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Motion Works’ CD-ROM partnerships: Projects stalled by takeover
Vancouver: The cd-rom projects of two West Coast film producers are stuck in limbo while their common business partner finds its feet following a dramatic corporate takeover….
France, China buy big: Mega-deals, Cinar link-up refresh TVO
Under current threat of privatization, tvontario appears to be working hard to keep the government wolf from the door. Two recent deals indicate the network is adopting strategies to take control of its financial future, keep revenues up and expenses down….
WIFT-T gala honors remarkable women
It’s a rare, crazy night that spans heady tributes, show tunes, and a grinning Robert Lantos likened to ‘the Easter Bunny with a mustache,’ but the Toronto chapter of Women in Film and Television pulled it off in its sparkling annual…
Numbers: New ERs send Traders on a nosedive
Ten weeks into its first season and complete with all the writing, pacing, acting and production values of a potential slot winner, Traders’ April 4 episode drew its worst ratings to date in Ontario, a casualty of new episodes of er….
Word On The Street: Fashion/beauty specialist joins LTB
With less than a handful of Canadian commercial talents specializing in directing fashion and beauty spots, L.T.B. Productions is parachuting new director Anthony Corindia into the category with the hope of keeping more of the fashion pool out of the hands…
Storyboards: All that glitters
‘Imagine you could protect everything you purchase…
Vancouver’s DVD Films: New house offers varied services
Executive producer Dan Tohill, writer/director Val Terziz and casting director Deborah Harry had a movie entitled edgar to produce, but they were short one thing: a production house….
Commercial Directions: Nine days of food for Case
SPY Films’ Gord McWatters has three spots lined up for Good Humor through MacLaren McCann. The two- or three-day shoot is set to happen in early May with a yet-to-be-determined dop. Pete Henderson picked up three studio days for a Dentyne…
Ontario Scene: It looks like Toronto will clean up with six months of new soap
Costume and fashion designers take note. After nearly two years of delays, word is Toronto will be the locale for a new daily soap opera called Empire, much in the style of Family Passions….
B.C. Scene: Mt. Waddington forms backdrop for Annaud’s true tale of Tibet
Vancouver: When renowned French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Lover, The Bear) was unceremoniously ‘kicked out’ of India this month – even though he was well into preproduction on his film adaptation of the novel Seven Years In Tibet – Vancouver became…
TFO’s Lucie Amyot: Refining the tastes of the hungry ogre
‘Once you enter television from a broadcaster’s point of view, you end up seeing television as a huge ogre that eats up programs. It’s not a very discriminating ogre. It just gobbles up what it’s fed. Sometimes things that aren’t of…
Jewish Film Festival: Fest to share stories of distant lands
What better way to celebrate spring than with a fresh batch of film premieres in Canada. The 4th Annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival running May 2-9 promises 60% premieres at this the second largest Jewish film festival in North America….
Canada increasingly doing shows for U.S.
Considering Canada’s dwindling funding pool, it’s potentially good news for producers in search of backers that the rise of Turner, Showtime and the like are creating an appetite for content on u.s. cable. There isn’t ever going to be a way…
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Special Report on Independent Production: The indie filmmaker’s dilemma: Gov’t. largesse or service contracts?
Playback asked Canadian film and television production companies what they had spent on independent production in 1995. Their responses revealed that total Canadian independent production expenses for ’95 topped the $951.5 million mark with about $892 million being spent on production…
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