What the AFF?

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!)