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WFF unveils program
Montreal: Twenty-one feature films from around the world have been selected to compete for the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the 20th edition of the Montreal World Film Festival, Aug. 22 to Sept. 2….
Global Vision to compete in high-end transfer
Montreal: Post-producer and transcoder Global Vision is expanding in a major way with the acquisition of a Philips FDL Quadra film-to-tape transfer unit….
Toronto film festival gears up
With less than three weeks until the 21st Toronto International Film Festival takes off, the international buy-and-sell brass scheduled to man the sales office at the Rogers Industry Centre guarantees producers and distributors will be tiff-bound with more than just flick-feasting…
Numbers: Olympic victory for CBC
On the other side of its $30 million investment in 1996 Summer Olympics rights, the cbc, boosted by the International Olympics Committee’s new rules, scored ratings gold for the two weeks through Aug. 4 with eyeballs consistently eclipsing ctv’s ’94 Barcelona…
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Openings: Trainspotting on a roll in big-city keys
Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting earned $740,000 on 42 screens across the country in the first 12 days of release by distributor Alliance Releasing….
NANBA attacks U.S. spy practices
Under the leadership of former tvontario exec Bill Roberts, the North American National Broadcasters Association is stepping up pressure on the u.s. Congress to end the use of journalists as covers for international espionage, and is asking Canada and Mexico to…
Hitting The Screens: Beatle battalions set to rock home video
Montreal: A massive $8 million North American publicity blitz is in the making for the Sept. 5 launch of The Beatles Anthology, a 10-hour, eight-cassette home video collection which will retail for $175.99. The collection is being distributed in Canada by…
Ontario Scene: Epitome Pictures and primetime together again?
Linda Schuyler of Epitome Pictures (Liberty Street) is building a project which she thinks is ‘perfect for cbc at this critical point.’ The cbc is on board with Schuyler and cocreator Yan Moore (who wrote for Liberty Street and Sullivan’s Road…
B.C. Scene: Mo’ MOWs: Flurry of features hits the West Coast
Vancouver: The West Coast is thick with television movies, with no less than nine mows and miniseries listed on the current film list from the B.C. Film Commission….
Quebec Scene: Cinar, WQED, NHK team for Rinko
Montreal: Cinar Films, pbs affiliate wqed in Pittsburgh and Japanese public broadcaster nhk have begun filming on Rinko: The Best Bad Thing, a made-for-tv movie based a book by Japanese-American author Yoshiko Uchida….
New launches from OLE Canada
Montreal: A leader in the digital offline editing market, Lightworks is introducing its v.i.p. system to compete in the online editing and post-production sector, says OLE Canada president Mark Pounds, exclusive Canadian distributor of the system….
Network: Short takes on people, things and what’s shaking out there in the prod tech universe
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