In "Gimme Shelter: Hollywood North," a series running from Friday, Feb.
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It's that time of year again when the land of poutine, ice hockey, and Justin Trudeau becomes Hollywood North for 10 days.
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Police opened a criminal investigation at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in Hollywood, north of Miami, where three elderly residents were found dead at the facility and three later died at a nearby hospital, officials said.
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Nicknamed "Hollywood North" because of all the movies filmed there, Vancouver is one of the best places to spot celebrities outside of L.A. If you're in the market for a more bustling urban center, Toronto is one of North America's safest, cleanest, most multicultural cities (although it also used to boast a pretty notorious mayor).
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The term "Hollywood North" has been used to describe aspects of Vancouver film and television production since the late 1970s,Montreal Gazette.The Windsor Star. even appearing in the titles of books (i.e. Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia) and films (Hollywood North).
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Hollywood North is a 2003 film starring Matthew Modine and Jennifer Tilly. It is a mockumentary detailing the struggles of two Canadian movie producers in Toronto circa 1979. The title is a reference to the colloquialism "Hollywood North".
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From 1917–1920, The Parker Bros. Textile Mill was a movie studio, which dubbed Trenton "Hollywood North".
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She starred in the 2019 comedy film Canadian Strain.Darren Wiesner, "Canadian Strain Lifts the Mood at the Whistler Film Festival". Hollywood North Magazine, December 20, 2019.
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Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge (;Daeida.com: Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge history 1861 - August 7, 1914) donated land, named, founded Hollywood, north west of Los Angeles, California, in 1888.
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Hollywood North, a film about two Toronto-based film producers and their struggles in the late 1970s Hollywood North is a colloquialism used to describe film production industries and/or film locations north of its namesake, Hollywood, California. The term has been applied principally to the film industry in Canada, specifically to the areas of Toronto and Vancouver. The level of Canadian production has increased since the ratification of the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988.
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Peter Birnie, "The seas still can be rough for the son of Moses", The Vancouver Sun (14 August 1996), p. B7, B9.Dan Bennett, "Charlton Heston's Hollywood", North County Times (18 October 1998), p. E1.
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She played predator control expert Dylan Weir, a member of a dinosaur hunting team; the series was filmed in Vancouver.Leiren-Young, Mark (January 3, 2013). "Hollywood North: Vancouver’s Sara Canning takes a vacation from vampires and velociraptors ". The Vancouver Sun.
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View along Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles, California. Franklin Avenue is a street in Los Angeles. It is the northernmost thoroughfare in Hollywood, north of Hollywood Boulevard, and the southern border of the Hollywood Hills. It is the center of the stylish neighborhood of Franklin Village.
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Shaun Lang, "VIFF: Aaron Zeghers Introduces us to His Late Uncle in DANNY". Hollywood North Magazine, September 17, 2019. The film received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nomination for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2019.Adrian Mack, "Marriage Story dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle noms".
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Canadian Strain is a 2019 Canadian comedy film, directed by Geordie Sabbagh.Darren Wiesner, "Canadian Strain Lifts the Mood at the Whistler Film Festival". Hollywood North Magazine, December 20, 2019. The film stars Jess Salgueiro as Anne Banting, a drug dealer whose livelihood is disrupted by the 2018 legalization of cannabis in Canada.
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Retrieved on 13 July 2007 over the course of the next ten years. In time, it was this venture that helped to reopen another important door. In Vancouver, the acting industry was gaining momentum. Some had even dubbed the city "Hollywood North" because of the burgeoning number of television and film projects in development there.
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The I Am Canadian campaign by Molson beer, most notably the commercial featuring Joe Canadian, infused domestically brewed beer and nationalism. Canada's television industry is in full expansion as a site for Hollywood productions. Since the 1980s, Canada, and Vancouver in particular, has become known as Hollywood North. The American TV series Queer as Folk was filmed in Toronto.
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It was filmed in the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, a precursor to the many Hollywood productions that would film in Canada soon after (see Hollywood North and Cinema of Canada). The score was composed by Alan Silvestri. The movie is one of Bart the Bear's earliest roles. The muskox hunt was filmed just outside Hughenden, Alberta.
