Wow, seems like by all accounts this year's Atlantic Film Festival was a rousing success. Hi I'm Lauen Tewes, Julie McCoy from TV's Love Boat. As always, this post will be monitored by my friend and well, just friend Lunchmeat Harold (ed. Howdy. And he's not Lauen Trewes.)
So yeah, great fun was had by all it seems even without the annual FilmNS Lobster-a-rama. Blackbird seemed to be the film to see this year and won scads of awards. This was a low budget film from a couple of new up and comer director/writer/producers, much like last years Hobo With a Shotgun which was much like the Trailer Park Boys of years ago.
Speaking of which, I've been told that the greatly anticipated shooting of the next Trailer Park Movie has been cancelled! What's going on there? Creative differences? Money? Cast vs producers?
In a related note, I still have not heard anything about Mike Clattenburg's last film The Guys Who Move Furniture. It just seems to have ...vanished.
Meanwhile over at DHX there's good news and bad news. (Ed. Note: The author owns 1000 shares of DHX). The share price is skyrocketing, rising like a phoenix, blasting through the ionosphere! (ed. Easy. It's doing pretty well.) Most of the confidence comes from a lot of activity over the last few months. DHX announced it was buying Cookie Jar, one of the largest kids show producers/ content holders in the world! This will make DHX huge. The deal involves a swap of DHX shares, cash and the assumption of $66 million dollars in debt. (Ed. Wait, why do they have that much debt? Rule of thumb is, only use taxpayer's money for producing so why would they owe anybody any money?) So even though DHX is still sitting on a load of cash, it doesn't look like it will actually cost "us" much. (ed. Should somebody be looking into - ?)
I've also noticed that DHX seems to be coming out of it's shell a little bit. A week doesn't go by when they're not written up in the business news for selling a show to Guam PBS or the Seafood Channel in the Ukraine. (ed. It's called envaluing the stock. Some people think this means more money will come pouring in but the Ukraine station pays for the show in wheat and rusty tractor parts.)
DHX even sponsored the Telefilm CEO to speak at a dinner at the casino last week. I'm told even some DHX people were in attendance! (ed. No doubt blinking their eyes from the daylight of the outside world.) I don't know if Michael Donovan was there but that leads me to the next piece of news that is a bit unpleasant.
I was shocked by a story in yesterday's allnovascotia.com that there's some vulture capitalist/broker/whatever that want's to replace Michael Donovan with someone else as CEO. Words fail me as to who would do such a dasterdly, non-cool thing. This man has done so much for his company and - I, I can't talk about this anymore. Harold, turn it off. Just turn the damn thing off!
(ed. I hope you mean the blog and not the whole internet. I need to search for a new chicken recipe. Goodnight everyone!)
Friday 21 September 2012
Tuesday 11 September 2012
Film Fest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fall chill is in the air which means the Atlantic Film Festival is back. It snuck up on me this year so I haven't gotten a chance to check out the coming attractions in their brochure, but I will. Even if I can no longer leave my apartment to attend, its always an exciting time and memories of film festivals past, flood my brain.
My mind imagines the smells of cocktail shrimps of yesterday and the bottled beer that's never been cold in its life. I also remember the smell of new up and coming Filmmakers with their optimistic freshly pierced things, haunting the halls of the venues and parties. They are so cute at this age, just before their spirits are broken and they end up volunteering on other film sets so they can at least eat at the craft services.
This will be the first year in a long time that Gregor Ashe has not been at the helm of the AFF so there'll no doubt be some comparing and contrasting going on. Don't know much about this new guy except for what I read in the papers and I do wonder whatever happened to Gregor.
Some folks though Gregor was going to slide into the FilmNS CEO role vacated by Ann MacKenzie but that does not appear to have happened. In fact no one has been hired to sit in the big chair and I haven't heard of any efforts being made to do so. I also haven't heard of any hiccups in the running of the corp., things just seem to have kept running. Makes a fella wonder...what are they going to do with the money they're saving on salary and travel. Maybe they need someone to consult on their new blog. Also no word on where Ann macKenzie has moved on up to embrace new challanges.
