Can Conjob

I like how they say the product was viewed on an airplane...... nothing like an 8 hour flight to click on obscure "entertainment"

So sad, the entire article. For a Billion plus they should hire a PR guy(or trans girl with red hair thats vegan but smokes pot whatever) to prof read the articles.

Again so sad

Canadian films and TV are awful, as you wouldn’t expect when untalented artists hook up with bureaucrats to rob taxpayers.

Tiny countries like Iceland, which has just 330,000 people, can produce seriously good programs. But they have a culture they’re proud of rather than one they want to pave over with innane political correctness.

It's ok, but what's with all the negroes? It's like Black Panther and that disney young adult flick, whatever it's name was. Negroes, negroes, negroes.

It's like there's an agenda or something.

Alternate Leftist Reality: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/inside-right-wing-youtube-turning-millennials-conservative-prageru-video-dennis-prager/

Sorry, my last post was intended for Reader Tips!

we're assured that Cdns LOVE Cdn stories in Cdn films

No, exactly the opposite is the case. Degrassi is/was an outlier when it came/comes to Cdn programming. Most of it is so horrible it's forced onto grade school children as its only market. If I wanted to watch something filmed with my school's camcorder with similar talent, I'd have been in the AV club.

I don't see what the problem is. Assume $10 a ticket - 640 bums in seats watching is a CBC blockbuster.

There are a million excuses, but only one reason, movies whose primary role is to showcase our diversity generally suck.

Using diversity instead of talent, the best person/people for the task at hand is going to create division across colour and ethnic lines. We will not have a cohesive society in any form, we will be a country of factions. We already have politicians sucking up to voting blocks which should never happen, it's as phony as it gets.

Look here: "At the Scotia theatre in Toronto, it's in the room right next to the Black Panther." Talk about a Canadian success story! And if you read to the end you find out that now they will be paying some theatres to show the Canadian films. They tried this with Canadian literature -- paying publishers to publish Canadian works. It resulted in a major up-tick in small, obscure publishers and a lot of notoriously bad books.

It sounds like they fired a bunch of "east asians" for no other reason than their race, doesn't sound like cancon.

Yes Craig Audstin, that's what I got from the article, fired "South Asians". I guess they are lower on the affirmative action totem pole.

Why can't we do this in every industry? Seems only film and literature get the treatment.

Only leftards could slap themselves on the back for hiring minorities based solely on their race while missing the inconvenient counterpoint that it means they just FIRED minorities based solely on their race, too. That is the very definition of racism! Man, I sure hope it is mostly leftards buying Jordan Peterson's book, because these people are morally and ethically LOST.

Leftards demonstrate daily that they are seriously mentally hobbled but at least it seems more and more people are seeing the clear evidence that the left are now drowning in racial and partisan hatred. Their conniving lies and misdirections throughout the Boushie story, to no end but incite hatred against the whiteman, are nothing less than evil.

Comedians want a piece of the action too.

Standup comedians take a crack at government funding

What’s the difference between a one-person stage play and a standup comedian’s performance?

The first one is eligible for government arts funding while the latter is not, which is a sad punchline to several of this country’s comedians. It has long been the case that Canadian arts institutions don’t recognize standup comedy under the umbrella of performing arts, which has left many comics fuming about what they see is an unfair exclusion. Canadian comedians are getting organized to try and change it.

There just isn't enough Canadian movies about Muslims and Islam.

A million dollar film with a total box office of 64-hundred bucks, for a loss of $993,600. That's what happens when the government gets involved in business. But the budget will balance itself.

That's interesting. At the current movie ticket prices, I've sold more books than the number of tickets that were sold to that movie, on about a $500 dollar promotional budget. Given a $50K Can-Con grant to spend on book promos, I could earn enough to take the summer off.

You may all be surprised at the amount of Canadian D grade movies and programs, largely made in B.C., to fill airtime on the cable networks Showtime, Action, Movietime, even the Can version of HBO has detritus made in Canaderp. Terrible shows, some so bad, they are actually funny, due to their terrible plots, awful acting, and “lookalike” actors.
And this is an industry some B.C. types are proud of.

I remember having a Cancon movie inflicted upon me during a cross-country flight some 30 years ago. Considering that it was shown inside an airliner and that the cabin was darkened in order to show it, it was rather hard not to look.

