WEEK: February 10-16, 2014
Sunday, February 16th – Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy author E. L. James’s book-signing at Chapters-Indigo in downtown Vancouver. Friday, February 14th – Once Upon… Read More »WEEK: February 10-16, 2014
Sunday, February 16th – Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy author E. L. James’s book-signing at Chapters-Indigo in downtown Vancouver. Friday, February 14th – Once Upon… Read More »WEEK: February 10-16, 2014
Sunday, January 19th – Tomorrowland director Brad Bird lands in Paris for quick location scout now that the $200-million-plus Disney movie has wrapped in Vancouver.… Read More »WEEK: January 13-19, 2014
Words and Pictures premieres tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival with a gala presentation in Roy Thompson Hall. Stars Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche… Read More »TIFF: Premiere of WORDS AND PICTURES with Clive Owen & Juliette Binoche
Sunday, September 1st – Cedar Cove 1×08 Help Wanted airs on the W network. An ex-con Olivia (Andie MacDowell) sentenced comes to Cedar Cove to… Read More »WEEK: August 26 – September 1, 2013
Update June 10, 2013 – Regina’s Wolf Cop won the $1-million in production financing and guaranteed release.
After three months of missions, CineCoup’s film accelerator has advanced three Vancouver teams — sci-fi comedy Alien Abduction, crime drama Bad and dramedy Grade Nine — one Edmonton team — sci-fi thriller The Uprising — and one Regina team — horror fantasy Wolfcop — to the final five. All five finalists are based in western Canada, so they won’t have far to travel to pitch their projects to a panel of film industry professionals at the Banff Media Festival on June 10th. At stake: up to $1-milliion in production financing and guaranteed theatrical release through Cineplex next year.
Click on the key art to go to CineCoup page for each finalist.
Read More »CINECOUP: ALIEN ABDUCTION, BAD & GRADE NINE in Film Accelerator’s Final Five
Published May 31st on Vancouver is Awesome
Update June 10, 2013 – Regina’s Wolf Cop won the $1-million in production financing and guaranteed release.
How did this crazy-good film-accelerator competition start? Back at VIFF’s Film & TV Forum, CineCoup founder and Vancouver digital media entrepreneur J. Joly made a two-hour presentation and then took it on the road to other major cities across Canada. The official launch party took place at the Whistler Film Festival in early December. Word spread and 90 teams from every region submitted two-minute trailers and then began weekly filmmaker missions in March designed to help them package a pitch and build an early fan base with social media tools. Soon after, a trailer with clips from the entrants started a year-long run in 1200 Cineplex theatres nationwide. Over several rounds of fan votes, the 90 whittled down to ten in mid-May, with six of the finalists from here —Alien Abduction, Bad, Grade Nine, Scam, The Fall and The Mill and the Mountain. Let me repeat: six out of ten from Vancouver!
Read More »BIG READ: Vote for 6 Vancouver Film Teams Vying for CINECOUP’s $1-Million – Updated