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NEWS:
Upcoming T.V. Appearances:
-The new season of Da Vinci's Inquest begins October 4th on CBC. Dawn Arnold found on the CBC website that Callum will be appearing in the fourth episode of the new season on *October 25th, 9:00pm mst, CBC.*
*Spoiler Warning, Episode Synopsis: Do You Wanna Dance* Da Vinci and Kosmo unravel the relationship between a young boxer and his mother's abusive boyfriend. Shannon and Leary pursue another cabbie murder. Patricia and Bobby Marlowe teach a group of medical students the nuances of crime scene investigation. With Nicholas Campbell, Donnelly Rhodes, Ian Tracey, Venus Terzo, and Callum Keith Rennie.
SHAFTESBURY MYSTERIES III INC
Shoot: Sept 27 - Oct 22, 2000
Producer: Christina Jennings, Paul Stephens
Production manager: Tina Grewal
Writer: Dennis Foon (he also wrote Little Criminals)
Prod coordinator: Keitha Redmond
Director: Alex Chapple
Cast: Kathleen Robertson
Brenda Fricker
Victor Garber
Callum Keith Rennie
The movie is a part of a CTV Canadian Literature Initiative
to bring Can Lit to the small screen. It's scheduled to air in February.
No one is for sure as to what role Callum will be playing.
*Spoiler Warning, Synopsis: Torso* The movie is a true story about Evelyn Dick who was on trial for the murder and decapitation of her husband in Hamilton, Ontario, during the 1940's; the proceedings supposedly turned into a media circus. Evelyn is to have murdered and cut up the body of her husband who was a street car driver for the Hamilton Street Railway. Only his torso was found in the bush of Hamilton Mountain by a group of children playing there. Evelyn was also charged with the murder of her baby, who was found buried in cement in a suitcase in the attic of her home. The woman at the time was having an affair as well with a man who worked at the steel company, Dofasco, and it is rumoured that her boyfriend may have disposed of rest of the husbands body in the furnaces at Dofasco.
-Before 'Torso', the last film Callum had been working
on was a t.v. movie called 'Now
And Forever.' (Once again, thanks to Dawn for the info.) The film
was being shot in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from July 24th to August 19th
by Edge Entertainment and produced in association with WIC Entertainment,
for four million dollars. Main shooting locations were around Vanscoy,
a small town near Saskatoon, the White Cap First Nation's Reserve, Buena
Vista School, and St. Paul's Cathedral downtown. Callum's role is the character
of Carl Mackie, who is suppose to be Dori Wilson's new boyfriend
in the movie.
*Spoiler Warning, Synopsis: Now & Forever* Edge describes N&F as a "tragic yet illuminating and uplifting love story." "It's story of the friendship between John Myron (Adam Beach), a young Native boy who isn't completely accepted in his school, and Angela Wilson (Mia Kirshner), a small town girl who's wheelchair-bound father, Alex (Rob Roy), commits suicide and who is neglected by her alcoholic mother, Dori (Theresa Russell). As they mature into adolescence, their friendship strengthens, but John realises that his love for Angela is unrequited. Angela is looking for a way to escape small town life and thinks she's found it in T. J. Bolt (Gabriel Olds), a charming, popular young man. Sensing something sinister in T.J., John tries to protect Angela but only manages to push her farther away. His worst fears come true one tragic night when he rescues her from a shocking act of betrayal and, faced with its aftermath, Angela leaves town immediately, unaware that she has put a string of events into motion that will change the course of their lives forever."
-Then before 'Now and Forever,' there was also another
project he was filming in Saskatoon from May 11th to May 28th, called 'Murder Seen' by Minds Eye
productions for two million dollars. It stars Kent Allen from Saskatoon
as Ivan Stark, the murderer, Nicole Eggert as Zoey Drayden the hero, "beautiful
but brainy botany student," and Timothy Bottoms as Detective Stepenoski,
and Callum as Detective Keegan. It will be broadcast on Canada's
Super Écran, TMN - The Movie Network, and Superchannel beginning
in 2001. (Thanks to Dawn Arnold.)
