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Special Report: The Year in Review: Things look pretty good but appearances are deceiving
Most would agree, I think, that 1995 has been a year of contradiction in commercial production. Feast or famine – which makes it pretty typical….
Special Report: The Year in Review: B.C. sets the stage for future growth
For the b.c. film industry, 1995 has been a year of steady growth in the areas of television series work and mows, with hit tv shows such as The X-Files, Highlander, The Outer Limits, Strange Luck and Poltergeist shooting in-province….
Special Report: The Year in Review: 1995 was a year of pivotal changes and expansion
The last year has witnessed more pivotal changes in the television production-distribution landscape than perhaps the last several years combined. Megamergers in the u.s. and program localization in Europe are among the developments that have profoundly influenced the industry….
Special Report: The Year in Review: Industry changes from a public financing perspective
It is stating the obvious to observe that 1995 was characterized by the largest reduction of spending by federal and provincial agencies in all aspects of the film and television sector than ever seen before in this country….
Special Report: The Year in Review: Change remains constant in the funding universe
Since Rogers Telefund for interim financing first appeared on the scene in 1980, the number of private funds from across Canada has grown to about 20. Most are national funds and range in size from $850,000 for Fundy Cable to mid-sized…
Special Report: The Year in Review: Plot twists abound in the film exhibition sector
As those of us in the motion picture business ‘review’ 1995, we can conclude that indeed the film exhibition industry remains healthy. Moreover, attendance has increased over the past several years, a trend that will likely continue into the next millennium….
Video Innovations: Net gains Producers, post facilities increasingly conducting business by Internet
No longer just a toy for whiling away hours and a threat to children wandering helplessly into pornographic minefields, the Internet has become a legitimate tool for production and its value is increasing as things like real-time video links become a…
Video Innovations: Producing in the computer zone ‘Huge portion’ of Dark Zone CGI
Halifax: In an abandoned manufacturing plant, once employed in the construction of some very safe, comfortable, reassuring machines – Volvos, to be exact – there are now some wildly different things being created and there’s nary an assembly line in sight….
Heinous hostage-taking
The Nov. 10 invitation from Toronto’s MacLaren McCann to a roundtable on Canadian creative sounded like a safe way to schmooze/snooze through to lunch while arguably earning one’s keep. It began in an innocent enough Canadian manner, with host Rick Davis,…
Cable swap: Que. indies up in arms
Montreal: The cable for broadcast assets swap negotiations between Groupe Videotron and CFCF Inc. pushed tension levels over the top among indie producers in the French-track Quebec market, says the chairman of the apftq, the Quebec producers association….
Perspective: Charest takes stock
Montreal: Industry eyebrows were definitely on the rise last week when stock for Cinar Films hit the $19 mark on the Toronto Stock Exchange….
Bleak universe
It’s the year 2095, or thereabouts. The earth has been so thoroughly ravaged by the wicked habits and wasteful ways of humanity that its surface is not fit to live on. Mankind is an adaptable species and dwells underground, albeit pining…
Producers wary of merger
The merging of CanWest Global and WIC Western International Communications could be a dream realized for Izzy Asper, but the morphing of the two Canadian broadcasters may mean the loss of one avenue of opportunity for producers to sell into, creating…
At Press Time
Members of the Canadian Cable Television Association are expected to announce a new lobbying organization at the end of the month. No word yet as to the name of the group, but an industry source says it will act in the…
Access conflict arises
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters and the Canadian Cable Television Association are at loggerheads over whether the channel positioning of local broadcasting services on Canadian distribution systems should be left to the goodwill of the distributor or enforced by binding legislation….
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