All articles by Agnes Poirier – Page 12
-
News
Exports drive Canadian film and video sales
It's not happening on a Hollywood scale but just as in Tinseltown the international market is driving Canada's film and video industry. For the first time, international sales accounted for more than half of sales of Canadian content production, according to surveys by Statistics Canada for the years 1997-98 and ...
-
News
Canada grants licence to Independent Film Channel
An independent film channel, to be run as a joint venture between Halifax-based Salter Street Films, Toronto-based Triptych Media and New York's Independent Film Channel, has been granted one of the 21 digital television network licences by Canada's broadcast regulator. The Independent Film Channel Canada, which is obliged under its ...
-
News
Gladiator to be re-released on Imax screens
DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures will be re-releasing Gladiator on North American Imax screens on November 22, as promotional support for the release of the film in the DVD sell-through and VHS rental windows. The 35mm prints will be screened in Imax venues in LA, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, San ...
-
News
Ontario upholds ban on Baise-moi
Censors in the Canadian province of Ontario have upheld a ban on the theatrical release of French title Baise-moi, directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi.According to the film's Canadian distributor, Quebec-based Remstar Distribution, which planned to open the film in Canada's three main markets, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, ...
-
News
TVA International wins StudioCanal deal for Canada
Montreal-based TVA International (TVAI) has signed a three year agreement with France's StudioCanal to handle its product across Canada. The exclusive, all-rights deal dramatically expands the Quebec company's position in Canadian feature distribution.The agreement covers more than 40 new features, including such English-language titles as Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight of ...
-
News
Imax drops 3-D adaptation of DreamWorks' Shrek
Imax Corporation has abandoned plans to produce a 3-D version of DreamWorks' animated feature Shrek. Co-CEO Brad Wechler made the revelation during an analysts briefing following the release of its third quarter financials, saying increasing production costs of the conventional film has rendered "diseconomic" Imax's proposal to adapt the film ...
-
News
Canada's Itemus acquires The Shooting Gallery
US media company The Shooting Gallery has been sold to Toronto-based dotcom Itemus in a $56m share swap deal. However The Shooting Gallery familiar to the international film industry, namely the film development and distribution business, will be spun off, along with allied television and music arms, to existing shareholders ...
-
News
Kinowelt sells piece of AAC to feed Momentum
Germany's Kinowelt Medien has sold close to one million shares of Alliance Atlantis Communication (AAC) worth approximately $13m, part of which it will funnel into Momentum Pictures, the UK distribution company it controls equally with AAC.Paul Laberge, AAC senior vice president of corporate development and general counsel, told ScreenDaily ...
-
Reviews
Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Dir: Joe Berlinger. US. 2000. 90minProd co: Haxan Films, Artisan Entertainment. US dist: Artisan Entertainment. Int'l Sales: Summit Entertainment, tel: (1) 310 309 8400. Exec prod: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez. Prod: Bill Carraro. Scr: Dick Beebe, Berlinger. DoP: Nancy Schreiber. Prod des: Vince Peranio. Ed: Sarah Flack. Music: Carter Burwell. ...
-
Reviews
Risk
Dir: Alan White. Australia. 2000. 92 mins.Prod co: MacGowan Films. Int'l sales: Beyond Films (61-2) 9281 1266. Exec prod: Marion Pilowsky. Prod: Marion MacGowan. Scr: John Armstrong, Steve Wright, based on the short story "The Adjuster" by Tracy Kidder. DoP: Simon Duggan. Prod des: Murray Picknett. Ed: Lee Smith. Mus: ...
-
News
Canadian movie attendance hits 38-year high
Canadians went to the pictures in record numbers in 1998-99 - the biggest years since 1972 - but that hasn't helped exhibitors' profitability, according to a recent report from Statistics Canada, surveying all 692 of the nation's cinemas and drive-ins.Lured by multi-screen theatres with stadium-style seats and expanded common areas ...
-
Reviews
Suspicious River
Dir: Lynne Stopkewich. Canada. 2000. 92 mins.Prod co: Tartan Films/Okulitch Pedersen. Int'l sales: Beyond Films (61-2) 9281 1266. Exec prods: Hamish McAlpine, Erik Stensrud. Prod: Michael Okulitch. Scr: Stopkewich, based on the novel by Laura Kasischke. DoP: Gregory Middleton. Prod des: Don MacAulay. Ed: Allan Lee. Mus: Don MacDonald. Main ...
-
News
Imax Corp takes down \'for sale\' sign
Imax Corp has removed itself from the marketplace after its share price tumbled more than 70% yesterday (October 12) in reaction to a profit warning. The giant screen purveyor said its current stock price is not a fair reflection of its long-term value.Imax issued a third-quarter profit warning on Wednesday, ...
-
News
FCC suspends AOL TW decision
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has suspended its review of the AOL Time Warner merger, declaring it more productive to let its sister agency, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), pass judgement on the issue. However, by stating that it was "stopping the clock" on its proceedings, the FCC reserved ...
-
News
Imax Corp issues profit warning
Imax Corporation will post a third-quarter loss, according to a release issued late Wednesday. The news will further complicate the company's search for a buyer. The giant screen entertainment company has been hit by the downturn amongst theatrical exhibitors in North America. Since August three US circuits - Edwards Theatres, ...
-
Reviews
How To Kill Your Neighbour's Dog
Dir: Michael Kalesniko. US. 2000. 104 mins.Prod co: Millennium Films, South Fork Pictures, Lonsdale Productions. International sales: Nu Image (310) 246 0240. Exec prod: Robert Redford. Prod: Michael Nozik, Nancy M. Ruff, Brad Weston. Scr: Kalesniko. DoP: Hubert Taczanowski. Prod des: Stephen Lineweaver. Ed: Pamela Martin. Mus: David Robbins. Main ...
-
Reviews
The Monkey's Mask
Dir: Samantha Lang. Australia. 2000. 91 mins.Prod co: Arena Film. International sales: Studio Canal (33-1) 4443 9800. Prods: Robert Connolly, John Maynard. Scr: Anne Kennedy, based on the verse novel by Dorothy Porter. DoP: Garry Philips. Prod des: Michael Philips. Ed: Dany Cooper. Mus: Andrew Kotatko. Main cast: Susie Porter, ...
-
News
New Telefilm money to be allocated this year
Hot on the heels of the Canadian government's $67m boost to local film (ScreenDaily, October 6), Telefilm Canada is asking the country's industry for pitches on how best to spend the first gush of new money.Over the next two weeks, Telefilm, the country's principal public sector funding agency, will be ...
-
Reviews
Tigerland
Dir: Joel Schumacher. US. 2000. 95 mins.Prod co: New Regency Productions. International sales: New Regency (310) 369 8300. US dist: 20th Century Fox. Exec prods: Ted Kurdyla, Bruce Berman. Prods: Arnon Milchan, Steven Haft, Beau Flynn. Scr: Ross Klavan, Michael McGruther. DoP: Matthew Libatique. Prod des: Andrew Laws. Ed: Mark ...
-
News
Lewis, Gershon don Claire's Hat for Alliance
Juliette Lewis and Gina Gershon are set to star in Bruce McDonald's Claire's Hat, the Canadian director's fifth feature, set to begin production October 16 in Toronto. Billed as a noir caper, the picture is produced by Robert Lantos and Alliance Atlantis, through its first look deal with Lantos' Serendipity ...