I remember the day — March 4, 1994 — when I learned that John Candy, big of heart and large of funny bone, had died from an apparent heart attack at age 43. I was a movie critic and a film writer in the Life section of USA Today, distracted by the Winter Olympics TV coverage of Nancy Kerrigan’s silver medal comeback. But the minute I heard that one of the warmest and funniest actors around had passed away, I poured myself immediately into writing his appreciation.
As someone who grew up in Buffalo, I was lucky to have early access to “Sctv,” the Canadian sketch-comedy counterpart to “Saturday Night Live,” long before the series was picked up by NBC. I was cued into the genius of Candy and his clowning cohorts Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as they inhabited sundry out-sized characters who worked at a fictitious television station.
As someone who grew up in Buffalo, I was lucky to have early access to “Sctv,” the Canadian sketch-comedy counterpart to “Saturday Night Live,” long before the series was picked up by NBC. I was cued into the genius of Candy and his clowning cohorts Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as they inhabited sundry out-sized characters who worked at a fictitious television station.
- 10/31/2018
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Sony Pictures posted a profit of $209 million for the July to September quarter, Sony Corp. announced in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Sony's film unit contributed $209 million (¥23.5 billion) to quarterly earnings, compared with $68 million last year, thanks to the strong global box office of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, which pulled in $520 million, and The Equalizer 2, which took around $190 million worldwide; higher television licensing revenues from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Peter Rabbit; and a new accounting standard. Revenue was down 3 percent on the same quarter last year, which was boosted by Spider-Man: Homecoming and Baby ...
Sony's film unit contributed $209 million (¥23.5 billion) to quarterly earnings, compared with $68 million last year, thanks to the strong global box office of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, which pulled in $520 million, and The Equalizer 2, which took around $190 million worldwide; higher television licensing revenues from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Peter Rabbit; and a new accounting standard. Revenue was down 3 percent on the same quarter last year, which was boosted by Spider-Man: Homecoming and Baby ...
- 10/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Sony Pictures posted a profit of $209 million for the July to September quarter, Sony Corp. announced in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Sony's film unit contributed $209 million (¥23.5 billion) to quarterly earnings, compared with $68 million last year, thanks to the strong global box office of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, which pulled in $520 million, and The Equalizer 2, which took around $190 million worldwide; higher television licensing revenues from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Peter Rabbit; and a new accounting standard. Revenue was down 3 percent on the same quarter last year, which was boosted by Spider-Man: Homecoming and Baby ...
Sony's film unit contributed $209 million (¥23.5 billion) to quarterly earnings, compared with $68 million last year, thanks to the strong global box office of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, which pulled in $520 million, and The Equalizer 2, which took around $190 million worldwide; higher television licensing revenues from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Peter Rabbit; and a new accounting standard. Revenue was down 3 percent on the same quarter last year, which was boosted by Spider-Man: Homecoming and Baby ...
- 10/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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