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2009 Gemini Awards
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 24th Gemini Awards were held on November 14, 2009, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by Ron James, took place at the Stampede Corral in Calgary and was broadcast on Showcase and Global. Awards Best Dramatic Series *'' Flashpoint'' - Pink Sky Entertainment, Avamar Entertainment. Producers: Anne Marie La Traverse, Bill Mustos *''Being Erica'' - Temple Street Productions. Producers: David Fortier, Aaron Martin, Ivan Schneeberg, Jana Sinyor *'' The Border'' - White Pine Pictures. Producers: Peter Raymont, David Barlow, Brian Dennis, Janet Maclean *''The Tudors'' - Peace Arch Entertainment, Reveille Productions, Working Title Films, Showtime Networks. Producers: Sheila Hockin, Morgan O’Sullivan *'' ZOS: Zone of Separation'' - Whizbang Films, Sulari Productions. Producers: Paul Gross, Mario Azzopardi, Malcolm MacRury, Andrea Raffaghello, Frank Siracusa Best Dramatic Mini-Series *'' Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stampede Corral
The Stampede Corral was a multi-purpose venue (ice hockey, professional wrestling, rodeo, tennis) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located on the grounds of Stampede Park, the arena was completed in 1950 at a cost of C$1.25 million ($ million today) to replace Victoria Arena as the home of the Calgary Stampeders minor professional hockey club (not to be confused with the present-day Canadian Football League team of the same name), which hosted their Western Hockey League games for years. The Corral was built and owned by the not-for-profit Calgary Exhibition & Stampede organization, which leased the underlying land at $1/year from the city of Calgary. Seating 6,475, plus standing room, it was used during the annual Calgary Stampede, with a variety of entertainment events in each year's daily ENMAX Corral Show. In March 2016, the Calgary Stampede organization announced plans to demolish the Stampede Corral to make way for a $500 million expansion of the adjacent BMO Centre. Stampe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace Arch Entertainment
Peace Arch Entertainment ("PAE") (formerly known as Medco from 1981 until 1985 and Vidatron Entertainment from 1985 until 1999) was a Canadian motion picture and television production company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with offices in Los Angeles and Vancouver. The company produced and acquired feature films and television programs for worldwide distribution. History Founded in 1981 as a home entertainment distributor, Peace Arch Entertainment got its name from the famous Peace Arch monument located on the Canada–US border near Blaine, Washington. Much like the monument represents an "open door" policy between the United States and Canada, PAE sought to promote the same form of unity within the company. It was originally known as Medco, before renaming it in 1985, to Vidatron Entertainment, and the company went public. In 1997, the company had bought out Sugar Entertainment. In 1999, it was then renamed to Peace Arch Entertainment, and continues to develop their ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muse Entertainment
Muse Entertainment is a Canadian producer of films and television programs founded by Michael Prupas in 1998. The company gained press attention in 2011 for their production of the multi-Emmy winning and nominated miniseries '' The Kennedys'' in association with Asylum Entertainment. Products Muse Entertainment Enterprises produces dramatic series, television films, mini-series and family programs. The sales arm of Muse Entertainment is Muse Distribution, delivering television programming and feature films internationally to broadcasters, cable and pay networks, theatrical, VOD, SVOD, video, iTunes, and DVD distributors around the world. Muse has a large volume of projects in development and in production with free and cable television networks in the United States as a result of the opening of Muse's Los Angeles offices in 2007. Muse has become one of the most active companies in the world in co producing television projects with international partners. Under Canada's officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Templar (miniseries)
''The Last Templar'' is a three-hour Canadian television miniseries based on the 2005 novel ''The Last Templar'', which aired in the U.S. on January 25 and 26, 2009, starring Mira Sorvino, Scott Foley, Victor Garber, Anthony Lemke, Kenneth Welsh, Danny Blanco Hall and Omar Sharif. The miniseries is produced by Muse Entertainment Enterprises. Emmy Award-winning Robert Halmi Sr. (who produced the ''Gulliver's Travels'' miniseries), along with Robert Halmi Jr. ('' The Poseidon Adventure''), and Michael Prupas are the executive producers. Plot At the New York Metropolitan Museum, four horsemen dressed as 12th-century knights storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures and steal an arcane medieval decoder. Archaeologist Tess Chaykin (Mira Sorvino) and FBI agent Sean Daley (Scott Foley) engage in a chase across three continents in search of the enemy and the lost secret of the Knights Templar. Cast * Mira Sorvino as Tess Chaykin * Scott Foley as Agent Sean Daley * Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Vaughan
Simon Vaughan (born 13 January 1970) is a British film and television producer and executive producer. Vaughan began his career as a child actor after being cast as Freddie Mainwaring in the BBC series ''Grange Hill''. In 2009 Vaughan founded Lookout Point, a London-based drama production company with his wife Justine Vaughan. At Lookout Point Vaughan acted as CEO (and later Chairman and Joint CEO) before stepping down in January 2019, following the sale of Lookout Point to the BBC. In 2019 Vaughan launched The Media Investment Company with BBC Studios alum Helen Jackson. In June 2021, the company re-launched as The Story Company announcing a new partnership with LA based Endeavor Content. Early life Vaughan was born in Kingston-Upon-Thames. He attended Danes Hill school in Surrey and Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Vaughan began his professional acting career in 1981 (aged 11) as Macduff’s son in ''Macbeth'' at the Thorndike Theatre. He later played Peter in the st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis and commonly shortened to simply Alliance or Atlantis and formerly traded as TSX:AAC) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona, Shannon, and Sydney. Alliance Atlantis was a merger of two companies: Atlantis Communications (founded in 1978), and Alliance Communications (founded in 1985). Both companies merged in 1998. The company ceased to exist in 2007 as the broadcasting division acquired by Canwest Global Communications and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs in 2007, with the motion picture division was then spun off and operated independently as Alliance Films, headquartered in Montreal (subsequently sold to Entertainment One), and the international television distribution division is now owned by Echo Bridge Entertainment. All of the former Alliance Atlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamonds (Canadian TV Series)
