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CityNews and the Toronto Star are reporting that Canada's Wonderland has closed its free-fall ride, the Drop Zone (named after the Wesley Snipes skydiving movie) due to a grisly accident on a similar ride in the States.

Last night at the launch of SCENE, Cineplex and Scotiabank's new reward point program, most buzz overheard by Torontoist was about the marquee outside. What was once The Paramount is now the Scotiabank Theatre.

9:00pm - Red Road (Varsity 8)

4:45pm - Paperback Hero (Isabel Bader Theatre)

9:00pm - Exiled (Visa Screening Room (Elgin)) - see our Day 7 coverage.

2:30pm - Velvet Goldmine (Al Green Theatre)

6:00pm – The Fountain (Visa Screening Room (Elgin))

9:00pm – The White Planet (Cumberland 2)

5:45pm – Programme 1 (Cumberland 3) – See our Short Cuts coverage. Featuring Ninth Street Chronicles and Patterns 2&3!

9:00pm – Rescue Dawn (Ryerson Theatre)

Well, with day one done and dusted, this morning perhaps many people will still be sleeping off the opening night party, but for others (not least the staff and volunteers) it been another early morning to get the festival up and running. This is the first full day of the festival and as such it’s heavy with films to join the rush queue for. Let’s see what we’d give that honor to.

would be hard to beat. The audience at the Paramount was down: from the crew wearing afros (presumably a reference to star Samuel L. Jackson’s role in Pulp Fiction) dancing in the aisles before the show to the heckling on trailers (On Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning: “NO SNAKES!”), giddy anticipation was at a high.

Quickly overheard by a friend of mine as he left the Paramount Theatre washrooms, after someone talked almost all the way through Superman Returns. Guy (Mid-Laughter): Yeah man, it was awesome: it was quiet, and then I was talking. Mystery solved....

The OPP report that 800 traffic tickets were given out on this province's busy highways. The worst offenders included a woman not wearing a seatbelt to be able to play with her chihuahua, and a driver in his underwear holding a bottle of vodka.

We here at Torontoist thought we’d try out a new weekly feature listing the best (and worst) films to be hitting Toronto’s screens in the following week, as a city which features both multiplexes, second run theatres and blessed with several vintage single screen movie houses, there’s a lot that can be missed.

Sometimes you have no choice but to see your movie at the Paramount. It's one of the few theatres that screens past 10pm, and it's easy to get to, and they refer to their staff as 'players' because really, the place is just a grand cinematic commune of workers in drab colours with fake smiles. But beyond our usual quibbles with the place, and ignoring the guy who farted during the last scene of History of Violence and the girl who answered her cellphone when it rang during the final moments of said film, we now have the added confusion of the whole place becoming an ad for the Globe's Friday Arts tabloid. No corner can you turn without being confronted with the faces of Globe Seven. There are huge billboards, floor stickers, hanging banners and regular old posters. And though it answers the question of why Globe Seven only puts movie stars on its covers, it puzzles nonetheless. It's hard enough to make your way down the escalator at the theatre as is, and the insightful glimpses into the Globe's interview style (Are you married? Why?) just don't make that steep trip any easier.

Where do all the Star Wars fans work? They can't possibly show up to work looking like Chewie, or get weeks off at a time to wait in lines. Can they? Toronto fans waited in line, some since last week, for the first viewing of George Lucas's sixth and purportedly last official Star Wars film (we say official because there could be another Ewoks movie, which would be awesome). When the clock struck midnight this morning, thousands of millions of Star Wars faithful filtered and pilfered into downtown's Paramount, Y&E's SilverCity, and Sheppard's The Grand for the long awaited Hayden Christensen-Natalie Portman flick. Though critical reaction has been less than enthusiastic, Torontoist amongst others will most likely see the movie, get the fast food tie-ins, and check for the alleged Bush references.

The casualty buried amidst the revelation of new low prices is cheapskate Tuesday. Indeed, that early week staple day of cost-effective cinema is no more. What's more, Famous Players has done this before. Here's hoping the frugal film fares aren't just a temporary way to sucker audiences back in before jacking prices up again. And here's double hoping this doesn't influence burrito prices at the Paramount's flagship fastfood emporium, Taco Bell.

To inaugurate the New Year, JetsGo Airlines is offering seats for $20.05 to any of their North American destinations. The discounted flights are only valid on departures from Toronto, require a return ticket purchased at regular price, and surcharges do apply. Destinations include Fort Meyers, Florida and Fort McMurray, Alberta. While the said seat sale is considerably cheaper than full price, it also conjures up a little-known concept we at Torontoist like to call "opportunity cost." This means that the twenty dollars spent going to Sarasota, Florida could be spent elsewhere, thus upping the real aggregate cost of the trip. Instead of flying to Florida or who-knows-where, a person can get four meals at the Taco Bell in Paramount Theatre. Knowing this information makes this post, as well as any such JetsGo trips, completely irrelevant.

the transcendental cinematic buzz that precedes the Friday night opening) And if we look out for good posters, we often find good movies. To that extent, the twelve poster, a variation upon the theme of the first one (and the original before that), reflect that much more polish and restraint. If the poster proviso holds true, the sequel should be slick and simple. Let us hope.