Childstar : $5 Million Canadian Tax Payer Dollars … $23,625 Box Office
Re: $5 Million Canadian Tax Payer Dollars … $23,625 Box Office
Gotta say, yeah, that's pretty effing incredible.
$23,625 gross.
Man.
*Canadian* dollars.
Wasn't he on a panel recently (with Sarah Polley, I think) talking about how the Canadian film industry needs more support in theatres, etc.?
Don can do his part by not making such crap movies, for starters. Or by just quitting and letting the millions go to someone who isn't as bland and unappealing as a filmmaker, that is.
$23,625 gross.
Man.
$23,625 gross.
Man.
*Canadian* dollars.
Wasn't he on a panel recently (with Sarah Polley, I think) talking about how the Canadian film industry needs more support in theatres, etc.?
Don can do his part by not making such crap movies, for starters. Or by just quitting and letting the millions go to someone who isn't as bland and unappealing as a filmmaker, that is.
$23,625 gross.
Man.
Re: $5 Million Canadian Tax Payer Dollars … $23,625 Box Office
Yes it is incredible. Thank you very much for responding. If more people would follow your lead and simply comment on things as they are, Canada would surely improve its situation with some more talented and interesting filmmakers. We have them, but they all head south ASAP as they're blocked by McKellar and his "family" who are promoted endlessly and without merit. Public voicing of opinions by the gigantic, overwhelming majority 99% of Canadians helps put things in perspective. We're paying for this garbage! Millions and millions of dollars.
Again, thank you. Some day it's going to end.
Again, thank you. Some day it's going to end.
Re: $5 Million Canadian Tax Payer Dollars … $23,625 Box Office
Everything you said is true, all the money spent on Egoyan and McKellar on films no one sees, the money should be spread around to new talented filmakers.
NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY!!!!!!
NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY!!!!!!
Re: $5 Million Canadian Tax Payer Dollars … $23,625 Box Office
Thank you very much ricardo905.
There is so much out there, so much talent, and it gets shortchanged all the time. I know, I've seen them, I've watched them take off to the U.S. I myself commute to the U.S. for projects to make a living. As long as this mafia exists in Canada, we will have no viable film industry.
Change takes place by speaking out. Public outcry and voices. We have an imposed socialist system of filmmaking. It's not that awful, were it used properly. For it to be used properly, means, without question or doubt, it must be used to promote the will of the people. Socialism is for society. It is for the people. The people have voted time and time and time and time and time again AGAINST the films of Atom Egoyan and Don McKellar and that whole group. Telefilm must obey the will of people.
HEY WAYNE CLARKSON! THE NEW HEAD OF TELEFILM! WHY DON'T YOU OBEY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CUTTING YOUR CHEQUES AND CUT DON MCKELLAR AND BUDDIES OFF! GIVE SOME NEW PEOPLE A CHANCE! MY GOD, STOP HANDING OUT MILLIONS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE PROVEN FAILURES AND HATED BY THE CANADIAN PUBLIC! HOW ABOUT A LITTLE COMMON SENSE HERE?
I'm likely wasting my time, but I don't care. I'm going to keep on telling it like it is.
There is so much out there, so much talent, and it gets shortchanged all the time. I know, I've seen them, I've watched them take off to the U.S. I myself commute to the U.S. for projects to make a living. As long as this mafia exists in Canada, we will have no viable film industry.
Change takes place by speaking out. Public outcry and voices. We have an imposed socialist system of filmmaking. It's not that awful, were it used properly. For it to be used properly, means, without question or doubt, it must be used to promote the will of the people. Socialism is for society. It is for the people. The people have voted time and time and time and time and time again AGAINST the films of Atom Egoyan and Don McKellar and that whole group. Telefilm must obey the will of people.
HEY WAYNE CLARKSON! THE NEW HEAD OF TELEFILM! WHY DON'T YOU OBEY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CUTTING YOUR CHEQUES AND CUT DON MCKELLAR AND BUDDIES OFF! GIVE SOME NEW PEOPLE A CHANCE! MY GOD, STOP HANDING OUT MILLIONS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE PROVEN FAILURES AND HATED BY THE CANADIAN PUBLIC! HOW ABOUT A LITTLE COMMON SENSE HERE?
I'm likely wasting my time, but I don't care. I'm going to keep on telling it like it is.
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Re: What's your beef, really
Magnificos, you are very obviously a cast member fired from one of Don's films or a pispoor filmmaker who can't get a government grant for your project. I just saw "Childstar" and it was a fantastic film, a comic masterpiece written and acted with great intelligence. I intend to track down and see every one of Don McKellar's films.
Your over-reliance on ALL CAPS and your hysterical tone give you away. You're spitting when you speak, man!!
Your over-reliance on ALL CAPS and your hysterical tone give you away. You're spitting when you speak, man!!
