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Smurfs 2 to Shoot in Montreal
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:59 pm
by bradley
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/s ... ini-261805
Sony Pictures' 'Smurfs 2,' 'Houdini' and 'Singularity' to Shoot in Montreal
The Hollywood studio is bringing three CGI-heavy movies to Quebec for production one after the other to take advantage of generous tax breaks and digital media incentives.
TORONTO - Studio movie shoots in Canada these days increasingly come in bunches for added production savings.
Roland Emmerich may have delayed production on his sci-fi epic Singularity in Montreal, but that hasn’t stopped Sony Pictures piling into Quebec with yet more big-budget movie shoots.
The studio is now likely to shoot the $175 million Singularity picture in fall 2012, ahead of a May 2013 release, after Steven Spielberg wraps production on Robopocalypse at the Cite’ du Cinema studio in summer 2012.
Now there’s word Sony Pictures is to shoot the upcoming sequel to The Smurfs and its Houdini project in Montreal as it takes advantage of Quebec’s generous all-spend tax credit and additional digital media tax incentives for live action/CG hybrids.
The studio is near to starting pre-production on The Smurfs 2, which has an August 2, 2013 release, and Jordan Kerner returning as producer.
And Sony Pictures is also sending to Montreal director Francis Lawrence’s high profile film about Houdini, the famed escape artist and magician.
The studio is only the latest Los Angeles producer to secure economies of scale by shooting movies one after the other in Canada, often with the same local production crews and facilties.
Relativity Media had Tarsem Singh shoot the CGI-heavy epic Immortals inside the Cite’ du Cinema studio in Montreal, followed by production of next year’s Julia Roberts-starring Snow White movie Mirror, Mirror, also in Montreal.
And Universal Pictures similarly chose Montreal to shoot Mummy 3 and Death Race one after the other back in 2007.
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:42 pm
by Smurfysmurf
Great news
....thanks, Brad
PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:51 pm
by Nivid
PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:27 am
by barrufet
If it's not NY but the smurf village it will be great !
Please no more humans ! Please no more Sofia Vergara! Please no more Patrick Neil Harris, wife and baby !
Only Gargamel and Azrael are allowed this time.
Please be respectful with Peyo work this time.
PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:25 am
by Smurfysmurf
I agree, a movie in the smurf village would be great, but I actually didn't think the humans were as much of a distraction as I first thought they would be (the side story was though).
The cartoon series sometimes showed cartoon humans as well in a medieval village so I guess you could say the only new thing in the movie was the time portal
Not being up to date with the comic books, did the smurfs ever end up in a the medieval village in one of the comic books or was this just a cartoon series thing?
PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:54 pm
by bwalters
Well everyone. I doubt if Sony will look at or even care about what we want. The last film made over $500,000. To me that says what they did was a hugh success. And not only did the kids go to the movie, but in every case I saw at least 1 parent used their kids as an excuse to return to their child hood. There wasn't a whole lot of people there when I went. Maybe 30, but I saw just as many smiles on the adults faces when I left as I did children. They are probibly just going to say, hey not only did they come, they came in droves to see the last one. Lets try it again the same way.
PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:01 pm
by barrufet
If the Peyo family and Sony have become richer and richer thanks to the first movie
what if they do a good smurf movie this time ? 
If they don't have any good ideas they could do a mix of smurf stories in the smurf village.
There is the smurfette story, the king smurf, the purple/black smurfs, the sorcerer smurf, the olympic smurfs, Johan and Peewit, Bigmouth, even the baby smurf,...
There are hundreds of ideas before putting some annoying human baby and his parents in a human world full of people, cars, i-phones and businesses.
Please this time do it for Peyo and not for your Bank accounts !
You will be richer anyway !
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:53 am
by bradley
http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertai ... story.html
Now comes the news that Sony Pictures will be shooting The Smurfs 2 in Montreal next year. Sony will be opening a production office here Jan. 30 and shooting begins April 28 on the sequel to the hits Smurfs movie, which was quite the sensation at the box office in Quebec.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:20 am
by Sunny Smurfette
New release date for the Smurfs 2
it was scheduled for August 2nd 2013, now it is moved to July 31th, 2013!
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni25321490/
The sequel plot is unknown but with the teaser poster... could the Smurfs be going to France this time???
http://smurfs-2-movie-trailer.blogspot.ca/
The film Production starts on April 20th, 2012 and is shooting till June 29th, 2012
Fun time !!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:24 pm
by Tintin
Hi
Wish i could be on the movie set
Tintin
PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:16 am
by PunkMaister
Is it mummy 3 or a reboot of the Mummy as clevermovies reported. Anyway enough with those kind of bad news I'm glad the sequel is being made...
PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:21 am
by Tracker Smurf
That teaser poster is either really rushed or not legit. At anyrate the smurf novel ends with Papa having a vision of Gragamel being at the eifel tower but it is really the replica in Vegas I think not sure if that was in the original script or not. At any rate I'm hoping we see more of the smurf world...the fact thaty are not filming in New York (or Vegas for that matter) gives me hope that we might see more in the smurf world.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:22 am
by smurfowen
PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:38 am
by Tracker Smurf
Now see that one is official but still juest using already released images
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:45 am
by PunkMaister
Now see that one is official but still juest using already released images
You cannot possibly expect finalized product images when they have just began production. Hell they are probably still working on the CG renderings at this point.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:01 pm
by Tracker Smurf
I know...just kind of hoping for hint of what is to come.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:18 pm
by PunkMaister
I know...just kind of hoping for hint of what is to come.
I just rather they make a good movie than rush things (well a good movie within the confines and limitations that this type of Scooby doo, Garfield, Chipmunks, Hop etc. type movie has.)
PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:50 pm
by Smurf1303
Humans are fine but please in medieval times like in the books, would be good to have Johan & Pewit...
PostPosted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:47 pm
by PunkMaister
Humans are fine but please in medieval times like in the books, would be good to have Johan & Pewit...
I think that given the fact that Gargamel was left in New York the sequel this time will take place there with the smurfs saving the day and the world. But I would not mind seeing those 2 in a third film though.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:11 am
by Smurfysmurf
Looks like there will be some new characters in the new movie...one of them may be an evil smurfette
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/23708/ ... -smurfette