From VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for August 2017, including "Dragged Across Concrete", "Freaks", "Arrow" and a whole lot more:
13 Miles
Feature
Local Production Company: Habethy Film Productions
Director: Anthony Epp, Helena Thom
Producer: Shanyn Maguire, Anthony Epp, Helena Thom
May 19/17 - Aug 20/17
Dragged Across Concrete
Feature
Local Production Company: Moot Point (Dragged) Productions
Director: Craig Zahler
Producer: Sefton Fincham, Jack Heller, Keith Kjarval, Dallas Sonnier
Jul 17/17 - Sep 16/17
Eggplant Emoji
Feature
Local Production Company: Eggplant Productions
Director: Jake Szymanski
Exec. Producer(s): Jamie Goehring, Kevin Leeson
Aug 21/17 - Oct 02/17
Fatal Visit
Feature
Local Production Company: Lone House Films Ltd.
Director: Calvin Poon
Producer: Fiona Lee, Michael Parker
Jul 18/17 - Aug 11/17
Freaks
Feature
Local Production Company: Freak Productions
Director: Zach Lipovsky
Producer: Jordan Barber
Jul 31/17 - Aug 25/17
Nicole
Feature
Local Production Company: True Meaning Productions
Director: Marc Lawrence
Producer: Justis Greene
Oct 23/17 - Jan 19/18
Pup Start...
13 Miles
Feature
Local Production Company: Habethy Film Productions
Director: Anthony Epp, Helena Thom
Producer: Shanyn Maguire, Anthony Epp, Helena Thom
May 19/17 - Aug 20/17
Dragged Across Concrete
Feature
Local Production Company: Moot Point (Dragged) Productions
Director: Craig Zahler
Producer: Sefton Fincham, Jack Heller, Keith Kjarval, Dallas Sonnier
Jul 17/17 - Sep 16/17
Eggplant Emoji
Feature
Local Production Company: Eggplant Productions
Director: Jake Szymanski
Exec. Producer(s): Jamie Goehring, Kevin Leeson
Aug 21/17 - Oct 02/17
Fatal Visit
Feature
Local Production Company: Lone House Films Ltd.
Director: Calvin Poon
Producer: Fiona Lee, Michael Parker
Jul 18/17 - Aug 11/17
Freaks
Feature
Local Production Company: Freak Productions
Director: Zach Lipovsky
Producer: Jordan Barber
Jul 31/17 - Aug 25/17
Nicole
Feature
Local Production Company: True Meaning Productions
Director: Marc Lawrence
Producer: Justis Greene
Oct 23/17 - Jan 19/18
Pup Start...
- 7/28/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Devon Bostick is having a great day! His film, .Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. is the current box-office champion in the U.S.A. In this interview, Bostick (Rodrick Heffley) talked about:
Why do moviegoers respond positively to the movie?
Does he treat his brother the same way his character treat Greg?
Working on the movie the second time around
His guyliner!
Is he fan of the books?
Here's more info on the movie from Yahoo:
Greg is back with problems new and old. Greg chronicles a hilarious litany of problems, alternating between home and school, focusing this time on the particular punishments of his reprobate older brother, Rodrick. Whether Greg is suffering on the swim team or trying out for the K-12 school talent show as Magician's Assistant to a First Grader, his escapades are united by his struggle to avoid
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family, Adaptation and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr.
Why do moviegoers respond positively to the movie?
Does he treat his brother the same way his character treat Greg?
Working on the movie the second time around
His guyliner!
Is he fan of the books?
Here's more info on the movie from Yahoo:
Greg is back with problems new and old. Greg chronicles a hilarious litany of problems, alternating between home and school, focusing this time on the particular punishments of his reprobate older brother, Rodrick. Whether Greg is suffering on the swim team or trying out for the K-12 school talent show as Magician's Assistant to a First Grader, his escapades are united by his struggle to avoid
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family, Adaptation and Sequel
Running Time: 1 hr.
- 4/2/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Jeff Kinney, the author of the hugely popular .Diary of a Wimpy Kid. series, not only gave his blessings to 20th Century Fox to adapt his franchise, but he also co-starred in the movie as Holly.s dad.
