Entertainment, Media & Sports

Revealing the first major plank of his party’s campaign platform, NDP leader Adrian Dix pledged yesterday to rescue the film and TV industry – on the same day Premier Christy Clark told Business in Vancouver that the province cannot afford to do so.

Japanese gaming studio Namco Bandai Studios has announced plans to open a facility in Vancouver’s Centre for Digital Media (CDM).

We had many viral marketing type programs before the age of Internet, such as Tupperware or Amway, where customers created growth by selling products to their friends

Gregor Robertson, the mayor of the city that hosted the inaugural Times of India Film Awards, was not invited to the gala ceremony – and British Columbia's tourism minister was not even in Vancouver for the event.

The B.C. government announced Saturday it would add $1 million in funding to a society it created to promote the province’s struggling film, music and publishing sectors.

The B.C.-taxpayer-backed Times of India Film Awards, currently underway, are now known as the Lux Cozi Times of India Film Awards after a title sponsor was found at the 11th hour.

Vancouver animation producer Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. (TSX:RNK) has been given a 30-day extension, until May 1, to meet the listing requirements of the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), the exchange said in a statement April 2.

A lead time of 10 weeks meant the Times of India Film Awards was unable to sign a big Canadian sponsor, according to a marketing adviser hired for the taxpayer-funded, inaugural Bollywood awards.

The Surrey Board of Trade says it has been snubbed by the Times of India Group, which has scuttled a Surrey event during its taxpayer-funded celebration of Bollywood cinema, concluding next week in the main event April 6-8.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has issued a call for competitors for a proposed new radio station in Surrey, in response to an application for a new English-language commercial radio station.