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Archives for: July 20095
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Toronto festival tweaking red carpet
Wednesday July 08th 2009TORONTO — The walk by Hollywood stars to possible Oscar glory at the Toronto International Film Festival is set to grow by a few hundred feet. TIFF organizers hope to raise the event’s profile and film lineup by shifting and lengthening the red carpet outside Roy Thomson Hall. “We’re hoping[…]
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Sundance adds $1.5 million grant
Tuesday July 07th 2009A three-year, $1.5 million grant dubbed the Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute will provide funding to projects from the Sundance Institute with themes that evoke global cultural exchange and social impact. The grant will be a discretionary fund used toward financing a minimum of 12 films from the feature and[…]
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Canada feeds local program fund
Tuesday July 07th 2009Canada’s federal broadcast watchdog is upping the local programming fund from C$68 million ($59 million) to $86 million. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission announced Monday that it will temporarily increase the amount that cable and satellite operators have to contribute to the fund from 1% of their gross broadcasting revenues to 1.5%. This will help ailing small-market stations owned by cash-strapped broadcasters, including CanWest Global and CTVglobemedia, pay for local news and other local programming.
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Cookie Jar gets into Mexican wrestling
Tuesday July 07th 2009Canadian-based Cookie Jar Entertainment has lined up its first project under the new primetime label The Jar — an English-language version of the popular Mexican Lucha Libre AAA wrestling events. Lucha Libre’s famed luchadores — including La Parka, Cibernetico, Mascarita Sagrada, Konnan, El Masias, U.S.-born Jack Evans, El Mesias and[…]
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Canada and U.S. Weekend Box Office – 07/03/09 to 07/05/09
Tuesday July 07th 2009FilmTotalTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen, P/DW$42,320,877Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Fox$41,690,382Public Enemies, Uni.$25,271,675The Proposal, BV$12,857,482The Hangover, WB$11,268,413Up, BV$6,521,389My Sister’s Keeper, WB$5,788,327The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Sony$2,534,228Year One, Sony$2,323,843Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Fox$2,043,288
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Archives for: July 20095
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Toronto festival tweaking red carpet
Wednesday July 08th 2009TORONTO — The walk by Hollywood stars to possible Oscar glory at the Toronto International Film Festival is set to grow by a few hundred feet. TIFF organizers hope to raise the event’s profile and film lineup by shifting and lengthening the red carpet outside Roy Thomson Hall. “We’re hoping[…]
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Sundance adds $1.5 million grant
Tuesday July 07th 2009A three-year, $1.5 million grant dubbed the Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute will provide funding to projects from the Sundance Institute with themes that evoke global cultural exchange and social impact. The grant will be a discretionary fund used toward financing a minimum of 12 films from the feature and[…]
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Canada feeds local program fund
Tuesday July 07th 2009Canada’s federal broadcast watchdog is upping the local programming fund from C$68 million ($59 million) to $86 million. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission announced Monday that it will temporarily increase the amount that cable and satellite operators have to contribute to the fund from 1% of their gross broadcasting revenues to 1.5%. This will help ailing small-market stations owned by cash-strapped broadcasters, including CanWest Global and CTVglobemedia, pay for local news and other local programming.
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Cookie Jar gets into Mexican wrestling
Tuesday July 07th 2009Canadian-based Cookie Jar Entertainment has lined up its first project under the new primetime label The Jar — an English-language version of the popular Mexican Lucha Libre AAA wrestling events. Lucha Libre’s famed luchadores — including La Parka, Cibernetico, Mascarita Sagrada, Konnan, El Masias, U.S.-born Jack Evans, El Mesias and[…]
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Canada and U.S. Weekend Box Office – 07/03/09 to 07/05/09
Tuesday July 07th 2009FilmTotalTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen, P/DW$42,320,877Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Fox$41,690,382Public Enemies, Uni.$25,271,675The Proposal, BV$12,857,482The Hangover, WB$11,268,413Up, BV$6,521,389My Sister’s Keeper, WB$5,788,327The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Sony$2,534,228Year One, Sony$2,323,843Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Fox$2,043,288
ARCHIVES
Archives for: July 20095
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Toronto festival tweaking red carpet
Wednesday July 08th 2009TORONTO — The walk by Hollywood stars to possible Oscar glory at the Toronto International Film Festival is set to grow by a few hundred feet. TIFF organizers hope to raise the event’s profile and film lineup by shifting and lengthening the red carpet outside Roy Thomson Hall. “We’re hoping[…]
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Sundance adds $1.5 million grant
Tuesday July 07th 2009A three-year, $1.5 million grant dubbed the Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute will provide funding to projects from the Sundance Institute with themes that evoke global cultural exchange and social impact. The grant will be a discretionary fund used toward financing a minimum of 12 films from the feature and[…]
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Canada feeds local program fund
Tuesday July 07th 2009Canada’s federal broadcast watchdog is upping the local programming fund from C$68 million ($59 million) to $86 million. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission announced Monday that it will temporarily increase the amount that cable and satellite operators have to contribute to the fund from 1% of their gross broadcasting revenues to 1.5%. This will help ailing small-market stations owned by cash-strapped broadcasters, including CanWest Global and CTVglobemedia, pay for local news and other local programming.
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Cookie Jar gets into Mexican wrestling
Tuesday July 07th 2009Canadian-based Cookie Jar Entertainment has lined up its first project under the new primetime label The Jar — an English-language version of the popular Mexican Lucha Libre AAA wrestling events. Lucha Libre’s famed luchadores — including La Parka, Cibernetico, Mascarita Sagrada, Konnan, El Masias, U.S.-born Jack Evans, El Mesias and[…]
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Canada and U.S. Weekend Box Office – 07/03/09 to 07/05/09
Tuesday July 07th 2009FilmTotalTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen, P/DW$42,320,877Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Fox$41,690,382Public Enemies, Uni.$25,271,675The Proposal, BV$12,857,482The Hangover, WB$11,268,413Up, BV$6,521,389My Sister’s Keeper, WB$5,788,327The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Sony$2,534,228Year One, Sony$2,323,843Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Fox$2,043,288
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