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Kids’ programming initiative
Canadian producers of children’s television programming have new hard evidence that corroborates something they’ve known in their collective gut for some time – that the rest of the world puts Canadian producers in a class of their own….
At Press Time
Malofilm Distribution’s New Media Division gets interactive with retailers across Canada this month with its launch of over 40 new cd-rom titles from companies like u.s.-based Trimark Interactive, Technology Dynamics Corporation and General Media Corporation….
U.S. nets open drawbridge to Cdn.-originated shows
Canada is second only to the u.s. in international Programming sales, with film and television revenues exceeding $3 billion annually….
More toon takeovers
Catalyst Entertainment of Toronto and u.k.-based partner The Britt Allcroft Group have bought into Toronto’s Phoenix Animation….
Task force grapples with DTH
More than 333 companies and individuals with an interest in the regulatory environment governing the Canadian direct-to-home satellite industry have filed submissions and rebuttals to the federal dth task force. Now the panel, appointed by the Ministries of Industry and Heritage,…
Editorial
Cause to celebrate…
The tax credit: One hand taketh away, the other hand giveth
The section of the Ministerial Declaration titled Re-Targeted Film Incentive states: ‘(T)he existing cca incentive will be retained for certified Canadian productions acquired before 1996, the principal photography of which is completed before March 1, 1996.’…
Cinar to take its show on the road, south
Montreal: Cinar Films has filed a preliminary prospectus for a public share offering in the u.s., expected to raise approximately $15 million….
Geminis a hit with attendees, viewers
A ton o’ laughs, a litany of Mountie jokes, some well-placed jabs at government funding cuts, and another Gemini Awards marathon is in the can. General consensus has it that it was one of the best, if not the best, Geminis…
Nights 2 and 3 Geminis winners
following are the Nights 2 and 3 Gemini Awards winners, announced March 4 and 5 in Toronto. The list of Night 1 winners, announced Feb. 23, was published in the Feb. 27 issue of Playback….
B.C. Scene
Zeitgeist planning coproductions with British, American partners…
News Briefs: SODEC takes over
The mandate of the board of directors of sogic, including president and director general Charles Denis, ends March 31. Staff at sogic and Institut quebecois du cinema, the government advisory body on film matters, will be transferred to Societe de developpement…
News Brief
R-Q budget slashed…
Ontario Scene
Barna planning drama project: a chronicle of Teamster Kilmury…
Quebec Scene
Amerique project budget reflects new focus on box office reality…
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