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on o location
Hollywood North
hundreds of celebs jammed
Yorkville Y and surrounding
’hoods ’ for the 29th
annual Toronto
International Film
Festival. Some
came to promote
films, others
simply to be part
of the ten-day
e x t ravaganza,
and a few were
actually here
working w on new projects.
Woody W Harrelson did double duty. In
town t to shoot the family drama
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio,
opposite o Julianne Moore, he was
also a directing a theatrical production
of o This Is Our Youth at the Berkeley
Street S Theatre starring Jason Lewis
(Samantha’s ( model-actor boy-toy on Sex
and a the Cityy
).
Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth and Alison
Lohman are working on the
suspense feature Where the
Truth T Lies into November. The
flick is director/writer Atom
Egoyan’s adaptation of the
Rupert Holmes novel of the
same name. In the film, Bacon
and Firth play comedy stars
whose careers are destroyed
following the mysterious death
of a young woman in their hotel room.
The Farrelly brothers arre shooting the comedy Fever Pitch— h
based on the book by Nick Hornby—starring Jimmy Fallon
(ex-Sa aturday Night Live)
and Drew
Barrym more (50 First Dates). Fallon plays a
man obsessed o with the Boston Red Sox and
Barrymmore
portrays his girlfriend.
Thee stars of David Cronenberg’s thriller The
Historry of Violence are working in Toronto
until mid-November, m
so don’t be surprised if
you sppot Ring-leader g Viggo Mortensen, Maria
Bello, Ed Harris or William Hurt around
town. Based on the John Waagner/Vince
Locke
graphic novel, Hurt plays Mortensen’s M long-
lost older brother.
Snoww , a comic telepic, iss
directed by Alex
Zamm ( Inspector Gadget 2).
It stars Tom
Cavanagh (Edd ) and Ashleyy
Williams ( Good
Morning Miami). It will
premiere in
December as part of ABCC
Family’s holiday
event, “25 Days of Christmaas.”
Ed Begley Jr. was northeaast
of the city in Peterborough during the
making of the TV movie Spirit Bears, directed by Stefan Scaini (Anne (
Of Green Gables: The Cont tinuing Story) .
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Legendary horror filmmaker George
Romero is lensing Land of the Dead in
Toronto. T (He also brought us Night of
the Living Dead, d Day of the Dead and the
original Dawn of the Dead). In his latest
undead installment, zombies have taken
over the planet and the last humans alive are
trapped inside a walled city.
Denzel Washington is scheduled to shoot the gangster pic
Tru T Blu here with filmmaker Antoine Fuqua, who directed
Washington’s W Oscar-winning performance in Training T Day.
—Elaine Loring
Things have been quieter than usual on the B.C. scene lately, but
not that quiet. The temperatures were so sultry this past
summer in Vancouver that two actors did what some locals are
wont to do—head down to the city’s infamous Wreck Beach where
clothes are definitely optional. Sir Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings)
and actor pal Alan Cumming (X2: X-Men United) decided to walk
Cumming’s dog at the well-known strip of sand much to the delight
of the nude sunbathers. No consensus on whether the actors
stripped down.
Jessica Alba is back in B.C. to film The
Fantastic Four, r based on the Marvel comic
book about four people zapped by cosmic
rays on an experimental space voyage who
then become reluctant superheroes. Alba,
who plays the Invisible Woman in the
movie, spent a lot of time here making the
TV series Dark Angel, l and is familiar with
the Vancouver scene. She’s been spotted on trendy Robson St. at
Joe Fortes, a fish restaurant with a kickin’ oyster bar.
Jessica Biel shot Blade 3 here and worked out almost as hard as
Elektra star Jennifer Garner at a local west
side gym. She liked the celebrity-friendly
gym so much she recommended it to
boyfriend Chris Evans, in town to light up
the screen as the Human Torch in The
Fantastic Four.
—Valerie V Gregory
Terry T Gilliam—former Monty Pythoner
and director of acclaimed, offbeat films including 12 Monkeys
and Brazil—has l picked Saskatchewan as the shooting site for his
next feature. Regina and the Qu’Appelle
River Valley are the key locations for
Tideland T d,
based on the southern gothic
novel of the same name by Mitch Cullen.
The film tells the story of a young girl who
creates a vivid fantasy world to escape her
tough reality. Nine-year-old Vancouver
actress Jodelle Ferland, who has been seen
in Stephan King’s Kingdom Hospital, They
and plenty of other productions, stars as the movie’s heroine,
alongside Jennifer Tilly (Bullets over Broadway). y Saskatchewan
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star spotting begins in late September and ends with the film’s
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