The airline? Air Canada, of course, but, then, I'm sure you would have guessed it.

And, yes, the movie was a stinker and was so bad that I don't think it was shown in theatres. Nowadays, it would be in the direct-to-DVD category.

To paraphrase a line from Animal House, decorum prohibits me from naming it.

I'm sure some SDA readers are familiar with TCM Underground on Turner Classic Movies. It specializes in showing cult films, some of which are in the "golden turkey" category.

A number of Cancon movies have been featured on the show, such as trash like Heavenly Bodies. And, yes, those films were as bad as I thought they'd be.

Here is an all too typical example of Canadian entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hlw_9ldThs

Now wasn't that hilarious? How much do you think that cost us?

The article asks the musical question;"why don't people watch Canadian movies?"

It's imo because there is something about a Canadian made movie that screams "Canadian Movie" !!!

Why has the Canadian film industry never produced a movie like "Gallipoli" or "Breaker Morant"?

Our industry tries to tell a story, but somehow takes the life out of the tale and gives us a boring self-conscious tedious waste of time.

We can produce quality TV shows such as "Little Mosque on the Prairie",which was probably the best TV since "The Honeymooners", and "Corner Gas" was a hoot, but the same talent doesn't participate in the movie industry,maybe because they all went to work in a bigger market in some other Country

btw, I was ONLY KIDDING about "Little Mosque" which to me epitomizes the mediocrity of Canadian government sponsored TV.

'The Plouffe Family'!

“Canadian films and TV are awful, as you wouldn’t expect when untalented artists hook up with bureaucrats to rob taxpayers.”

Beautiful.

this flic is so friggin obscure I cant find it anywhere in the search for more details on the box office figures.

pretty bad even by cbcbc standards.

reminds me of the 'Limbo Rock' song "how low can you go?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axXwv3rOMIU

Two words: Target market.If, as an artist, you are looking to earn the bulk of your income from the people who buy your works, you produce accordingly When government money is available to facilitate the production of "art", the smart artist then produces works designed to appeal to the various committees and granting organizations that fund the art. Those folks, in turn, are often volunteers or maybe earn a small honorarium. They sit on the boards because they "believe" in art. They believe that governments should fund "the arts." This creates a vicious spiral. The committee folks do not want to be tainted with the artistic kiss of death. They cannot be seen as conservative, which is progressive shorthand for a litany of sins. Ergo, arts funding committees will always err on the side of what can be successfully presented as being avant garde.
This inevitably puts them offside with the folks who have endured the ignominy of excess taxation, simply to fund what ends up being widely derided and scorned. It's a safe bet that you'll more easily find Bigfoot than find a piece of public art that isn't widely disliked by the people who were forced to pay for it. The other part of the vicious spiral is the inevitable push-back from the politico's who approved the funding. Inevitably, elected officials end up heaping scorn on the backwards types whose minds are too closed to appreciate the gift that has been granted them.
The pattern is slightly different with entertainment arts. Writers, producers, and actors in a comedy show know that they need to make the audience laugh. They also need them to watch next week. Hence, "Big Bang Theory" has been on for a decade, because it makes me laugh every week. People watch, giving advertisers access to eyeballs. Cheques are written. Everybody's happy.
But, add government money, and again the only audience that really matters is the guys with the chequebook. Harvey Weinstein got rich because he helped movies get made that got people to pay to go to the theatre and watch them. People were happy to invest in Weinstein productions because he produced money makers. If he didn't, he was unhappy, and the investors were unhappy. Taxpayer's money is often- too often- used to fund films that nobody wants to take a chance on because it's a turkey. With tax dollars being the only money at risk, the script doesn't get burnished, the lighting and the cinematography is not of the quality it should be (think of the number of movies that are perceived as better than they actually are simply because of the cinematography), and the acting and direction is sub-par. Thus, a mediocre script is made into an even more mediocre movie because all the visual elements were not done to the "Hollywood" level of excellence. And nobody really cares because nobody had any skin in the game.
On a more personal note, the publishing world in this country is hobbled by an over-reliance on government funds, too. If you peruse publishing company websites, you'll find that most are only interested in publishing authors who come with a grant attached, and that the bulk of publishing grants in Canada revolve around indigenous, gay, French language, or visible minority issues. General fiction is not wanted, only works of literary value.
In other words, nothing anybody wants to read. Sort of like the movies nobody wants to see.