Entertainment, Media & Sports

B.C.’s beleaguered film industry had already lost 3,500 direct and spinoff film jobs in the year ending last March 31, 2012, compared with the previous year, according to a new report.

The unions and guilds representing B.C.’s film and TV industry workers are stepping up efforts to raise awareness of their industry’s impact on the local economy – and the latest initiative is taking a unique twist.

A senior manager at MAC Marketing Solutions has left the company in the wake of a scandal that involved the company's employees pretending to be daughters of wealthy Chinese parents who wanted to celebrate Chinese New Year by buying a condominium.

The Grey Cup could return to BC Place stadium in 2014.

Additional Canadian content dollars from BCE, Shaw deals helping homegrown productions

Two independently owned movie theatres in Vancouver are being gobbled up by entertainment giant Cineplex Inc. (TSX:CGX)

Strong storytelling can take a product from selling $100 million worth of units to $1 billion worth, according to Gary Vaynerchuk.

Marketers of the in-receivership Olympic Village are paying the editor of well-known local culture webzine VancouverIsAwesome.com to blog about the joys of life in the village – but it does not say on the website that he is being paid to do so.

News yesterday that MAC Marketing had one of its employees pose as a potential homeowner in media interviews has prompted an apology from owner and former Business in Vancouver Forty under 40 winner Cameron McNeill and accusations from bloggers that this is part of a wider trend.

Victoria-based Black Press Ltd. has been acquiring U.S. newspapers despite having a comparatively high debt load.