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Archives for: January 20095
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Canadian doc heads to Sundance
Thursday January 15th 2009As a black president gets set to take up residence in the White House, a Canadian documentary maker is heading to the Sundance Film Festival with a portrait of a racially torn Mississippi community. Paul Saltzman’s Prom Night in Mississippi shines a light on a high school in the deep South where racism has been so ingrained that separate proms are held for black and white students. The Sundance Film Festival kicks off tomorrow in Park City, Utah and runs until Jan. 25.
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SAG moderates to fight on
Thursday January 15th 2009SAG’s internecine battle over its strike authorization vote battle isn’t over yet. That was the message sent Wednesday by the slim majority of SAG board members who regrouped after the 30-hour boardroom brawl in which their efforts to remove the guild’s national exec director Doug Allen, stop the strike authorization[…]
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Canwest trying to avoid loan breach
Thursday January 15th 2009Canadian broadcasters are feeling the pain as global recession and tightening credit markets bite, even as pay TV operators here have so far managed to insulate themselves. Canwest Global Communications kicked off the industry’s earnings season Wednesday by announcing that it might breach its loan conditions on $3.7 billion ($2.99 billion) in bank debt.
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Quebec film makes Oscars’ foreign short list
Wednesday January 14th 2009LOS ANGELES — Quebec filmmaker Benoit Pilon is one step closer to a foreign-language prize at this year’s Academy Awards. Pilon’s The Necessities of Life is part of a short list of nine films that have advanced from an initial field of 65 eligible titles. The movie follows the journey[…]
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Steve Carell makes foray into TV prod’n
Wednesday January 14th 2009Dunder Mifflin branch manager Michael Scott is branching out into TV producing. “The Office” star Steve Carell has launched a television division of his Carousel Prods., which has inked a three-year overall deal with Universal Media Studios, the studio behind his NBC comedy series. Thom Hinkle and Campbell Smith of[…]
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Archives for: January 20095
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Canadian doc heads to Sundance
Thursday January 15th 2009As a black president gets set to take up residence in the White House, a Canadian documentary maker is heading to the Sundance Film Festival with a portrait of a racially torn Mississippi community. Paul Saltzman’s Prom Night in Mississippi shines a light on a high school in the deep South where racism has been so ingrained that separate proms are held for black and white students. The Sundance Film Festival kicks off tomorrow in Park City, Utah and runs until Jan. 25.
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SAG moderates to fight on
Thursday January 15th 2009SAG’s internecine battle over its strike authorization vote battle isn’t over yet. That was the message sent Wednesday by the slim majority of SAG board members who regrouped after the 30-hour boardroom brawl in which their efforts to remove the guild’s national exec director Doug Allen, stop the strike authorization[…]
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Canwest trying to avoid loan breach
Thursday January 15th 2009Canadian broadcasters are feeling the pain as global recession and tightening credit markets bite, even as pay TV operators here have so far managed to insulate themselves. Canwest Global Communications kicked off the industry’s earnings season Wednesday by announcing that it might breach its loan conditions on $3.7 billion ($2.99 billion) in bank debt.
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Quebec film makes Oscars’ foreign short list
Wednesday January 14th 2009LOS ANGELES — Quebec filmmaker Benoit Pilon is one step closer to a foreign-language prize at this year’s Academy Awards. Pilon’s The Necessities of Life is part of a short list of nine films that have advanced from an initial field of 65 eligible titles. The movie follows the journey[…]
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Steve Carell makes foray into TV prod’n
Wednesday January 14th 2009Dunder Mifflin branch manager Michael Scott is branching out into TV producing. “The Office” star Steve Carell has launched a television division of his Carousel Prods., which has inked a three-year overall deal with Universal Media Studios, the studio behind his NBC comedy series. Thom Hinkle and Campbell Smith of[…]
ARCHIVES
Archives for: January 20095
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Canadian doc heads to Sundance
Thursday January 15th 2009As a black president gets set to take up residence in the White House, a Canadian documentary maker is heading to the Sundance Film Festival with a portrait of a racially torn Mississippi community. Paul Saltzman’s Prom Night in Mississippi shines a light on a high school in the deep South where racism has been so ingrained that separate proms are held for black and white students. The Sundance Film Festival kicks off tomorrow in Park City, Utah and runs until Jan. 25.
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SAG moderates to fight on
Thursday January 15th 2009SAG’s internecine battle over its strike authorization vote battle isn’t over yet. That was the message sent Wednesday by the slim majority of SAG board members who regrouped after the 30-hour boardroom brawl in which their efforts to remove the guild’s national exec director Doug Allen, stop the strike authorization[…]
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Canwest trying to avoid loan breach
Thursday January 15th 2009Canadian broadcasters are feeling the pain as global recession and tightening credit markets bite, even as pay TV operators here have so far managed to insulate themselves. Canwest Global Communications kicked off the industry’s earnings season Wednesday by announcing that it might breach its loan conditions on $3.7 billion ($2.99 billion) in bank debt.
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Quebec film makes Oscars’ foreign short list
Wednesday January 14th 2009LOS ANGELES — Quebec filmmaker Benoit Pilon is one step closer to a foreign-language prize at this year’s Academy Awards. Pilon’s The Necessities of Life is part of a short list of nine films that have advanced from an initial field of 65 eligible titles. The movie follows the journey[…]
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Steve Carell makes foray into TV prod’n
Wednesday January 14th 2009Dunder Mifflin branch manager Michael Scott is branching out into TV producing. “The Office” star Steve Carell has launched a television division of his Carousel Prods., which has inked a three-year overall deal with Universal Media Studios, the studio behind his NBC comedy series. Thom Hinkle and Campbell Smith of[…]
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