Wonder if that means they won't have their annual AFF lobster cook? FilmNS is hosting a Steak and Seafood giveaway at a hotel in Toronto for the TIFF. I'm sure that's a good business plan. Somehow.
My editor today is the always available Lunchmeat Harold (ed. Howdy!)
So, in other news Haven has wrapped it's third season on the south shore and Call me Fritz is starting soon, (ed. or has started?). Mr. D the CBC smash sitcom (ed. um, well CBC liked it and it got good numbers, not Corner gas numbers, mind you.) has also wrapped.
Mr. D is a series from the Trailer Park Boys organization (ed. That sounds intimidating) Speaking of which, the boys and director Mike Clattenburg are in Sault Ste Marie (ed - WTF?) shooting a movie called SwearNet which seems to be a series of parodies of TV shows with the swearing turned up to 11. Guess that a good thing for the TPB's niche audience. (ed. be good to keep them off the streets for a couple of hours, probably)
BTW, whatever happened to the Guys Who Move Furniture (ed. aka Moving) feature that Mike Clattenburg directed last year. It had Will Sasso and Eddie Murphy's brother in it and it was supposed to be a mainstream thing? Was it ever released? Did anybody see it? It got a 5.4 out of 10 on IMDB but the only review is from a guy who liked it and hated Batman Rises.
Anyway that's all for now. Maybe after I hear some scuttlebutt from the AFF I'll blog some more. And remember I'd love to hear your comments, news, questions. I am so lonely.
My mind imagines the smells of cocktail shrimps of yesterday and the bottled beer that's never been cold in its life. I also remember the smell of new up and coming Filmmakers with their optimistic freshly pierced things, haunting the halls of the venues and parties. They are so cute at this age, just before their spirits are broken and they end up volunteering on other film sets so they can at least eat at the craft services.
This will be the first year in a long time that Gregor Ashe has not been at the helm of the AFF so there'll no doubt be some comparing and contrasting going on. Don't know much about this new guy except for what I read in the papers and I do wonder whatever happened to Gregor.
Some folks though Gregor was going to slide into the FilmNS CEO role vacated by Ann MacKenzie but that does not appear to have happened. In fact no one has been hired to sit in the big chair and I haven't heard of any efforts being made to do so. I also haven't heard of any hiccups in the running of the corp., things just seem to have kept running. Makes a fella wonder...what are they going to do with the money they're saving on salary and travel. Maybe they need someone to consult on their new blog. Also no word on where Ann macKenzie has moved on up to embrace new challanges.
Wonder if that means they won't have their annual AFF lobster cook? FilmNS is hosting a Steak and Seafood giveaway at a hotel in Toronto for the TIFF. I'm sure that's a good business plan. Somehow.
My editor today is the always available Lunchmeat Harold (ed. Howdy!)
So, in other news Haven has wrapped it's third season on the south shore and Call me Fritz is starting soon, (ed. or has started?). Mr. D the CBC smash sitcom (ed. um, well CBC liked it and it got good numbers, not Corner gas numbers, mind you.) has also wrapped.
Mr. D is a series from the Trailer Park Boys organization (ed. That sounds intimidating) Speaking of which, the boys and director Mike Clattenburg are in Sault Ste Marie (ed - WTF?) shooting a movie called SwearNet which seems to be a series of parodies of TV shows with the swearing turned up to 11. Guess that a good thing for the TPB's niche audience. (ed. be good to keep them off the streets for a couple of hours, probably)
BTW, whatever happened to the Guys Who Move Furniture (ed. aka Moving) feature that Mike Clattenburg directed last year. It had Will Sasso and Eddie Murphy's brother in it and it was supposed to be a mainstream thing? Was it ever released? Did anybody see it? It got a 5.4 out of 10 on IMDB but the only review is from a guy who liked it and hated Batman Rises.
Anyway that's all for now. Maybe after I hear some scuttlebutt from the AFF I'll blog some more. And remember I'd love to hear your comments, news, questions. I am so lonely.
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