The Long…
Word: Angel touches down in T.O.
Former L.T.B. Productions executive producer Sarah Ker-Hornell is going solo with a new Toronto commercial production shop aimed at providing a high degree of service and accountability to agencies and to a small roster of directors….
Storyboards: Micecapades
Taking a new twist on the game of cat and mouse, Griffin Bacal Volny and The Players Film Company have come up with a fast-paced, quick-cut, high-energy 30 for Yokohama’s Guardex 600 winter radial tires….
Commercial Directions
At Aviator Pictures in Vancouver, David Tennant directed a day for ikon through Glennie Stamnes Strategy. dop on the 30-second spot was John Houtman. Director Phil Brown also teamed up with Houtman on a three-day shoot for cknw….
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