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Stripes newcomer Staub just doing it.
On the basis of enthusiasm alone, up-and-coming commercial director Clay Staub has a great career in store….
Commercial Directions: Fountainhead enters Asian market
Fountainhead Pictures has joined forces with C.C. Films to produce a commercial for a Chinese wine cooler called Trust through Chinese agency Good Choice Film Productions. Yan Cui, a recent resident at the Canadian Film Centre, will direct the spot and…
Word on the Street: Hughes to helm kids’ classic
Commercials are on the back burner now for The Partners’ Film Company’s Bronwen Hughes, who signed on to direct Paramount Pictures’ $15 million production of Harriet The Spy this month….
News Brief: Maclean Hunter ’94 Investments
According to the recently published annual report from the Maclean Hunter Television Fund, a record $3.7 million was invested in the production of 99 hours of Canadian fiction and children’s television series in 1994. The ’94 investment is an increase of…
B.C. Scene: Hurley’s private life Intrudes on plans to shoot Wilding project
Vancouver: Who’d have thought British actor Hugh Grant’s recent automotive audition with a hooker in l.a. would have a ripple effect all the way to Vancouver. But indeed it has. Grant’s girlfriend, Estee Lauder model/ actress Elizabeth Hurley, who was signed…
Ontario Scene: Playwright Fraser turns to ‘guerrilla filmmaking’
Playwright Brad Fraser, best known for his hip, fearless plays about sex and sexuality (Poor Superman, Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love) is deep into the world of cinema these days, and not only as a writer. Fraser…
Binchmarks: Everybody’s gone surfin’: law and the Internet
(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.)…
Quebec Scene: City’s top cops brought in on Telefiction thriller 10-07
Montreal: The producers of 10-07, Telefiction’s four-hour police miniseries, have signed two of the city’s top cops as the shoot’s creative and technical advisors….
For The Record
* ChumCity International will now be handling international distribution for Citytv, MuchMusic, MusiquePlus and Bravo! titles….
CD-Ron Mann strikes again
Intriguing topics such as fish condos, cat houses for dogs and cockroach cure-alls are all in a day’s cd-rom work at Ron Mann’s Toronto-based Sphinx Productions….
Everything you ever wanted to know about new media
The OFDC all-biz new media seminar answers the questions you gave up asking because no one had credible answers…
Special Report on Sound & Music: Sound & Music: Sound like you’ve never seen it before
(Sung to the tune of Dancing Cheek to Cheek:)…
Special Report on Sound & Music: Music houses ready and willing to diversify
I have $10,000. I need music, voice-over, sound effects and a final mix, and I need it shipped and dubbed by Tuesday.’…
Special Report on Commercial Production: Bigger jobs, say Quebec’s big four
In the Quebec market, commercial film production for national clients, in other words, brand advertising for television, is assigned almost exclusively to four houses – La Fabrique d’Images, Cinelande, Figaro Films International and Jet Films….
Special Report on Commercial Production: Adjusting to the new norm: Ongoing era of restraint
It is neither the best of times nor the worst of times for the commercial production industry. This side of both the glory days and the recession, Canadian production houses are trying to come to terms with a reality more restrained…
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