Industrie du cinéma à Montréal et tournages mettant Montréal en vedette

[AlexGagne]

Il y aussi Barney's Version, film adapté du roman de Mordecai Richler. Il y a une scène assez cool et où on voit les gens célébrer dans le rue après que les Canadiens aient gagné la Coupe Stanley.

 

Les lieux dans le film sont les suivants :

- Square St-Louis

- Pub Sir Winston Churchill

- Restaurant Le Mas des Oliviers

- Pub Ziggy's

- Rues Sherbrooke et de la Montagne & Boulevard St-Laurent

- Appartements Le Château

- Hôtel Ritz-Carlton

- Quartier le Mile-End

 

 

 

Voici la liste des films Set in Montreal : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_Montreal

et Shot in Montreal : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_shot_in_Montreal

 

Les listes ne sont pas complètes mais ça donne une bonne idée.

[AlexGagne]

Le TV show Blue Mountain State a été tourné pendant 3 ans à Montréal aussi. Le série n'a pas été renouvelée pour 2013.

 

Lieux à Montréal :

 

- Stade Olympique

- Bar Au Diable A Quatre à Pointe St-Charles

- Temple maçonnique

- Université McGill

[jesseps]

The new X-Men movie is filming in the city. I saw one of the props today on Saint-Patrick near the Lachine Canal.

 

They had an beige-ish armoured car saying "Detroit something". I guess part of the city will be acting as a backdrop for Detroit or it could be for another movie. I guess we will find out soon enough, when we see a movie with that kind of armoured truck.

[Ornello Mastrocola]

Le TV show Blue Mountain State a été tourné pendant 3 ans à Montréal aussi. Le série n'a pas été renouvelée pour 2013.

 

Lieux à Montréal :

 

- Stade Olympique

- Bar Au Diable A Quatre à Pointe St-Charles

- Temple maçonnique

- Université McGill

 

Also shot at John Abbott College

[LindbergMTL]

Vancouver, Canada, sees sharp drop-off in movie, TV production

 

 

ON LOCATION

The city that pioneered the use of film incentives is losing ground to rivals in eastern Canada and states such as Georgia and North Carolina.

May 01, 2013|By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times

Hollywood North is going south.

 

That's the fear among many in the once-booming production community in Vancouver, Canada.

 

Although Vancouver still attracts high-profile movies and television shows, including A&E's recently launched "Bates Motel," the city is rapidly losing its perch as one of the industry's busiest production hubs as it faces rising competition from cities in eastern Canada and south of the border.

 

 

The city that pioneered the use of film incentives now finds itself struggling to compete with emerging rivals offering stronger tax credits and rebates. The industry also has been spooked by the return April 1 of a provincial sales tax that had previously exempted film productions.

 

PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments

 

As a result, film activity in Vancouver fell to its lowest level in recent memory in the first quarter, leaving many soundstages empty and thousands of crew members struggling to find work.

 

The situation has caused widespread anxiety in Vancouver and has become a key issue in British Columbia's provincial elections that will be decided May 14. Nearly 5,000 industry workers rallied outside one of Vancouver's largest soundstages in January, demanding that the current provincial government beef up its film credit. But Premier Christy Clark and her Liberal Party government have balked at the demands, saying the province can't afford to spend the money.

 

"We've had bad years before, but having three bad years in a row is something that a lot of people are having a hard time getting past," said Paul Klassen, business representative for Local 891 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

 

In the second half of 2012, the union local, which represents about 5,000 crew members, saw a roughly 30% drop in employment compared with the same period in 2009.

 

"People are leaving the industry or leaving Vancouver to chase the work," Klassen said.

 

Some Canadian actors like Rob Bruner have moved to Los Angeles as jobs have declined in Vancouver.

 

Bruner, who lived in Vancouver for many years working on such shows as "Pysch," "Da Vinci's Inquest" and "Stephen King's Dead Zone," now lives in Hollywood, where he is writing and producing his own YouTube comedy series, "Between Jupiter and Mars."

