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Archives for: November 20105
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Entertainment One Acquires Canadian Rights to ‘The Entitled’
Thursday November 04th 2010Entertainment One has snagged the Canadian distribution rights to the Kevin Zegers and Ray Liotta-starrer The Entitled from Foundation Features. The indie picture, shot in Ontario this summer, features Zegers as a young man without a job or a future who chooses to extort a fortune from three wealthy men by kidnapping their children. The Entitled is being shopped internationally by Inferno Entertainment.
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Robert Rodriguez creates new shingle Quick Draw Productions
Thursday November 04th 2010Robert Rodriguez has launched Quick Draw Productions, a new shingle that is partnering up with Gigi Pritzker’s OddLot Entertainment and Michel Litvak’s Bold Films. The new arrangement gives Rodriguez financing and international sales outlet for the flicks the filmmaker works on via the new company. While no projects have been[…]
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THE BRIEF: Born to be wired
Wednesday November 03rd 2010As digital advertising has the unique capacity to launch a brand straight into your iPhone and then into the zeitgeist, traditional agencies have re-branded themselves at the speed of click. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners was a traditional advertising agency until 2006 when they became “highly useable” and won “The Digital Agency of the Year”. * Taking nothing away from the consistent brilliance of Goodby, or, their nimbleness, I have a nagging feeling that all traditional advertising agencies have a kid’s table. And I’m guessing it’s Generation text.
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How HBO saved television
Tuesday November 02nd 2010Around the turn of the century, something important happened in the American television industry. The cable TV networks, which had previously offered a simple diet of films and live sporting events, moved away from those staples and began commissioning edgy original dramas instead. The result? A decade-long golden age for the form. Unfettered by powerful advertisers and the rules governing mainstream competitors CBS, NBC and ABC, the programmes these channels made were real, profane, bawdy, often violent. Critics took note. So did viewers.
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Toronto Film Club: A not-so-secret society
Tuesday November 02nd 2010Toronto has never looked better to cinephiles, with a revived Carlton, a healthy rep house scene and, of course, the newly anointed Bell Lightbox, a Grand Central Station of moviegoing. Yet those who might consider the fare at the city’s art houses too mainstream can seek refuge in the esoteric[…]
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Archives for: November 20105
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Entertainment One Acquires Canadian Rights to ‘The Entitled’
Thursday November 04th 2010Entertainment One has snagged the Canadian distribution rights to the Kevin Zegers and Ray Liotta-starrer The Entitled from Foundation Features. The indie picture, shot in Ontario this summer, features Zegers as a young man without a job or a future who chooses to extort a fortune from three wealthy men by kidnapping their children. The Entitled is being shopped internationally by Inferno Entertainment.
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Robert Rodriguez creates new shingle Quick Draw Productions
Thursday November 04th 2010Robert Rodriguez has launched Quick Draw Productions, a new shingle that is partnering up with Gigi Pritzker’s OddLot Entertainment and Michel Litvak’s Bold Films. The new arrangement gives Rodriguez financing and international sales outlet for the flicks the filmmaker works on via the new company. While no projects have been[…]
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THE BRIEF: Born to be wired
Wednesday November 03rd 2010As digital advertising has the unique capacity to launch a brand straight into your iPhone and then into the zeitgeist, traditional agencies have re-branded themselves at the speed of click. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners was a traditional advertising agency until 2006 when they became “highly useable” and won “The Digital Agency of the Year”. * Taking nothing away from the consistent brilliance of Goodby, or, their nimbleness, I have a nagging feeling that all traditional advertising agencies have a kid’s table. And I’m guessing it’s Generation text.
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How HBO saved television
Tuesday November 02nd 2010Around the turn of the century, something important happened in the American television industry. The cable TV networks, which had previously offered a simple diet of films and live sporting events, moved away from those staples and began commissioning edgy original dramas instead. The result? A decade-long golden age for the form. Unfettered by powerful advertisers and the rules governing mainstream competitors CBS, NBC and ABC, the programmes these channels made were real, profane, bawdy, often violent. Critics took note. So did viewers.
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Toronto Film Club: A not-so-secret society
Tuesday November 02nd 2010Toronto has never looked better to cinephiles, with a revived Carlton, a healthy rep house scene and, of course, the newly anointed Bell Lightbox, a Grand Central Station of moviegoing. Yet those who might consider the fare at the city’s art houses too mainstream can seek refuge in the esoteric[…]
ARCHIVES
Archives for: November 20105
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Entertainment One Acquires Canadian Rights to ‘The Entitled’
Thursday November 04th 2010Entertainment One has snagged the Canadian distribution rights to the Kevin Zegers and Ray Liotta-starrer The Entitled from Foundation Features. The indie picture, shot in Ontario this summer, features Zegers as a young man without a job or a future who chooses to extort a fortune from three wealthy men by kidnapping their children. The Entitled is being shopped internationally by Inferno Entertainment.
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Robert Rodriguez creates new shingle Quick Draw Productions
Thursday November 04th 2010Robert Rodriguez has launched Quick Draw Productions, a new shingle that is partnering up with Gigi Pritzker’s OddLot Entertainment and Michel Litvak’s Bold Films. The new arrangement gives Rodriguez financing and international sales outlet for the flicks the filmmaker works on via the new company. While no projects have been[…]
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THE BRIEF: Born to be wired
Wednesday November 03rd 2010As digital advertising has the unique capacity to launch a brand straight into your iPhone and then into the zeitgeist, traditional agencies have re-branded themselves at the speed of click. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners was a traditional advertising agency until 2006 when they became “highly useable” and won “The Digital Agency of the Year”. * Taking nothing away from the consistent brilliance of Goodby, or, their nimbleness, I have a nagging feeling that all traditional advertising agencies have a kid’s table. And I’m guessing it’s Generation text.
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How HBO saved television
Tuesday November 02nd 2010Around the turn of the century, something important happened in the American television industry. The cable TV networks, which had previously offered a simple diet of films and live sporting events, moved away from those staples and began commissioning edgy original dramas instead. The result? A decade-long golden age for the form. Unfettered by powerful advertisers and the rules governing mainstream competitors CBS, NBC and ABC, the programmes these channels made were real, profane, bawdy, often violent. Critics took note. So did viewers.
-
Toronto Film Club: A not-so-secret society
Tuesday November 02nd 2010Toronto has never looked better to cinephiles, with a revived Carlton, a healthy rep house scene and, of course, the newly anointed Bell Lightbox, a Grand Central Station of moviegoing. Yet those who might consider the fare at the city’s art houses too mainstream can seek refuge in the esoteric[…]
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