In this interview we talked about:
Working on the film as an actor
His inspiration for writing the series
The difference between the first and second movies
The experience working on the second film
Here's more info on the movie from Yahoo:
Greg is back with problems new and old. Greg chronicles a hilarious litany of problems, alternating between home and school, focusing this time on the particular punishments of his reprobate older brother, Rodrick. Whether Greg is suffering on the swim team or trying out for the K-12 school talent show as Magician's Assistant to a First Grader, his escapades are united by his struggle to avoid
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family,...
In this interview we talked about:
Working on the film as an actor
His inspiration for writing the series
The difference between the first and second movies
The experience working on the second film
Here's more info on the movie from Yahoo:
Greg is back with problems new and old. Greg chronicles a hilarious litany of problems, alternating between home and school, focusing this time on the particular punishments of his reprobate older brother, Rodrick. Whether Greg is suffering on the swim team or trying out for the K-12 school talent show as Magician's Assistant to a First Grader, his escapades are united by his struggle to avoid
Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family,...
- 4/2/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Despite its title, "I Spy" bears no more resemblance to that landmark 1960s television espionage-adventure series than it does to "Petticoat Junction". Its real antecedents are buddy cop movies, the "Rush Hours" and "Bad Boys", where two loose-talking, fast-thinking guys trade quips and insults as they dodge bullets and bad guys in sharply observed locales. To the degree to which Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson triumph as the odd couple of the spy game, the triumph is one of talent over third-rate material. Columbia can anticipate solid theatrical and ancillary business, thanks in large measure to Murphy's boxoffice appeal.
Wilson plays Alex Scott, very much a second-tier American spy. He has nowhere near the abilities of the 007-like Carlos (Gary Cole). Where Carlos gets the best gadgets and hottest girls, Alex receives clunky, malfunctioning equipment and can never work up the nerve to tell beautiful fellow agent Rachel Wright (Famke Janssen) how he feels about her.
Murphy is Kelly Robinson, the middle-weight boxing champion whose upcoming bout in Budapest, Hungary -- the Knuckle-fest in Budapest? -- jibes nicely with a billion-dollar sale of a stolen U.S. spy plane to terrorists by black-market arms dealer Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell). Since Gundars, a boxing fan, is certain to invite Kelly to his luxurious compound, it's the perfect cover to get Alex in there as one of Kelly's aides.
True to formula, the two "spies" initially don't get along. After an extended chase along the Danube River, they hide out in a sewer, where Kelly's tales of childhood cause the two men to bond. The duo is then lured into a trap in a bathhouse, Rachel is seemingly killed by a car bomb, and the sale of the stealth aircraft -- which can disappear from sight with the touch of a remote button -- takes place the night of the boxing match.
Tossing logic aside, the script, credited to no less than four writers, tries to maneuver Murphy and Wilson into enough sequences of smartass give-and-take to produce the requisite laughs. In a new riff on the old Cyrano de Bergerac ploy, Murphy even coaches Wilson in his lovemaking to Janssen via spy equipment that allows Murphy in another room to see and hear what Wilson sees and hears.
It takes a while for the two actors' styles to gel, but Murphy's rat-a-tat-tat rhythms work fairly well off of Wilson's slower comic counterpunches. Janssen is left the interested bystander all too often, albeit a lovely one. Only Cole as the suave superspy gets to stand out from the remaining, indifferently written roles.
The major problem with the erratic screenplay is its lack of a central joke. Wilson gets introduced as something of an Inspector Clouseau of spies who bumbles his way to unlikely success. Only the film never sustains the gag as Wilson later demonstrates complete competence in the spy action. Nor is much made of the pairing of a civilian in Murphy and a pro in Wilson. Once action breaks out, Murphy handles himself like an experienced spy. A climax wherein everyone proves to be a double agent or a triple agent is a wearisome gag run into the ground.
Director Betty Thomas struggles to make the mismatched parts blend together. The action is reasonably well-done -- if anything seems to get better in Hollywood movies, it's the stunt performers and visual effects artists -- yet story, character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together.
By contrast, location work in Budapest and Vancouver is fluidly handled by the behind-the-camera crew, thanks especially to Oliver Wood's polished cinematography and Marcia Hinds-Johnson's eye-catching production design.
I SPY
Columbia Pictures
Tall Trees Prods./C-2 Pictures in association with Sheldon Leonard Prods.
