Star watchers may catch a glimpse of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas in Vancouver this month as the Hollywood power couple are reportedly living in a Yaletown luxury condo while Zeta-Jones films the Lifetime biopic Cocaine Godmother.
Based on the life of Miami drug queenpin Griselda Blanco, Cocaine Godmother started filming on Monday and is scheduled to wrap on June 30. It will air on Lifetime sometime in 2018.
Inspired casting: Catherine Zeta-Jones will play drug lord Griselda Blanco.
Meanwhile, some of Zeta-Jones’s neighbours in the Drake Street strata building where she’s staying are a little miffed with the star’s daily workout schedule. A tipster tells us the Oscar winner posts two guards/assistants outside the condo’s common exercise room to keep other tenants away while she works out in privacy.
Chow Yun Fat
• Hong Kong action legend Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is expected to be in Vancouver next month to shoot the Chinese-language gangster movie Project Gutenberg. Felix Chong, who penned Internal Affairs, which Martin Scorsese remade into The Departed, is directing. Aaron Kwok, another Hong Kong superstar, plays a gang member recruited by police to catch a counterfeiting mastermind played by Yun-Fat. The movie, which has already started filming in Asia, is scheduled to shoot in Vancouver under the production name “One of a Kind” from July 13-31.
• Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis will be in Vancouver this summer to film a big budget feature starring Steve Carell, Leslie Mann and Janelle Monae. The film, currently carrying the clever working title of “Untitled Robert Zemeckis Project,”is based on the 2010 documentary Marwencol which explored the life of photographer Mark Hogancamp, who sought recovery from a brutal attack by building a 1/6th scale Second World War-era Belgian town in his backyard. Zemeckis, whose credits include the Back to the Future franchise, Forest Gump, Romancing the Stone and Flight, will begin shooting Aug. 14.
Mercurial actor/director Mel Gibson will be in Vancouver this summer.
• Former Hollywood pariah Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn will team together to star in the crime thriller Dragged Across Concrete for Lionsgate Films. The film is written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, who helmed the very grisly but highly entertaining Kurt Russell western Bone Tomahawk, and will be start shooting in Vancouver on July 17.
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