 

ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll

 

"This is the worst anyone has ever seen it," Bruner said of the climate in Vancouver. "There is just a feeling of despair in the business, that's it's not the big, powerful Hollywood North that it used to be."

 

Still, Vancouver has deep and long-standing ties to the industry dating to the 1980s, when one of the first studio complexes was built by Hollywood TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, who shot shows such as "Wiseguy" and "Stingray" there. As more film and TV producers discovered Vancouver, the city strengthened its hand by developing the skilled crews and production facilities that Hollywood needed.

 

By the early 2000s, Vancouver was attracting not only TV shows but a number of feature films. Beyond film incentives, Vancouver offered other advantages — the same time zone, a city filled with versatile locations, experienced crews and soundstages.

 

A favorable exchange rate also made it relatively cheap for Americans to shoot in Canada. But a decline in the value of the U.S. dollar has eroded that advantage.

 

At the same time, Vancouver finds itself competing with a growing crop of rivals. This week, for example, Britain's famous Pinewood Studios announced that it was building new soundstages outside of Atlanta, which has emerged as a major hub for production.

 

So has North Carolina, which had a record year in 2012 thanks to such movies as the upcoming "Iron Man 3." The Motion Picture Assn. of America said Tuesday that the film generated $179.8 million in spending in the state.

 

PHOTOS: Billion-dollar films

 

Once the third-busiest film city after Los Angeles and New York, Vancouver has fallen into fifth or sixth place in North America. Last year British Columbia saw its foreign production drop $88 million to $892 million, according to the B.C. Film Commission. The province lost 3,500 film and television jobs during the year ended March 31, 2012, according to a recent industry report.

 

Vancouver's loss isn't necessarily Los Angeles' gain, however. Although location filming in L.A. jumped 18% in the first quarter, the region still struggles to attract major feature films.

 

Much of the work in Vancouver has simply shifted elsewhere in Canada, especially Toronto and Montreal.

 

The provinces of Ontario and Quebec bolstered their film incentives in 2009 and now offer a 25% across-the-board credit toward film expenses, compared with British Columbia, which provides a 33% credit on labor costs only. The local film industry has been lobbying to extend that to 40% and has lined up support from Clark's rival, New Democratic Party Leader Adrian Dix, who could be the province's next premier.

 

"We want to make sure we're doing as much as we can to attract business up here," said Peter Leitch, president of Mammoth Studios and North Shore Studios, where the TV series "Psych" and "Falling Skies" shoot.

 

Occupancy at Vancouver Film Studios, which has a dozen soundstages, has been less than 50%, down from the usual 80% to 85%, said Pete Mitchell, president of the studio, which also is home to "Bates Motel."

 

"The general competition for work is more aggressive, and it's taking a bite out of us," Mitchell said.

 

richard.verrier@latimes.com

 

 

 

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/01/business/la-fi-ct-onlocation-20130501

[LindbergMTL]

‘White House Down’: Roland Emmerich more Spielberg than Fassbinder

June 25, 2013 | 6:00 a.m.

 

 

Roland Emmerich has an eye for the mainstream hit. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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Roland Emmerich’s face wore an easy expression of carefree calm as he strolled onto the patio of his Hollywood Hills home. The German director had just come from a morning screening of his new action movie “White House Down,” which blasts into theaters Friday. He’d been carefully listening to the final mix of the thundering soundtrack — a symphony of explosions, gunfire and shattering glass — and for the most part, he was happy, though a few remaining imperfections nagged at the corners of his smile.

 

“Everybody who makes movies, they say you can never, ever finish a movie, you can only abandon it, no matter how much time you have,” Emmerich said.

 

When Leonardo da Vinci stated, “Art is never finished, only abandoned,” he wasn’t necessarily referring to big-budget summer popcorn movies, and even the kindest critics might be hard-pressed to describe Emmerich’s films as works of art. Of the nine studio movies he previously directed, only two, “Independence Day” and “The Patriot,” have ratings above 50% fresh on the website Rotten Tomatoes.

 

But in a career spanning three decades, Emmerich, 57, has proved himself a reliable hitmaker for the studios — combined, his movies have earned more than $1 billion in North America alone.

