An Annie Leibovitz Exhibit With Shots of Niagara Falls, Not Demi Moore
Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz has a new book out with photos of scenery rather than celebrities. I haven’t seen the book, but an article in The Atlantic says that the cover of the book has Niagara Falls on it.
Stopping in front the book’s cover image—a breathtaking vision of Niagara Falls—she explained that this was the picture that led to all the rest. She took in the view on a trip with her children, and watched them stare out at the water, mesmerized. “I stood behind them, they were actually in front of me, and I took this picture. It’s a photograph that anyone can take. It’s an American snapshot,” she said. “Actually, we were in Canada. A Canadian snapshot.”
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Actors Dillon, Russell on set in N.F., Ont.
From Buffalo Business First:
“Healy” and “Snake Plissken” have been spotted along Clifton Hill.
Actors Matt Dillon and Kurt Russell are filming several scenes around Clifton Hill and other sites in Niagara Falls, Ont., all of which serve as the backdrop for the movie “The Black Mark”, which is being made in the Southern Ontario city during the next few weeks.
The movie, directed by Jonathan Sobol, is due to be released next year.
Filming began earlier this week.
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Director Sobol brings it all back home, again
From the Niagara Falls Review:
As tensions rise between the border guard and suspicious driver at the Rainbow Bridge, Jonathan Sobol can’t keep a straight face.
He’s watching on a monitor ten feet away as the guard, played by Canadian comedian Mike Wilmott, asks the driver – actor Jay Baruchel – what’s in the trunk of his car. With every take, Baruchel changes his answer.
“Smugglers,” he responds. “I am smuggling smugglers in my trunk.”
It goes on for a half dozen takes, the crew smirking with each one, careful not to laugh and ruin the scene. Finally Sobol yells cut and everyone breaks for lunch. He asks Baruchel which take he liked best.
“That’s up to you, dude,” he says.
Sobol gives his star a hug, and all is well on the set of The Black Marks, the Niagara Falls director’s follow-up to his 2010 dark comedy A Beginner’s Guide to Endings, also filmed locally.
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Kurt Russell movie shooting in the Falls
As I tweeted yesterday, there is a movie shooting in Niagara Falls. It stars Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, and others. WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo and the Niagara Falls Review both reported on it.
- WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo – Kurt Russell movie shooting in the Falls
- Niagara Falls Review – Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon filming on Clifton Hill
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When the Man of steel ruled the Niagara sky
From the Niagara Falls Review:
As one of the most famous and most visited places in the world, it’s only natural that the motion picture industry has been drawn to Niagara Falls a number of times.
One of those times came in mid-September 1979 when some scenes for Superman II were filmed here, providing visitors with an added attraction that rivalled the falls for attention.
Following its release in 1978, the first Superman film had become a huge success, so the sequel was eagerly awaited by million of fans. Both movies starred Christopher Reeve, who played the superhero, and Margot Kidder as Lois Lane who, along with the “mild mannered” Clark Kent (a.k.a. Superman), worked as a reporter for the Daily Planet. Lane was madly in love with Superman.
Early in the film, Lane and Kent were sent to Niagara Falls to do an investigative report.
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Spandy Andy’s Niagara Falls adventure!
I posted recently about Spandy Andy. Well, the Clifton Hill Blog caught up with him recently and asked him some questions. The “interview” doesn’t reveal much, but it is interesting, and there is at least one reference to Niagara Falls.
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Queen of the Mist, Starring Tony Nominee Mary Testa, Takes the Plunge Off-Broadway Oct. 18
From Playbill.com:
Tony Award-nominated composer-lyricist-librettist Michael John LaChiusa takes on an American icon in Queen of the Mist, starring Tony nominee Mary Testa as Anna Edson Taylor, the first person to survive the plunge over Niagara Falls. The Transport Group’s environmental staging begins performances Oct. 18 at The Gym at Judson Memorial Church…
Here’s how the show is billed: “Based on an astounding, outrageous, and haunting true story, Queen of the Mist stars two-time Tony nominee Mary Testa as Anna Edson Taylor, who, in 1901 at the age of 63, set out to be the first woman to shoot Niagara Falls — in a barrel of her own design. Navigating both the treacherous Falls and a fickle public with a ravenous appetite for sensationalism, this unconventional heroine vies for her legacy in a world clamoring with swindling managers, assassins, revolutionaries, moralizing family, anarchists, and activists. Convinced that there is greatness in her and determined not to live as ordinary, she sets out to battle her fear and tempt her fate. With a score that incorporates turn-of-the-century themes with signature LaChiusa elements, Queen of the Mist is the story of a single great fall, and how one woman risked death so that she could live.”
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Bringing Kimmel show to Canada to cost taxpayers
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Bringing the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show to Ontario will cost four taxpayer-funded funded tourist agencies a total of $450,000, according to the Niagara-based tourism organization involved in the effort to bring segments of the ABC late-night show to Canada.
“There is funding involved. It’s about a half a million dollars for all of the partners and our contribution was $50,000,” said Robin Garrett, the CEO of the Tourism Partnership of Niagara.
The Niagara tourism agency is funded entirely by the provincial tourism ministry, Garrett said.
With Tourism Toronto leading the effort, the four agencies are putting up the $450,000 to pay for the Kimmel show to shoot segments featuring Kimmel security guard sidekick Guillermo Diaz Rodriguez.
Guillermo, as he’s popularly known, will be reporting to back to Kimmel — who will be at his Los Angeles studio — from the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The show will also be shooting in Niagara Falls.
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Jimmy Kimmel Show making Niagara detour
From the Niagara Falls Review:
The Jimmy Kimmel Show will be filming segments in Niagara Falls next week, but it’s still unclear whether Kimmel himself will be here.
Robin Garrett, CEO of the Tourism Partnership of Niagara, said there’s no guarantee the popular ABC talk show host will appear, but “we are negotiating that as we speak.”
But fans of Kimmel’s security guard sidekick Guillermo are in luck. The show is sending him to do humorous red carpet interviews during the Toronto International Film Festival, and from Sept. 12 to 15 he’ll make sporadic visits to Niagara Falls for segments to air next week.
Luring the show to Niagara Falls was a joint effort between Tourism Toronto, Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership, Canadian Tourism Commission, Tourism Partnership of Niagara and Air Canada.
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Niagara Falls Trading Cards
Note: This is another one of my long-forgotten drafts.
It used to be that trading cards were the big thing. You coould (and I cans you still can) collect cards for almost anything. There were sports cards, TV show cards, movie cards, and more. Did you know there were also Niagara Falls cards?
At one point, I saw these cards at Canada Trading Company on Clifton Hill. This was a few years ago, so I have no idea if they still have them or not. The box of cards had the following information on them:
- 4 series
- Education Memory of your Business
- Made in Niagara
- Smarty Pants International Inc
- SmartyPantsInc. com (this domain isn’t for any Niagara-area company any more)
- (c) 2003
The 4 series were:
- Series 1 (red coloured cards) – Man Versus Nature
- Series 2 (purple) – History of Niagara
- Series 3 (yellow) – Stories Of Niagara
- Series 4 (green) – Discovering Niagara
I can’t even remember how I got these pictures, but this is what the cards looked like.
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