Credits:
Director: Betty Thomas
Screenwriters: Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley, Jay Scherick, David Ronn
Story by: Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley
Producers: Jenno Topping, Betty Thomas, Mario Kassar, Andy Vajna
Executive producers: Warren Carr, Marc Toberoff, David R. Ginsburg
Director of photography: Oliver Wood
Production designer: Marcia Hinds-Johnson
Music: Richard Gibbs
Costume designer: Ruth E. Carter
Editor: Peter Teschner
Visual effects supervisor: Carey Villegas
Cast:
Kelly Robinson: Eddy Murphy
Alex Scott: Owen Wilson
Rachel Wright: Famke Janssen
Arnold Gundars: Malcolm McDowell
Carlos: Gary Cole
Jerry: Phill Lewis
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Wilson plays Alex Scott, very much a second-tier American spy. He has nowhere near the abilities of the 007-like Carlos (Gary Cole). Where Carlos gets the best gadgets and hottest girls, Alex receives clunky, malfunctioning equipment and can never work up the nerve to tell beautiful fellow agent Rachel Wright (Famke Janssen) how he feels about her.
Murphy is Kelly Robinson, the middle-weight boxing champion whose upcoming bout in Budapest, Hungary -- the Knuckle-fest in Budapest? -- jibes nicely with a billion-dollar sale of a stolen U.S. spy plane to terrorists by black-market arms dealer Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell). Since Gundars, a boxing fan, is certain to invite Kelly to his luxurious compound, it's the perfect cover to get Alex in there as one of Kelly's aides.
True to formula, the two "spies" initially don't get along. After an extended chase along the Danube River, they hide out in a sewer, where Kelly's tales of childhood cause the two men to bond. The duo is then lured into a trap in a bathhouse, Rachel is seemingly killed by a car bomb, and the sale of the stealth aircraft -- which can disappear from sight with the touch of a remote button -- takes place the night of the boxing match.
Tossing logic aside, the script, credited to no less than four writers, tries to maneuver Murphy and Wilson into enough sequences of smartass give-and-take to produce the requisite laughs. In a new riff on the old Cyrano de Bergerac ploy, Murphy even coaches Wilson in his lovemaking to Janssen via spy equipment that allows Murphy in another room to see and hear what Wilson sees and hears.
It takes a while for the two actors' styles to gel, but Murphy's rat-a-tat-tat rhythms work fairly well off of Wilson's slower comic counterpunches. Janssen is left the interested bystander all too often, albeit a lovely one. Only Cole as the suave superspy gets to stand out from the remaining, indifferently written roles.
The major problem with the erratic screenplay is its lack of a central joke. Wilson gets introduced as something of an Inspector Clouseau of spies who bumbles his way to unlikely success. Only the film never sustains the gag as Wilson later demonstrates complete competence in the spy action. Nor is much made of the pairing of a civilian in Murphy and a pro in Wilson. Once action breaks out, Murphy handles himself like an experienced spy. A climax wherein everyone proves to be a double agent or a triple agent is a wearisome gag run into the ground.
Director Betty Thomas struggles to make the mismatched parts blend together. The action is reasonably well-done -- if anything seems to get better in Hollywood movies, it's the stunt performers and visual effects artists -- yet story, character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together.
By contrast, location work in Budapest and Vancouver is fluidly handled by the behind-the-camera crew, thanks especially to Oliver Wood's polished cinematography and Marcia Hinds-Johnson's eye-catching production design.
I SPY
Columbia Pictures
Tall Trees Prods./C-2 Pictures in association with Sheldon Leonard Prods.
Credits:
Director: Betty Thomas
Screenwriters: Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley, Jay Scherick, David Ronn
Story by: Marianne Wibberley, Cormac Wibberley
Producers: Jenno Topping, Betty Thomas, Mario Kassar, Andy Vajna
Executive producers: Warren Carr, Marc Toberoff, David R. Ginsburg
Director of photography: Oliver Wood
Production designer: Marcia Hinds-Johnson
Music: Richard Gibbs
Costume designer: Ruth E. Carter
Editor: Peter Teschner
Visual effects supervisor: Carey Villegas
Cast:
Kelly Robinson: Eddy Murphy
Alex Scott: Owen Wilson
Rachel Wright: Famke Janssen
Arnold Gundars: Malcolm McDowell
Carlos: Gary Cole
Jerry: Phill Lewis
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 10/14/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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