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REGINA — Angela Hovland had a brush with celebrity recently and didn’t even realize it.
Hovland, an instructor at Regina’s Yoga Mala studio, didn’t notice anything unusual about her 4 p.m. class Sunday. It turns out that one of the students was actress Jessica Biel, who was in Regina to complete her scenes for the thriller The Tall Man.
“She came in with another girl and I probably wouldn’t have even noticed but one of the other girls who works here was helping her to pay and sign in,” explained Hovland. “She was the one who recognized her. She also knew that she was in town for a movie. She put two and two together and said, ‘That’s got to be her.’ After, she mentioned it to me, ‘I think that was Jessica Biel in your class.’
“Without makeup on and in yoga clothes, you don’t even think about that. I didn’t even know she was in Regina. They probably like that though, as they probably want to keep as much anonymity as they can, especially using fake names and paying in cash.”
Biel and her friend went out of their way to keep a low profile but their yoga experience gave them away.
“They said they were in town for a couple of days and would like to try yoga. They acted like they really didn’t know what they were doing but they definitely knew what they were doing,” said Hovland, who has been teaching at Yoga Mala since November. “They’re in great shape with very nice bodies, strong and muscular. They certainly looked like they’d done yoga a few times before.”
Biel apparently enjoyed her two classes on Sunday because she returned to the studio on Monday.
“She had lots of positive things to say about the class,” Hovland said. “She seemed to enjoy it.”
The Tall Man was shot in Nelson, B.C., with the principal filming completed in December. Biel is reportedly in Regina filming reshoots for the movie which is being produced by Mind’s Eye Entertainment, Cold Rock Productions, Forecast Pictures and Radar Films. Mind’s Eye Entertainment is based in Regina.
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Looks like production on “The Tall Man” isn’t a 100% complete! Probably doing some re-shoots, or, just new scenes all together! Check out this article talking about it:
If you think you’ve seen Jessica Biel around Regina – you very well could have.
The actress is in the city wrapping up filming of a mystery thriller “The Tall Man”.
The movie is produced by Minds Eye Entertainment’s Kevin DeWalt, Radar Films’ Clement Miserez and SND.
Written and directed by French director Pascal Laugier, the film was primarily shot in Nelson, BC but is set to conclude production in the Canada-Saskatchewan Production Studio and in and around Regina.
Set in the town of Cold Rock, the film is a story of the haunting secrets that hide behind closed doors. Children go missing over the years with no clues or witnesses.
Locals talk of ‘the tall man’, a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen again. When a woman’s son is taken, the chase is on with a quest for answers: who is the Tall Man and what happens to the children?
The film also stars Stephen McHattie, William B. Davis, Samantha Ferris and Jodelle Ferland.
I am probably most excited for this film!
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MADRID — Powerful Spanish media duo Antena 3 and DeAPlaneta have taken Spanish rights to the mystery thriller “The Tall Man,” starring Jessica Biel and helmed by France’s Pascal Laugier (“Martyrs,” “House of Voices”).
“Tall Man’s” theatrical and DVD rights will be handled in Spain by Barcelona-based DeAPlaneta, an indie distributor that forms part of media conglom DeAPlaneta Group, in turn a core shareholder in broadcaster Antena 3 Group.
Antena 3 will manage “Tall Man” Spanish TV rights.
Budgeted at $15 million, “Tall Man” marks Laugier’s English-language feature debut, following up his 2008 ultraviolent horror movie “Martyrs,” which the Weinstein Co. picked up Stateside.
Biel plays a nurse living in a small town where children have gone missing over the years, leaving no clues. One night, she finds her son’s bed empty and, desperately rushing downstairs, confronts a huge dark figure, with her son in his arms.
Pic also toplines Jodelle Ferland (“Eclipse,” “Case 39″), Stephen McHattie (“Watchmen,” “History of Violence”) and William B. Davis (“Passengers,” “The Messengers”).
“Tall Man” is produced by France’s SND-M6 Group, Clement Miserez’s Radar Films and, from Canada, Kevin DeWalt’s Minds Eye Ent., in association with Steven Schneider’s Room 101.
Now in post, film is being sold internationally by SND, which will release it in France in 2011.
SND’s mother company, Gallic broadcaster M6, is owned by Pan-European broadcast group RTL, also a shareholder at Antena 3 Group.
Spain’s highest-grossing pic production company in 2010, driven by teen drama “Three Steps Above Heaven,” Antena 3 is obliged by a new Spanish law to invest 3% of its yearly revenues in Spanish or European movies.
Pre-buying “Tall Man” from producers counts towards A3′s 3% movie investment obligation.
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Now that shooting in West Kootenay for The Tall Man is over, locals say it was a mostly — but not entirely — positive experience.
The feature film saw crews spend close to two months in Salmo, Ymir, and Nelson.
“It brought a lot to Salmo,” says Mayor Ann Henderson. “The restaurants were busy, although most of the filming was at night. I heard a few complaints, but that’s par for the course.”
Henderson says there were some issues about the film crews blocking driveways, particularly those belonging to emergency services personnel.
However, on the whole, “it was exciting. The transformation of different buildings around town was interesting.” The curling rink, for instance, was turned into a jail.
In Ymir, regional director Hans Cunningham says accommodating the movie crew “had its ups and downs, but overall I think the town was pretty happy.”
Locations included a house as well as the old school, which was converted into a dentist’s office.
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While local filming for the feature film The Tall Man wrapped up yesterday, producer Kevin DeWalt says West Kootenay hasn’t seen the last of the Jessica Biel-fronted thriller.
“We’ll certainly come here and do a screening for the community,” DeWalt says. “We like to do that. Wherever we shoot the movie, we’ll give them the provincial premiere for sure.”
DeWalt says he doesn’t know exactly when the film will be released, but producers are shooting for October or November of 2011. The premiere would likely be held in Nelson — the largest community where filming for The Tall Man took place.
Since filming began in late September, The Tall Man’s crew has visited several locations in and out of town. DeWalt says residents will recognize the mountains and natural backdrop captured on film, but some of their indoor sets bear little resemblance to the original buildings.
“We built a diner inside that gas station [in Erie], and the old Mount St. Francis hospital, we turned it into an abandoned mining building,” he says. “So we had to dirty it up and make it look abandoned. It’s what you do on a movie shoot: you kind of create magic and people will be amazed, I think, when they see the movie and how we transform these locations.”
Other locations for the film included Ymir’s main street, a trailer park in Salmo and a house the crew built on Porto Rico Road. The final days of the shoot saw the crew back in Salmo, where they filmed in the town’s curling rink — restyled into a prison.
With their Kootenay shoot completed, DeWalt says filming moves to Vancouver for a few days before post-production editing, mixing and visual effects work begins.
DeWalt says the film was welcomed with open arms by the community, and the positive experience he’s had will likely pay off for the area the next time a production company considers the Kootenays.
“The next time somebody scouts here they’ll be calling and asking how it went, he says. “It will be a positive review for sure. It’s been great.”
The Tall Man will follow Biel, who plays a doctor recently arrived in the run-down town of Cold Rock, as she investigates a series of disappearing children and searches for her own missing son.
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