Lightbox, Toronto Film Fest’s New HQ, Does Disappointing Box Office

“‘This is probably naiveté on my part,’ Piers Handling confessed the other day. But ‘there was a kind of feeling of ‘you build it, they will come.” Especially after 10 years of raising almost $200-million and especially with the brand of the Toronto International Film Festival … People have come. But not, it seems, in the numbers TIFF CEO and director Handling … might have been hoping.”

For An Online Synagogue, An Online Passover Seder

Cincinnati-based Rabbi Laura Baum’s seder “will be conducted in cyberspace, as her guests – from New York to New Zealand – join in at OurJewishCommunity.org, the online congregation she co-leads. … So far, the guest list is up to about 400 – although she need not worry about any last-minute crashers. ‘It is not as if we will run out of gefilte fish,’ she says.”