A convulsion may happen in a couple of years when Canadian Heritage, which accounts for about $2 of every $5 spent by all levels of government on arts and culture, will have to cut at least $60-million to help Prime Minister Stephen Harper achieve his goal of a balanced budget by 2015. For the time being, though, if one disregards the significant whacks to culture initiated by provincial governments in British Columbia and Alberta, there’s a feeling of “holding steady” across the land.
Tag: 12.29.10
Univision TV Network Increasingly Pulls In Big Ratings
“Monday night’s finale, according to Univision, was the top-rated program in the 9 p.m. hour among broadcast stations in Los Angeles, New York, Miami and San Francisco — markets with sizable Latino populations. Nationwide, the Univision soap opera generated higher ratings than programs on NBC, ABC and Fox.”
2010 Movie Box Office Slightly Down
“Total movie-ticket sales will reach $10.556 billion, the tracking agency Hollywood.com said Tuesday. That’s a slight decrease from the $10.6 billion total from 2009, but it’s also only the second time that the annual box office has crossed the $10 billion mark.”
Top Concert Tours Of 2010 – Business Was Down
“The top 50 North American tours combined for an overall take of $1.69 billion, down about 15% from $1.99 billion in 2009. The story was only marginally better throughout the world, where the top 50 total tour gross of $2.93 billion was off about 12% from $3.34 billion a year earlier.”
Three Convicted In Museum Munch Theft
“Three men were convicted Wednesday in Malmo, Sweden, in the theft earlier this year of three paintings, including one by Edvard Munch. The Malmo Art Museum hadn’t known the paintings were missing until police recovered them in October while investigating another crime.”
Is 2D Media Finished As 3D Takes Hold?
3D is coming everywhere, but some wonder if it will become the default version of movies…
Is Identity Politics Infecting History Museums?
Edward Rothstein: “Me! Me! Me! … Tell my story, in my way! Give me the attention I deserve! Haven’t you neglected me, blinded by your own perspectives? Now let history be told not by the victors but by people over whom it has trampled. And why, after all, should it be any different? Isn’t that the cry made by most of us?”
Lead Actress Bails on Taymor’s Spider-Man
“One of the lead actresses in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Natalie Mendoza, who is still recovering from a concussion sustained during the musical’s first preview performance, is leaving the production.”