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A user known as "The Editor" on Hollywood North Magazine said that the film is engaging and can appeal to a variety of viewers.The Editor. (2018). "Review of The Last Casino", Retrieved on April 4, 2018. Many users on IMDb ranked the film a 10/10, commenting that it was "exceptional" and how "Canada is catch[ing] up".
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Granville Square (centre building) houses the two major daily newspapers of the city, The Vancouver Sun and The Province. Vancouver is a centre for film and television production. Nicknamed Hollywood North, a distinction it shares with Toronto, the city has been used as a film making location for nearly a century, beginning with the Edison Manufacturing Company.Ken MacIntyre.
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Official poster of the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival One of the earliest Hollywood television series to shoot in Toronto was the 1957 production Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans. The city has been associated with the nickname 'Hollywood North' since the late 1970s, due to its role as a production centre for both domestic and international film projects.Sarasota Herald-Tribune.Youngstown Vindicator.
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Another LGBT community is located in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. There are large numbers of LGBT residents of Venice, Los Angeles and the City of Santa Monica. Other communities with LGBT residents include Elysian Park, Hollywood, North Hollywood, Reseda, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, and Van Nuys. Areas outside of the City of Los Angeles with LGBT residents include Laguna Beach and Riverside.
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The Bridge Studios is one of several film studios in Metro Vancouver. The sobriquet "Hollywood North" has been applied to Vancouver: it hosts approximately 65 movies and 55 TV series annually and is the third largest film and TV production centre in North America. The film industry supports 20,000 jobs in Vancouver. Many U.S. television and films series are shot exclusively in Vancouver.
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The Whistler Film Festival annually confers a set of juried awards named in honour of Phillip Borsos, for which Canadian films screening at the festival are eligible. Borsos is considered a pioneer of the British Columbian film industry, being among the early directors to utilize and highlight its abundant and visually- stunning landscapes, and helping to establish the province's reputation as Hollywood North.
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Standing on the Line is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Paul-Émile d'Entremont and released in 2019.Darren Wiesner, "Talent On Tap – Paul Émile d’Entremont is Standing on the Line". Hollywood North Magazine, April 26, 2019. Addressing issues of homophobia in the world of sports, figures appearing in the film include speed skater Anastasia Bucsis, soccer player David Testo, and hockey player Brock McGillis.
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The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, downstairs at 612 Davie Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was an influential venue for folk musicFour Strong Winds: Ian and Sylvia - John Einarson - Google Books and poetry readings in the 1960s.Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest - David Spaner - Google Books"Coffeehouses". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Some of the performers at The Bunkhouse included Josh White,Paul Gouldhawke, Paul.
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Since the 1970s, Burnaby has seen a decline in resource sectors and a subsequent rise of high value-added services and technology sectors. The presence of BCIT and SFU promoted research & development in the area. For example, manufacturing plants near Still Creek closed in the late 1970s, only to reopen few years later as film production studios. The continued expansion of media production in Burnaby contributed to Hollywood North.
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He also appeared on the soap opera Another World in the recurring role of Captain Sean Delaney from 1984-1988. His last stage performance was in 1999 in Lake Hollywood. North died of lung and kidney cancer in a hospital in Port Jefferson, New York on January 19, 2000 at the age of 79. He and his wife June North had two daughters, Alexandra Jackson and Victoria North.
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Her Friend Adam is a Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Ben Petrie and released in 2016.Alex Southey, "Her Friend Adam (Review)". Hollywood North Magazine, January 17, 2017. The film stars Petrie as Robert, a man whose insecurities about his relationship with his girlfriend Liv (Grace Glowicki) explode into a fight after he suspects her of having an affair with her friend Adam (Andrew Chown) even though Adam is gay.
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Vancouver, British Columbia has a large film and television production industry, which earned it the nickname "Hollywood North." It usually serves as a substitute location for other cities and locales. This is a list, arranged by region, of films and television series shot in the Lower Mainland, including several prominent filming locations in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, plus those in the adjoining Sea-to-Sky Corridor and Sunshine Coast regions.
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Commercial corridors include the nightlife and dining focused on the Sunset Strip, along Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Avenues of Art and Design along Robertson, Melrose, and Beverly Boulevard. Residential neighborhoods in West Hollywood include the Norma Triangle, West Hollywood North, West Hollywood West, West Hollywood East, and West Hollywood Heights, all of which are only a few blocks long or wide. Major intersecting streets typically provide amenities within walking distance of adjacent neighborhoods.
