Newspaper Articles About MOVE from CAN-USA
Vicky Lipscombe
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London Free Press / London Ontario Newspaper
X-Files Won't Mark B.C. Spot / March 30, 1998
The truth is, it's outta here. The X-Files television series is leaving
Vancouver, where it has been filmed for five years. The most popular U.S.
television series ever shot in Canada is moving to Los Angeles. Series
creator and executive producer Chris Carter told the cast and crew Friday
Night. It's no big surprise; rumors have been circulating for months.
Stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson both live in Los Angeles.
Duchovny said he would leave the show if the show didn't leave Vancouver
because his wife actor Tea Leoni, films her television series in Los
Angeles.
Owens Files Away Duchovny-out Tale / March 31, 1998
Dogged by misinformation, pursued from shady quarters, shielded by
people in high places - Chris Owens' life has been a little like an X-Files
episode lately.
The rumors began in a supermarket tabloid, then moved to Howard Stern's
radio show and the Internet, all variations on the same theme: That the
Canadian actor is quietly being eased into the hit show to replace star
David Duchovny.
"It's amazing how quickly and easily things get twisted around," a
somewhat bemused Owens, 36, said last week over lunch in Toronto, his home
turf until he moved to Vancouver with his law girlfriend two years ago.
"I am not replacing David Duchovny," he said, not for the first or,
presumably, considering the naturally suspicious minds of the show's
viewers, the last time.
(Younger sister Shelly, also an actor, was in the fourth X-Files episode
way back in 1993. "She paved the way for me," Owens joked. "She's
replacing David.")
But evidence that something is in store for the actor, who plays
X-Files' FBI special agent Jeffrey Spender, goes beyond Internet chatter.
Fox TV acted pretty squirrelly about letting anyone interview him and the
producers have shown an unusually persistent interest in his acting
services.
Multiple Roles
Spender is Owen's third X-Files part. He appeared earlier this season
as the peanut-butter-loving, good hearted modern monster, The Great Mutate,
in an homage to the classic Frankenstein. Before that, he was the younger
version of one of the show's longest-running characters, the Cigarette
Smoking Man, the sinister figure blamed for the assassinations of both John
F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
"Mother Teresa slipped through my fingers. I wasn't watching closely
enough," Owens quipped.
A recent development suggests that agent Spender is Cigarette Smoking
Man's estranged son.
"I'm playing my own son," Owens said, then paused.
"Is that right? Yeah, that's right." Only on The X-Files.
Wait And See
He's due back on set April 20 to shoot the season's final episode and
will find out in May whether the producers will exercise a contractual
option for him to do another dozen hours next season - an assignment that
would take him to L.A. for the first time after 18 years of slogging it out
on more than 40 TV series and movies.
"Like they say, ride the wave. Having been in this business for years,
I know that I've had ups and downs. I've been close to things and not close
to things. Luck and fortune play a big part in it, of course. So yeah,
I'll enjoy this for as long as I can, " he says.
Because as he knows, on The X-Files anything can happen.
His friend Brendan Beiser played Pendrell, an FBI lab guy smitten with
Dana Scully, in nine episodes - long enough that people started to notice.
And then?
"He said to me, 'Jeez, I can't believe it. They killed me.'"
Written by Claire Bickley / On TV
Claire Bickely is TV columnist with the Toronto Sun.
B.C. Cool To X-Files Moving To Tinseltown - April 4 , 1998
By Ian Bailey
Canadian Press
VANCOUVER - X-Files creator Chris Carter seems to be the only person in
British Columbia's TV industry who's choked up about moving production to
Hollywood.
Carter says he was overcome with emotion when he recently told his crew
of about 300 that he's moving the popular series, shot in Vancouver since
its 1993 debut.
But the X-Files exodus is earning a shrug from the film and TV sector
that's been providing actors, studio space and other services.
People are simply too busy angling for there slice of B.C.'s robust
production sector - worth a record $630 million in 1997 - to do much more
than wish Carter well.
"Of course, we don't like loosing it," says Ian Waddell, B.C.'s small
business minister. "But (it) comes at a time when maybe we can afford to
lose it."
With series such as X-Files, Millennium and Cold Squad, as well as
feature films such as upcoming Antonio Banderas Viking epic, Eaters of the
Dead, B.C. is becoming Hollywood North.
Only $336 million a year was spent on TV and film in B.C. when Carter
shot the first X-Files episode. This year, 25 television projects are
expected to be shot in Vancouver and the X-Files budget of up to $30 million
is a just a sliver of the pie.
This week, there are several major productions shooting - Poltergeist,
Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits, The Sentinel, a new CBC production,
DaVinci's Inquest and The Addams Family. Observers are so bullish about a
future without X-Files that some are comfortable taking shots at the show.
Zoltan Szekely, owner of Ruthless Talents casting agency, refers series
star David Duchovny as a "skinny weasel" for criticizing Vancouver.
Wet Weather
In remarks he later dubbed a joke, the actor who plays FBI agent Fox
Mulder complained about the wet weather. But he threatened to quit if
shooting wasn't moved to California so he could be closer to his wife,
sitcom star Tea Leoni.
In a terse statement this week, 20th Century Fox TV said it decided to
move the show so series writing, production and post-production could be
done in the same place.
"Honestly, I really don't care," says Szekely. "They were here for long
enough. If X-Files leaves, two shows will replace it."
That optimism is shared by others.
"There's more of a perceived impact than it will actually have," says
Peter Leitch, who runs Lions Gate Studios.
X-Files occupies three soundstages at the North Vancouver studios -
vast, empty spaces where crews build sets like the interior of a 737 jet, a
boxcar full of dead aliens or a forest.
Leitch is still booked up with Carter's other show, Millenium, which
rents two soundstages, and producers for six film and TV projects have asked
to be put on a waiting list for space. The picture appears equally rosy for
Vancouver actors. Dozens have appeared on the show in supporting roles and
will continue in Los Angeles when required.
Richard Lucas, president of Lucas Talent, says most of his 135 actors
have worked on X-Files, including William Davis, who plays the villainous
Cigarette-Smoking Man and Chris Owens, who's moved from bit parts to a
prominent role as FBI agent Jeffrey Spender.
RSharma007
Thanks for posting these articles...especially the one with the guy who calls
DD a "skinny weasel"...I got a kick out of that one!!
Ruby:)
Barbara
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>Thanks for posting these articles...especially the one with the guy who calls
>DD a "skinny weasel"...I got a kick out of that one!!
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>Ruby:)
You would.
Greg Dewar
I'm not anti-LA per se, but it seems that the 'look' of the program will
change once it's filmed in and around LA.
Don't believe me? Take a look at most programs made in the LA area.
You'll notice that "LA LOOK" to most shows : tall brown hills, with
sparse green, a lot of pollution, and the same backgrounds you see in
every movie or TV show.
Vancouver, BC offered a slightly different view...english speaking and
similar to America but different enough to give off that cold feel that
made it "look" good. The infinite number of pine trees in such unlikely
places as Texas didnt hurt!
Ah well. Maybe they can do more episodes in Tijuana this way.