Thursday, February 18, 2010

Bruce Willis help boost Toronto's film industry

A gunfight erupted in the kitchen at the Royal York Hotel on Tuesday, coming to a climax when several vegetables and other foodstuffs exploded; according to reliable reports, bits of cabbage and baguette splattered the walls.

“Did we clean it all up OK?” a production assistant asked Kolene Elliott, who organizes film production at the Toronto landmark, yesterday.

“It looks just fine,” she said.

Summit Entertainment moved in to Toronto last fall to shoot its spy thriller Red, based on the DC graphic novel, and has lately taken over large chunks of the Royal York. Bruce Willis plays a retired black-ops CIA agent, who reassembles his old team, including Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren, to take on an assassin who wants to kill him.

On Tuesday 400 extras dressed up and packed the ballroom at the Royal York (standing in for a Chicago hotel), where a Republican presidential candidate’s campaign launch descends into carnage.

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