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The National Film Board of Canada is internationally renowned for its animation and documentary production. More recently it has been criticized for its increasingly commercial orientation; only one third of its budget is now spent on the production of new films. Much of Canada's film industry services American producers and films driven by American distribution, and this part of the industry has been nicknamed "Hollywood North". The major production centres are Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
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The only known guilds in the Dublin diocese were St. Anne's, in the church of St. Audoen; St. Sythe in the church of St. Michan; Corpus Christi, in St. Michael's on the Hill; St. George's, in George's Lane; St. Mary's in Balrothery; St. Mary's, at Mulhuddart; St. Canice's, at Hollywood, North Dublin, and St. John the Baptist's, in St. John's Church, Fishamble Street. Records of only St. Anne's and a few St. George's survive.
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Dawson moved into TV and movie work in the 1990s, during the period when Vancouver became known as Hollywood North. Dawson appeared in many locally produced television series, including The X-Files, Highlander and Stargate. Perhaps his most prominent film appearance was opposite former Seattle Seahawks linebacker turned actor Brian Bosworth in the 2000 feature film The Operative. Bob Dawson died on November 7, 2001 in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the age of 46.
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Valdez played in the USL A-League in 1998 with the Vancouver Whitecaps. In 2001, he played with Toronto Supra in the Canadian Professional Soccer League, and featured in the CPSL Championship final against St. Catharines Roma. On September 6, 2017 he was selected for the Vancouver Whitecaps alumni team in a friendly match against Hollywood North. After his retirement from professional soccer he became an academy coach for the Whitecaps Academy and North Shore SC.
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As an actor living in Vancouver (aka Hollywood North) Eklund has appeared on several Canadian and American television series filmed in the area. His first television role was in 2000 as a police officer in an episode of the sci-fi series Dark Angel. Eklund appeared on an episode of Stargate SG-1 in 2002, and appeared in 2 episodes of Battlestar Galactica the following year. In 2005 he appeared on the Canadian series Da Vinci's Inquest and Cold Squad.
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The production of domestic and foreign film and television is a major local industry. Toronto ranks as the third largest production centre for film and television after Los Angeles and New York City, sharing the nickname "Hollywood North" with Vancouver. The Toronto International Film Festival is an annual event celebrating the international film industry. Another prestigious film festival is the Take 21 (formerly the Toronto Student Film Festival), which screens the works of students 12–18 years of age from many different countries across the globe.
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While industry was the engine that propelled North Vancouver for much of the twentieth century, this has now largely been replaced by enterprises more in tune with present economic realities. Many North Shore companies are in the business of creating and marketing high technology. The television and film industry has made the area the centre of Hollywood North. Filming of the series The X-Files took place in North Vancouver for five seasons, with many of its "wilderness" sequences shot in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve (LSCR).
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Novelist Laird Koenig adapted the book himself. Originally, the script was intended as a play, but this idea was abandoned due to the belief that a young actress would not be available to play Rynn for an extended period. Gessner read the book, only to find rights were optioned to Sam Spiegel, but the project was derailed due to creative differences, allowing Gessner to secure them. The film followed tax incentives for cinema offered by the government of Canada, beginning in 1974, stimulating a "Hollywood North".
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In 1979 Toronto mayor John Sewell announced that Canada had become the third largest movie production centre after Los Angeles and New York. In 2002 the year Toronto's Film and Television industry accounted for $1.16 billion towards the city's economy, former Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman proclaimed "Toronto is Hollywood North". In 2003 the Toronto Ontario Film Office was established in Los Angeles to promote the benefits of filming in the city of Toronto and the province of Ontario. With the TOFO Ontario is the only Canadian province to have an office in Hollywood.
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The painting measures . It depicts the communal pool of the apartment block at 1145 Larrabee Street, Hollywood, north of Sunset Boulevard, which was then the home of art dealer Nicholas Wilder, and shows a naked Schlesinger, then 18 years old, climbing up and out of the pool. Hockney, in his characteristic style, simplifies and flattens the image, and the rippling surface of the water is abstracted into wavy white lines on blue, similar to a comic or an advertisement. The straight lines in the painting were created using masking tape.
