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http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/movies/news/article05.armx
HALIFAX (CP) - The cast of television's Trailer Park Boys, the Canadian cult comedy series, are taking their small-time schemes to the big screen.
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles will begin filming Trailer Park Boys - The Movie this summer in Halifax in a bid to expand an already-faithful audience for their foul-mouthed, dope-smoking ways and seemingly endless series of half-baked plans to make money.
Hash and pot aside, though, their biggest score would appear to be moviemaking heavyweight Ivan Reitman, who's taking the executive producer's chair for the boys' foray into film.
Reitman, whose credits include comedic classics like Ghostbusters and Animal House, thinks the TV series will work well in a feature film format.
"This is a very funny group of guys, they're a fresh comedic voice, and we think it'll translate," the Canadian-raised Reitman told a news conference Thursday in Halifax.
"I think the screenplay . . . focuses the things that you've all come to love in the show in a way that will work, both for their historical audience and for audiences that have never seen or heard them before."
Trailer Park Boys, the TV series, has just launched its fifth season on Showcase, has won a Gemini for best comedy series, and is currently the highest-rated Canadian series on specialty television.
The new season's 10 episodes feature the boys dealing with a pair of comical drug-dealing creeps, a driveway made out of hash, and a plan to ship dope across the country in shopping carts.
Essentially, they're a bunch of underdogs trying to scheme their way out of their economic hole in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park, somewhere near Halifax.
Promoters of the movie, set for Canadian release in mid-2006 by Motion Picture Distribution LP, promise more of the same, only "with crazier antics, better dope, stronger language . . . and the mother of all scams."
During interviews in Halifax, Reitman declined to explain why he thinks the TV show is funny.
"But it's successful because it touches real lives. I think it has an enormous amount of heart," said Reitman.
"I think even though it deals with a certain spectrum of society that actually doesn't get dealt with much in North American comedy, I think it basically speaks to real experiences that we can sort of get behind and understand, and get somewhat emotionally involved with."
The film features the original TV cast and producers, along with Mike Clattenburg, the series director, head writer and creator.
Clattenburg said the movie will be produced on a relatively small budget of under $5 million Cdn.
"So the film will still be a low-budget feel and look - it's one of the charms of the (TV) series, we'll always keep it."
And they'll also be keeping the gutter-level language.
"I think the film will be an R-rated film," said Reitman. "There's been no attempt to change the tone of the movie from the tone of the television show."
Trailer Park Boys - The Movie includes the involvement of Alliance Atlantis, and is being produced with participation of Telefilm Canada and the Nova Scotia Film Development Corp.
http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/movies/news/article05.armx
HALIFAX (CP) - The cast of television's Trailer Park Boys, the Canadian cult comedy series, are taking their small-time schemes to the big screen.
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles will begin filming Trailer Park Boys - The Movie this summer in Halifax in a bid to expand an already-faithful audience for their foul-mouthed, dope-smoking ways and seemingly endless series of half-baked plans to make money.
Hash and pot aside, though, their biggest score would appear to be moviemaking heavyweight Ivan Reitman, who's taking the executive producer's chair for the boys' foray into film.
Reitman, whose credits include comedic classics like Ghostbusters and Animal House, thinks the TV series will work well in a feature film format.
"This is a very funny group of guys, they're a fresh comedic voice, and we think it'll translate," the Canadian-raised Reitman told a news conference Thursday in Halifax.
"I think the screenplay . . . focuses the things that you've all come to love in the show in a way that will work, both for their historical audience and for audiences that have never seen or heard them before."
Trailer Park Boys, the TV series, has just launched its fifth season on Showcase, has won a Gemini for best comedy series, and is currently the highest-rated Canadian series on specialty television.
The new season's 10 episodes feature the boys dealing with a pair of comical drug-dealing creeps, a driveway made out of hash, and a plan to ship dope across the country in shopping carts.
Essentially, they're a bunch of underdogs trying to scheme their way out of their economic hole in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park, somewhere near Halifax.
Promoters of the movie, set for Canadian release in mid-2006 by Motion Picture Distribution LP, promise more of the same, only "with crazier antics, better dope, stronger language . . . and the mother of all scams."
During interviews in Halifax, Reitman declined to explain why he thinks the TV show is funny.
"But it's successful because it touches real lives. I think it has an enormous amount of heart," said Reitman.
"I think even though it deals with a certain spectrum of society that actually doesn't get dealt with much in North American comedy, I think it basically speaks to real experiences that we can sort of get behind and understand, and get somewhat emotionally involved with."
The film features the original TV cast and producers, along with Mike Clattenburg, the series director, head writer and creator.
Clattenburg said the movie will be produced on a relatively small budget of under $5 million Cdn.
"So the film will still be a low-budget feel and look - it's one of the charms of the (TV) series, we'll always keep it."
And they'll also be keeping the gutter-level language.
"I think the film will be an R-rated film," said Reitman. "There's been no attempt to change the tone of the movie from the tone of the television show."
Trailer Park Boys - The Movie includes the involvement of Alliance Atlantis, and is being produced with participation of Telefilm Canada and the Nova Scotia Film Development Corp.