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Hunter and Hunted meet in Manitoba
It’s an Easter story set at Christmas. A small-town petty criminal searches for redemption while trying to protect his ill son and his ex-wife from a dangerous foe, a former partner in crime who’s been freed from jail. ‘Jerry’s kind of…
WIC fights back
On the heels of a $2.1 million second-quarter loss, its program supply agreements in jeopardy, and facing the possibility of the Asper net invading Alberta, WIC Western International Communications is making a play to dilute CanWest Global Communication’s considerable program rights…
Minor OFDC funds pared
Two of the Ontario Film Development Corporation’s smaller funds have been chopped, and while there is nothing good about the loss, reading between the lines suggests there is hope for the future of the provincial agency….
Techno-frenzy in Vegas
Las Vegas: ‘Let’s not be disoriented by the thunder and the buzz.’…
Less money, more buyers: Indie prod volume holds against odds
Production volume for the country in 1995 reached about $1.3 billion overall and, according to the findings of a Playback survey of the industry at large, to which 85 companies responded, $951 million was spent on indigenous, independent production (see chart,…
B.C. union deal means millions
Vancouver: The value of production budgets in b.c. will balloon by $140 million to $200 million in the next 12 months thanks to a historic labor agreement that simplifies union negotiations, predicts the chief negotiator for the major u.s. studios….
U.S. developer plans Van. studio
Vancouver: A new production studio complex was unveiled unofficially April 16 at a Vancouver City Council hearing into land-use planning for a 300-acre area called False Creek Flats….
Bittman on hold, N.S. stage pulled
Roman Bittman, senior administrator of the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, has been placed under temporary suspension. As well, the nsfdc has announced it will not be involved in the construction and operation of a long-debated soundstage on the Halifax waterfront….
Atlantis results
Atlantis Films posted a 19% revenue increase in fiscal 1995, but due to a devaluing of its program library, earnings were at a net loss of $10.5 million compared to net earnings of $7.9 million in 1994….
Letters: And more ire
I looked at this ad for a long time to try and establish what it was about the ad that caught my attention and put me off at the same time….
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Letters: Ad raises ire
Re: ad for Soho Post & Graphics, (Playback, April 8, p. 24):…
Editorial: Damned if you do
The list of Cancon drama series that were either launched in 1995 or financed and produced in the same year is nothing short of impressive. Traders, Wind at My Back, Jake and the Kid, Urgence and Omerta: The Code of Silence…
Correction
A story on WIC Western International Communications in the March 11 issue (‘wic making big plans for wireless system,’ p. 6), erroneously reported that the Allard family, as a concession in recent legal wranglings with the controlling Griffiths, got an extra…
CFTPA outlines its strategy at AGM
The Canadian Film and Television Production Association called upon its members to get the word out to the public and the government on the important role the independent production industry plays in the Canadian economy and vowed to take a large…
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