MONTREAL — Troubled Canuck kids TV producer Cinar Corp. announced Friday that it is setting up a live entertainment division, and that it has inked a deal to acquire the touring rights to two ...
After the "Cat in the Hat," Portfolio Entertainment has pulled out a rabbit with a flourish by hiring veteran Louis Fournier to take the Canadian indie distributor to the next level. By Etan Vlessing, ...
MONTREAL — Quebec Securities Commission fined Cinar Corp. founders Ronald Weinberg and Micheline Charest C$1 million ($613,000) each on Friday and barred them from being directors or executives at any ...
Cinar Corp., a children’s television producer that has been plagued by a string of financial scandals, said it had cut 54 staff and appointed new auditors. The Montreal-based firm said the cuts were ...
In 2000, the animation industry was rocked by the collapse of Cinar Corp., the Canadian cartoon producer behind such popular series as "Arthur," "Calliou" and "The Busy World of Richard Scarry." By ...
Cinar Corp. fired back at dissident shareholders yesterday, denying their request for a special meeting to vote on a proposal to oust the board and telling them to wait for the annual meeting in four ...
A self-styled shareholder activist says he has rounded up enough votes to oust Cinar Corp.'s board and its chief executive officer Barrie Usher. "One by one, the big shareholders have told Barrie ...
Canadian toon producer Cinar Corp is battling legal charges once again. This time, action has been brought against the beleaguered Montreal studio by former shareholders of Twin Sisters Productions, a ...
Micheline Charest, co-founder of Canada’s award-winning but scandal-plagued children’s television producer Cinar Corp., died Wednesday at a Montreal hospital of complications from plastic surgery. She ...
MONTREAL, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Stuart Snyder is leaving Cinar Corp, the troubled Canadian animation company, after one year on the job. President and CEO, he quits once a deal to sell the company to an ...