You don’t have to drive for hours to feel like you’re visiting the Big Apple. A sector of the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) district, in the west of Montreal, has been transformed into New York for the needs of the filming of the American horror film Scream 6found on Tuesday The newspaper.
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Filming in the metropolis since the beginning of June, the production team of the feature film settled this week at the corner of Sherbrooke Street and Wilson Avenue to film scenes visibly taking place in the Big Apple.
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The plot of the film obviously takes place during the Halloween period.
Street names have been changed, as have the banners of several businesses in the area. A fake New York subway entrance has even been built on the sidewalk of a street, with, at its entrance, distributors of American newspapers like the New York Times and the USA Today. We guess that the plot of the film takes place during the Halloween period since we can see ” Happy Halloween on the front of one of the fake businesses.
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The signs of the businesses were modified for the filming.
According to what can be read on the signs of the production, the film crew will remain at this location until Thursday.
From McGill to Lafontaine Park
This is not the first time that the filming of the 6th part of Scream (Chills) has been attracting the attention of curious people and fans of the horror saga since the beginning of the summer in Montreal. A few weeks ago, the production team took up residence for a few days on the campus of McGill University. Scenes from the feature film were also shot in La Fontaine Park.
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The American production is installed in the NDG district for part of the week.
Actress Courteney Cox, one of the franchise’s original stars Screamposted a video last week on Instagram in which she said she was back home after participating in the filming of the 6th film in the saga, in Montreal.
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Actress Courteney Cox in a video posted to Instagram last week.
The feature, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, will also star Jenna Ortega, Hayden Panettiere, Melissa Barrera and Mason Gooding. Canadian Neve Campbell, the face of the franchise since the release of the first film in 1996, revealed last June that she refused to play in the sixth installment because she felt that the salary offered to her was not not live up to his contribution to the success of the franchise. However, she did not rule out the possibility of reprising her famous character from Sidney in a possible seventh film.
The sixth movie Scream (Chills) will be released in 2023.