Industryites kick-started a campaign to reopen the Toronto Film Studios on Monday. The 16-soundstage facility, co-owned by Rose Corp. and Smart!Centres, has been shuttered since December. The result is a space crunch for small- to medium-size productions, already compromised by the 2007 closure of four Cinespace stages at Marine Terminal 28.
The Independent Feature Project announced Monday the 10 narrative features selected as part of its fifth annual Independent Filmmaker Lab, a yearlong fellowship seeking to connect emerging filmmakers with industry mentors. Producers Scott Macaulay (“Raising Victor Vargas”) and Gretchen McGowan (“Limits of Control”) will lead this year’s five-day workshop segment, which is intended to assist in creative and technical advice during participants’ post-production stage.
In a sign that the Screen Actors Guild’s contract ratification battle is nearing its end, only about 100 thesps attended a town hall meeting in New York about the deal. Monday’s meeting at the DGA Theatre – the final of 13 such events organized by SAG to promote ratification – contrasted sharply with the first town-hall meeting in Hollywood on May 21, when a capacity crowd 600 thesps attended a raucous session that featured booing of interim national exec David White and standing ovations for SAG president Alan Rosenberg for opposing the deal.
The first joke of the first night of a brand new era on arguably TV’s most important and historic show (and, hey, not a bad joke at all): “Well,” said Conan O’Brien, the fifth host of ” The Tonight Show,” “I’ve timed this moment perfectly. I’m on a last place network, I moved to a state that’s bankrupt, and tonight’s show is sponsored by General Motors.” And so began the reign of the once and future king of “Tonight” who indeed joins a show whose network is long past “flagging” and which will soon deploy the last host of “Tonight” to fill the 10 p.m. hour.
FilmTotalUp, BV$68,108,790Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Fox$24,353,868Terminator Salvation, WB$16,433,365Drag Me to Hell, Uni.$15,825,480Star Trek, Par.$12,613,727Angels & Demons, Sony$11,353,340Dance Flick, Par.$4,743,636X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox$3,873,377Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, WB (NL)$1,911,401Obsessed, SGem$657,001
Industryites kick-started a campaign to reopen the Toronto Film Studios on Monday. The 16-soundstage facility, co-owned by Rose Corp. and Smart!Centres, has been shuttered since December. The result is a space crunch for small- to medium-size productions, already compromised by the 2007 closure of four Cinespace stages at Marine Terminal 28.
The Independent Feature Project announced Monday the 10 narrative features selected as part of its fifth annual Independent Filmmaker Lab, a yearlong fellowship seeking to connect emerging filmmakers with industry mentors. Producers Scott Macaulay (“Raising Victor Vargas”) and Gretchen McGowan (“Limits of Control”) will lead this year’s five-day workshop segment, which is intended to assist in creative and technical advice during participants’ post-production stage.
In a sign that the Screen Actors Guild’s contract ratification battle is nearing its end, only about 100 thesps attended a town hall meeting in New York about the deal. Monday’s meeting at the DGA Theatre – the final of 13 such events organized by SAG to promote ratification – contrasted sharply with the first town-hall meeting in Hollywood on May 21, when a capacity crowd 600 thesps attended a raucous session that featured booing of interim national exec David White and standing ovations for SAG president Alan Rosenberg for opposing the deal.
The first joke of the first night of a brand new era on arguably TV’s most important and historic show (and, hey, not a bad joke at all): “Well,” said Conan O’Brien, the fifth host of ” The Tonight Show,” “I’ve timed this moment perfectly. I’m on a last place network, I moved to a state that’s bankrupt, and tonight’s show is sponsored by General Motors.” And so began the reign of the once and future king of “Tonight” who indeed joins a show whose network is long past “flagging” and which will soon deploy the last host of “Tonight” to fill the 10 p.m. hour.
FilmTotalUp, BV$68,108,790Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Fox$24,353,868Terminator Salvation, WB$16,433,365Drag Me to Hell, Uni.$15,825,480Star Trek, Par.$12,613,727Angels & Demons, Sony$11,353,340Dance Flick, Par.$4,743,636X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox$3,873,377Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, WB (NL)$1,911,401Obsessed, SGem$657,001
Industryites kick-started a campaign to reopen the Toronto Film Studios on Monday. The 16-soundstage facility, co-owned by Rose Corp. and Smart!Centres, has been shuttered since December. The result is a space crunch for small- to medium-size productions, already compromised by the 2007 closure of four Cinespace stages at Marine Terminal 28.
The Independent Feature Project announced Monday the 10 narrative features selected as part of its fifth annual Independent Filmmaker Lab, a yearlong fellowship seeking to connect emerging filmmakers with industry mentors. Producers Scott Macaulay (“Raising Victor Vargas”) and Gretchen McGowan (“Limits of Control”) will lead this year’s five-day workshop segment, which is intended to assist in creative and technical advice during participants’ post-production stage.
In a sign that the Screen Actors Guild’s contract ratification battle is nearing its end, only about 100 thesps attended a town hall meeting in New York about the deal. Monday’s meeting at the DGA Theatre – the final of 13 such events organized by SAG to promote ratification – contrasted sharply with the first town-hall meeting in Hollywood on May 21, when a capacity crowd 600 thesps attended a raucous session that featured booing of interim national exec David White and standing ovations for SAG president Alan Rosenberg for opposing the deal.
The first joke of the first night of a brand new era on arguably TV’s most important and historic show (and, hey, not a bad joke at all): “Well,” said Conan O’Brien, the fifth host of ” The Tonight Show,” “I’ve timed this moment perfectly. I’m on a last place network, I moved to a state that’s bankrupt, and tonight’s show is sponsored by General Motors.” And so began the reign of the once and future king of “Tonight” who indeed joins a show whose network is long past “flagging” and which will soon deploy the last host of “Tonight” to fill the 10 p.m. hour.
FilmTotalUp, BV$68,108,790Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Fox$24,353,868Terminator Salvation, WB$16,433,365Drag Me to Hell, Uni.$15,825,480Star Trek, Par.$12,613,727Angels & Demons, Sony$11,353,340Dance Flick, Par.$4,743,636X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox$3,873,377Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, WB (NL)$1,911,401Obsessed, SGem$657,001