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  • Shrapnel flies over bombed Emmy bit
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    With Sunday night’s 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards considered critical and ratings disappointment, industry insiders pointed fingers Monday over the show’s much-discussed opening segment. Generally regarded as one of the most unsuccessful and perplexing awards show segments in recent memory, the opening featured the show’s five hosts, all nominees for the newly created outstanding reality host category, bantering onstage without any planned material.

  • Election Issue: Where is the strategy for Canada’s production industry?
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    Canada’s independent film, television and interactive media producers are asking all political parties to share with the industry their plan for the future for this critical sector. As small and medium-sized businesses, the 400 independent producer-members of the Canadian Film and Television Association (CFTPA) employ more than 100,000 Canadians every year. “The production industry has been a major success story and Canada is poised to be a world leader in the creative economy, but we need a vision and a strategy for it to have a successful future,” says Guy Mayson, CEO of the CFTPA.

  • Canada and U.S. Weekend Box Office – 09/19/08 to 09/21/08
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    FilmTotalLakeview Terrace, SONY$15,004,672Burn After Reading, FOCUS$11,028,257My Best Friend’s Girl, LIONSGATE$8,265,357Igor, MGM$7,803,347Righteous Kill, OVERTURE$7,424,479Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys, LIONSGATE$7,271,899The Women, PICTUREHOUSE$5,417,779Ghost Town, DREAMWORKS/PARAMOUNT$5,012,315The Dark Knight, WARNER BROS.$2,915,174The House Bunny, SONY$2,662,650

  • CBS Renews CTV’s Flashpoint
    Monday September 22nd 2008

    CBS has renewed a second season of Flashpoint, which had previously been renewed, by CTV. Flashpoint scored extremely high ratings for both CTV and CBS and was the first successful Canadian produced primetime series, in Canada and the US, in more than ten years. CBS announced they have picked up[…]

  • SAG opposition group wins majority of open seats
    Monday September 22nd 2008

    LOS ANGELES (AP) – An upstart group of actors said Thursday it won a majority of Hollywood seats up for re-election on the national board of the Screen Actors Guild, a shake-up that could dislodge the logjam in contract talks with the movie studios. The Unite for Strength group, including[…]

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  • Shrapnel flies over bombed Emmy bit
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    With Sunday night’s 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards considered critical and ratings disappointment, industry insiders pointed fingers Monday over the show’s much-discussed opening segment. Generally regarded as one of the most unsuccessful and perplexing awards show segments in recent memory, the opening featured the show’s five hosts, all nominees for the newly created outstanding reality host category, bantering onstage without any planned material.

  • Election Issue: Where is the strategy for Canada’s production industry?
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    Canada’s independent film, television and interactive media producers are asking all political parties to share with the industry their plan for the future for this critical sector. As small and medium-sized businesses, the 400 independent producer-members of the Canadian Film and Television Association (CFTPA) employ more than 100,000 Canadians every year. “The production industry has been a major success story and Canada is poised to be a world leader in the creative economy, but we need a vision and a strategy for it to have a successful future,” says Guy Mayson, CEO of the CFTPA.

  • Canada and U.S. Weekend Box Office – 09/19/08 to 09/21/08
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    FilmTotalLakeview Terrace, SONY$15,004,672Burn After Reading, FOCUS$11,028,257My Best Friend’s Girl, LIONSGATE$8,265,357Igor, MGM$7,803,347Righteous Kill, OVERTURE$7,424,479Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys, LIONSGATE$7,271,899The Women, PICTUREHOUSE$5,417,779Ghost Town, DREAMWORKS/PARAMOUNT$5,012,315The Dark Knight, WARNER BROS.$2,915,174The House Bunny, SONY$2,662,650

  • CBS Renews CTV’s Flashpoint
    Monday September 22nd 2008

    CBS has renewed a second season of Flashpoint, which had previously been renewed, by CTV. Flashpoint scored extremely high ratings for both CTV and CBS and was the first successful Canadian produced primetime series, in Canada and the US, in more than ten years. CBS announced they have picked up[…]

  • SAG opposition group wins majority of open seats
    Monday September 22nd 2008

    LOS ANGELES (AP) – An upstart group of actors said Thursday it won a majority of Hollywood seats up for re-election on the national board of the Screen Actors Guild, a shake-up that could dislodge the logjam in contract talks with the movie studios. The Unite for Strength group, including[…]

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Archives for: September 20085
  • Shrapnel flies over bombed Emmy bit
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    With Sunday night’s 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards considered critical and ratings disappointment, industry insiders pointed fingers Monday over the show’s much-discussed opening segment. Generally regarded as one of the most unsuccessful and perplexing awards show segments in recent memory, the opening featured the show’s five hosts, all nominees for the newly created outstanding reality host category, bantering onstage without any planned material.

  • Election Issue: Where is the strategy for Canada’s production industry?
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    Canada’s independent film, television and interactive media producers are asking all political parties to share with the industry their plan for the future for this critical sector. As small and medium-sized businesses, the 400 independent producer-members of the Canadian Film and Television Association (CFTPA) employ more than 100,000 Canadians every year. “The production industry has been a major success story and Canada is poised to be a world leader in the creative economy, but we need a vision and a strategy for it to have a successful future,” says Guy Mayson, CEO of the CFTPA.

  • Canada and U.S. Weekend Box Office – 09/19/08 to 09/21/08
    Tuesday September 23rd 2008

    FilmTotalLakeview Terrace, SONY$15,004,672Burn After Reading, FOCUS$11,028,257My Best Friend’s Girl, LIONSGATE$8,265,357Igor, MGM$7,803,347Righteous Kill, OVERTURE$7,424,479Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys, LIONSGATE$7,271,899The Women, PICTUREHOUSE$5,417,779Ghost Town, DREAMWORKS/PARAMOUNT$5,012,315The Dark Knight, WARNER BROS.$2,915,174The House Bunny, SONY$2,662,650

  • CBS Renews CTV’s Flashpoint
    Monday September 22nd 2008

    CBS has renewed a second season of Flashpoint, which had previously been renewed, by CTV. Flashpoint scored extremely high ratings for both CTV and CBS and was the first successful Canadian produced primetime series, in Canada and the US, in more than ten years. CBS announced they have picked up[…]

  • SAG opposition group wins majority of open seats
    Monday September 22nd 2008

    LOS ANGELES (AP) – An upstart group of actors said Thursday it won a majority of Hollywood seats up for re-election on the national board of the Screen Actors Guild, a shake-up that could dislodge the logjam in contract talks with the movie studios. The Unite for Strength group, including[…]

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