Film industry

Canada might not seem like one of the most ideal countries to film movies and shows, given the freezing temperatures that can even include such instances as a bomb cyclone, as we covered at https://www.novinite.com/, and yet, productions are flocking to north of the border.

The 41st Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey's biggest international cinema event, opened on April 9, with Kadıköy Municipality's Cinematheque/Cinema House being one of the movie theatres where the festival films are being screened.

Στα 35α Βραβεία American Cinematheque.

The film industry has never been more successful than it was in 2018, when it earned $96.8 billion including over $40 billion in cinema ticket sales, according to figures published March 21 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

In 2005, 27 million movie tickets were sold in Turkey. The ticket sales surpassed 60 million in 2015. Turkey takes second place after Russia as the fastest growing movie industry in Europe. Turkey is also the only country in Europe where national cinema takes more than half of the market share. While there were 29 Turkish movies produced in 2005, that number shot to 136 in 2015.

One of the world's most prolific screenwriters, Safa Önal, who broke a Guinness World Record in 2004 for having almost 400 scripts filmed, talks about his new projects. It would not come as a shock if one of the world's most prolific screenwriters was found to be working for Hollywood or India's gargantuan Bollywood film industry.