Category Archives: The Killing
SHOOT: Joel Kinnaman as ROBOCOP in Big Night Shoot at Vancouver Convention Centre
Joel Kinnaman is the fatally-wounded cop who returns to the force as a powerful cyborg RoboCop in a reboot of the 1980s/1990s movie franchise. Here he is doing additional scenes near the Olympic Cauldron yesterday. The night shoot drew a big crowd of spectators early on when his stunt double rode the RoboCop motorcycle down Thurlow to the Vancouver Convention Centre dressed as OmniCorp.
RoboCop continues to film at the Convention Centre tonight but production is expected to be inside. Filming here is part of the two-plus weeks of “reshoots” that RoboCop is doing in Vancouver to accomodate star Joel Kinnaman who is committed to filming the AMC series The Killing in this city. Principal photography for RoboCop was done last summer in Toronto.
PROMO: Mireille Enos & Joel Kinnaman as THE KILLING’s Linden & Holder
The Killing shared a new season three image of Seattle detective duo Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) on its facebook page today.
Related: Mireille Enos & Joel Kinnaman film The Killing on Main Street
Season Three should be renamed The Killings — plural. Events take place a year after the arrest of Rosie Larsen’s killer when Holder looks into the death of a working girl. That leads to an old investigation by his former police partner Linden, who’s no longer a detective. Is there a Seattle serial killer who preys on street kids? 17 deaths and counting. Only a monster like this could draw Linden back into a new case. The featured street kids (Cate Sproule, Max Fowler, Julia Sarah Stone and Bex Taylor Klaus) are in the background of this image.
Mireille Enos & Joel Kinnaman © 2013 American Movie Channel, Inc.
The new case starts Sunday, June 2nd, on AMC.
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PROMO: THE KILLING Season 3 Promo – Monster
Caught a body this morning. Working girl.. . A Monster on the Loose. 17 Victims and Counting.
Season Three should be renamed The Killings — plural. Events take place a year after the arrest of Rosie Larsen’s killer when Seattle police detective Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) looks into the death of a working girl. That leads to an old investigation by his former police partner Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos), who’s left the force. Is there a Seattle serial killer who preys on street kids? 17 deaths and counting. Only a monster like this could draw Linden back into a new case. Peter Sarsgaard is the death row inmate linked to the killing spree.
Related: Mireille Enos & Liam James film in Snug Cove on Bowen Island
The new case starts Sunday June 2nd on AMC.
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SHOOT: Joel Kinnaman & Mireille Enos Film THE KILLING Near Cobalt Hotel – Updated
The Killing’s dynamic detective duo Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) and Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) did a walk and talk today south along Main Street towards the Cobalt Hotel in Vancouver, so that noted foodie Holder could pick up a slice from Pizzeria Farina. I’m kidding about Holder being a gourmand but several funny Holderisms have been about food — like him calling Chinese takeout “fu manchu poo poo MSG crap” while arguing that “pickles are vegetables”.
Related: Mireille Enos & Liam James film The Killing in Snug Cove on Bowen Island
In rehearsal, Joel Kinnaman looked more like Robocop (his upcoming feature film) than Holder in a navy t-shirt until he put on the bulky Holder hoodie and jacket, while Mireille Enos (who plays Brad Pitt’s wife in the upcoming World War Z) was unmistakably the Sarah Linden we remember, with her russet hair tied back and the Scandinavian sweater under a black coat. During breaks from filming the scene the two leads laughed and joked, but didn’t crack a single smile while in character until Mireille Enos messed up a take. [Why all the seriousness? Perhaps because the season 3 case is about a serial killer who preys on street kids. Link to trailer: "Monster on the Loose. 17 Victims and Counting".]
SHOOT: THE KILLING Crew Films Mireille Enos on Bowen Island Ferry to West Vancouver
The Killing crew did something last week I’ve never seen or heard of before — filmed a scene for the Seattle-set murder mystery on the car deck of a regular BC Ferries sailing from Bowen Island to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver. Pulling that off in a 20-minute crossing took some planning and assistance from BC Ferries. Prop Washington state cars for the show got priority loading ahead of regular vehicle traffic for the 5 p.m. sailing last Wednesday on the Queen of Capilano from Snug Cove. The camera crew walked on separately, climbed the stairs to the upper deck and set up to film half-a-dozen takes of a scene of a Seattle area Vashon-Maury Island ferry worker walking across the car deck and getting into the passenger seat of former Seattle Police detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos)’s car.
