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Special Report on Distribution & Exhibition: Industry banks on new technology, expanded slates
Once current expansion plans are fully rolled out in 1998/99, the theatrical exhibition industry in Canada will have entered its full maturation phase….
Special Report on Distribution & Exhibition: Are exhibitors doing their share?
‘They’re not going to say, `I’m not opening Broken Arrow this week because I’m opening Margaret’s Museum.’ That will never, ever happen in this country. Ever.’…
Special Report on Distribution & Exhibition: Bidding wars create `vicious circle’
With Canadian films accounting for a minuscule portion of the national box office market (anywhere from 3% to 6%, depending on who you talk to), it is no surprise that for any thriving Canadian distributor, getting ahold of some hot, foreign…
Special Report on Distribution & Exhibition: Curtain rising on ShowCanada ’96
The Motion Picture Theatre Association of Canada is reeling ’em in this year. Organizers are anticipating 43% more exhibitors, suppliers and distributors at ShowCanada ’96, running May 11-15 in Banff….
Special Report: The Bessies: Canada still seeking its own voice
By the looks of the crowd of buffed-up Bessies winners, you’d think we’ve kissed that old Canadian identity crisis good-bye. No shrinking violets, no whispered thank-yous, just a mass of buoyant commercial execs as cut-throat competitive to be the best among…
Special Report on Distribution & Exhibition: Through the clutter quickly, Quebec style
The advent of digital post-production tools has been something of a godsend to the commercial production industry in Quebec, a market where agencies and commercial production houses have historically had to do more with less, often much less….
Special Report: The Bessies: Pizza, undies highlight Bessies
Prepared to win or lose but network at all costs, the well-coiffed, bright-eyed denizens of the advertising and commercial production community straggled en masse into the Sheraton Centre Thursday, May 2, for the 36th annual Bessie Awards….
Special Report: The Bessies: Kari winner Peter Soucy: St. John’s’ `corner-boy’ makes good
He’s Snook, a St. John’s’ ‘corner-boy’ with a sharp tongue outmatched only by his even sharper wit. Putting in his two cents on the issues of the day (particularly politics, in a province where politics is three parts three-ring circus and…
Special Report: The Bessies: Fritz Spiess Award: Producer Elaine Miike: grace under fire
‘She’s been, for years, what all the young production house producers want to be – the perfect producer.’…
Special Report: The Bessies: Bob Mann winner: Archie Van Dyke: on the cutting edge
The Bob Mann Post Production Award, established in 1992, is presented in recognition of a post-production achiever who is not only consummately professional and technologically astute but who has also somehow managed to retain a high degree of humanity in the…
Special Report: The Bessies: Direction, cinematography: Focus on ideas over execution
Costa Rica and pizza pops. Sleek cars and couriers. The Canadian west coast, motoroil, and underwear….
Special Report: The Bessies: Quality, not quantity: Special effects entries
While candidates for special effects recognition among Bessies contenders weren’t overly abundant, according to the judges there was no dearth of quality, and those who distinguished themselves displayed an ample amount of technological and creative prowess….
Special Report: The Bessies: Editing first-rate says judge
The work of Canadian editors as showcased this year at The Bessies was by all accounts a cut above, and according to one of the judges was a perfect complement to a collection of outstanding overall creative product….
Special Report: The Bessies: Great music strikes chord
For Steve MacKinnon of Rosnick MacKinnon, it was a tough call wading through 600 commercials to judge the music component of the Bessies….
Special Report: The Bessies: How the winners stacked up
Once again Playback has been sifting through this year’s Bessies winners to determine which individuals within the various tv advertising disciplines were involved in the most Bessie Awards-winning spots and how they scored according to our point system….
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