TORONTO – Film Distributors typically steer clear of comedies due to their high cultural specificity, and for the difficult process of adapting them to foreign audiences. This is why great Italian comedy and their comedians, for example, remain virtually unknown worldwide. Massimo Troisi was perhaps the prime example of a genius the world outside of Italy never got to know…
TORONTO – Last year, drivers in Toronto lost an average of more than four days of their lives stuck in city traffic, according to the latest TomTom Traffic Index, which ranks the Canadian metropolis as the second most congested city in the country, just behind Vancouver.
TORONTO – Two prestige film projects about Italian Icons, Giorgio Armani and Ettore Bugatti, are no longer being shot in Italy, according to Italian Producer Andrea Iervolino. The news came as a bit of a shock this week as Iervolino has become one of Italy’s most vocal advocates for making Italian cinema great again. But what the big print giveth, the fine print taketh away…
TORONTO – The city is struggling to recover from Sunday’s record-breaking snowstorm, which dumped more than 50 centimetres across much of Toronto—the highest single-day total ever recorded—with a peak of 61 centimetres in the downtown core, one of the largest amounts ever measured. Streets and sidewalks remain difficult to navigate, as residents make do with improvised sleds, spinning wheels, and paths that are still impassable nearly two days after the storm ended.
TORONTO – The Greater Toronto Area woke up this morning literally buried in snow, following a record-breaking winter storm that brought the largest single-day snowfall ever recorded in Toronto since records began in 1937.
