Already ending

The Just for Laughs Festival 2008 is wraping up!

Here’s some interesting numbers you might like to know about this 26th edition:

Temperatures weren’t the only thing on the rise this summer. Ticket sales were also way up as JFL reached the 100,000 ticket milestone more than two weeks before the Festival even began. With 78 indoors shows (JPR/JFL) presented to over 230,000 spectators indoors, the 26th edition of the Festival pulled in approximately 10 million dollars.

Film Festival : 24 filmmakers from the U.S. and the rest of Canada came to see their films screened in Eat My Shorts and Eat My Twisted Shorts and to enjoy specially arranged filmmaker access to seminars given by Jason Reitman, Ivan Reitman and Edgar Wright as part of Just Comedy. Indeed, the Festival brought in approximately 1,000 industry members, over 400 of whom attended the Just Comedy Conference.

The outdoor site was once again a huge success bringing in 2 million people over the course of 11 days. Over 350 artists from 10 countries presented 1200 shows!

Just For Laughs enjoyed an unprecedented amount of attention with coverage by close to 500 journalists from media outlets around the world!