Wednesday 23 May 2001

Mira Sorvino filming "Wise Girls" in Halifax

Residents of a small Halifax neighbourhood waited in the hot sun for hours for a glimpse of Hollywood on Tuesday. "I've been here since 2 p.m. and I'm staying until she comes and leaves," said a camera-toting Anne Wilson Brown. Although Wilson Brown admitted she didn't know two of the film's stars - Academy-Award winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and lesser-known Hollywood actress Melora Walters (Boogie Nights, Magnolia), she still wanted to get their picture because of their fame.

Early Tuesday afternoon, crew with the movie Wise Girls began setting up for a brief shot of Sorvino and Walters walking down the sidewalk on Cornwallis Street between the corners of Maynard and Creighton streets. By 4:30 p.m. filming had still not started, but onlookers didn't seem to be getting antsy. A group of young men were hoping to see pop singer Mariah Carey who is also starring in the film.

As the cameras rolled, Sorvino and Walters emerged from Toulany's Pizza Factory looking very summery, each holding a can of soda pop. Props people placed New York licence plates on cars lined up outside of the pizza shop and on the corner of Cornwallis and Maynard streets one crew member used a hacksaw to cut down a no parking sign, which appeared to be in the way of the camera. Extras milled around the area including a man who had been hired to walk his dog on the street and a group of Italian looking young men.

Wise Girls is a co-production of L.A.-based Leading Pictures and Halifax's imX Communications. Shooting continues until June 22. There's been a lot of movie activity and many chances to star-gaze in Nova Scotia this year. The CBS movie, The Pilot's Wife, starring Christine Lahti (Chicago Hope) and Equinox Entertainment's action thriller Phase IV, starring Dean Cain (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman), are expected to wrap at the end of May. Gabriel Byrne and Joanne Whalley will be in Shelburne until mid-June filming the Knightscove Entertainment Corp.'s family drama, Virginia's Run. In June, the cast and crew of The Shipping News with Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett and K-19: The Widowmaker with Harrison Ford will return to complete their films.

(The Herald)

Many thanks to Mariah News.



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