With a new $16.5 million injection from Onex Corporation, a leveraged buyout specialist based in Toronto, Alliance Communications is looking to expand its interests in music publishing, new media and animation….
Within days of Paragon Entertainment’s annual shareholders meeting Sept. 29, president Richard Borchiver and chairman Jon Slan were off to London, Eng. to discuss a financing package for u.k.-based HandMade Films, which Paragon acquired in May. Slan and Borchiver have said…
Following the bad news that its Robocop tv series may not be renewed, Skyvision Entertainment has announced a multimillion-dollar booty. The deal with Los Angeles-based Fred Dryer Productions will initiate at least us$50 million in television and film production activity, with…
studio complex…
Fiber-optic service…
The 1994 Genie nominees are in and Atom Egoyan’s Exotica tops the list with 13 nominations. The nominations for the multiple award-winning feature include best film, best direction for Egoyan, best actor for Bruce Greenwood, best supporting actor for Don McKellar…
Graphic Exchange gets interactive…
speaks…
Vancouver: The Griffiths family appears to have bought some peace with the Allard family. Late last month, the Allards announced their company, Cathton Holdings, was dropping its court action against Western Broadcasting Company, owned by the Griffiths. In return, the Allards…
for Imprint…
The producers of the hoser-humor hit The Red Green Show determined from day one that the best time slot for their comedy series was the half-hour preceding cbc’s Molson Hockey Night in Canada, Saturdays at 7 p.m. This year, in their…
Depardieu signed…
Safford slams status quo…
Avid’s the new kid on newsroom playing field…
Riis film now in hands of `adoptive parents’…