Category Archives: Film
Some Quebec movie theatres reopen Friday, but owners worry plan not sustainable
MONTREAL — Movie theatres in Quebec were allowed to reopen Friday, but owners are wondering how long they can operate without selling food and with customers who have to be home by 8 p.m.Eric Bouchard, co-president of a movie theatre
Quebec to compensate movie theatres for lost snack revenue after ‘Popcorngate’
MONTREAL — The Quebec government will compensate movie theatre owners for lost concession stand revenue, Premier Francois Legault said Thursday, following a disagreement that he dubbed "Popcorngate." The province has said movie theatres can reopen Feb....
Netflix plans to open an office in Canada and grow its relationship with its creators
TORONTO — Netflix plans to open an office in Canada in what the streaming giant calls "a big first step" toward content creation in this country. Netflix co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos says the California-based company is still figuring...
Trump, facing expulsion, resigns from Screen Actors Guild
NEW YORK — Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild after the union threatened to expel him for his role in the Capitol riot in January. In a letter dated Thursday and addressed to SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, Trump
With B.C. movie theatres closed, Rio indie cinema says it will reopen as a sports bar
One of Vancouver's most prominent independent movie houses is rebranding itself as a sports bar in an attempted workaround of the province's COVID-19 health orders.Rio Theatre owner Corinne Lea says as of Saturday, the cinema will pivot to operating as...
Hillary, Chelsea Clinton to tell unheralded heroes’ stories
LOS ANGELES — Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, are forming a film production company that they say will tell the stories of people whose voices are often overlooked. Their first project of their HiddenLight company is to be a
“Beam me app:” Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk urges Alberta adopt federal COVID tracer
EDMONTON — Capt. James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, in violation of Starfleet’s Prime Directive, is questioning the intelligence of Alberta-based life forms over their COVID-19 contact tracing app. William Shatner, the Canadian who played the ic...
Weinstein accusers endorse Manhattan DA candidate Lucy Lang
NEW YORK — A group of women who say they were victimized by Harvey Weinstein, including one who testified at his trial, have endorsed former prosecutor Lucy Lang to replace the Manhattan district attorney who put the movie mogul behind
Ahead of the election, a landslide of documentaries
NEW YORK — The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. Dozens of films, exploring issues from gerrymandering to white supremacists, have sought to illuminate the many issues and trends voters are confronting at th...
Doc examines what this Canadian-made AI system predicts for the U.S. election
TORONTO — She's accurately predicted the Brexit vote, the 2016 American presidential outcome, and last year's federal election in Canada. Now, a Canadian-made artificial intelligence system called Polly is forecasting next month's U.S. presidenti...