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This article was published 01/06/2005 (7646 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WORD is out that L.A.-based production company von Zerneck-Sertner may be making a sequel to last year’s hit two-part mini-series Category Six: Day of Destruction, which won its 9 p.m. – 10 p.m. Nielsen ratings timeslot on Nov. 17 with an estimated 16.7 million viewers in the U.S.
If Category Seven is indeed on its way, expect to see more apocalyptic tableaus being constructed in downtown Winnipeg this August.
But we’ll have to wait and see whether stars Brian Dennehy, Nancy McKeon and Thomas Gibson will be back to sustain more damage.
Producer Mark Canton was in Winnipeg yesterday to check out the progress on the locally lensed $15 million (US) teen-comedy Nothing but the Truth.
Canton also happens to be the producer of the upcoming George A. Romero movie Land of the Dead, which scouted Winnipeg last year as a possible location for the fourth of Romero’s classic zombie cycle. So I asked him if Winnipeg got the New Line Pictures production as a kind of consolation prize after Land of the Dead shot in Toronto.
“I think the movie has to fit the location,” Canton says. “Remember, Land of the Dead was actually set in Pittsburgh where George is from, and we were going to shoot in Pittsburgh but the economics were such that it made sense to come to Toronto.”
As for shooting Nothing but the Truth in Winnipeg, the tax incentives certainly helped, Canton says. “But also the set-up of the town really is very reflective of the perfect small town,” he says. “And the schools and the co-operation and the crews have been great.”
Fred Durst of the band Limp Bizkit generates an outlaw vibe in his capacity as a musician. Presumably, he may have to stretch a bit for his role in the film Population 436, which is scheduled to begin shooting here June 11. Durst is playing a character named Deputy Caine.
Then again, he may not be the symbol of justice the name implies. The film is, after all set in a town that has been resorting to sinister measures to keep its population unchanged for 100 years.
A production of the L.A.-based company Pariah, in partnership with local company Buffalo Gal Pictures, the film is scheduled to begin shooting here and on location in Steinbach, Austin and Roseisle beginning June 11.
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