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Special Report: Post, Animation & Special Effects: FX Roundup
– Northwest g’es to The Outer Limits… and beyond…
Special Report: Post, Animation & Special Effects: Behind The Lines: Nelvana’s Jacobs takes on Dragons
The office is ablaze with color. Cartoon characters adorn every wall. The sign stuck to a desk lamp reads ‘stop me before i kill again!’ and the short man behind the desk wears a look of latent mischief behind his friendly…
Special Report: Post, Animation & Special Effects: Film Effects: Where new and old meet
Tucked away in a quiet, residential area of Toronto lies one of Canada’s largest film optical facilities….
Special Report: Post, Animation & Special Effects: Voice talent: look who’s talking
o seven-year-olds stay up late enough to know Paul Shaffer? D’es Kiefer Sutherland send the hearts of four-year-olds aflutter? D’es the name ‘Donny Osmond’ ring a bell with any nine-year-olds you know?…
Buy low, sell high
‘They’re not doing it because they’re greedy bastards.’…
Tax credit crisis in the offing
The promise of a new 12% federal refundable income tax credit, welcomed with open arms by the film and tv industries last February, is now fraught with uncertainty and at the center of what threatens to be a crisis for production…
Rush for foreign dollars
Rogers Communications is first out of the gate en route to listing its non-voting shares on the New York Stock Exchange and CanWest Global Communications is likely not far behind, as broadcasters begin capitalizing on the raised ceiling on foreign investment…
No Headline
High winds wreaked havoc at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade late last month, forcing an ‘air sculpture’ version of Breakthrough Films and Television’s environmental crusader Dudley the Dragon (and other balloons) into a losing argument with some trees. The hot-air Canadian…
Disney opens studios in Vancouver, Toronto
After years of speculation and rumors that Walt Disney Studios would open an animation studio in either Toronto or Vancouver, the Hollywood major’s television division has settled the score….
WIC takeover would affect indie production
Vancouver: CanWest Global Communications will cancel television projects should its hostile takeover of WIC Western International Communications succeed by the Dec. 15 deadline….
At Press Time
Altogether absent from Finance Minister Ernie Eves’ financial statement announced Nov. 29 were the ofdc, ofip and tvo. The ofdc and ofip remain frozen through March 31 and plans to review the tvo privatization process are imminent….
A mid-season look at the skeds
With u.s. sweeps week in progress and the usual scheduling fallout still on the horizon, Canadian broadcasters are already juggling properties to accommodate changing u.s. simulcasts and to make way for mid-season replacements….
Letters: Crews have a voice, too
The Oct. 23 edition of Playback contained an article entitled ‘Crew seeks more money’ in the commercial production section of your paper….
Editorial: Coming of age
The much-touted ‘maturation’ of Canada’s film and tv business coincides with facing problems evident elsewhere – crippling blows to public broadcasting, merging broadcast windows, u.s. screen domination and not much in the way of government support – and is manifest in…
Correction
In an article in the Nov. 20 issue of Video Innovations about production on the Internet (‘Net gains,’ p. VI-1), a statement attributed to David Harrison of Gastown Post regarding the monthly cost of a T1 line should have stated that…
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