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From The Province: It's not all fun and games for stars during the Olympics
Some get time off with filming on hold, others keep on working
Glen Schaefer, The Province
Published: Sunday, February 07, 2010
Tom Welling and Callum Keith Rennie will have some time off from their respective TV shows during the Olympics, but Josh Jackson, Jared Padalecki and Elizabeth Mitchell will be hard at work while the athletes are at play.
Welling, who stars as Clark Kent in the long-running Smallville, will be on hiatus with the rest of the Smallville crew for the two weeks of the Olympics.
The show has been less small-town and more Metropolis in recent years, with the action moving to urban exteriors that include Vancouver's downtown Marine Building standing in for the offices of The Daily Planet.
"You just can't shoot downtown," says Crawford Hawkins, the Directors Guild of Canada's B.C. executive director. Other TV shows shooting mainly outside the city are continuing through the Games, or they're tailoring their scripts towards stories that don't require downtown locations.
Scotland's Robert Carlyle has been a familiar face in Vancouver for the past year and a half as the star of the sci-fiseries Stargate Universe. That show is holding off starting production on its second season until March.
Also on hiatus during the Olympics is the new Canadian series Shattered, a psychological crime drama starring Vancouver's Callum Keith Rennie as a police detective with multiple personalities.
The new U.S. family drama Life Unexpected and the sci-fiseries Caprica both wrapped just in time to escape the Olympic rush.
Meanwhile, the U.S. series Fringe, starring Vancouver's Josh Jackson, will continue filming through the Olympics. The show centres on a team of investigators who travel the U.S. -- expect the episodes filmed this month to be set in parts of the U.S. that look a lot like Langley.
As well, the comic adventure series Human Target continues filming through the games with stars Mark Valley, Jackie Earle Haley and Chi McBride wrapping production of their first season in early March.
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, who star as the travelling demon-hunters of Supernatural, will continue work on their fifth season through the Games. That show is based outside Vancouver and frequently films at rural exteriors. The fifth season wraps at the end of March.
The new U.S. alien-invasion series V, starring Elizabeth Mitchell, started production of its remaining first-season episodes in January after filming the first four last fall. They will wrap in late April, filming through the Games.
On the feature side, Vancouver's Seth Rogen is set to produce and costar in his first hometown film project, an untitled black comedy about a writer diagnosed with cancer. That movie, which starts midway through the Olympics, also stars James McAvoy and Anna Kendrick.
The feature production year started slowly, which Hawkins attributes to a general economic downturn that tightened studio budgets in the middle of last year. Others blamed the slow start on provincial tax incentives that fell short of what was offered to producers in Ontario and other jurisdictions. B.C.'s provincial government last week sweetened film tax incentives to match those in Ontario, so big-budget feature production is expected to pick up in the spring.
That left a pre-Olympic window for a couple of Canadian indies. The low-budget feature Daydream Nation, starring Josh Lucas, Kat Dennings and Andie MacDowell, just wrapped filming this week on locations in Maple Ridge and Langley. Another Canadian indie, the paranormal drama Repeaters starring Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew and Richard de Klerk, wrapped at the end of January.
Some get time off with filming on hold, others keep on working
Glen Schaefer, The Province
Published: Sunday, February 07, 2010
Tom Welling and Callum Keith Rennie will have some time off from their respective TV shows during the Olympics, but Josh Jackson, Jared Padalecki and Elizabeth Mitchell will be hard at work while the athletes are at play.
Welling, who stars as Clark Kent in the long-running Smallville, will be on hiatus with the rest of the Smallville crew for the two weeks of the Olympics.
The show has been less small-town and more Metropolis in recent years, with the action moving to urban exteriors that include Vancouver's downtown Marine Building standing in for the offices of The Daily Planet.
"You just can't shoot downtown," says Crawford Hawkins, the Directors Guild of Canada's B.C. executive director. Other TV shows shooting mainly outside the city are continuing through the Games, or they're tailoring their scripts towards stories that don't require downtown locations.
Scotland's Robert Carlyle has been a familiar face in Vancouver for the past year and a half as the star of the sci-fiseries Stargate Universe. That show is holding off starting production on its second season until March.
Also on hiatus during the Olympics is the new Canadian series Shattered, a psychological crime drama starring Vancouver's Callum Keith Rennie as a police detective with multiple personalities.
The new U.S. family drama Life Unexpected and the sci-fiseries Caprica both wrapped just in time to escape the Olympic rush.
Meanwhile, the U.S. series Fringe, starring Vancouver's Josh Jackson, will continue filming through the Olympics. The show centres on a team of investigators who travel the U.S. -- expect the episodes filmed this month to be set in parts of the U.S. that look a lot like Langley.
As well, the comic adventure series Human Target continues filming through the games with stars Mark Valley, Jackie Earle Haley and Chi McBride wrapping production of their first season in early March.
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, who star as the travelling demon-hunters of Supernatural, will continue work on their fifth season through the Games. That show is based outside Vancouver and frequently films at rural exteriors. The fifth season wraps at the end of March.
The new U.S. alien-invasion series V, starring Elizabeth Mitchell, started production of its remaining first-season episodes in January after filming the first four last fall. They will wrap in late April, filming through the Games.
On the feature side, Vancouver's Seth Rogen is set to produce and costar in his first hometown film project, an untitled black comedy about a writer diagnosed with cancer. That movie, which starts midway through the Olympics, also stars James McAvoy and Anna Kendrick.
The feature production year started slowly, which Hawkins attributes to a general economic downturn that tightened studio budgets in the middle of last year. Others blamed the slow start on provincial tax incentives that fell short of what was offered to producers in Ontario and other jurisdictions. B.C.'s provincial government last week sweetened film tax incentives to match those in Ontario, so big-budget feature production is expected to pick up in the spring.
That left a pre-Olympic window for a couple of Canadian indies. The low-budget feature Daydream Nation, starring Josh Lucas, Kat Dennings and Andie MacDowell, just wrapped filming this week on locations in Maple Ridge and Langley. Another Canadian indie, the paranormal drama Repeaters starring Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew and Richard de Klerk, wrapped at the end of January.