NEW YORK — Third-quarter advertising trends at Time Warner’s Turner networks are solid, but it is too early to speak of a real upturn in the ad market, CFO John Martin said Wednesday. “We haven’t seen any material (ad) rebound yet,” he told the Bank of America — Merrill Lynch[…]
TORONTO — French director Tony Gatlif’s “Korkoro” (Freedom), a film about gypsies rounded up in Nazi-occupied France, on Monday earned top honors at the Montreal World Film Festival. The Holocaust drama, which portrays the second World War through Europe’s Roma population, earned Gatlif the juried Grand Prix des Americas prize[…]
Arab filmmakers are finding themselves caught in the middle of the furor over the Toronto Film Festival’s decision to program a sidebar dedicated to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Sections in the Arab media are calling on filmmakers to boycott the fest, despite the fact that Arab cinema has a strong presence at both Venice and Toronto this year. The row broke out last Thursday when Canadian director John Greyson withdrew his short “Covered” from Toronto in protest at the fest’s inaugural City to City event, which features 10 films about Tel Aviv by Israeli directors.
FilmTotalThe Final Destination, WB (NL)$12,368,882Inglourious Basterds, Wein.$11,629,393All About Steve, Fox$11,241,214Gamer, LGF$9,156,057District 9, TriS$7,076,937Halloween II (2009), W/Dim.$5,745,206Julie & Julia, Sony$5,324,583G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Par.$5,175,113Extract, Mira.$4,340,108The Time Traveler’s Wife, WB (NL)$4,326,787
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has awarded a $50,000 grant to the Telluride Film Festival’s guest director program for a second consecutive year. As part of the Acad’s cultural and education branch — the Academy Foundation — the org donates more than $1 million annually to film[…]
NEW YORK — Third-quarter advertising trends at Time Warner’s Turner networks are solid, but it is too early to speak of a real upturn in the ad market, CFO John Martin said Wednesday. “We haven’t seen any material (ad) rebound yet,” he told the Bank of America — Merrill Lynch[…]
TORONTO — French director Tony Gatlif’s “Korkoro” (Freedom), a film about gypsies rounded up in Nazi-occupied France, on Monday earned top honors at the Montreal World Film Festival. The Holocaust drama, which portrays the second World War through Europe’s Roma population, earned Gatlif the juried Grand Prix des Americas prize[…]
Arab filmmakers are finding themselves caught in the middle of the furor over the Toronto Film Festival’s decision to program a sidebar dedicated to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Sections in the Arab media are calling on filmmakers to boycott the fest, despite the fact that Arab cinema has a strong presence at both Venice and Toronto this year. The row broke out last Thursday when Canadian director John Greyson withdrew his short “Covered” from Toronto in protest at the fest’s inaugural City to City event, which features 10 films about Tel Aviv by Israeli directors.
FilmTotalThe Final Destination, WB (NL)$12,368,882Inglourious Basterds, Wein.$11,629,393All About Steve, Fox$11,241,214Gamer, LGF$9,156,057District 9, TriS$7,076,937Halloween II (2009), W/Dim.$5,745,206Julie & Julia, Sony$5,324,583G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Par.$5,175,113Extract, Mira.$4,340,108The Time Traveler’s Wife, WB (NL)$4,326,787
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has awarded a $50,000 grant to the Telluride Film Festival’s guest director program for a second consecutive year. As part of the Acad’s cultural and education branch — the Academy Foundation — the org donates more than $1 million annually to film[…]
NEW YORK — Third-quarter advertising trends at Time Warner’s Turner networks are solid, but it is too early to speak of a real upturn in the ad market, CFO John Martin said Wednesday. “We haven’t seen any material (ad) rebound yet,” he told the Bank of America — Merrill Lynch[…]
TORONTO — French director Tony Gatlif’s “Korkoro” (Freedom), a film about gypsies rounded up in Nazi-occupied France, on Monday earned top honors at the Montreal World Film Festival. The Holocaust drama, which portrays the second World War through Europe’s Roma population, earned Gatlif the juried Grand Prix des Americas prize[…]
Arab filmmakers are finding themselves caught in the middle of the furor over the Toronto Film Festival’s decision to program a sidebar dedicated to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Sections in the Arab media are calling on filmmakers to boycott the fest, despite the fact that Arab cinema has a strong presence at both Venice and Toronto this year. The row broke out last Thursday when Canadian director John Greyson withdrew his short “Covered” from Toronto in protest at the fest’s inaugural City to City event, which features 10 films about Tel Aviv by Israeli directors.
FilmTotalThe Final Destination, WB (NL)$12,368,882Inglourious Basterds, Wein.$11,629,393All About Steve, Fox$11,241,214Gamer, LGF$9,156,057District 9, TriS$7,076,937Halloween II (2009), W/Dim.$5,745,206Julie & Julia, Sony$5,324,583G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Par.$5,175,113Extract, Mira.$4,340,108The Time Traveler’s Wife, WB (NL)$4,326,787
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has awarded a $50,000 grant to the Telluride Film Festival’s guest director program for a second consecutive year. As part of the Acad’s cultural and education branch — the Academy Foundation — the org donates more than $1 million annually to film[…]