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Re: What's your beef, really
film went on to top out domestically at $5,705,761 in total ticket sales through a 14-week theatrical run. Internationally, the film took in an additional $20,821,749 in box office business for a combined worldwide total of $26,527,510.[1] For 2008 as a whole, the film would cumulatively rank at a box office performance position of 167.[34]
Top Canada US 2008 BO
(http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=chart_pass&charttype=chart_BO250)
173 Gran Torino (WB)* 6,884,131
174 The Orphanage (Picturehouse) 6,823,260
175 Strange Wilderness (Par Classics) 6,575,282
176 Brideshead Revisited (Miramax) 6,432,256
177 The Rocker (Fox) 6,409,528
178 Tell No One (Music Box) 6,145,614
179 Run Fat Boy Run (Picturehouse) 6,003,262
180 Mongol (Picturehouse) 5,705,761
181 RockNRolla (WB) 5,700,626
182 The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) 5,488,570
183 Shine a Light (Par Classics) 5,371,629
184 Dolphins and Whales (3D)* 5,156,350
185 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax) 5,005,265
186 Frost/Nixon (U)* 4,890,692
Jus sayin, a film from a country that was parodied in Borat topped any Canadian film in 2008
Top Canada US 2008 BO
(http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=chart_pass&charttype=chart_BO250)
173 Gran Torino (WB)* 6,884,131
174 The Orphanage (Picturehouse) 6,823,260
175 Strange Wilderness (Par Classics) 6,575,282
176 Brideshead Revisited (Miramax) 6,432,256
177 The Rocker (Fox) 6,409,528
178 Tell No One (Music Box) 6,145,614
179 Run Fat Boy Run (Picturehouse) 6,003,262
180 Mongol (Picturehouse) 5,705,761
181 RockNRolla (WB) 5,700,626
182 The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) 5,488,570
183 Shine a Light (Par Classics) 5,371,629
184 Dolphins and Whales (3D)* 5,156,350
185 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax) 5,005,265
186 Frost/Nixon (U)* 4,890,692
Jus sayin, a film from a country that was parodied in Borat topped any Canadian film in 2008
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Re: $5 Million Canadian Tax Payer Dollars … $23,625 Box Office
While I didnt like this movie, or any others of his, at least he has a rudimentary knowledge of film-making. There are some Canadian films out there that are completely incoherent and look like they were filmed with a trouble light and a cell phone. That really pisses me off. Tax dollars thrown at wannabe producers and directors that haven't the slightest clue about film-making.or storytelling; just friends in the right places. Really, there's waaaaaayyyyy worse.
Re: $5 Million Canadian Tax Payer Dollars … $23,625 Box Office
haven't seen it so I give it an 8 b/c of the amazing cast. check ur figures at the door goofy, this movie is still playing and making a huge profit. also, learn how to write, moron. btw Canadians, all Canadians, care deeply for this movie and don
$5 Million Canadian Tax Payer Dollars … $23,625 Box Office
I'm mad as hell when I see this kind of thing. This is one of the biggest disasters in Canadian movie history. $5 million dollars to make this smug, pompous, manipulative egomaniac cross-eyed Canadian pseudo-celebrity's latest road movie, written, directed, and staring himself.
No, it's more than $5 million dollars. There's the ad campaign. And the prints. And the tax write-offs. But let's keep it at round numbers.
$5 MILLION DOLLARS put in by the uniformed and uneducated Canadian public.
$23,625 returned.
Well, even $23,625 is too much. That's gross. ahahhahhahahahha cut that in half for net. Around $12,000 return on a $5,000,000 plus investment right out of Canada's already seriously overtaxed wallet. For an investment, no sane outsider looking in would ever have made.
This is Canada and Canadians talking. Talking with their wallets at the Box Office. They are sending a message loud and clear. It's being screamed at Telefilm and the other funding agencies who are spending their money with their ears and eyes closed. VIRTUALLY NOBODY WANTS DON MCKELLAR IN CANADA. CANADIANS HATE DON MCKELLAR AND THE FILMS HE MAKES. HE IS NOT A STAR OR A CELEBRITY OR ANYTHING ELSE. HE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AS FAR AS CANADIANS ARE CONCERNED EXCEPT AN EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE ANNOYANCE. HE IS A CROSS-EYED DORK FAILURE AND HIS VERY EXPENSIVE AND UNWANTED CAREER NEEDS TO END.
I've made the comparison to the character of Susan Alexander in CITIZEN KANE before. It is a perfect parallel to McKellar and the others in his circle of Made Men cronies. Telefilm is like Kane, pushing their McKellar/Susan Alexander into the spot light, her extremely meagre ability stretched far beyond the breaking point. Dropping millions on her, to complete public indifference and ridicule. Susan says something like: "You don't know what it's like out there, trying your best and nobody wants you." And Kane says: "That's when you've gotta fight 'em!" Of course, that was Kane's money. Here, it's OUR money. The Canadian Tax Payer.
So here, on Canada Day, I write this. Imagine if you will if the millions and millions of dollars spent in the past 5 years was not dropped on Don McKellar and Atom Egoyan and family/mafia. Imagine if that $50 million plus or whatever was spent given other new Canadian filmmakers a chance. (for those thinking it was, I suggest you look at the producer lists of those Canada English language films and think again) Imagine an end to the mass exodus of talent to the south when it comes to writers, directors, and actors if they at least got a chance. Imagine there's no heaven
I'm going to stay on this soap box, telling it like it is. There are millions and millions and millions of hard dollars at stake here. I care too much about Canada to let it slide. A country with a major world-class status and economy being pilfered in plain sight and with impunity by a tight-nit, highly organized group of self-designated "cultural treasures" that the culture rejects completely and detests. Not enough people are saying anything about it and the public trust is regularly emptied by these cinematic Welfare Moms.
Happy Canada Day.