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Openings: Disappointing B.O. for two Quebec films
Two Quebec features were released in theaters in May, Mario Bolduc’s L’Oreille d’un sourd and Pierre Gang’s Le Sous-sol….
Vancouver gets new production company
Vancouver: The city’s newest production company opened its doors recently with a couple of projects on the go, and an open-minded approach to the kind of work it will do….
CTV consortium members contemplate purchase: Value of CFCF-12 asset seen as conditional
Montreal: Groupe Videotron has hired TD Securities to broker the sale of CFCF-12, the ctv affiliate in Montreal….
News briefs: Sci-fi flick from Tri-Media
Tri-Media Productions of Saskatchewan has announced it will produce Light Years Away, a feature film written by writer/director Bryan Michael Stoller….
Short filmmakers long on talent
The second annual Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival wrapped up June 9 after unspooling the interesting fruits of the labors of filmmakers from over 32 countries. Over 1,000 entries were received….
News briefs: People
Mireille Watson, director of industrial relations and membership services at the CFTPA, has been promoted to VP, industrial relations and training….
Video Innovations: Que. post crunch
Montreal is definitely hot property in film production terms this summer. The hectic shooting season started in mid-March – last year it was late April – and by the early part of this month high-end suppliers, especially of digital editing and…
Video Innovations: DKP slam dunks spot for U.S.
In addition to women’s clothing, hair shades not found in nature and Madonna, one may add a trouble-making traveling tattoo to the list of basketball star Dennis Rodman’s bodily adornments, courtesy of Toronto’s Dan Krech Productions….
Word on the Street
Think globally, shoot here…
Storyboards: Summer explosions
Thinking of fireworks, typical images of bright lights and pinwheels come to mind….
Commercial Directions: Kates hits Lotto
Radke’s Philip Kates wrapped three days for Lotto Super 7 through Cossette. dop James Gardner shot the three 30s, and David Baxter at Panic & Bob is editing. Kates has also finished up one day for Trident through jwt. Doug Koch…
Hitting The Screens: Kingdom targeted the rep circuit
This is a new feature in which the whys and wherefores of releasing strategy are explored. Anyone out there with an extraordinary (or in any way curious or challenging) theatrical or video release campaign on the horizon, please give Playback a…
Ontario Scene: Hollywood can wait: Egoyan’s Dead Sleep project shelved
Word has it that Atom Egoyan’s much-touted entry into Hollywood in the form of the film Dead Sleep for Warner Bros./Icon Productions is a no-go. Insiders hint that Egoyan wasn’t willing to give up the control and/or adjust to the studio’s…
Yorkton: down-home fest, world class fare
Gerald Saul is a Regina-based filmmaker and animator….
Quebec Scene: Virginie’s daily passions lead new round of R-C teleromans
Montreal: This season’s most ambitious teleroman undertaking is Virginie, a marathon four-nights-a-week tv saga set smack dab in the middle of contemporary Quebec life….
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