Posted on 12/02/07
He likes action, but pirates give him grief
Ellis Jacob is a big movie fan -- just what you'd expect from the CEO of Cineplex Entertainment LP, the multiplex monster that controls 65 per cent of the country's movie box-office revenue and 30 per cent of its screens. Mr. Jacob, a Calcutta native who immigrated to Canada as a teenager, likes nothing better than spending a couple of hours in the dark with a roomful of strangers. With Oscar night two weeks away, he predicts the Academy Award winners, dismisses reports of the death of cinema, and worries about the kind of piracy perpetrated by the audience, not by Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow character on the screen.
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