Another night shoot, this time in China Town out on Dundas Street. Other than the smell of a mix between week old egg foo young and rancid rice wine vinegar eminating from the trash bins, it was an interesting night.
The shoot was for a new TV pilot called "Angela's Eyes". Emily Clinton (Abigail Spencer) is a straight As student with a loving family, and dreams of becoming a doctor. Then at age fourteen, Emily finds out that her parents are revealed to be CIA agents, suspected of treason for selling state secrets to the enemy. With her parents in prison, Emily's path takes her on a journey as an FBI agent in New York City, with a specialty for finding out when both suspects and victims are lying. However, the past still has a hold on Emily, making her suspicious of others, and closed-off to her new boyfriend Peter and younger brother, Jerry. No matter how much she tries to right the wrongs of her parents, she must still face them, and figure out whether or not they may possibly be sending her coded messages. The series is set to air sometime in July(?)
The scene entailed a jelous boyfriend, accusing his girl of having a lesbian affair after catching her giving her female friend an innocent kiss. He flies off into a rage, grabs her outside the resteraunt and threatens her with a gun. This is all witnessed by a detective and the suspect after a tense moment is arrested. Drama! Ya!
Our part was to cross notice the intensity of the situation and scatter when the gun comes out. All in all a nice cool spring night. I hope to work on this show again and the other biggie films set to descend on the area.
Those include Sir Richard Attenborough, who will be in Toronto May 3 to June 9, to produce/direct the romantic drama "Closing The Ring".
Premise of the film, beginning in 1943, focuses on a dying WW II bomber pilot who gives his ring to a local to return to his girlfriend in America. Fifty years later, another man finds the ring and attempts to find the woman.
"Closing the Ring" stars Attenborough, Mischa Barton, Chris Evans, Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer and Pete Postlethwaite.
Currently shooting in Toronto is a film starring Natalie Portman and Dustin Hoffman called "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium", a family feature from Stupid Zebra Productions. The shoot will run March 27 to June 6.
Produced by Richard Gladstein and Jim Garavente, executive producers are Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane.
Portman will play 'Molly Mahoney', manager of toy store 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium', who is bequeathed the store by 'Mr. Magorium' (Hoffman), a 243 year-old eccentric.
But once Molly assumes ownership of the premises, a dark and ominous presence begins to take control over the establishment.
Looks like an interesting spring and summer,
Later,
Kenaz
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