''Diamonds'' is a French and Canadian-produced television series, which aired from September 22, 1987, to 1989. The show starred Nicholas Campbell as Mike Devitt and Peggy Smithhart as Christina Towne, former actors who had met and married while playing private investigators on a TV series called ''Two of Diamonds'', and continued to work together as real private investigators after both their divorce and the cancellation of their show. The show was frequently compared to the American series ''Moonlighting''. In a direct nod to the comparison, one episode actually featured an encounter with a character who mistook Devitt and Towne for Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. The cast also included Roland Magdane, Geraint Wyn Davies and Tony Rosato. Campbell was also an occasional writer for the series. Produced by Alliance Entertainment, the series aired on Global in Canada, and in a late night slot on CBS in the United States, as well as on the USA Network. It was one of several Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Garrett (producer)
Stephen Garrett (born 16 April 1957) is a British film and television producer. He is best known for founding the Kudos production company, and executive producing the BBC spy drama '' Spooks.'' As a film producer and executive producer, his credits include ''Eastern Promises'' (2007), ''Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day'' (2008), ''Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'' (2011) and ''The Night Manager'' (2016). In 2016, he launched a new production company, Character Seven. Biography Born on 16 April 1957, Stephen Garrett was educated at Westminster School and Merton College, Oxford where he read Jurisprudence. In 1978 he started work at Granada, where he worked as a researcher on ''Granada Reports''. From 1987 to 1992 he was Channel 4’s commissioning editor for youth programmes, commissioning '' The Word''. In 1992 Garrett founded Kudos, with partner Debbie Mason. As joint managing director, first with Debbie Mason, then with Jane Featherstone, and later Executive Chairman, Garrett oversaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kudos (production Company)
Kudos is a British film and television production company. It has produced television series for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Amazon and Netflix and its productions include '' Tin Star, Humans, Broadchurch, The Tunnel'', ''Grantchester, Apple Tree Yard, Utopia,'' '' Spooks'' (US:''MI5''), '' Hustle'' and ''Life on Mars/ Ashes to Ashes.'' In 2007 it was voted Best Independent Production Company by ''Broadcast'' magazine. Formed in 1992, since 2007 it has been part of the Shine Group. In 2007 it also set up the film unit, Kudos Pictures. In 2011, the Shine Group was 100% acquired by News Corporation and was part of the 50-50 joint-venture Endemol Shine Group. On 3 July 2020, France-based Banijay bought the studio through former's acquisition of Endemol Shine Group. History The company was formed in 1992. It came to international attention with the BAFTA Award-winning spy drama '' Spooks'', which debuted on BBC One on 13 May 2002. In late 2006, the company was sold to Shine L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burn Up (TV Series)
''Burn Up'' is a 2008 BBC/Global Drama dealing with the issues of climate change and peak oil. Plot summary Episode one Oil surveyor Masud Khamil narrowly escapes an attack on his camp in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and flees with some valuable data. Tom McConnell replaces his father-in-law Sir Mark Foxbay as Chairman of Arrow Oil. At the celebration party, Inuit activist Mika Namuvai enters uninvited and serves Tom a writ from her people. The writ decries global warming and its causes, such as Arrow's production facility on the Athabasca tar sands. The shock of Mika's subsequent ejection causes Tom's daughter to have an asthma attack, but she is saved by Holly Dernay, head of renewable energy at Arrow. In testimony before the US Senate in Washington, Sir Richard Langham, Tom's former geology professor, testifies on the dangers of global warming, but he is discredited by a pro-oil senator using muck racked up by devious oil lobbyist James "Mack" Mackintosh. Tom confronts Mack, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gross
Paul Michael Gross OC (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian actor, director, writer, producer, and musician born in Calgary, Alberta. Gross is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the popular Canadian television series ''Due South'' as well as for his 2008 war film '' Passchendaele'', which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in. Gross acted as executive producer on ''Due South'' in addition to starring, wrote seven episodes including the two-part series finale, and wrote and sang songs for the soundtrack of the series. He later found success with another Canadian television series, ''Slings & Arrows'' and ''Republic of Doyle''. Early life Gross was born in Calgary, Alberta, the son of Renie Gross (née Dunne), a writer and art historian, and Robert "Bob" Gross, a career soldier, colonel, and tank commander. His family moved to Arlington, Virginia in his adolescence, where Gross attended Yorktown High School. He credits drama teacher Timothy Jecko as his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zone Of Separation
Zone or The Zone may refer to: Places Climate and altitude zones * Death zone (originally the lethal zone), altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span * Frigid zone, a geographical zone on Earth * Hardiness zone, a geographically defined zone in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing * Temperate zone, a geographical zone on Earth * Torrid zone, a geographical zone on Earth Military zones * Zone, any of the divisions of France during the World War II German occupation * Zone, any of the divisions of Germany during the post-World War II Allied occupation *DMZ or DZ or demilitarized zone, an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers, or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel * Green Zone, a military zone in Baghdad, Iraq * Korean Demilitarized Zone Place-names * Administrative divisions of India, known as Zones * Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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