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Weinstein Co. sued for $50 Million; filmmakers say they were paid to keep quiet before Oscars
Thursday March 03rd 2011The Weinstein Co. was sued today by two animated filmmakers who claim that Harvey and Bob Weinstein botched the release of computer-animated movie Escape from Planet Earth and then paid $500,000 in hush money to keep the dispute quiet on the verge of the Academy Awards. The complaint, filed in[…]
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Banff to fete Eugene Levy
Thursday March 03rd 2011Canadian funnyman Eugene Levy will receive the Award of Excellence at the Banff World Media Festival, it was announced Wednesday. The multihyphenate will give a masterclass focusing on his on-screen career as part of the fest. Levy, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, has received several Canuck honors, including a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame, several Canadian comedy awards and, in 2008, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, which is considered Canada’s most prestigious artistic honor.
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CBC gives a nod to the “F Word” with doc
Thursday March 03rd 2011This year is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and to mark the occasion, CBC Television’s The Doc Zone gives a little nod to the “F Word.” The F Word: Who Wants To Be a Feminist? directs a sharp eye at the history and state of feminism today: its stigma and the miles still left to go before it rests. Directed by Michael McNamara and produced by Judy Holm, the film will have its world broadcast premiere on CBC Television’s The Doc Zone tonight.
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THE BRIEF: A post on post and an interview with Rooster
Tuesday March 01st 2011We’ll fix it in post. Remember that? We knew that the storyboard didn’t exactly jump off the page, but that’s because the client couldn’t envision what it would look like when you’d actually see… the old, mundane 4×4 blows up into tiny molecules that morph into a source of light which circles across the entire universe, until it beams down on the top of Mt. Everest where we see a Land Rover. The Land Rover drives down the mount. Cut to SUPER in a b/g of Matisse-like blue.
But post now has its own blues. For empathy and a clear overview, The Brief spoke with Lesley Parrott of Lesley Parrott Consulting, who has forty years of Canadian commercial production under her belt. -
Will Charlie Sheen Ever Work Again?
Tuesday March 01st 2011Warner Bros. and CBS have had enough of Charlie Sheen, announcing late last week that they were shutting down production of his TV top-rated comedy, Two and a Half Men. Now, Sheen is claiming that the move will free him up to take other roles. But the man whose recent publicity tour features such highlights as “The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards look like droopy-eyed, armless children” has the town asking not what will he do next, but rather will he ever work again? If history is any indication, the answer is yes, assuming he can clean up his act.
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Archives for: March 20115
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Weinstein Co. sued for $50 Million; filmmakers say they were paid to keep quiet before Oscars
Thursday March 03rd 2011The Weinstein Co. was sued today by two animated filmmakers who claim that Harvey and Bob Weinstein botched the release of computer-animated movie Escape from Planet Earth and then paid $500,000 in hush money to keep the dispute quiet on the verge of the Academy Awards. The complaint, filed in[…]
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Banff to fete Eugene Levy
Thursday March 03rd 2011Canadian funnyman Eugene Levy will receive the Award of Excellence at the Banff World Media Festival, it was announced Wednesday. The multihyphenate will give a masterclass focusing on his on-screen career as part of the fest. Levy, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, has received several Canuck honors, including a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame, several Canadian comedy awards and, in 2008, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, which is considered Canada’s most prestigious artistic honor.
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CBC gives a nod to the “F Word” with doc
Thursday March 03rd 2011This year is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and to mark the occasion, CBC Television’s The Doc Zone gives a little nod to the “F Word.” The F Word: Who Wants To Be a Feminist? directs a sharp eye at the history and state of feminism today: its stigma and the miles still left to go before it rests. Directed by Michael McNamara and produced by Judy Holm, the film will have its world broadcast premiere on CBC Television’s The Doc Zone tonight.
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THE BRIEF: A post on post and an interview with Rooster
Tuesday March 01st 2011We’ll fix it in post. Remember that? We knew that the storyboard didn’t exactly jump off the page, but that’s because the client couldn’t envision what it would look like when you’d actually see… the old, mundane 4×4 blows up into tiny molecules that morph into a source of light which circles across the entire universe, until it beams down on the top of Mt. Everest where we see a Land Rover. The Land Rover drives down the mount. Cut to SUPER in a b/g of Matisse-like blue.
But post now has its own blues. For empathy and a clear overview, The Brief spoke with Lesley Parrott of Lesley Parrott Consulting, who has forty years of Canadian commercial production under her belt. -
Will Charlie Sheen Ever Work Again?
Tuesday March 01st 2011Warner Bros. and CBS have had enough of Charlie Sheen, announcing late last week that they were shutting down production of his TV top-rated comedy, Two and a Half Men. Now, Sheen is claiming that the move will free him up to take other roles. But the man whose recent publicity tour features such highlights as “The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards look like droopy-eyed, armless children” has the town asking not what will he do next, but rather will he ever work again? If history is any indication, the answer is yes, assuming he can clean up his act.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: March 20115
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Weinstein Co. sued for $50 Million; filmmakers say they were paid to keep quiet before Oscars
Thursday March 03rd 2011The Weinstein Co. was sued today by two animated filmmakers who claim that Harvey and Bob Weinstein botched the release of computer-animated movie Escape from Planet Earth and then paid $500,000 in hush money to keep the dispute quiet on the verge of the Academy Awards. The complaint, filed in[…]
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Banff to fete Eugene Levy
Thursday March 03rd 2011Canadian funnyman Eugene Levy will receive the Award of Excellence at the Banff World Media Festival, it was announced Wednesday. The multihyphenate will give a masterclass focusing on his on-screen career as part of the fest. Levy, a native of Hamilton, Ontario, has received several Canuck honors, including a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame, several Canadian comedy awards and, in 2008, the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, which is considered Canada’s most prestigious artistic honor.
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CBC gives a nod to the “F Word” with doc
Thursday March 03rd 2011This year is the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day and to mark the occasion, CBC Television’s The Doc Zone gives a little nod to the “F Word.” The F Word: Who Wants To Be a Feminist? directs a sharp eye at the history and state of feminism today: its stigma and the miles still left to go before it rests. Directed by Michael McNamara and produced by Judy Holm, the film will have its world broadcast premiere on CBC Television’s The Doc Zone tonight.
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THE BRIEF: A post on post and an interview with Rooster
Tuesday March 01st 2011We’ll fix it in post. Remember that? We knew that the storyboard didn’t exactly jump off the page, but that’s because the client couldn’t envision what it would look like when you’d actually see… the old, mundane 4×4 blows up into tiny molecules that morph into a source of light which circles across the entire universe, until it beams down on the top of Mt. Everest where we see a Land Rover. The Land Rover drives down the mount. Cut to SUPER in a b/g of Matisse-like blue.
But post now has its own blues. For empathy and a clear overview, The Brief spoke with Lesley Parrott of Lesley Parrott Consulting, who has forty years of Canadian commercial production under her belt. -
Will Charlie Sheen Ever Work Again?
Tuesday March 01st 2011Warner Bros. and CBS have had enough of Charlie Sheen, announcing late last week that they were shutting down production of his TV top-rated comedy, Two and a Half Men. Now, Sheen is claiming that the move will free him up to take other roles. But the man whose recent publicity tour features such highlights as “The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards look like droopy-eyed, armless children” has the town asking not what will he do next, but rather will he ever work again? If history is any indication, the answer is yes, assuming he can clean up his act.
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