 

 

Director Roland Emmerich appears on the set of Columbia Pictures’ “White House Down,” (MCT)

 

“White House Down” is comfortably poised to add to Emmerich’s box office tally. The movie, written by James Vanderbilt, sees Channing Tatum’s aspiring Secret Service agent John Cale tasked with guarding the life of the president (Jamie Foxx) after he’s targeted in a terrorist plot. Cale also must protect his precocious preteen daughter Emily (Joey King), who is touring 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. with her dad when chaos breaks out.

 

“It’s a straight action movie with slight political undertones done in the way I like to do movies so they don’t take themselves too seriously,” Emmerich said of his latest project. “Sometimes I have a real problem with that. There was a time in the ’70s and ’80s mainly where people made fun movies which were not taking themselves too seriously. I don’t know what happened.”

 

In an industry with so much bluster and posturing, Emmerich seems to operate with a refreshing degree of candor and self-awareness. When he talks about the defining characteristics of his movies, he says that most of the time, there’s a “strong basic idea.” He’s not attempting to make the sort of weighty, cerebral blockbusters pioneered by Christopher Nolan, or the coolly sleek variety so strongly associated with Michael Bay. He wants his movies to have humor and heart.

 

“There are those people who make mainstream commercial films in order to further their career so that they can one day get to make the movie they’ve always dreamed of making,” said Dean Devlin, Emmerich’s writing and producing partner on such projects as “Stargate” and “Independence Day.” “And then there’s those people who really, really love mainstream movies, and Roland’s one of those people. He approaches these films with the same amount of love and passion as Scorsese does when he does an art picture.”

 

 

Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum in a scene from “White House Down.” (Reiner Bajo / Sony Columbia Pictures)

 

Even as a film student in Munich in the late ’70s, Emmerich realized that his sensibilities ran in a more commercial direction than those of his peers. They aspired to become the next Rainer Werner Fassbinder or Wim Wenders, while Emmerich was interested in following in the creative footsteps of George Lucas or Steven Spielberg.

 

By the time he arrived in Los Angeles at age 34, Emmerich had made four independent films in Germany, learning to work quickly and economically, a skill set he believes sets him apart.

 

“You have to see it, these movies are a job, and I’m constantly trying to be as professional as possible,” Emmerich said. “That’s why they like me at the studios. When I came to Los Angeles, I just saw how they’re making movies here, and it’s a waste of money; 20% to 30% is waste — egos, laziness, not being really truly professional, lack of craftsmanship. All these kinds of things, they add up.”

 

“White House Down” finds Emmerich returning to his comfort zone after 2011′s period costume drama “Anonymous,” which pondered the mystery of who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Sony chief Amy Pascal tipped Emmerich to the screenplay, and although he had some initial reservations about the premise — “I said, ‘Oh, my God, not the White House again’” — he found himself hooked by the premise.

 

The $150-million film shot on location in Montreal last year, with the production partially shooting six-day weeks to accommodate Tatum’s schedule — the busy actor completed “White House Down” and immediately began shooting another film, the drama “Foxcatcher” for director Bennett Miller.

 

 

As with Emmerich’s earlier hits “2012″ and “The Day After Tomorrow,” “White House Down” follows the formula the filmmaker established with his 1996 alien invasion thriller “Independence Day”: There’s the charming but gently flawed protagonist at the center of a diverse ensemble cast, the spectacular disaster set pieces laced with a winking humor, the requisite upbeat ending.

 

Exactly how “White House Down” will fare in a crowded summer marketplace remains to be seen — early tracking suggests the film should open to about $25 million against the Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy buddy cop comedy “The Heat” — but Emmerich already is looking to the future projects that will occupy his time.

 

Next up is “Independence Day 2,” which is set to arrive in theaters July 3, 2015, 19 years after the original opened to record-breaking box office and transformed Emmerich into a final cut filmmaker. Shooting is expected to begin early next year, and roughly half the cast is expected to return, though Will Smith will not be among them. (“He’s too big now,” Emmerich said. “It would be a ‘Will Smith’ movie.’)

