Province’s film scene set to spring into action
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WINNIPEG — The Manitoba film industry is quite literally getting back in action this spring with a major studio movie scheduled to go to camera with an Oscar-winning actor in the lead.
Ke Huy Quan made a sweet return to the big screen in 2022, culminating in his win for supporting actor at the Oscars last year for his work in the action fantasy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in which he starred opposite Michelle Yeoh.
As a child actor, Quan played Short Round in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and also starred in the ’80s juvenile classic “The Goonies.”
Quan will be taking the lead in “With Love” as a realtor whose secret past comes back to haunt him with the reappearance of an old lover.
Contrary to the title and plot description, the film, made for Universal Pictures, promises to be action-packed. It will be produced by 87North, the company that gave us the “John Wick” franchise. 87North also produced the action-thrillers “Nobody” (starring Bob Odenkirk) and “Violent Night” (in which David Harbour plays an unsaintly Saint Nick) in Winnipeg.
The film’s designated director is Jonathan Eusebio, a second-unit director on “Violent Night” and a stunt/fight co-ordinator on a truly impressive list of films, including “Black Panther,” “John Wick” and “Birds of Prey.”
The shoot is scheduled to begin in April and continue through mid-May.
Director Nick Cassavetes, who helmed the heavy dramatic weepers “The Notebook” and “My Sister’s Keeper,” is apparently trying out a whole new thing with “Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess.”
Like John Carpenter’s genre classic “The Thing,” it’s about a group of researchers trapped in a remote Antarctic facility.
During a six-month season of total darkness, the researchers start to turn on each other, and must discover if the cause is psychological or something more sinister.
The shoot on that film is scheduled to commence in February and run to early April, and includes filming in Winnipeg.
Picture-wrapped as of last month is “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” a holiday movie filmed in Winnipeg and set for release later this year.
Directed by Dallas Jenkins (“The Chosen”), it stars Judy Greer of “Arrested Development” fame and standup comedian Pete Holmes (“Crashing”) as husband-and-wife Christmas pageant directors confounded by a family of disruptive kids intent on taking over a Christmas pageant.
The film represents a return to Winnipeg from production company Kingdom Story Company, which brought the film “Ordinary Angels” to the province in 2022.
Both “Pageant” and “Ordinary Angels” will be distributed by Lionsgate.
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