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Archives for: May 20115
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Hotdocs 2011: Healing the Wounded Soul
Thursday May 12th 2011Last week, North America’s largest documentary festival Hot Docs, presented an outstanding selection of over 190 documentaries from Canada and around the world to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Among such an enormous selection were a few films that stood out with their message toward rebuilding the human spirit. In a time of global uncertainty, whether it’s political, geological or economic, such personal stories shine on with their unique sense of strength and dignity even in the darkest of situations.
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THE BRIEF: The industry’s sordid little past. The past.
Wednesday May 11th 2011David Ogilvy is the past. Bill Bernbach, Jay Chiat, George Lois, and Mary Wells are too. The iconic swish? Past. 1984? Humph, TV! So past! 60-second radio? Past. Believing the past has something to enrich us? Way past! Technology and using it to reach the consumer where they happen to be and with what device they happen to be using has unsettled our advertising and marketing “agencies” rendering them obsessive about getting on top of how to occupy this new age and to appear to be as cool as Steve McQueen. Oops! That was so past. THAT WAS SO PAST!
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Hot Docs festival nets record-high audience number and box-office increase
Tuesday May 10th 2011A record-high crowd took in this year’s Hot Docs festival in Toronto, resulting in a box-office boon. Organizers say an estimated 151,000 audience members attended the 11-day event, which wrapped Sunday, marking an 11 per cent increase over last year. That resulted in a 24-per-cent boost in box-office revenue compared to last year. Hot Docs has also announced that “Somewhere Between” won the Sundance Channel People’s Choice Award at the festival. Directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, the film follows four Chinese-born adoptees as they come of age between two cultures in the U.S.
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Fox Int’l is first distributor to hit $1 billion mark in 2011
Monday May 09th 2011Twentieth Century Fox International is the first distributor this year to reach the $1 billion mark at the international box office. No one has reached $1 billion domestically. Fox International crossed $1 billion in revenues on Sunday as 3D toon Rio continued to rack up strong business. The movie has[…]
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LodgeNet a testbed for premium VOD
Monday May 09th 2011Long before studios launched their new premium VOD window, Hollywood was already offering films shortly after their theatrical bows — in hotel rooms. In fact, studios are increasingly turning to LodgeNet Interactive, the nation’s largest provider of VOD services to the hospitality biz, as a case study for the kinds of films that will be offered 60 days after they unspool at plexes and as proof that an audience exists for higher-priced rentals.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: May 20115
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Hotdocs 2011: Healing the Wounded Soul
Thursday May 12th 2011Last week, North America’s largest documentary festival Hot Docs, presented an outstanding selection of over 190 documentaries from Canada and around the world to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Among such an enormous selection were a few films that stood out with their message toward rebuilding the human spirit. In a time of global uncertainty, whether it’s political, geological or economic, such personal stories shine on with their unique sense of strength and dignity even in the darkest of situations.
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THE BRIEF: The industry’s sordid little past. The past.
Wednesday May 11th 2011David Ogilvy is the past. Bill Bernbach, Jay Chiat, George Lois, and Mary Wells are too. The iconic swish? Past. 1984? Humph, TV! So past! 60-second radio? Past. Believing the past has something to enrich us? Way past! Technology and using it to reach the consumer where they happen to be and with what device they happen to be using has unsettled our advertising and marketing “agencies” rendering them obsessive about getting on top of how to occupy this new age and to appear to be as cool as Steve McQueen. Oops! That was so past. THAT WAS SO PAST!
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Hot Docs festival nets record-high audience number and box-office increase
Tuesday May 10th 2011A record-high crowd took in this year’s Hot Docs festival in Toronto, resulting in a box-office boon. Organizers say an estimated 151,000 audience members attended the 11-day event, which wrapped Sunday, marking an 11 per cent increase over last year. That resulted in a 24-per-cent boost in box-office revenue compared to last year. Hot Docs has also announced that “Somewhere Between” won the Sundance Channel People’s Choice Award at the festival. Directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, the film follows four Chinese-born adoptees as they come of age between two cultures in the U.S.
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Fox Int’l is first distributor to hit $1 billion mark in 2011
Monday May 09th 2011Twentieth Century Fox International is the first distributor this year to reach the $1 billion mark at the international box office. No one has reached $1 billion domestically. Fox International crossed $1 billion in revenues on Sunday as 3D toon Rio continued to rack up strong business. The movie has[…]
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LodgeNet a testbed for premium VOD
Monday May 09th 2011Long before studios launched their new premium VOD window, Hollywood was already offering films shortly after their theatrical bows — in hotel rooms. In fact, studios are increasingly turning to LodgeNet Interactive, the nation’s largest provider of VOD services to the hospitality biz, as a case study for the kinds of films that will be offered 60 days after they unspool at plexes and as proof that an audience exists for higher-priced rentals.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: May 20115
-
Hotdocs 2011: Healing the Wounded Soul
Thursday May 12th 2011Last week, North America’s largest documentary festival Hot Docs, presented an outstanding selection of over 190 documentaries from Canada and around the world to Toronto audiences and international delegates. Among such an enormous selection were a few films that stood out with their message toward rebuilding the human spirit. In a time of global uncertainty, whether it’s political, geological or economic, such personal stories shine on with their unique sense of strength and dignity even in the darkest of situations.
-
THE BRIEF: The industry’s sordid little past. The past.
Wednesday May 11th 2011David Ogilvy is the past. Bill Bernbach, Jay Chiat, George Lois, and Mary Wells are too. The iconic swish? Past. 1984? Humph, TV! So past! 60-second radio? Past. Believing the past has something to enrich us? Way past! Technology and using it to reach the consumer where they happen to be and with what device they happen to be using has unsettled our advertising and marketing “agencies” rendering them obsessive about getting on top of how to occupy this new age and to appear to be as cool as Steve McQueen. Oops! That was so past. THAT WAS SO PAST!
-
Hot Docs festival nets record-high audience number and box-office increase
Tuesday May 10th 2011A record-high crowd took in this year’s Hot Docs festival in Toronto, resulting in a box-office boon. Organizers say an estimated 151,000 audience members attended the 11-day event, which wrapped Sunday, marking an 11 per cent increase over last year. That resulted in a 24-per-cent boost in box-office revenue compared to last year. Hot Docs has also announced that “Somewhere Between” won the Sundance Channel People’s Choice Award at the festival. Directed by Linda Goldstein Knowlton, the film follows four Chinese-born adoptees as they come of age between two cultures in the U.S.
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Fox Int’l is first distributor to hit $1 billion mark in 2011
Monday May 09th 2011Twentieth Century Fox International is the first distributor this year to reach the $1 billion mark at the international box office. No one has reached $1 billion domestically. Fox International crossed $1 billion in revenues on Sunday as 3D toon Rio continued to rack up strong business. The movie has[…]
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LodgeNet a testbed for premium VOD
Monday May 09th 2011Long before studios launched their new premium VOD window, Hollywood was already offering films shortly after their theatrical bows — in hotel rooms. In fact, studios are increasingly turning to LodgeNet Interactive, the nation’s largest provider of VOD services to the hospitality biz, as a case study for the kinds of films that will be offered 60 days after they unspool at plexes and as proof that an audience exists for higher-priced rentals.
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