Looking back, moving forward

This one starts off inspired by Turner Classic Movies' currently airing new series A History of Hollywood: Moguls & Movie Stars... here's the link:

 

http://www.tcm.com/moguls/

I figured I'd mention 1155 Broadway in New York in slightly more detail than the above program had. On April 4, 1894, Ottawa brothers Andrew M. Holland and George C. Holland opened the first Kinetoscope parlour (aka Peepshow) at 1155 Broadway in New York. Here are a couple links to check out. The first, from The Photographic Historical Society of Canada, features a bit about the Holland Brothers cited in author Robert Gutteridge's book Magic Moments; the second link features a New York Times article about the history of 1155 Broadway - and its demise as a possible cinephile mecca:

http://www.phsc.ca/holland-bros.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/09/realestate/streetscapes-1155-broadway-the-birthplace-of-the-movies.html

Speaking of film history, this Playback article appeared in the mailbox this week, citing this year's summer hit Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D now being the highest grossing Canadian movie in worldwide box office sales. You'll need to subscribe to Playback to read the entire article, but here's the link:

http://playbackonline.ca/2010/11/08/resident-evil-afterlife-surpasses-porkys/

The piece says Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D has surpassed the 1981 teen farce Porky's as the most financially successful Canadian flick, but I was under the impression that the 2006 bilingual buddy cop flick Bon Cop, Bad Cop had beaten the former champ a couple of years ago. Not true, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_cop,_bad_cop). 

Back in Ottawa, the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society brings the stage version of Annie to the Centrepointe Theatre Nov. 12-21.

 

http://www.centrepointetheatre.com/events_tickets/details_theatre/november/annie_en.html

Also, check out the Orpheus season schedule listed on their website - looks like an adaptation of the 1988 big screen comedy classic Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is in the works for June 2011.

http://orpheus-theatre.ca/the-shows.html

Lastly, check out the new moviequips YouTube page shown below. Having a favourites list of movie trailers, legitimately collected on Youtube from the studio and distributor pages there, will (hopefully) help speed up my weekly hunting around for them to link to the moviequips.ca pages. It could also save you some time hunting around for movie trailers. We'll see how it goes.

http://www.youtube.com/user/moviequips

Thanks for checking in.