I'd love to see a financial breakdown of how they recapped their money.
I actually have a copy of MML that someone sent me that's a copy of a DVD recorded directly from television, which should be better quality than the ones copied from videocassettes. If I have time today I'll take a look so I can rip it before mr_t00by heads back to school and takes his DVD burner with him (the burner on my computer is FUBAR, alas).
Mostly in-programme advertising revenue I imagine. As the movie had a great 1.98 million viewers per evening, and had an hour's worth of adverts in each segment, then a lot of the finance would have been recouped from that. The DVD sold pretty well as well, apparently (according to Paul), so that would have added about a million or so as well. Add in selling to other countries - remember that it won a Monte Carlo prize - which would have recouped back another million or two, so there you have:
Happy CBC = Happy CBC Programme Commissioner = Happy Paul = Happy Alberta (filming location for TJ) = Happy Albertan Government = Happy Passchendaele funding = Even Happier Paul.
I may have been making up those last few bits, but it's a nice story.
Did Alberta shell out any more than the $4 million grant and the tax credit? They're going to make out very well, if you ask me, what with jobs and publicity and stuff.
They are - in fact, I would bet that they have already made back their investment, even before the movie is released. They absolutely had to make back their investment as part of the deal - when was the last time any Government gave anything away for free or because "it was the right thing to do"? :) I'm guessing the reason why TJ was filmed mostly in Alberta was part of the Passchendaele deal as well. But I do tend to be overly cynical about the juxtaposition between politics and finance, so I could be wrong.
But I do tend to be overly cynical about the juxtaposition between politics and finance, so I could be wrong.
Well, seeing that it was mostly all seen to under Ralph Klein, who doesn't strike me as Mister Integrity on a GOOD day, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
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I actually have a copy of MML that someone sent me that's a copy of a DVD recorded directly from television, which should be better quality than the ones copied from videocassettes. If I have time today I'll take a look so I can rip it before
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The DVD sold pretty well as well, apparently (according to Paul), so that would have added about a million or so as well. Add in selling to other countries - remember that it won a Monte Carlo prize - which would have recouped back another million or two, so there you have:
Happy CBC = Happy CBC Programme Commissioner = Happy Paul = Happy Alberta (filming location for TJ) = Happy Albertan Government = Happy Passchendaele funding = Even Happier Paul.
I may have been making up those last few bits, but it's a nice story.
;-)
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I'm guessing the reason why TJ was filmed mostly in Alberta was part of the Passchendaele deal as well. But I do tend to be overly cynical about the juxtaposition between politics and finance, so I could be wrong.
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Well, seeing that it was mostly all seen to under Ralph Klein, who doesn't strike me as Mister Integrity on a GOOD day, I wouldn't be at all surprised.