Season three of The Killing takes a place a year after detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) arrested Rosie Larsen’s killer. Linden is no longer a detective but Holder’s “search for a runaway girl leads him to discover a gruesome string of murders that connects to a previous murder investigation by Linden”. Peter Sarsgaard co-stars as a death row inmate.
SHOOT: THE KILLING’s Mireille Enos & Liam James Film in Snug Cove on Bowen Island
AMC resurrected The Killing for a third season of the Seattle-set murder mystery, which started filming twelve new episodes in Vancouver late last month. Last season our dynamic detective duo Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) had a tough time of it as they closed in on the Rosie Larsen killer: starting with Holder finding out he’d been set up to frame a Seattle mayoral candidate with a doctored toll booth photo and then getting beat up by thugs at the Wapi Eagle casino and left for dead, while Linden ditched her fiance, was suspended, lost custody of her son, got bashed on the head at the casino and committed to a psych ward for a day.Then they both went on the lam from the Seattle police force. No wonder Linden looked done-in walking away from the Larsen home in a final scene.
Events in the third season take place a year later when Detective Holder’s “search for a runaway girl leads him to discover a gruesome string of murders that connects to a previous murder investigation by [Sarah] Linden”, who is no longer a detective. Here she is filming a scene with her son Jack (Liam James). TVLine memorably named her the worst parent on TV in 2012. I have no context for this scene, but is that a smile on Linden’s face? The Killing filmed two scenes in Snug Cove on Bowen Island last week dressed as Vashon-Maury Island, which is within commuting distance of Seattle by ferry.
SATURN AWARDS Noms for FRINGE & Cast, ONCE UPON A TIME, SUPERNATURAL, ARROW, FALLING SKIES, THE KILLING And Our Own CONTINUUM
Perennial Saturn Awards (sci-fi, fantasy & horror) winner Fringe gets a final hurrah this year with a nomination as Best Network Television Series and individual nominations for Joshua Jackson as Best Actor, Anna Torv as Best Actress, John Noble as Best Supporting Actor and Blair Brown and Lance Reddick as Best Guest Stars. Fringe won Best Network Television Series in 2010 and 2011 so it could go out with a three-peat. Anna Torv already has a three-peat with Best Actress on TV awards in 2009, 2010, and 2011. John Noble got the win as Best Supporting Actor on TV in 2010. And Leonard Nimoy picked up Best Guest Actor on TV in 2009.
Other filmed-in-Vancouver productions scoring nominations include Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, The Killing, Falling Skies, Arrow and Vancouver’s own Continuum.
Best Network Television Series
Fringe, FOX
Famine to Temporary Feast: GODZILLA, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES & American TV Pilots – Updated
UPDATED April 26, 2013
From famine to temporary feast. B.C.’s film and TV production industry is bouncing back from a dismal start to the new year. But it could prove a temporary reprieve fueled by just four weeks of American TV pilot productions. The B.C. government still needs to move provincial tax incentives closer to Ontario and Quebec’s.
But for now, it’s good to see the Vancouver production list looking healthier. Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla reboot is getting underway finally after being pushed back while legal issues were resolved. Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston stars along with Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson from a script by The Walking Dead’s Frank Darabont. [Update: Word and Pictures, starring Clive Owen as a private school English teacher and Juliette Binoche as an art teacher who complicate their lives with romance, starts shooting next month too. As does Hector and the Search for Happiness starring Simon Pegg as a psychiatrist searching the world for the secret to happiness. And the rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise starring Andy Serkis as Caesar will return to Vancouver in April to film about a quarter of its sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The bulk of the Apes sequel's production will be done somewhere cheaper -- Louisiana.]
[Update: Feature film Robocop will do reshoots this May in Vancouver instead of Toronto, to accomodate star Joel Kinnaman who is committed to filming season three of The Killing here.]