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Follow the Fox () is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Simon Laganière and released in 2014.Nick Wangersky, "Suivre la piste du renard (Review)". Hollywood North, September 16, 2016. The film stars Mathieu Gosselin and Francis La Haye as Richard and Clément, two brothers planning a bicycle ride across Canada to raise money after their grandfather is diagnosed with cancer. The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards,"Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Theatrical documentary & short film".
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Ken Eisner of The Georgia Straight found the film worked well and had some insights but did not probe deeply into the subject matter. Septième arts François Petitclerc said the film's structure punctuated its fluid and convincing writing, and that the actors commanded their roles. Brian Johnson of Maclean's wrote that the film is well-shot with some good performances but found it suffered from "squeaky-clean mediocrity" and unbelievable situations. Shaun Lang of Hollywood North rated it 5.5 out of 10, finding it complicated, inconsistent and lacking a meaningful message.
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The world premiere for Trans-Neptune took place at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. On August 26, 2007, Trans-Neptune won the Gerry Brunet Memorial Award at the 19th annual Vancouver Queer Film FestivalTakeguchi, Craig. "News from Hollywood North" The Georgia Straight [Vancouver] August 30. 2007 On May 4, 2009, The Anachronism won seven Leo Awards, including Best Short Drama, Best Screenwriting in a Short Drama, Best Overall Sound in a Short Drama, Best Musical Score in a Short Drama, Best Production Design in a Short Drama, and Best Costume Design in a Short Drama.
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Cheaper Canadian primary products such as lumber and oil could be bought tariff-free by Americans, and Hollywood studios sent their crews to film many movies in Canada due to the cheap Canadian dollar (see "runaway production" and "Hollywood North"). The removal of protective tariffs meant that market forces, such as currency values, have a greater effect on the economies of both countries than they would have with tariffs. The agreement has failed to liberalize trade in some areas, most notably the ongoing dispute over softwood lumber. Issues such as mineral, fresh water, and softwood lumber trade still remain disputed.
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Turner's first role was a recurring role in the science-fiction drama Caprica. Later he got a role in the film Confined, alongside Battlestar Galactica star Michael Hogan. In 2005, Turner was awarded the "Outstanding Male Performance in a Supporting Role" award at the Alberta One Act Festival. Since moving to Vancouver, however, Turner has also appeared in short films, including Scars, Henchin and Snow Tramp, which were shown at multiple festivals, including the Tao New Mexico Mountain, New Zealand Mountain, Vancouver International MidForms, New Media Festival 2009, Made in Vancouver and the Hollywood North Showcase.
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The pair produced five other stage works, including Dawn Rae Downton's Blessed and Round's The Michael Ridler Project (Is it art or still … life?), about out gay painter Michael Ridler. In 2002, his short film My Heart Belongs to Daddy premiered at the Director's View Film Festival in Norwalk, Connecticut. It won awards for Best Canadian Director and Best Use of Music at the Hollywood North Movie Festival, and the Schweppes Prize at what would become the first annual Canadian Film Shorts festival. In 2005, Round was nominated for the KM Hunter Artists Award for Literature for "a body of work" that included fiction, poetry, drama, and literary criticism.
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Suicide Squad, on Bay Street, Toronto Film production is an industry in the Greater Toronto Area, with the City of Toronto being colloquially referred to as Hollywood North. The city is home to a number of film production companies, as well as Canada's largest film studio, Pinewood Toronto Studios A number of films shot in the city use Toronto as a setting in film. However, the majority of non-Canadian films that were shot in Toronto, do not explicitly use the city as the setting for the film being shot. Many American produced films using the city as a stand in for a city in Midwestern United States, or New York City.
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The largest section of this employment is in finance, insurance, real estate and corporate management; however, many areas outside of metropolitan areas are still heavily reliant on resource extraction. With its film industry known as Hollywood North, the Vancouver region is the third-largest feature film production location in North America, after Los Angeles and New York City. The economic history of British Columbia is replete with tales of dramatic upswings and downswings, and this boom and bust pattern has influenced the politics, culture and business climate of the province. Economic activity related to mining in particular has widely fluctuated with changes in commodity prices over time, with documented costs to community health.
