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Moviemaker magazine ranks Calgary 10th on list of ‘best places to live and work’ (thechronicleherald.ca)

Moviemaker magazine has ranked Calgary the 10th best place to live and work for moviemakers in its annual Top 25 list, touting the city’s “sound stages galore, great crews and production services that are ready when you are.”

It’s the first time Calgary made the list in Moviemaker, a leading industry publication that comes out quarterly and offers “profiles, advice, insider tips and product reviews.” According to a news release from Calgary Economic Development, its rankings are based on surveys, recent productions, personal visits to locations, a study of the city’s business environment and its quality of life.

The list puts Calgary ahead of Toronto and just behind Vancouver and Montreal among Canadian cities. It also ranks higher than Seattle, Kansas City, Washington, D.C., Portland, Baltimore, San Diego and Dallas, among others. New York City and Los Angeles were not included in the Top 25, earning the top two “hall of fame” spots on the list.

By: Eric Volmers

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Networks focus on Augusta for filming locations (augustachronicle.com)

Filming is expected to start in Augusta next week for part of a network production that took nearly a year for local representatives to negotiate.

“We have every reason to believe through some very final contractual obligations, and negotiations that they’re doing with a local location, that they should begin production at any time,” said Jennifer Bowen, vice president of destination development for the Augusta Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Bowen serves as the liaison between the bureau’s film office and companies scouting locations for movies and TV shows.

Meeting with the CVB’s Board of Directors on Wednesday morning, she apologized for having to “sort of speak in code” because producers said they “require a certain confidentiality at this time, so I can’t really mention all of the details.”

By: Joe Hotchkiss

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Albuquerque And Santa Fe Top MovieMaker Magazine’s Best Places To Live and Work (ladailypost.com)

SANTA FE — MovieMaker Magazine named two New Mexico cities Tuesday on their list of Best Places To Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2021.

For a third year in a row, Albuquerque is the #1 Best Place to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in the Big Cities category and Santa Fe was ranked #2 in the Small Cities and Towns category.

“This honor belongs to all of New Mexico, not just these two cities,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said. “The secret is well and truly out: New Mexico is the best place to film in all of the United States. With more long-term industry investments on board, we will continue to invest in this incredible job-creation engine and spread the success of our production efforts to more New Mexicans and more parts of New Mexico.”

By: Carol A. Clark

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COVID-19: Alberta working on framework for the professional film industry (globalnews.ca)

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw says the province is looking at creating a framework for the professional film industry and crews from out of province during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Theater chain AMC raises nearly $1BILLION in funding to survive the pandemic winter and says bankruptcy is ‘completely off the table’ (dailymail.co.uk)

AMC Entertainment Holdings has raised an additional $917 million to help cushion the blow from the pandemic, and said that that any talk of an imminent bankruptcy is ‘completely off the table’.

The company’s shares, which have lost nearly half their value in the last 12 months as it was forced to shut theaters during the virus outbreak, jumped as much as 39 percent to $4.88 on Monday.

‘Today, the sun is shining on AMC,’ CEO Adam Aron said in a statement. ‘This [new financing] means that any talk of an imminent bankruptcy for AMC is completely off the table.’

By: Keith Griffith

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