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Filmport now Pinewood - Paul Bronfman, chairman of a new  ownership consortium, has announced that Pinewood Shepperton plc has concluded a comprehensive sales and marketing agreement for Toronto's largest studio operation, formerly known as Filmport Studios and now renamed Pinewood Toronto Studios.
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The Spine - Best in Melbourne - The animated short The Spine, from director Chris Landreth, has been honoured with  the Best of the Festival award at the 2009 Melbourne International Animated Festival on Sunday, June 28. Landreth received this same honour in 2005 for his Academy Award winning short Ryan. The Melbourne International Animation Festival is one of the largest animation festivals in the world. |
Gemini Stampede for Calgary - The Gemini Awards have become a moveable feast over the past few  yearsand will move once again this year, this time to Calgary. The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television willpresent the awards show, which will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2009. This is the first time the event has been held in Alberta.
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Go Global in Montréal - Organizers behind the 2009 Montreal World Film Festival have issued an invitation to  producers looking to extend their projects onto the global stage. The Montreal International Film Market is orgazining its 15th annual International Co-productions program. The Market is the meeting place for a large number of film and television professionals from around the world and should be on the agenda of any producers looking to expand their business network.
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Michel Côté costars in De père en flic, which opens today in Québec. Côté is a graduate from the National Theatre School and has performed at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Nouvelle Compagnie  Théâtrale, Théâtre de Quat’Sous and Compagnie Jean Duceppe to name a few. He was nominated for a Genie Award for Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his work in Cruising Bar. His television career has resulted in, at last count, nine Prix Gémeaux nominations and four Gémeaux Awards for his roles in Bye Bye (1987), T’es belle Jeanne (1989), Omertà: le dernier des hommes d’honneur (1999) and La petite vie (1999). We have the complete cast list, and an in-depth look at De père on flic in our monthly Inside Québec column below.
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Anyone familiar with Montreal knows that July brings the promise of tropical days and steamy nights and one of the few places of refuge from summer's heat is the air conditioned movie theatre. Maurie Alioff contributes to  Canada's hottest film province by taking an in-depth look at the latest offering from writer-director Émile Gaudreault. De père en flic could be the first box office hit of the summer season. Vying for attention is the teen comedy À vos marques Party! 2, which was released on 100 screens in the province. Producers in the rest of the country would kill to be released on that many screens coast-to-coast. The screenwriter behind such huge hits as La Grande Seduction and Maurice Richard steps behind the camera for the first time to direct such stars as Roy Dupuis and Patrice Robitaille in Les Doights croches, which translates into Sticky Fingers.And there's an in-depth look at one of the most exotic film festivals in the world, Montreal's FanTasia Film Festival which runs for three weeks. |
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About two weeks ago, a former Torontonian marked his 40th anniversary  in Los Angeles. When Larry Robins first arrived in Tinseltown, it cost about $1.50 to see a movie. Midnight Cowboy had opened on June 16th,1969, The Andy Williams Show was in its 10th year of production and Jennifer Aniston was just a few months old. Richard Nixon had been sworn in as the 37th US President in January of that year and in Canada, Pierre Elliot Trudeau had become Prime Minister the year before. You could buy a brand new Toyota for less than $2,000 and the average price of a new home in the United States was $15,550. Northernstars talks with Larry Robins about his 40 years in Hollywood and the changes he has seen. |
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Order of Canada recipient and seasoned veteran of the stage and screen, Jan Rubes has died in Toronto after suffering a stroke. His film career spanned well over 30 years. Graduating from the Prague  Conservatory of Music in 1945, Rubes became the youngest basso at the Prague Opera House and in 1948 represented Czechoslovakia at the International Music Festival in Geneva where he was awarded first prize. Appearing in the Vancouver Festival in 1958, playing opposite Joan Sutherland in Don Giovanni, he spent a decade as the singing narrator of the radio program Songs of My People on the CBC. He is perhaps best known for his role as the stern Amish patriarch in the Harrison Ford film, Witness. Other credits include Dead of Winter, The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick and Snow Falling on Cedars. |
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