Industrie du cinéma à Montréal et tournages mettant Montréal en vedette

[LindbergMTL]

Jean-Pierre Jeunet tourne au Canada en ce moment.

[Ornello Mastrocola]

Roland Emmerich & Steven Speilberg were set to shoot Sci-Fi movies here in Montreal it was announced early this year. I know it got postponed for some reason but to date I have yet to hear anything on these two projects. Anyone know?

[IluvMTL]

http://www.onlocationvacations.com/2...ek/#more-36915

Channing Tatum & Jamie Foxx will begin shooting ‘White House Down’ in Montreal next week

According to The Montreal Gazette, Roland Emmerich has just arrived in Montreal to begin doing pre-production work on White House Down.

The movie (not to be confused with Olympus Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler, which also went by White House Down at one point) focuses on a secret service agent who is tasked with saving the life of the U.S. President after the White House is overtaken by a paramilitary group.


White House Down is expected to begin filming at Mel’s Cite du Cinema studios on August 7. From what we’ve heard some of the cast, which includes Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Woods, will begin arriving in Montreal for rehearsals tomorrow (8/2).

In addition to White House Down, shooting will begin on Red 2 in Montreal in September for a few months before moving to London later this year.

If you spot White House Down or Red 2 filming in Montreal, share your scoop with us at olv@onlocationvacations.com!

[jesseps]

I just watched a trailer for a movie called "The Words". It seems liked it was filmed here or partially filmed here.

[ToxiK]

I just watched a trailer for a movie called "The Words". It seems liked it was filmed here or partially filmed here.

Some scenes were shot in Parc Lafontaine near where I work. A coworker walk too close to the set inadvertently.

[Chris1989]

Yeah, most of The Words was shot in Montreal.

[yarabundi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmrDDD9o_k

Même si je n'ai pas réussi à reconnaître Montréal à aucun moment dans cette bande-annonce je me rappelle que j'ai vu une fausse entrée du métro de New-York être construite dans le Vieux-Montréal l'an dernier. C'était peut-être pour ce film.

Il y avait également une fausse terrasse de café ou de resto en montage sur la Place Vauquelin hier en après-midi pour un film états-unien tourné en ce moment à Montréal. Je ne me rappelle plus du titre (temporaire) mais ça ne faisait aucun doute qu'il s'agit d'un film à propos d'une catastrophe naturelle.

[BruB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmrDDD9o_k

Même si je n'ai pas réussi à reconnaître Montréal à aucun moment dans cette bande-annonce je me rappelle que j'ai vu une fausse entrée du métro de New-York être construite dans le Vieux-Montréal l'an dernier. C'était peut-être pour ce film.

Il y avait également une fausse terrasse de café ou de resto en montage sur la Place Vauquelin hier en après-midi pour un film états-unien tourné en ce moment à Montréal. Je ne me rappelle plus du titre (temporaire) mais ça ne faisait aucun doute qu'il s'agit d'un film à propos d'une catastrophe naturelle.

Je crois avoir reconnu quelques portes du vieux-Montréal, mais la où je suis certain c'est à 1:59 la scène se passe dans la salle de bal Le Windsor de la rue Peel et à 2:03 c'est le tunnel ville marie vers l'ouest juste avant le "split" pour la 720 ou Bonaventure.

[IluvMTL]

http://www.montrealgazette.com/enter...622/story.html

In the very first scene of The Words, a New York, Philadelphia and Paris-set literary thriller, on-the-ball Montreal viewers will probably notice our city’s fabled Sun Life Building in the background, clearly visible through the window. The scene is meant to be set in Manhattan, but the independent U.S. film was shot entirely in Montreal last summer. Our fair city does a stellar job of standing in for present-day New York City and Philly, as well as Second World War-era Paris.

So it’s only appropriate that The Words had its Canadian premiere last Wednesday night at the Festival des films du monde, before opening commercially across North America this Friday. In town for the screening, co-writers/directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal said they were thrilled to bring the movie back to the town where it was filmed.

“The truth is we couldn’t have made the movie anywhere else,” Klugman said. “With the budget and time constraints we had, we had to double New York, Paris in the ’40s, Philadelphia, so many different places, and Montreal gave us a way to do that in 25 days.”

In The Words, Bradley Cooper plays Rory Jansen, a young struggling novelist who isn’t having much success at all — that is until he stumbles upon a tattered manuscript in an old satchel. It’s just the sort of riveting tale he’s so far been unable to pen; he decides to steal the novel and pass it off as his own.

Of course it doesn’t work out as planned. The author of the manuscript, simply called the Old Man (Jeremy Irons), comes out of the woodwork. There are flashbacks of the Old Man as the Young Man (Ben Barnes) in 1940s’ Paris and there are flashes forward to bestselling author Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid), whose novel The Words recounts the story of Jansen and the Old Man.

Klugman and Sternthal began work on The Words 13 years ago. It began with a conversation about lost literary works they had while stuck in traffic in Los Angeles. Soon after, they penned a big chunk of the script that eventually became the film that opens this week. But for years it looked like these two independent filmmakers from Philadelphia would never find the money to make their dream film.

Luckily they happen to be childhood friends with Cooper. The three of them have known each other since the final years of grade school and Cooper had long been intrigued by the project. But that didn’t really help Klugman and Sternthal because Cooper wasn’t yet a big name in Hollywood. But that all changed when The Hangover, the raunchy comedy starring Cooper, became a huge hit in 2009. Their old pal’s attachment to Klugman and Sternthal’s project became the driving force that brought this film to fruition.

“Bradley Cooper was the key,” Sternthal said.

Klugman calls Sternthal and Cooper his “two best friends in the world” and says that made it such a treat for the three of them to work together on the film. But Cooper’s presence also brought in financial backers and other A-list actors.

“Four years ago, we asked him to do it, he said ‘yes,’ and then The Hangover came out,” Sternthal said. “Then all of a sudden the ball started to roll from there.”

“Once an actor hits, for them to stay true to a small movie like this, it’s a real testament to Bradley’s commitment to the project and to us and to the type of person he is,” Klugman added. “Without Bradley, I don’t think the movie would’ve got made and I don’t think it would’ve been distributed like this.”

Klugman and Sternthal still can’t quite believe The Words finally got made — and is actually opening in more than 2,500 theatres across North America on Friday.

“Even when we were shooting, (I was thinking), ‘when are they going to take this away from us,’ ” Klugman said.

In spite of the movie’s title, Klugman said it is not really about writing.

“I think it brings up ideas about creating and about insecurities and the choices you make,” he explained. “It’s about what’s reality and what’s fiction. It definitely seems to get inside people’s skin.”

The Words opens Friday.

bkelly@montrealgazette.com

Twitter:@brendanshowbiz

[LindbergMTL]

Bien hâte de voir ce film. Pour l'histoire et pour Montréal. Merci de poster l'article Iluvmtl.