montreal: Call it the year of the thriller or the police drama, but Quebec network television has taken a decidedly modern turn….
Canadian…
in the City…
The heat is on in the fee-for-service negotiations between Rogers Communications and the new specialties. A rapid series of meetings have taken place since Rogers put an offer on the table two weeks ago. At press time, the two were 5%-10%…
Vancouver: Everest Entertainment will receive a substantial injection of capital later this month when publicly traded Toronto-based entertainment company Greenlight Communications completes its purchase of a controlling interest of shares in the Vancouver-based production and distribution company….
* For the fiscal year ending March 31, Alliance Communications shows record earnings of $12.9 million or $1.36 per share….
Montreal: From Sappho to the Suffragettes, from Simone de Beauvoir to Benazir Bhutto, a new primetime documentary series called Women: This Wave An Ocean chronicles the story of female emancipation from the perspective of reformers, renegades, warriors and witnesses….
shorts fest wraps…
Gov’t. quagmire…
re: ‘Specialties Sub Dissent,’ Playback, June 5, page 1:…
on Canadian series…
* L’Association des Producteurs de Films et de Television du Quebec elected a new board of directors at its annual congress earlier this month….
Malcolm Silver is head of Malcolm Silver & Co., a Toronto-based company which finances the production and marketing of film, television, video and multimedia….
– During the month of May, Telefilm Canada committed $7,830,480 for 12 new tv projects….
Galafilm, McKenna brothers…