North Shore News February 11 2015

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WEDNESDAY February

11 2015

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Film industry booming in 2014/2015 Diverse locations, skilled crews attract productions

BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

For the second year in a row, the North Shore has seen record-breaking film activity, based

on film permits and revenues for the City and District of North Vancouver. The city issued 77 film permits for feature films, TV shows, commercials,

documentaries and music videos in 2014, up from 50 in 2013 and 40 in 2012. Revenues for the city from the permits amounted to $185,000. The district meanwhile, had 189 permits spread over 77 productions, compared to 90 film shoots in 2013, but revenues hit $714,000

compared to $511,000 the year before. Among the noteworthy film shoots: Fifty Shades of Grey, Age of Adeline starring Blake Lively and Harrison Ford, Tim Burton’s Big Eyes and the famous Shaw fire log. The area also saw its share of science fiction, fantasy and comic book

adaptations that included Arrow, Falling Skies, The Returned, Supernatural, Once Upon a Time, The Flash, iZombie and the soon-to-shoot Deadpool starring Ryan Reynolds and his abs. Though the Canadian dollar tumbling downward from parity is an obvious appeal to Hollywood

productions, it’s just one factor in the larger equation that determines where film shoots go in the highly competitive industry, according to Richard Brownsey, president of Creative B.C., the provincial agency that promotes creative

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News’ arson unsolved 10 yrs on JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

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are more uplifting. More rewarding.

Ten years ago, North Shore News publisher Doug Foot got an early morning phone call at home. “There’s a fire, a big one,” one of the newspaper’s employees told him. “You have to get down here right away.” By the time he arrived, minutes later, the office building at 12th and Lonsdale was already engulfed in fire, flames shooting from the roof. By the time it was over, the newspaper office was a charred ruin, the result of a deliberate act of arson that has never been solved. Terry Peters, managing editor of the North Shore News, describes that day on Feb. 10, 2005 as “a defining moment of the history of the North Shore News. It became something that we See No Arrest page 9

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