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Correction
in the story ‘lhf system solved sound quandary’ (Playback, July 17, p. 13), the cost of a Leader Hollywood Format Signature Sound System was incorrectly reported. The system is valued at over $140,000. The rental fee for use of the system…
Zimmerman: `our systems are skewed’
after 25 years in the business as an agent, Ralph Zimmerman, president of Great North Artists Management, doesn’t believe a star system is in the cards for Canada….
B.C. market booth
vancouver: The B.C. Motion Picture Association is organizing a group booth for b.c. film and television executives at both MIPCOM 95 in Cannes this October and natpe in Las Vegas in January. It will be the first time that b.c. has…
In brief: Videotron reports nine month net income
* Groupe Videotron reports nine-month net income of $46.4 million or $0.37 a share compared to $19 million or $0.12 a share for the same period last year. Revenues for the period ending May 31 were $557.9 million, up more than…
In brief: Rogers reports an increase in revenues
* Rogers Communications reports an increase of 10.9% in revenues for the six-month period ending June 30, 1995, citing the 23.1% increase in wireless communications revenue as the primary driver….
Cdn. films screen at Israeli festival
jerusalem: Telefilm Canada may have yanked its travel grant for Canadian filmmakers invited to last month’s Jerusalem Film Festival, but that did not stop director/ coproducer Ric Esther Bienstock from traveling to the Holy Land with her film Ms. Conceptions in…
Israel looking to boost coproduction
jerusalem: The Israeli film industry is not unlike the Canadian film industry of the mid-’80s. Service production of big American pictures like Rambo iii and Not Without My Daughter dried up in 1991 when government incentives were withdrawn, u.s. independent production…
Binchmarks: Law and the Internet: How safe is cyberseXXX?
simon chester is the research partner and a member of the KNOWlaw Group of the Toronto law firm of McMillan Binch. This article was prepared with the assistance of malcolm j. andrade….
Ontario Scene: Mass migration has started in wake of OFDC funding freeze
when the new Ontario Conservative government callously hinted people should move west because the weather is better there, it was referring to welfare recipients, not working dops, directors, producers and actors. But the exodus of local production is already well into…
Quebec Scene: For Frappier, childhood stories are `precious, absolute, bigger than life’
montreal: Max Films producer Roger Frappier says he really appreciates the support from cast and crew on director Pierre Gang’s period drama Le Sous-sol, but the producer of Declin de l’empire americain and Un zoo la nuit says making movies at…
Is TV Cancon withering away?
Robert armstrong is a broadcasting and film consultant based in Montreal….
For the Record: WIC applies for Ottawa licence
* The crtc has received applications from WIC Western International Communications and CHUM Ltd. for a new English-language tv station to broadcast in the Ottawa area….
For the Record: TV5 launches Web site
* TV5 Quebec-Canada says its new site on the World Wide Web has been especially conceived to make program information and skeds available to French departments at u.s. universities. The www page was created by V(DL)2. TV5’s www address is: http://www.tv5.ca….
For the Record: Regie reports Quebec market revenues
* Gross distribution revenues in the Quebec theatrical market, including theaters and cine-parks, for the u.s. majors were $51.8 million for the year ending March 31, 1995, according to the annual report from Regie du cinema, the government’s administrative tribunal for…
For the Record: Panavision terminates discussions with Wm F White
* Panavision Canada Corporation and William F. White have announced the termination of discussions regarding a proposed merger between the two companies….
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