Local film industry pioneer to head city’s NFB office

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FILM producer Derek Mazur, the former head of the Winnipeg film production company Credo, will be the new executive producer of the Winnipeg office of the National Film Board.

Mazur was one of the true pioneers of the Manitoba film industry before his company Credo suffered fatal setbacks in 2001, including the cancellation of a CBS movie about an airplane crash that was cancelled after the terrorist attacks of 2001. Mazur will be taking over from his recently retired former Credo partner Michael Scott.

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Congrats to the winners of last Friday’s Chill Challenge horror trivia contest: Tim Kashmark (who won the grand prize of an Anchor Bay peterandpauls.com gift basket) and Tanya Procyshyn, Rosemary Szabadka, Cheung Chow, Jeff Lins, Bill Verasky and Julie Schroeder.

Answers to the questions were…

1. Tagline match-up:

i. “This summer, heads will roll.” — d. Sleepy Hollow

ii. “No matter who wins, we lose.” — a. Alien vs. Predator

iii. “It never forgives. It never forgets.” — b. The Grudge

iv. “Winner kills all.” — c. Freddy vs. Jason

2. Complete the dialogue, and identify the movie from which it came.

a) “All right, you primitive screwheads, listen up. You see this? This is my boomstick!” — Army of Darkness

b) “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs?” — Rosemary’s Baby

c) “To her, it is simply another child. To us, it is the beast.” — Poltergeist

d) “Tony is a little boy who lives in my mouth.” — The Shining.

3 a) Under what fake name does Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) register into the Bates Motel in the movie Psycho? — Marie Samuels

b) What fake name does Mary Loomis (Meg Tilly) assume in the movie Psycho II? Marie Samuels (also Mary Samuels)

4. George Romero cast Dario Argento’s daughter, Asia Argento, as “Slack” in Land of the Dead.

5. a) What are the Comic Book Guy’s last words before a nuclear blast levels Springfield in The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VIII? “Oh, I’ve wasted my life.”

b) Name three of Homer and Bart’s fellow passengers on the doomed rocket ship to the sun in Treehouse of Horror X. You have your pick of Ross Perot, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Spike Lee, Dan Quayle, Courtney Love, Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton, Tom Arnold, Pauly Shore and Rosie O’Donnell.

c) What pop singer saves the day from the rampaging billboard creatures in Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores? Paul Anka.

6. What is the staple diet of Bart’s evil twin Hugo in Treehouse of Horror VII? Fish heads.

Thanks to all who entered.

randall.king@freepress.mb.ca