 

“There’s so much misery out in our world, it’s such a harsh world,” Emmerich said. “You go to a movie, you want to feel good about it. Sometimes terrible things happen on screen, but at the end, you want to feel good about people.”

 

– Gina McIntyre

 

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/white-house-down-roland-emmerich-more-spielberg-than-fassbinder/#/0

[montréaliste]

J'ai travaillé sur White House Down et j'ai vu la première lundi (projection d'équipe) et c'était assez bon dans le genre. Très comique et tordu, plein d'action évidemment.

[LindbergMTL]

J'ai travaillé sur White House Down et j'ai vu la première lundi (projection d'équipe) et c'était assez bon dans le genre. Très comique et tordu, plein d'action évidemment.

 

Que faisais-tu sur le film?

[IluvMTL]

http://globalnews.ca/news/720069/reeves-witherspoon-to-make-sci-fi-movie-in-montreal/?utm_source=facebook-twitter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=community

 

Reeves, Witherspoon to make sci-fi movie in Montreal

 

By John R. Kennedy Global News

[monctezuma]

Montréal

 

Coqueluche du cinéma américain

 

 

Rachel Del Fante / Agence QMI

 

Publié le: mercredi 24 juillet 2013, 19H21 | Mise à jour: mercredi 24 juillet 2013, 19H36

 

 

Les touristes ne sont pas les seuls à prendre d’assaut la métropole, l’été. Il suffit d'une courte balade pour tomber nez à nez avec une équipe de tournage étrangère, qu'on remarque en raison des camions, périmètres sécurisés et nombreux figurants qui les entourent.

 

Ce sont surtout des Américains qui viennent tourner à Montréal, mais il y a aussi des coproductions internationales, dont seulement certaines scènes sont tournées ici.

 

Celles-ci proviennent surtout de la France, de la Belgique, de l’Angleterre et de l’Allemagne.

 

Les tournages asiatiques ou même d’Amérique du Sud se font, pour leur part plutôt rares. Bethume : the Making of the Hero, une production chinoise, a été en partie filmée à Montréal. «Le film retraçait la vie de Norman Bethume, un docteur canadien qui a marqué l’histoire de la Chine, a expliqué Daniel Bissonnette, directeur associé, cinéma, festivals et événements pour la Ville de Montréal. Les scènes filmées à Montréal sont celles du début de sa vie.»

 

Lieux diversifiés

 

Montréal et Québec sont les deux villes les plus prisées de la province pour leur architecture, qui ressemble à certains quartiers de New York et à certains quartiers français. L’équipe de tournage du film X-Men s’est d’ailleurs servie de l’hôtel de ville de Montréal pour simuler un vieil hôtel de Paris, il y a quelques semaines. Le dernier film de Roland Emmerich, White House Down, qui se déroule à Washington, a lui aussi été exclusivement tourné à Montréal.

 

Certaines équipes de production vont tourner ailleurs au Québec, mais resteront près des grandes villes. «Plus ils s’éloignent, plus ça leur coûte cher, a expliqué Daniel Bissonnette. Ils vont souvent rester dans les Laurentides et les Cantons-de-l’Est s’ils doivent filmer une scène en campagne.»

 

Les producteurs vont d’ailleurs choisir Montréal pour la richesse des lieux, les équipes professionnelles qu’ils trouvent sur place et les crédits d’impôt. «Sans crédit d’impôt, ils ne seraient pas aussi nombreux», a-t-il admis.

 

Surtout des films québécois

 

L’essentiel des tournages durant l’année demeure québécois. «Le volume de production est de 1,2 milliard $ et sur ce nombre, presqu’un milliard $ provient des projets québécois, a indiqué Daniel Bissonnette. Ils sont plus petits, mais plus nombreux.»

 

Par ailleurs, les crédits d’impôt sont surtout intéressants pour les grosses productions, parce qu’ils s’appliquent à des budgets tournant autour de 30 millions $, selon Mathieu Pelmieri, coordonnateur des studios Mel’s.