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Archives for: January 20095
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Cookie Jar deal crumbling for lack of dough
Thursday January 08th 2009TORONTO — Market turmoil has forced American Greetings to rework the $195 million sale of its “Strawberry Shortcake,” “Care Bears” and “Sushi Pack” properties to Canadian animation producer Cookie Jar Entertainment. “These are very difficult economic times and the original deal with Cookie Jar is no longer viable,” an American[…]
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New tech ups online marketing
Thursday January 08th 2009Click on a banner ad for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and it expands to full screen, the movie’s haunting images playing in high-def. That’s a first for a Paramount Pictures digital ad. It’s also an example of how interactive advertising takes advantage of the Web’s most advanced tools[…]
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‘Winnipeg’ wins with Toronto critics
Thursday January 08th 2009“My Winnipeg,” helmer Guy Maddin’s black-and-white homage to his Manitoba hometown, has won the Toronto Film Critics Assn.’s inaugural Rogers Canadian Feature Award. The C$10,000 ($8,348) prize was announced on Tuesday and presented by Sarah Polley at the org’s gala awards dinner, attended by TFCA best Canuck film nominees Stephane Lafleur (“Continental: A Film About Guns”) and Yung Chang (“Up the Yangtze”). Atom Egoyan, Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar were among many notable local helmers in the house.
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Network projects reflect economic woes
Wednesday January 07th 2009During the economic crisis of 1970s, television was ruled by procedural dramas, variety shows and socially relevant comedies. Now, as the country is suffering the steepest economic downturn since then, primetime is still ruled by crime procedurals and the descendants of the old-fashioned variety shows, music and dance-themed reality series.[…]
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Oscar’s VFX shortlist goes 3-D
Wednesday January 07th 2009The backwards-aging Benjamin Button, Batman and Iron Man are in, but Indiana Jones and James Bond are out as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the shortlist of seven films that will vie for the visual effects Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. For the first time in its history, the list, announced Tuesday, includes a 3-D movie, “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” Eric Brevig’s live-action reworking of the Jules Verne classic.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: January 20095
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Cookie Jar deal crumbling for lack of dough
Thursday January 08th 2009TORONTO — Market turmoil has forced American Greetings to rework the $195 million sale of its “Strawberry Shortcake,” “Care Bears” and “Sushi Pack” properties to Canadian animation producer Cookie Jar Entertainment. “These are very difficult economic times and the original deal with Cookie Jar is no longer viable,” an American[…]
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New tech ups online marketing
Thursday January 08th 2009Click on a banner ad for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and it expands to full screen, the movie’s haunting images playing in high-def. That’s a first for a Paramount Pictures digital ad. It’s also an example of how interactive advertising takes advantage of the Web’s most advanced tools[…]
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‘Winnipeg’ wins with Toronto critics
Thursday January 08th 2009“My Winnipeg,” helmer Guy Maddin’s black-and-white homage to his Manitoba hometown, has won the Toronto Film Critics Assn.’s inaugural Rogers Canadian Feature Award. The C$10,000 ($8,348) prize was announced on Tuesday and presented by Sarah Polley at the org’s gala awards dinner, attended by TFCA best Canuck film nominees Stephane Lafleur (“Continental: A Film About Guns”) and Yung Chang (“Up the Yangtze”). Atom Egoyan, Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar were among many notable local helmers in the house.
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Network projects reflect economic woes
Wednesday January 07th 2009During the economic crisis of 1970s, television was ruled by procedural dramas, variety shows and socially relevant comedies. Now, as the country is suffering the steepest economic downturn since then, primetime is still ruled by crime procedurals and the descendants of the old-fashioned variety shows, music and dance-themed reality series.[…]
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Oscar’s VFX shortlist goes 3-D
Wednesday January 07th 2009The backwards-aging Benjamin Button, Batman and Iron Man are in, but Indiana Jones and James Bond are out as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the shortlist of seven films that will vie for the visual effects Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. For the first time in its history, the list, announced Tuesday, includes a 3-D movie, “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” Eric Brevig’s live-action reworking of the Jules Verne classic.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: January 20095
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Cookie Jar deal crumbling for lack of dough
Thursday January 08th 2009TORONTO — Market turmoil has forced American Greetings to rework the $195 million sale of its “Strawberry Shortcake,” “Care Bears” and “Sushi Pack” properties to Canadian animation producer Cookie Jar Entertainment. “These are very difficult economic times and the original deal with Cookie Jar is no longer viable,” an American[…]
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New tech ups online marketing
Thursday January 08th 2009Click on a banner ad for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and it expands to full screen, the movie’s haunting images playing in high-def. That’s a first for a Paramount Pictures digital ad. It’s also an example of how interactive advertising takes advantage of the Web’s most advanced tools[…]
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‘Winnipeg’ wins with Toronto critics
Thursday January 08th 2009“My Winnipeg,” helmer Guy Maddin’s black-and-white homage to his Manitoba hometown, has won the Toronto Film Critics Assn.’s inaugural Rogers Canadian Feature Award. The C$10,000 ($8,348) prize was announced on Tuesday and presented by Sarah Polley at the org’s gala awards dinner, attended by TFCA best Canuck film nominees Stephane Lafleur (“Continental: A Film About Guns”) and Yung Chang (“Up the Yangtze”). Atom Egoyan, Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar were among many notable local helmers in the house.
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Network projects reflect economic woes
Wednesday January 07th 2009During the economic crisis of 1970s, television was ruled by procedural dramas, variety shows and socially relevant comedies. Now, as the country is suffering the steepest economic downturn since then, primetime is still ruled by crime procedurals and the descendants of the old-fashioned variety shows, music and dance-themed reality series.[…]
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Oscar’s VFX shortlist goes 3-D
Wednesday January 07th 2009The backwards-aging Benjamin Button, Batman and Iron Man are in, but Indiana Jones and James Bond are out as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the shortlist of seven films that will vie for the visual effects Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. For the first time in its history, the list, announced Tuesday, includes a 3-D movie, “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” Eric Brevig’s live-action reworking of the Jules Verne classic.
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