*Spoiler Warning, Synopsis: Murder Seen* "There's a killer on campus, a ruthless, intelligent, devious, cold-blooded killer." "Zoey may have met her match in Mr. Stark, a cultured man with a theatre background who kidnaps women and makes them wear a wedding dress. In Allen's mind, Stark is seeking the perfection of romance embodied in plays such as Romeo and Juliet. The minute reality falls short, he kills the woman and starts over. He's not a raving lunatic, which makes him even scarier." (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, May 13, 2000 Local actor flexes dark side for role.) "Murder Seen is a suspense thriller about a psychic co-ed tormented by the chilling details of a mysterious kidnapping on her college campus. Zoey Drayden, an intelligent and beautiful university student, receives a life-altering phone call from a distressed woman pleading for help. The eerie call evokes haunting dreams of the woman's abduction. Driven to investigate, she discovers the disturbing reality behind her visions and decides to go to the police. There, Zoey meets Detectives Keegan and Stepnoski, and reveals details of the missing student's case that only the police and the killer would know. To her disbelief, Zoey becomes their prime suspect and is arrested for masterminding the kidnapping. Determined to save the woman and free herself from the horrifying images, Zoey helps to capture a vicious serial killer, and in doing so, almost pays the price with her own life."
Film Festivals:
-So you have in mind now a pretty good time line for what
projects Callum has been working on. But since basically the middle of
August until now Callum has been making appearances at the Venice, and Toronto International Film Festival
helping to promote Lyne Stopkowich's 'Suspicious River.' We've
learned much more about the film since it has premiered, so if you want
the scoop, a great article to read is the film's
diary given in an issue of Playback magazine, and the following synopsis.
*Spoiler Warning, Synopsis: Suspicious River* "Leila Murray (Molly Parker) works as a receptionist at a small-town motel. For the same price of a room, Leila offers herself to the men who pass through - she can neither understand nor explain why she keeps doing this. Hiding her money away, she claims to be saving for something, something that shimmers just beyond the horizon, but whether beautiful or terrible she can't
tell.
Keeping her secret from her husband and co-worker wouldn't be difficult, but Leila is beyond caring. Then she meets the compelling and magnetic Gary Jensen (Callum Keith Rennie), a man whom she finds both brutal and seductive. Gary pushes Leila farther into her compulsion, testing the limits of what she would be willing to do and how completely he can break her.
Delving into difficult subject matter, director Lynne Stopkewich interrogates the compulsions that drive us and examines the choices we have, or think we have. Leaving behind her family, co-workers, and a young girl she has befriended, Leila's past and future collide in a crash course with destiny.
Honest and compelling, Suspicious River is disturbing in its frank assessment of violence and self-destruction. Leila exists on the thin edge that separates pleasure from danger, self-knowledge from self-annihilation. As Leila dives into her own unrealized darkness, she is uncertain whether she will, or if she even wants to, survive. Yet even in its most dire moments, Suspicious River retains a sense of hope that we are capable of plunging into the depths and returning to the surface renewed." (By Liz Czach, www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/)
"[Leila] doesn't really understand why she's doing it," director and screenwriter Lynne Stopkewich says. "We come to understand why she's doing it. The character's gone through some traumatic things in the past and the journey is to jog her memory about things that happened in her family and her role with her parents. It escalates and she puts herself in more and more dire situations." (TIFF Film Diaries, Suspicious River, By Fiona MacDonald, September 4th 2000 www.playback.com)
-Also interestingly, Callum has a small role in another film
called 'Momento' by
Christopher Nolan, which was shown at Venice and Toronto. It was filmed
in late 1999, supposedly in Los Angelas; yes, Callum is getting work in
the states!
DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan
TIME: 113 minutes
FILM TYPE: Black and White and Colour/35mm
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Newmarket
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Aaron Ryder
PRODUCER: Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd
SCREENPLAY: Christopher Nolan, based on the short story by
Jonathan Nolan
PRINCIPAL CAST: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano,
Mark Boone
Junior, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harriet Samsom Harris
*Spoiler Warning, Synopsis: Momento* "Leonard wears expensive tailored suits and drives a Jaguar, but he lives in cheap, anonymous motels, paying his way with thick wads of cash. Although he looks like a successful businessman, his only work is the pursuit of vengeance: tracking and punishing the man who raped and murdered his wife. His suspicions dismissed by the police, Leonard's life has become an all-consuming quest for justice. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that Leonard suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his "accident," Leonard can't remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he is, where he's going or why. Keenly aware of his handicap and haunted by loss, he has re-built his life out of index cards, photographs, file folders, charts, tattoos and obsessive habits that stand in for memory, fixing him in space and time and connecting him to his mission.
Memento mines this psychological terrain, using alternating scenes of colour and black and white to form a jigsaw puzzle narrative mirroring Leonard's own effort to interpret the random pieces of evidence he hoards. As his story unfolds, the meaning of events change. Allies, enemies, victims, victimizers swap places almost kaleidoscopically. As the narrative progresses, what becomes vividly clear is that we know much less than we thought.
At the heart of this intriguing film is a philosophical question: in the absence of memory, can a willfully selected set of mementos produce a reliably moral self that can distinguish right from wrong, truth from falsity, the present from the past, and the real from the illusory?" (Kay Armatage, www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/)
Venice (Aug 30 - Sep 08, 2000):
-"...Afterwards, in the bar of the Excelsior, festival guests ogled actors Faye Dunaway, Elodie Boucher, Callum Keith Rennie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and directors Atom Egoyan and Tsui Hark and wondered whether the upcoming films "The Circle," "Calle 54" or "The Last Resort" would finally give everyone a movie to fall in love with." (www.indiewire.com)
-"...Suspicious River is the best film ever shot in Vancouver -- a movie that screened, with Italian subtitles, a few days ago at the Venice Film Festival. When Stopkewich and actors Molly Parker and Callum Keith Rennie entered the theatre after the screening, they drew a resounding standing ovation." (Vancouver Province Sunday 10, September 2000, Suspicious River Just Great)
Toronto (Sep 07 - Sep 16, 2000):
-On what he was wearing: "I'm not talking about my
goddamn clothes."
On what was in his pockets: "None of your goddamn business,
really", but then he answered, "I've got a wallet I bought today,
by a German company, Taschen, because the wallet I have, like, hurts my
ass on long drives."
On which festival film he wanted to see: "I want
to see State and Main, a David Mamet film with William Macy and Alec Baldwin."
(Callum on StarTV's festival ep, transcribed by Dawn Arnold)
-"..He shoots, He scores: Edmonton's own Callum Keith
Rennie, who got his start in a late 80's Fringe production of American
Buffalo, is here with Suspicious River, the latest from director Lynn (Kissed)
Stopkewich. It's a gutsy performance from Rennie, and a daring film from
the Canadian director who made necrophilia, well, understandable. Rennie
now lives in L.A. and reports he's in a Tuesday/Thursday hockey league
with other expatriate Canucks. Lest you think that Rennie, an actor who
occasionally looks a touch like an unmade bed, has become a health-nut,
it's not so. He's still smoking - at least six cigarettes over the course
of a two-beer interview - but says his 40-year old lungs are OK. Besides,
he says, in his league the shifts are less than two minutes long, just
the right amount of time to display some wily pond-hockey skills before
catching bench time and, presumably his breath." (Edmonton Journal,
Sept 12/00 C2 by Marc Horton.) (Horton, in a later Edmonton Journal article
also comments after TIFF that Callum was his most relaxed interviewee of
the entire festival, and asked Horton if he was getting tired of interviewing
actors yet, to which Horton replied, no, although he was stretching the
truth a little.)