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On February 21, 2018, Hollywood North Buzz reported that the film would start shooting that October before the Disney/Fox deal was finalised. X-Force appears in Deadpool 2, when Deadpool declares that his new team will be known as X-Force to combat Cable. Besides Deadpool, the group consists of Domino, Bedlam, Shatterstar, Zeitgeist, Vanisher, and a non-mutant man named Peter. All team members except Deadpool and Domino are killed off one by one, in humorously grisly fashion, briefly after the start of their very first mission, when they parachute into such obstacles as a bus (Bedlam), helicopter blades (Shatterstar), a wood-chipper (Zeitgeist), electric cables (the Vanisher) and being vomited on by Zeitgeist's mutant acid vomit (Peter).
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I-84 serves several local interchanges, which often lack exits for both directions of the freeway, in the neighborhoods of Kerns, Hollywood, North Tabor, and Madison South while following the meandering gulch. After an interchange with OR 213, the freeway intersects the city's north–south bypass, I-205. The two freeways run parallel to each other for , with I-205 and the MAX Light Rail tracks to the west, the railroad and a multi-use path in the center, and I-84 on the east, along the east side of Rocky Butte. At Fremont Street, I-84 splits from I-205 and the MAX Light Rail tracks to continue east along Sandy Boulevard (US 30 Bypass) through the city's easternmost suburban neighborhoods.
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Vancouver has become a major film location, known as Hollywood North, as it has stood in for several U.S. cities. However, it has started to appear as itself in several feature films. Among films set in the city and its surroundings are the 1994 US thriller Intersection, starring Richard Gere and Sharon Stone; the 2007 Canadian ghost thriller They Wait, starring Terry Chen and Jaime King; and the acclaimed Canadian 'mockumentary' Hard Core Logo, and was named the second-best Canadian film of the last 15 years, in a 2001 poll of 200 industry voters, performed by Playback. Genie Award-winning filmmaker Mina Shum has filmed and set several of her internationally released features in Vancouver, including the Sundance- screened Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (2002).
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Betty Barrett is a typical 12-year-old girl who enjoys school, daydreaming about living in outer space, sci-fi movies and singing in her musical band, living in Moose Jaw Heights (a fictional suburb of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan)."Saskatchewan Home To New Superhero," Hollywood North Report Unknown to all of her friends and family, however, she is also a member of the Galactic Guardians, an elite team dedicated to interstellar crime fighting and law enforcement. As "Atomic Betty", assisted by her two allies; the alien pilot Sparky and a robot named X-5, she confronts the evil overlord Maximus I.Q. and his servant Minimus, as well as other intergalactic supervillains, criminals, terrorists, and gangsters. Despite being rather unassuming on Earth, Atomic Betty is a superstar throughout the galaxy and even has a crowd of people who consider her their role model.
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In 1998 she played Ava Gardner in HBO's The Rat Pack, and in 1999 she appeared in Payback with Mel Gibson, The Hurricane with Denzel Washington and the award-winning ensemble drama Sunshine. Unger appeared in many independent films in the early 2000s, such as Signs and Wonders, Ten Tiny Love Stories, Fear X, Thirteen, Stander, Hollywood North, Emile, Paranoia 1.0 and A Love Song for Bobby Long. She played a leading role opposite Sophia Loren and Mira Sorvino in the 2002 independent movie Between Strangers, about three women who confront their pasts which changes their futures, for which she was nominated on Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. From 2005 to 2010, Unger appeared in White Noise, Things That Hang from Trees, The Alibi, Silent Hill, 88 Minutes, Walled In, Messages Deleted and The Way.
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With the growing diversification of studios into such fields as video games, television stations, broadcast syndication, television, theme parks, home video and publishing, they have become multi- national corporations. International markets account for growing proportion of Hollywood movie revenue with approximately 70% of total movie revenue coming from international ticket sales and the Chinese domestic box office revenue is projected to outpace those of USA in 2020. The growth of film studios and filmmaking outside of Hollywood and the USA have produced popular international film studio locations such as Hollywood North (Vancouver and Toronto in Canada), Bollywood (Mumbai, India), and Nollywood (Lagos, Nigeria). As the studios increased in size they began to rely on production companies, like J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions, to handle many of the creative and physical production details of their feature films.
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