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3 things you may not know about Susan Croome
Susan Croome, B.C. film commissioner
Producer of the Year: Denise Robert
It speaks volumes that Denise Robert wore only blue for the first 17 years of her life because it was easier to sort color-coded laundry in a large Quebecois family.
Robert dishes on choosing a script
Playback: How do you choose your scripts?
A harrowing trip to the Oscars
In the international film business, independent producers often fantasize about their Oscar speech before a single frame of film has been shot. But not Denise Robert.
Record-breaking De père en flic acquired by Sony
De père en flic became the highest-grossing French-language film ever released in Canada as its box office ascended to $11 million in Quebec alone.
APTN’s Jean LaRose: Balancing business and social conscience
Jean LaRose, CEO of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, says the hardest part of his job is balancing the expectations of over 600 First Nations communities, hundreds of Métis settlements, and northern Inuit, each with their own language and experiences.
Emily Bronte. And Vampires. Don’t Forget the Vampires.
Recently, I watched ITV’s new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, and was puzzled to see an opening sequence in which some unseen person or creature thrashes menacingly through the undergrowth.
Word of mouse
Facebook has become a part of so many people’s lives that you couldn’t imagine a movie or a TV series not having a presence on it. And Canadians are among the world’s biggest users of the social media site, a point reinforced a couple of years ago when Toronto became the first city to register its one-millionth Facebook member. (Presumably my fellow citizens just can’t get enough of the blow-by-blow daily goings-on of the school chums they had successfully avoided for the previous 20 years.)
Sipping lattes with Flashpoint’s Michael Cram, one hot Canadian TV cop
He’s not a cop, far from it, but Michael Cram – who you could just as easily envision as the corny dad in a cereal commercial or the deranged serial killer in an MOW – has played one on TV so many times over in his 18-year acting career he’s lost count.
Sony to redo De père
Sony Pictures plans to make an English-language version of De père en flic, giving the Quebec box-office smash the Hollywood treatment via the producing team of Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
Mirkopoulos eyes Chicago studio
Pinewood Toronto Studios may have its prized 46,000-square-foot megastudio, but Toronto rival Cinespace Studios is converting an old steel plant on Chicago’s west side into a studio complex for Hollywood shoots, with five film stages of more than 50,000 square feet in size.
Millar sees gold in Pan Am Games
Channel Zero CEO Cal Millar looks to have made a prescient $12 bet on CHCH.
CRTC goes easy on CHEK
The CRTC has okayed the sale of CHEK, and issued a new seven-year licence to the tenacious Victoria station that lifts many of the conditions of licence placed on the broadcaster when it was owned by Canwest.
Ontario plans rebate for development
Dust off that pile of screenplays. The Ontario government is introducing a new fund that will rebate development costs for content creators in the film, television and digital media sector. As with the current labor- and production-based tax credit in the province, the new rebate will be administered by the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
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