Upcoming Film Projects:
-Other watchful fans have caught Callum's name in connection with a possible up coming film called 'Butterflies In The Rain' by Montreal born John Cassini who is shopping around for an executive producer. "He's hoping to shoot Butterflies In The Rain in Vancouver." "A father and son story that will star Callum Keith Rennie (Due South), the film was developed by Cassini and Bruce Ramsay, the Montreal born, L.A. based actor. Warner Bros. is looking at the script."(Cassini Leaving Las Vegas)
-Also, Paul Gross, during a recent online
chat hosted by Chatelaine magazine, says that Callum will have a
role in a movie which Paul has written, and will be staring in called 'Men
With Brooms,' which Paul has described as a comdey/tragedy about curling.
Paul also mentioned that Callum should start brushing up on his game; this
leads one to ask, does Callum even know how to curl?!
Videos:
-Out on video: 'Last Stop', as well as 'Purple
Toast' is now available from it's creators, and 'For Those Who Hunt
The Wounded Down' is also now available from CBC. More detailed information
on these video's and how to get them will soon be on the merchandise
page.
Magazines:
-Many recent issues of Playback magazine have been
mentioning Suspicious River, as well, there is a current August/September
issue of Reel West magazine, which cover features the Suspicious
River cast, as well as a full article about the film. More information
about these issues will soon be found on the merchandise
page.
Off Topic:
-The second season of Twitch City, has been nominated for a slew of Gemini awards (it's the equivalent of the American Emmy Awards), most of them for Don McKellar, and Bruce McDonald and the production crew.
-Callum's friend Bruce McCollugh, of Kids In The Hall fame has won an 2000 MMVA, Much Music Video Award, for best direction in a music video, for the previous #1 hit video he shot for the Canadian band The Tragically Hip, called Music At Work.
-Bruce McDonald (directed HCL), is now in the process of filming his project 'Claire's Hat' as we speak, and sources on the production crew (thanks to our sources from TIFF), say that Callum may have a small role in this film. Now we can only wait with baited breath until Bruce starts filming 'Ponty Pool Changes Everything' at some point, because CKR, Bruce has said, will have a major role along side with Hugh Dillion.
-The Hard Core Buddies Weekend, the gathering of CKR fan's in Vancouver, has come and gone, and a fantastic time by all was had! My HCBW web page will be up shortly.
-Finally, I want to wish a happy belated birthday to our birthday boy CKR, who has just turned 40 this September 14th!
-Lot of reading eh? Yeah, no kidding! You could polish off a box of Smarties easily while reading this. It took me forever to compile! But it looks beautiful, and gives you a great run down. Liked it? Am I insane? Did I mess up? E-mail me.
(03/10/00) Ta da! We've moved, and it hasn't killed me. Yet. Now at home at www.fortunecity.com/lavender/hellraiser/261/rwac.htm, I hope all of you guy's have been able to find us. I had to move from the lovely estates of www.ualberta.ca/~opdebeck/rwac.htm, because I'm not attending the U of A this year, but other than that, nothing has changed. Except my e-mail address of course. You can now reach me instead at: rebelwithoutacomb@yahoo.ca But hopefully with this current update to the page, we can drum up some interest in the site again...28,000 hits is still not bad at all though! There will be some new stuff in the merchandice, and quotes page..and pretty soon I'll be updating the bio, credits, links, mailing list, and pic archive pages, as well as adding a new page for the HCBW.
(01/01/00) Wow. Over 17,000 hits!!!! It's another new year, and almost a year since Rebel Without A Comb was created. Thanks to everyone who has visited and made it such a success, and I hope you continue to visit us in the future because the page is constantly being updated. Basically I'm updating everything on the page for the new year. I'm starting with a fresh What's New page, and archiving last years news. I'm planning to add two whole new pages in the next few days; one is dedicated to synopsis's and my reviews of Callum's works so those who may not have seen his stuff before can get a feel for what they should be on the look out for. The second is going to be another quote page, but this time dedicated to Callum's other works like Hard Core Logo and Last Night. If you guy's have any suggests or comments, always feel free to sign my Guestbook. Thanks. Kirsten
