U.S. producers wade into labour fight, threaten to pack up and go home

LOS ANGELES - The ACTRA strike has created a situation that could potentially have a devastating and long term impact on production in Canada, the Alliance of Motion Picture & television Producers said in a release issued Friday. With the with the exception of British Columbia, where there is no strike thanks to a different collective agreement, the labour situation (where ACTRA members are on strike but still working on productions not yet completed) "poses a lost opportunity to the country with regard to U.S.-financed productions - pilots, series television, movies for television and feature films," said the release. Given...