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Archives for: April 20095
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‘Passchendaele’ tops Genie Awards
Monday April 06th 2009WWI epic romance “Passchendaele” won top honors at Canada’s Genie Awards in Ottawa. The hit film from writer-helmer-thesp Paul Gross won six Genies including best picture. As previously announced, it took home the Golden Reel Award for top homegrown box office performer of the year, thanks to ticket sales of C$4.4 million.
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Campbell named Panavision CEO
Friday April 03rd 2009Panavision has named William (Billy) M. Campbell president and CEO. Campbell was most recently prexy of Discovery Networks. He has done stints at ABC, CBS and Warner Bros. TV and has been president of Miramax Television. He will report to Ronald Perelman, the billionaire investor who owns Panavision and holds[…]
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Execs at MIPTV set economic game plan
Friday April 03rd 2009Stable markets, greater fiscal clarity and steps to avoid protectionism and copyright theft are the key measures that will help keep the entertainment economy on track, executives at the MIPTV market said Thursday. As G20 world leaders including President Barack Obama gathered in London to hammer out a game plan to reverse the global recession, TV executives here outlined a range of economic issues they said were critical to keep the industry afloat.
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Hollywood actor unions reach deal with advertisers
Thursday April 02nd 2009Hollywood’s two actors’ unions reached a contract deal with advertisers on Wednesday, creating an opening for the larger of the pair to jump-start stalled labor talks with film and television studios. The Screen Actors Guild, the biggest U.S. actors’ union with 120,000 members, is still seeking a deal covering film and TV performers to replace a former contract with Hollywood’s major studios that expired on June 30, 2008.
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3-D prospects spur upbeat vibe at ShoWest
Thursday April 02nd 2009Innovation is the route to prosperity. That’s been the overarching theme of ShoWest 2009, and the cheerleading for change was again in evidence on Wednesday, with continued talk of the lucrative benefits beginning to flow from the fledgling rollout of 3-D exhibition. “Everybody’s smiling because of the big opening of ‘Monsters vs. Aliens,’ ” Carmike Cinemas chairman David Passman said. “But can you imagine what it would have been like here if it had flopped?”
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Archives for: April 20095
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‘Passchendaele’ tops Genie Awards
Monday April 06th 2009WWI epic romance “Passchendaele” won top honors at Canada’s Genie Awards in Ottawa. The hit film from writer-helmer-thesp Paul Gross won six Genies including best picture. As previously announced, it took home the Golden Reel Award for top homegrown box office performer of the year, thanks to ticket sales of C$4.4 million.
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Campbell named Panavision CEO
Friday April 03rd 2009Panavision has named William (Billy) M. Campbell president and CEO. Campbell was most recently prexy of Discovery Networks. He has done stints at ABC, CBS and Warner Bros. TV and has been president of Miramax Television. He will report to Ronald Perelman, the billionaire investor who owns Panavision and holds[…]
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Execs at MIPTV set economic game plan
Friday April 03rd 2009Stable markets, greater fiscal clarity and steps to avoid protectionism and copyright theft are the key measures that will help keep the entertainment economy on track, executives at the MIPTV market said Thursday. As G20 world leaders including President Barack Obama gathered in London to hammer out a game plan to reverse the global recession, TV executives here outlined a range of economic issues they said were critical to keep the industry afloat.
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Hollywood actor unions reach deal with advertisers
Thursday April 02nd 2009Hollywood’s two actors’ unions reached a contract deal with advertisers on Wednesday, creating an opening for the larger of the pair to jump-start stalled labor talks with film and television studios. The Screen Actors Guild, the biggest U.S. actors’ union with 120,000 members, is still seeking a deal covering film and TV performers to replace a former contract with Hollywood’s major studios that expired on June 30, 2008.
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3-D prospects spur upbeat vibe at ShoWest
Thursday April 02nd 2009Innovation is the route to prosperity. That’s been the overarching theme of ShoWest 2009, and the cheerleading for change was again in evidence on Wednesday, with continued talk of the lucrative benefits beginning to flow from the fledgling rollout of 3-D exhibition. “Everybody’s smiling because of the big opening of ‘Monsters vs. Aliens,’ ” Carmike Cinemas chairman David Passman said. “But can you imagine what it would have been like here if it had flopped?”
ARCHIVES
Archives for: April 20095
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‘Passchendaele’ tops Genie Awards
Monday April 06th 2009WWI epic romance “Passchendaele” won top honors at Canada’s Genie Awards in Ottawa. The hit film from writer-helmer-thesp Paul Gross won six Genies including best picture. As previously announced, it took home the Golden Reel Award for top homegrown box office performer of the year, thanks to ticket sales of C$4.4 million.
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Campbell named Panavision CEO
Friday April 03rd 2009Panavision has named William (Billy) M. Campbell president and CEO. Campbell was most recently prexy of Discovery Networks. He has done stints at ABC, CBS and Warner Bros. TV and has been president of Miramax Television. He will report to Ronald Perelman, the billionaire investor who owns Panavision and holds[…]
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Execs at MIPTV set economic game plan
Friday April 03rd 2009Stable markets, greater fiscal clarity and steps to avoid protectionism and copyright theft are the key measures that will help keep the entertainment economy on track, executives at the MIPTV market said Thursday. As G20 world leaders including President Barack Obama gathered in London to hammer out a game plan to reverse the global recession, TV executives here outlined a range of economic issues they said were critical to keep the industry afloat.
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Hollywood actor unions reach deal with advertisers
Thursday April 02nd 2009Hollywood’s two actors’ unions reached a contract deal with advertisers on Wednesday, creating an opening for the larger of the pair to jump-start stalled labor talks with film and television studios. The Screen Actors Guild, the biggest U.S. actors’ union with 120,000 members, is still seeking a deal covering film and TV performers to replace a former contract with Hollywood’s major studios that expired on June 30, 2008.
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3-D prospects spur upbeat vibe at ShoWest
Thursday April 02nd 2009Innovation is the route to prosperity. That’s been the overarching theme of ShoWest 2009, and the cheerleading for change was again in evidence on Wednesday, with continued talk of the lucrative benefits beginning to flow from the fledgling rollout of 3-D exhibition. “Everybody’s smiling because of the big opening of ‘Monsters vs. Aliens,’ ” Carmike Cinemas chairman David Passman said. “But can you imagine what it would have been like here if it had flopped?”
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