The eXtremists
Cinéma Montréal
Date: 6 septembre 2002
Genre: Action, sports
Réalisé par: Christian
Duguay
Écrit par:Timothy Scott Bogart, Mark Mullin
Compagnie: Paramount Pictures
En vedette: Rufus
Sewell, Devon
Sawa, Bridgette
Wilson, Heino Ferch, Joe Absolom, Jana Pallaske, Rupert Graves, Jean-Pierre Castaldi,
Klaus Löwitsch, Heinrich Schmieder, Amanda Dimitri, Ivan Vukov, Troy Yorke
Variety
Thurs., Feb. 21, 2002
Picking up the pieces
By LIZA
FOREMAN, SHARON
SWART
Tough economic times have forced indie producers to be more
proactive about finding
and tapping the sources of funding available in Europe and around the globe. Following
are three films in various budget ranges that combined traditional forms of financing
with tax shelters and other options.
The Extremists
Dir.: Christian Duguay
Cast: Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell,
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Prods.: Apollo Media, Extreme Prods.
Sales: MDP Worldwide
U.S. distrib: Paramount
Budget: pproximately $20 million
Financing: official British-German co-production:
10% U.K. sale-and-lease-back (Grosvenor Park), 20% German fund (Apollo Media), 12%
Luxembourg tax credits, 6% Canadian tax shelter and pre-sales
Locations: Austria, Germany, Canada
30 May ,2001 The Vancouver Sun
EXTREME FILM-MAKING
The action-adventure film The Extremists, which has been filming in Berlin and Austria for
several months, is in the Vancouver area for a few weeks shooting additional footage,
including snow scenes (where they can find it) in the mountains.
The German-British co-production is being directed by Christian Duguay and stars Rupert
Graves, Rufus Sewell, Devon Sawa and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras.
In the story, a commercial director (Sewell) and producer (Graves) go on location near the
Yugoslav border to film a scene of skiers being chased down a mountain by an avalanche.
Unfortunately, they're shooting near the hideout of a Serbian war criminal, whom they
accidentally catch on camera. The villain and his cronies assume the film-makers are with
the CIA and a tense, action-packed chase ensues through the remote mountains.
The film is a potpourri of helicopter crashes, snowboarding, skiing, sky diving, base
jumping, white-water rafting and cross country motorcycling.
Last Monday found cast and crew shooting train sequences in Langley.
09 May 01
http://www.berliner-morgenpost.
thanks to Renata of Global Roof for
the translation
Action-Thriller in the Alpine Snow (Berliner Morgenpost, 9 may 2001)
Having completed filming in Austria and Switzerland for the film "The
Extremists", a German-British co-production, the crew has landed in studios 1 and 2
of the fx.Center in Babelsberg. That where special effects scenes involving gondolas
(ed. I'm assuming we're talking aerial lift gondolas, not Venice, ha ha) and helicopters,
as well as water and explosives. In the Tonkreuz Sud (literally: southern audio-cross) a
snowy landscape has been created out of styrofoam.
"The Extremists" is an action-thriller that takes place in the Austrian Alps. A
team working with advertising film specialist Ian wants to shoot breath-taking stunts
there, but initially hits upon unpredictable natural forces which make their work
difficult. A battle for basic survival begins when the crew encounters Pavle, a Serbian
war criminal and terrorist who was thought to have been dead. From then on the getting the
desired film shots is the least of their worries. Chased by Pavle and his followers, Ian
and his team set off on a breakneck flight through the mountains.
"Snowboarding, skiing, sky diving, base jumping, white-water rafting and motocross
(cross country motorcyling) are in this film" reported producer Jan Fantl yesterday,
"we're making a film for the whole family, although we fear that worried parents will
hate the film." The cast and crew comprises 125 people. The director is Christian
Duguay, whose last film was "The Art of War". The overall budget for the film is
26.1 million dollars, according to Fantl.
Acting in front of Hannes Hubach's camera are, among others, Devon Sawa, Bridgette
Wilson-Sampras, Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Jana Pallaske, Joe Absolom, Jean Pierre
Castaldi, Liliana Komorowska, as well as Germans Heino Ferch und Klaus Luwitsch.
After the scenes in Babelsberg the team will go off for further filming in the Rocky
Mountains in Canada.
Variety - April 6, 2001
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