Cinema Canada (Mar 1982)

Artand commerce separate markets as Cineplex converts Carlton TORONTO The Cineplex Corporation has announced plans to convert their10-screen complex on Carlton Street in Toronto into an art-film house specializing in foreign films, documentaries, classics, and retrospectives, beginning March 5. Lynda_ Friendly, vice-president of communications for Cineplex, told Cinema Canada SUMMER INSTITUTE UF Ficnl FOR SERIOUS FILMMAKERS 9 intensive week-long courses offered by successful Canadian professionals W PRODUCING DRAMATIC FILMS WRITING FOR TELEVISION Ww PRODUCING SUCCESSFUL DOCUMENTARIES W ADVANCED SCREENWRITING @ INTERMEDIATE SCREENWRITING & INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING small groups cost—-$250 W WRITING FOR ANIMATED FILMS W REDACTION DE SCENARIO A LINTENTION DES REALISATEURS wi PRODUCTION AU QUEBEC rooms $40/week participants may be eligible for Canada Council grants Ottawa June 20—25, 1982 © ® @®@ Algonquin College Room N106, 281 Echo Drive, Ottawa, Ont., K1S 1N3 (613)237-1118 that the original intention for the first Cineplex, in Toronto’s Eaton Centre, was to combine both the art and commercial , markets, but that the Eaton Centre Cineplex had become increasingly commercial since then. Cineplex ran several art films at Carlton St. last year to such tremendous response that they decided to go completely with art films this year, according to Friendly. “What (the Eaton Centre) Cineplex is to commercial films, the Carlton cinema is to the art market,” she said. Plans include a café inside the cinema to be operated by John McHugh, who operated a similar café at Toronto’s Festival theatre until late last year; a Critics Choice program, which will include four films each month selected by a Toronto film critic (the Toronto Star’s Ron Base will lead off the program in March) ; anda student discount program, which will allow students after their first full purchase to receive $1.50 off all further tickets on any day of the week. Friendly also told Cinema Canada that the entire Cine plex chain now is equipped with 35mm projection equipment, but that projection in 16mm is still possible in the Carlton Cineplex. Rose, Pinsent in CTV co-prod TORONTO — Poundmaker Productions Ltd., in co-operation with the Canadian Television Network (CTV), has begun production on a feature-length television drama, The Life and Times of Edwin Alonzo Boyd, ‘which the producers have pre sold to CTV. Playing Boyd, a notoriou Canadian bank robber during the 1950s, will be Gordon Pin _ Sent. Barry Pearson, whose book The Boyd Gang chronicles Boyd’s criminal career, will serve as executive producer, while CTV’s Jerry Lawton will act as supervising producer during the film’s 20-day location shoot in Toronto. Les Rose, whose previous work includes Three Card Monty, Title Shot, Hog Wild, and Gas, will direct. Associate producer produc tion manager Shirley Gill said the film will shoot from February 9-12, break for 12 days as it loses director of photography Ed Higginson, then will resume shooting the final week in February for three weeks. Gill estimates the budget at _ $240,000, and adds the produ cers do not anticipate a theatrical release. Atlantic City good for five Oscar bids TORONTO —Canadian-French co-production Atlantic City crowned its impressive list of film awards by receiving five major Academy Award nominations, including best picture, as the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees February 11. Actor Burt Lancaster, actress Susan Sarandon, director Louis Malle, and screenwriter John Guare each earned nominations in their craft categories, marking the first time a Canadian-produced film has earned nomina tions for the top awards in Oscar history. Three other Canadian films earned nominations. The National Film Board, which has won six Oscars in its history, garnered two, The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin as best animated short and First Winter as best live-action short. Quebec filmmaker Frédéric Bach was also nominated in the best animated short category for Crac. It was Bach's second consecutive Oscar nomination, having been nominated last year for his animated short Tout Rien. The Academy Awards ceremony will take place March 29. Threshold picked up by 20th Classics TORONTO —Paragon Motion Pictures Inc.'s Threshold, a medical thriller about a doctor who implants an_ artificial heart into one of his patients, has been picked up for Ameri-can distribution by Twentieth Century-Fox, who plans to market the film through its new classics division. Produced by Jon Slan and Michael Burns, directed by Richard Pearce, and starring Donald Suther land, Mare Winningham, and Jeff Goldblum, the film played at the 1981 Toronto Festival of Festivals to warmly appreciative audiences. Pan-Canadian holds the film’s Canadian distribution rights. A release date has not been announced. One Night Stand to open in NY for longer TORONTO — One Night Stand, the 1978 Canadian feature film produced and directed by Allan Winton King, written by Carol Bolt, and starring Brent Carver and Chapelle Jaffe, willopena two-week run at New York's: Film Forum in April. The film's American distributor is Janus Films. Cinema Canada —March 1982/9