All articles by Agnes Poirier – Page 16
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AFM: Alliance retrenches from finance lending
Alliance Atlantis Corp (AAC) has downscaled its Equicap structured financing division as part of a overall strategy to concentrate on its core film and TV production and distribution businesses. In a release, AAC chief financial officer W. Judson Martin described the move as a transition "from active to passive participation" ...
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AFM: Alliance Atlantis has head in Clouds
Alliance Atlantis Communications (AAC) is to finance White Clouds, the Italian-set kidnapping drama that was the last completed feature film screenplay from the late British dramatist Dennis Potter.Adapted from on the novel Cara Massimina, by Italy-based British expat author Tim Parks, the story involves the abduction of a girl by ...
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OFDC report calls for Ontario studio
Ontario's film industry needs a state-of-the-art studio facility, according to a study commissioned by the Ontario Film Development Corp and the Toronto Film and Television Office. The report, undertaken by real estate consultancy Drivers Jonas North America and LA-based analyst ERA, suggests that Ontario's industry should stop competing on price ...
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Famous Players, Alliance invest in Canadian chain
Viacom's Famous Players Theatres and Alliance Atlantis Communications have taken a combined 21% stake in Galaxy Cinemas, the newest player in the Canadian exhibition market.The joint venture, announced Thursday, calls for the construction of 21 state-of-the-art multiplexes over the next 30 months, all of them in smaller markets with population ...
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Disney pulls plug on Canadian animation studios
So much for Canada stealing all that production work from Hollywood: The Walt Disney Co has now confirmed that it is closing its animation facilities in Vancouver and Toronto four years after opening them, laying off more than 200 staff and dealing a significant blow to Canadian animation.Canadian sources on ...
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Videotron, Rogers confirm $4.1bn merger
North America's seventh largest cable TV operator was forged on Monday when Canada's biggest cable company, Rogers Communications, announced a merger with Groupe Videotron, the country's third largest.The C$6bn ($4.1bn) friendly takeover creates a company that boasts not only 3.7m subscribers, representing nearly half of Canadian households, but also the ...
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iCraveTV close to settlement with studios
Canada's iCraveTV, the web-site that has raised the ire of the US and local entertainment industries, is understood to be close to reaching a settlement with its powerhouse adversaries. The site had been web-casting feeds from US and Canadian channels without permission; but was forced to cease web-casts last Friday ...
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Alliance Atlantis taps Telefilm executive
Three weeks after moving its motion picture operation from Los Angeles to Toronto, Alliance Atlantis is hiring Bill House, one of Canada's most prominent public sector film executives, to boost its feature production profile at home. In his 15 years as a production and development executive, first at the Ontario ...
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Genies favour Felicia's Journey
Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey won four Genie Awards, including the best actor accolade for Bob Hoskins and best adapted screenplay for Egoyan, at the 20th edition of the Canadian film awards ceremony in Toronto on Sunday night. Alliance Atlantis' Sunshine, which had 14 nominations, many of them multiple nods in ...
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Maths may improve exhibitors' bottom line
Choose fewer "right" movies and show them longer: in the tight margin world of exhibition, this may become a mantra. Three academics who collaborated at the University of British Columbia have developed a mathematical programme that helps exhibitors determine which films to run, if and when to replace them and ...
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New Films expands Miramax deal
New Films International is expanding its distribution pact with Miramax International following its move into exhibition in Turkey where it holds a 50% stake in five-theatre Istanbul outfit New Art International.New York-based New Films will distribute 89 Miramax titles across the Eastern European market, with all rights, including theatrical, TV, ...