- Fringe showrunner Joel Wyman directing series finale in Vancouver
[Eight American TV pilots and one short presentation] are confirmed to film in Vancouver next month, spread out among all five American broadcast networks. Our city remains on #TeamJJ (an inside-joke Twitter hashtag for JJ.Abrams projects and players) with a new FOX pilot [Almost Human starring Star Trek's Karl Urban and] filming here next month. Fringe showrunner Joel Wyman (above) plans to bring his script about Los Angeles police officers paired with androids to life with his Vancouver Fringe crew.[ [Also confirmed] is the CBS pilot Intelligence starring #TeamJJ actor Josh Holloway of Lost as US Cyber Command officer who has a microchip implanted in his brain. Another successful showrunner, Hart Hanson of Bones, is bringing his CBS pilot Backstrom to Vancouver, based on the books of a real-life Swedish criminologist [and starring Rainn Wilson]. And Bravo pilot Rita will star Anna Gunn as a private school teacher. You know what that means? A potential reunion of Breaking Bad TV couple Bryan Cranston and Anna Gunn in Vancouver.
It’s Official: THE KILLING’s Linden & Holder Back for 3rd Season & Start Filming Feb. 25th
What’s been talked about in Vancouver circles for months is finally official. AMC announced today it will resurrect The Killing for a third season of the Seattle-set murder mystery, which begins filming twelve new episodes here on February 25th. Last season our dynamic detective duo Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) had a tough time of it as they closed in on the Rosie Larsen killer: starting with Holder finding out he’d been set up to frame a Seattle mayoral candidate Darren Richmond with a doctored toll booth photo and then getting beat up by thugs at the Wapi Eagle casino and left for dead, while Linden ditched her fiance, was suspended, lost custody of her son, got bashed on the head at the casino and committed to a psych ward for a day.Then they both went on the lam from the Seattle police force. No wonder Linden looked done-in walking away from the Larsen home in a final scene.
Events in the third season reportedly take place a year later when Holder’s “search for a runaway girl leads him to discover a gruesome string of murders that connects to a previous murder investigation by Linden”, who is no longer a detective. That won’t last. It wouldn’t be The Killing without the comedy stylings of Linden & Holder, especially all the funny Holderisms – calling Chinese takeout “fu manchu poo poo MSG crap” while arguing that “pickles are vegetables” or yammering in the casino “Where are the ladies?…I’m talkin’ real ladies. Ain’t no party without no trim”.
Showrunner Veena Sud returns too but no other cast, as far as I know.
BEST of 2012 Lists
- Monday, December 31st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks FOX saving Fringe for a final season as 12th.
- Monday, December 31st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks death of Bobby on Supernatural as 17th.
- Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names Etta’s death on Fringe as jaw-dropping TV drama moment.
- Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names the purple haze, aka magic, coming to Storybrooke on Once Upon a Time season one finale as jaw-dropping TV drama moment.
- Monday, December 31st – Television Without Pity names Robert Carlyle — Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold – of Once Upon a Time as one of TV’s most valuable performers.
- Sunday, December 30th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks TV welcoming horror shows like The Secret Circle and upcoming Bates Motel as 28th.
- Wednesday, December 26th – TVLine names Once Upon a Time’s Snow White & Prince Charming the best romantic couple; Snow White and Emma as best female bonding; and Bailee Madison as young Snow White as most spot-on casting
- Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Fringe‘s Olivia as the runnerup for most kickass parent and Georgina Haig as POlivia’s daughter Etta the runnerup for most spot-on casting
- Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Arrow‘s Oliver in pilot’s salmon ladder scene as best display of skin
- Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names Supernatural‘s Benny as the best new character on an established show and Sam & Amelia as runnerup for worst love story
- Wednesday, December 26th – TV Line names The Killing‘s Sarah Linden as worst parent
- Sunday, December 23rd – BitTorrent ranks Fringe as the 9th most-pirated TV show with 2.3 million illegal downloads for single episode.
- Saturday, December 22nd – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks Stephen Amell’s abs on Arrow as 68th.
- Friday, December 21st – Entertainment Weekly TV critic Ken Tucker ranks Fringe as the 13th Best TV Show of 2012; EW readers rank it as 8th
- Friday, December 21st – Entertainment Weekly names Arrow‘s Stephen Amell a Breakout Star of 2012
- Friday, Decmeber 21st – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks Fringe‘s animated homage to Monty Python as 75th
- Wednesday, December 19th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks the harness factory on Falling Skies as 98th.
- Wednesday, December 19th – TV.com’s Top 100 Best of Everything ranks a guy exploding on The Secret Circle as 99th.
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