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JR’s WRINKLES OF THE CITY - LOS ANGELES

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A long-ish video, but JR is brilliant and everyone should watch!

A copyright protection law was challenged by orchestra conductors, teachers and film archivists who said they had relied for years on the free availability of public domain works.
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If you read this article and don’t understand what it means to the entertainment industry, you better figure it out quickly….

Great article - and a great perspective to remember for all when going to Sundance…

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Everyone needs to see Cafe de Flore - brilliant filmmaking that will likely not get a wide US release.

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Director Jean-Marc Vallée’s Cafe de Flore leads the nominations for Canada’s 32nd Annual Genie Awards with 13 nominations. David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method received 11 nominations. Both films are nominated for Best Motion Picture and Achievement in Direction.

Rounding out the Best Motion Picture category are Monsieur Lazhar; The Whistleblower and Starbuck.

The three remaining directors nominated in the Best Achievement in Direction category are Steven Silver (The Bang Bang Club), Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) and Larysa Kondracki (The Whistleblower).

Fellag (Monsieur Lazhar), Garret Dillahunt (Oliver Sherman), Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method), Patrick Huard (Starbuck) and Scott Speedman (Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster) are nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and Catherine De Lea (Nuit #1), Pascale Montpetit The Girl in the White Coat), Vanessa Paradis (Cafe de Flore), Rachel Weisz (The Whistleblower) and Michelle Williams (Take This Waltz) make up the nominees in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role category.

“2011 was a vintage year for Canadian films,” said Helga Stephenson, interim CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. “Academy members have a major challenge ahead of them.”

The awards will be held at The Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto on March 8.

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Airstreams over an amazing surf break - who’s down?!? (Taken with instagram)

Congrats to my wonderfully talented wife!!!

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The CW has bought Trending, a drama series project executive produced by Katherine Heigl, while Fox has bought Step-Dan, a multi-camera comedy written by Dan Lagana.

Inspired by the Cynthia Langston’s novel Bi-Coastal Babe, which Heigl read and fell in love with, Trending is about 26-year-old Lissa Bennett whose job is to search for the newest and hottest emerging trends in order to keep her corporate clients ahead of the curve but finds it difficult to predict the trends in her love life as well. Gren Wells will write the script and will executive produce with Katherine and Nancy Heigl through their Abishag production company, Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi as well as Daniel Rosenberg. CBS TV Studios is producing. Wells most recently wrote the romantic comedy A Little Bit of Heaven, starring Kate Hudson and Gael Garcia Bernal. Katherine and Nancy Heigl, who served as executive producers on the Katherine Heigl-starring movies The Ugly Truth and Life As We Know It, have been building a TV footprint for their Abishag banner. The company is involved in HBO’s movie adaptation of Ann Hood’s novel, The Knitting Circle, which is in development with Craig Wright writing and Katherine Heigl attached to star. Paradigm reps Heigl and Wells who is managed by Alan Rautbort.

Way to go Krysten!!!

Thank you Drake Doremus! And Indian Paintbrush, Super Crispy. In an odd parallel to last year, this would have to be the Guillame Canet this TIFF(fresh, new, unexpected of Little White Lies) as compared to the Woody Allen (yawn) of last year/ Gus van Sant this year.

Love GVS, but not this one. Really want to see more of HH, as he wasn’t directed with much range. Whole thing felt muted.

Whew - stinkers! This is as good as shorts get??? I certainly hope not!