The Pinewood Group — of the UK’s storied Pinewood and Shepperton Studios — said today it’s assumed full ownership of the Toronto production facility that also bears the Pinewood name. It’s been providing sales and marketing services to the state-of-the-art, purpose-built film and TV studio since 2009.
Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
The news comes as Pinewood Toronto completes its most recent expansion, adding a further 170,000 square feet of production space including five soundstages. It’s now the largest film and TV studio in Ontario with 490,000 square feet of production space and 16 purpose-built soundstages.
Pinewood Group chairman Paul Golding said the new parent has “worked with our partners for many years to create the City’s pre-eminent studio, and we’re now delighted to have bought it. We will continue to invest in the studio and the surrounding Port Lands to ensure Pinewood Toronto Studios remains the number one destination...
Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
The news comes as Pinewood Toronto completes its most recent expansion, adding a further 170,000 square feet of production space including five soundstages. It’s now the largest film and TV studio in Ontario with 490,000 square feet of production space and 16 purpose-built soundstages.
Pinewood Group chairman Paul Golding said the new parent has “worked with our partners for many years to create the City’s pre-eminent studio, and we’re now delighted to have bought it. We will continue to invest in the studio and the surrounding Port Lands to ensure Pinewood Toronto Studios remains the number one destination...
- 5/3/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the 2007 family adventure film Luna: Spirit of the Whale, and you can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Directed by Don McBrearty from a screenplay by Marguerite Pigott and Elizabeth Stewart, Luna: Spirit of the Whale has the following synopsis: Mike Maquinna returns to his home town of Gold River on Vancouver Island to attend the funeral of his father, Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations Chief Ambrose Maquinna. With a troubled past including alcoholism, Mike does not intend on staying to claim his rightful place as Chief, but intends on returning to...
Directed by Don McBrearty from a screenplay by Marguerite Pigott and Elizabeth Stewart, Luna: Spirit of the Whale has the following synopsis: Mike Maquinna returns to his home town of Gold River on Vancouver Island to attend the funeral of his father, Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations Chief Ambrose Maquinna. With a troubled past including alcoholism, Mike does not intend on staying to claim his rightful place as Chief, but intends on returning to...
- 2/8/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Toronto may have shut down production for nearly four months due to Covid-19, but its film industry has come roaring back stronger than ever now that strict protocols have been launched to manage the pandemic’s impact.
Local officials say production has already returned and is set to exceed its pre-pandemic levels. Some 1,500 projects, including commercials and music videos, are expected to shoot in the city in 2021, the same number as in 2019, but production value for this year is actually expected to surpass 2019’s $2.2 billion high water mark.
It’s a boom that is set to extend even further. A recent government study of the city’s screen industry work force found that studio space in the provincial capital is set to grow 63% over the next five years.
While welcome, growth at such levels leaves Toronto with a tricky task: training enough workforce to keep up with production demand. In the next five years,...
Local officials say production has already returned and is set to exceed its pre-pandemic levels. Some 1,500 projects, including commercials and music videos, are expected to shoot in the city in 2021, the same number as in 2019, but production value for this year is actually expected to surpass 2019’s $2.2 billion high water mark.
It’s a boom that is set to extend even further. A recent government study of the city’s screen industry work force found that studio space in the provincial capital is set to grow 63% over the next five years.
While welcome, growth at such levels leaves Toronto with a tricky task: training enough workforce to keep up with production demand. In the next five years,...
- 12/2/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The 2010 edition of the Worldwide Short Film Festival wraps up today and the award winners (with the exception of the Audience Award winner, which comes later tonight) were announced at the closing picnic - where local post-rock act Old World Vulture performed and unveiled a slew of impressive new material - earlier this afternoon. And they are:
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The Bravo!Fact Award for Best Canadian Short and a cash prize of $5,000 was captured by director Jean Malek for the visually arresting Les Poissons (Fishes) .
Special Mention goes to Theodore Ushev's Lipsett Diaries (Les Journaux De Lipsett) a technical masterpiece that transcends genres.
J.B. Sugar received The Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker and a cash prize of $5,000 for his documentary Wood If.
The Deluxe Award for Best Live Action Short was awarded to Hamy Ramezan (Finland) for Over The Fence (Viiko...
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The Bravo!Fact Award for Best Canadian Short and a cash prize of $5,000 was captured by director Jean Malek for the visually arresting Les Poissons (Fishes) .
Special Mention goes to Theodore Ushev's Lipsett Diaries (Les Journaux De Lipsett) a technical masterpiece that transcends genres.
J.B. Sugar received The Jackson-Triggs Award for Best Emerging Canadian Filmmaker and a cash prize of $5,000 for his documentary Wood If.
The Deluxe Award for Best Live Action Short was awarded to Hamy Ramezan (Finland) for Over The Fence (Viiko...
- 6/6/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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