![]() ![]() The workforce development efforts continue. Thorne-Stone: Justin and his team continue to do their work to promote Ontario as a high-end quality film jurisdiction. What preparations have been made for that return? ![]() producers.Īssuming the Hollywood strikes are resolved, the Americans will get on flights to Toronto and resume film and TV production in Ontario. Thorne-Stone and Cutler talked about ensuring American production re-accelerates post-strikes during the industry’s most important inflection point in decades, as Hollywood looks at Ontario’s currency savings and film tax credits, a key focus for U.S. With Hollywood as a key future growth driver, Ontario Creates saw record production activity across the province before the latest industry shutdown caused by the dual strikes, and Ontario has been busy building out its infrastructure with more new studios coming on stream, a larger and more skilled workforce trained and ready for high-end film and TV production, and more environmentally-sustainability measures to ensure a quick and effective return to foreign production locally post-strikes.Īnd as major studios and tech players of late talk of tightening their belts on content spending to cut streaming losses and focus on profitability, The Hollywood Reporter talked to Ontario Creates’ Thorne-Stone and Justin Cutler, Ontario’s Film Commissioner, ahead of the Toronto Film Festival. “There’s lots of work going on in the background right now to make sure that we’re ready to welcome all of those productions when they come back,” Karen Thorne Stone, president and CEO of Ontario Creates, tells The Hollywood Reporter. Rights to Oscars in Multi-Year Deal With Disney Hollywood production may have ground to a halt in Ontario and its A-listers may be mostly absent from red carpets at the Toronto Film Festival this week due to the ongoing writers and actors strikes in Los Angeles.īut that’s not stopping the Ontario production sector from looking to an eventual resolution of the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America labor actions and resuming its role as a premium production hub for Hollywood film and TV shoots.Īnd the job of getting the Americans back and in big numbers and onto local soundstages and locations is held in large part by Ontario Creates, which markets the province to the major studios and streamers. ![]()
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