{"id":8461,"date":"2010-05-11T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8461"},"modified":"2010-05-11T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:39:19","slug":"parks-bidding-for-revenue-from-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/11\/parks-bidding-for-revenue-from-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks bidding for revenue from filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2572821\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two of Niagara&#8217;s historic hydro plants are ready for their close ups now the Niagara Parks Commission has calculated a formula for what it would cost to have one of its historic buildings play a role in a feature film.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Parks Commission voted Friday to charge film companies up to $4,000 a day to use Toronto Power or Canadian Niagara Power generating stations or the Toronto Power gate-house as part of a movie set.<\/p>\n<p>The parks commission felt the need to formalize a policy after being approached by filmmakers who believe the buildings ought to be in pictures, corporate services director Bob McIlveen said during a commission meeting in April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is interest on behalf of film companies to use the power plants. We would like to make some changes to the (commission&#8217;s) film policy to accommodate that,&#8221; McIlveen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Two of Niagara&#8217;s historic hydro plants are ready for their close ups now the Niagara Parks Commission has calculated a formula for what it would cost to have one of its historic buildings play a role in a feature film. The Niagara Parks Commission voted Friday to charge film companies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[3478,3477,2425,3479,3476,3475,99,1967],"class_list":["post-8461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-in-the-movies","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-bob-mcilveen","tag-canadian-niagara-power-generating-station","tag-feature-film","tag-filmmakers","tag-historic-buildings","tag-hydro-plants","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-toronto-power-generating-station"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}