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The best of both worlds
Daniel Pellerin is a Toronto-based Genie and Gemini Award-winning sound supervisor, rerecording mixer, music supervisor and contractor. Recent credits for Daniel Pellerin Digital Sound Productions include the dramatic features Where the Truth Lies by Atom Egoyan, Lie with Me by Clement Virgo, and the third season of the comedy TV series Puppets Who Kill.
Stock market rises thanks to new technology
Growing use of the Internet for marketing and distribution has allowed smaller stock footage players to play on a more level field with the big houses, just as demand for all-purpose clips is hitting an all-time high thanks to the rise of HD, portable video and other technological shifts.
Sex, drugs and miniskirts
A CBC that dares to make fun of itself has done just that after mining its historic film archives to produce the eight-part mockumentary Jimmy MacDonald’s Canada.
TimeLapse on the cheap
Filmmakers have traditionally used 35mm film to capture time-lapse footage – a process that proved costly in both time and money.
Evictions for T.O. service companies
Provincial authorities are preparing to boot an assortment of film and TV companies from Toronto’s waterfront, taking the first of what is expected to be several bites out of the city’s busy production ghetto.
Absolute Location Support Services, Big House Special Effects and roughly 10 other companies have all reportedly received eviction notices from the Ontario Realty Corporation – a government body that has stewardship over much of the city’s industrial lakeshore.
Zombies storm Canuck screens
They always said Canadians were laid back, but this is ridiculous. We’ve become the true land of the dead this summer, as zombie films continue to surface across the country.
In Vancouver, Andrew Currie’s feature Fido is in production, while Carl Bessai’s Severed is seeking a distribution partner. CJ Hutchinson’s Denizens of the Dead is posting in Winnipeg, and Elza Kephart’s Montreal-shot Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love is looking to grow an audience through midnight screenings in Toronto.
Correction
A photo from the series Life with Derek in the July 4 issue misidentified series lead Michael Seater.
Girard, Podeswa greenlit by Telefilm
Telefilm Canada has greenlit 12 of the 90 projects that applied to its Canada Feature Film Fund – including Jeremy Podeswa’s adaptation of the bestseller Fugitive Pieces, another project about Roméo Dallaire, and François Girard’s delayed period piece Silk.
‘This is an interesting and diverse group of projects ranging from a local and wintry slacker comedy [Allan Moyle’s Weirdsville] to a stunning and exotic international film from the team that brought us The Red Violin,’ says Telefilm’s Karen Franklin.
Locals snub Decode
Decode Entertainment may be forced to take its Naturally Sadie shoot elsewhere, following a squabble with the residents of an east Toronto neighborhood.
Attendance down: StatsCan
Statistics Canada has confirmed what those in the industry have known for some time – that 2003/04 marked the first drop in movie attendance in a decade, down 4.6% from ’02/03. Profits dove too, down almost 16%.
FFC shutters Montreal office
Film Finances Canada will shut down its Montreal office at the end of July, citing fewer bondable independent film and television productions in Quebec as the reason.
Corus channels court older viewers
Parents are going to become an increasingly common part of the programming mix on Corus Entertainment’s children’s channels starting this fall, as the broadcaster pursues better ratings through ‘co-viewing.’
Aurore transforms tragedy into box office
Luc Dionne’s dramatic feature Aurore now boasts the third-highest opening-weekend box office in Quebec history. Three days after its July 8 release, the feature from producers Denise Robert and Daniel Louis of Montreal prodco Cinémaginaire had brought in $953,708, placing it just behind the opening grosses of Séraphin: Un homme et son péché and top-rated Les Boys III. Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm released the feature at 116 Quebec theaters.
Live 8 draws record audiences to CTV
It remains unclear whether G8 leaders were listening, but Canadians were definitely watching.
Hot Sheet
The Hot Sheet tracks Canadian box-office results for the period July 1-7 and television ratings for the period July 4-10.
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