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Archives for: September 20085
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Toronto film festival gets off to a romantic start
Friday September 05th 2008The curtain rose on the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night with romance “Passchendaele” playing to a packed theater and starting a 10-day parade of films and stars at one of the world’s top movie gatherings. In keeping with tradition, the event opened by shining its spotlight on a Canadian movie, but Hollywood invades in the days ahead with the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and even Paris Hilton in town.
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New Line, Alliance extend pact
Thursday September 04th 2008New Line has extended its output deal with Canuck distributor Alliance Films until fall 2009. Alliance had been set to lose the deal at the end of this year as New Line is being folded into Warner Bros. The agreements are a major boost for Montreal-based Alliance, which hasn’t had it easy over the past year thanks to sluggish box office, the arrival of a major competitor in Canada and the U.K. in Entertainment One and the loss of its Canadian output deal for Miramax Films.
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Toronto sellers hope distribs stock up
Thursday September 04th 2008With the festival beginning today, there’s a lot of pressure on Toronto to show the way ahead for the film business, particularly the indies. With a plethora of available titles — and many that are deemed quite commercial — it could be the place where distributors start filling out their 2009 slates. At least that’s what is driving the hopes of sales agents.
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Canada trys to curb production slide
Thursday September 04th 2008Times are tough for the production biz north of the U.S. border. Hollywood filming in Canada has slowed to a trickle this year as a result of the stronger Canadian dollar, lucrative tax credits in many U.S. states and the labor strife in Hollywood. But many in the Canuck production milieu argue the country has some strong selling points that still make it a viable place for location shoots. Ken Ferguson, president of Filmport Studios, firmly believes Canada has something many of the U.S. states simply can’t offer.
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Indie sales execs play hopscotch
Thursday September 04th 2008When David Glasser jumped from Yari Film Group this week to head international distribution at the Weinstein Co., it was just the latest move in a round of musical chairs sweeping the international sales arena, reflecting weakened overseas action and discontent in the industry ranks. The dizzying moves are reflective not only of a ho-hum attitude overseas toward U.S. indie product of late but also a worrying sign that the shuttering of Hollywood studio specialty divisions might be just the beginning of a retrenchment in the entire indie film business.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: September 20085
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Toronto film festival gets off to a romantic start
Friday September 05th 2008The curtain rose on the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night with romance “Passchendaele” playing to a packed theater and starting a 10-day parade of films and stars at one of the world’s top movie gatherings. In keeping with tradition, the event opened by shining its spotlight on a Canadian movie, but Hollywood invades in the days ahead with the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and even Paris Hilton in town.
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New Line, Alliance extend pact
Thursday September 04th 2008New Line has extended its output deal with Canuck distributor Alliance Films until fall 2009. Alliance had been set to lose the deal at the end of this year as New Line is being folded into Warner Bros. The agreements are a major boost for Montreal-based Alliance, which hasn’t had it easy over the past year thanks to sluggish box office, the arrival of a major competitor in Canada and the U.K. in Entertainment One and the loss of its Canadian output deal for Miramax Films.
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Toronto sellers hope distribs stock up
Thursday September 04th 2008With the festival beginning today, there’s a lot of pressure on Toronto to show the way ahead for the film business, particularly the indies. With a plethora of available titles — and many that are deemed quite commercial — it could be the place where distributors start filling out their 2009 slates. At least that’s what is driving the hopes of sales agents.
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Canada trys to curb production slide
Thursday September 04th 2008Times are tough for the production biz north of the U.S. border. Hollywood filming in Canada has slowed to a trickle this year as a result of the stronger Canadian dollar, lucrative tax credits in many U.S. states and the labor strife in Hollywood. But many in the Canuck production milieu argue the country has some strong selling points that still make it a viable place for location shoots. Ken Ferguson, president of Filmport Studios, firmly believes Canada has something many of the U.S. states simply can’t offer.
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Indie sales execs play hopscotch
Thursday September 04th 2008When David Glasser jumped from Yari Film Group this week to head international distribution at the Weinstein Co., it was just the latest move in a round of musical chairs sweeping the international sales arena, reflecting weakened overseas action and discontent in the industry ranks. The dizzying moves are reflective not only of a ho-hum attitude overseas toward U.S. indie product of late but also a worrying sign that the shuttering of Hollywood studio specialty divisions might be just the beginning of a retrenchment in the entire indie film business.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: September 20085
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Toronto film festival gets off to a romantic start
Friday September 05th 2008The curtain rose on the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night with romance “Passchendaele” playing to a packed theater and starting a 10-day parade of films and stars at one of the world’s top movie gatherings. In keeping with tradition, the event opened by shining its spotlight on a Canadian movie, but Hollywood invades in the days ahead with the likes of George Clooney, Brad Pitt and even Paris Hilton in town.
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New Line, Alliance extend pact
Thursday September 04th 2008New Line has extended its output deal with Canuck distributor Alliance Films until fall 2009. Alliance had been set to lose the deal at the end of this year as New Line is being folded into Warner Bros. The agreements are a major boost for Montreal-based Alliance, which hasn’t had it easy over the past year thanks to sluggish box office, the arrival of a major competitor in Canada and the U.K. in Entertainment One and the loss of its Canadian output deal for Miramax Films.
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Toronto sellers hope distribs stock up
Thursday September 04th 2008With the festival beginning today, there’s a lot of pressure on Toronto to show the way ahead for the film business, particularly the indies. With a plethora of available titles — and many that are deemed quite commercial — it could be the place where distributors start filling out their 2009 slates. At least that’s what is driving the hopes of sales agents.
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Canada trys to curb production slide
Thursday September 04th 2008Times are tough for the production biz north of the U.S. border. Hollywood filming in Canada has slowed to a trickle this year as a result of the stronger Canadian dollar, lucrative tax credits in many U.S. states and the labor strife in Hollywood. But many in the Canuck production milieu argue the country has some strong selling points that still make it a viable place for location shoots. Ken Ferguson, president of Filmport Studios, firmly believes Canada has something many of the U.S. states simply can’t offer.
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Indie sales execs play hopscotch
Thursday September 04th 2008When David Glasser jumped from Yari Film Group this week to head international distribution at the Weinstein Co., it was just the latest move in a round of musical chairs sweeping the international sales arena, reflecting weakened overseas action and discontent in the industry ranks. The dizzying moves are reflective not only of a ho-hum attitude overseas toward U.S. indie product of late but also a worrying sign that the shuttering of Hollywood studio specialty divisions might be just the beginning of a retrenchment in the entire indie film business.
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