Press Releases
April 15, 2013
Hell on Wheels Season 3 Premieres Sat., Aug. 3
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April 15, 2013
AMC Slots New Season Of ʻHell On Wheelsʼ On Saturdays
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April 15, 2013
AMC Moves 'Hell on Wheels' to Saturdays this Summer
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April 15, 2013
AMC Shifts a Series to Saturdays, but Not to Kill It
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April 3, 2013
Sam Shepard To Star In Discovery Channelʼs ʻKlondikeʼ Miniseries
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March 8, 2013
Discovery Channel’s ‘Klondike’ Miniseries Assembles Cast
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March 4, 2013
Eamonn Walker, Lee Tergesen to Guest Star on BBC America's 'Copper'
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February 8, 2013
Chris Cooper to Star in Discovery Channel's First Scripted Miniseries 'Klondike'
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January 21, 2013
Nomadic to copro Copper
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January 18, 2013
BBC America's 'Copper' Gets New Producers for Second Season
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January 17, 2013
Hell on Wheels star Christopher Heyerdahl has said that he is excited for the show to enter "unknown territory".
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December 13, 2012
Hell on Wheels: New showrunner found for Alberta-shot series, Season 3 officially underway
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December 12, 2012
AMC Renews Hell on Wheels for a Third Season
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December 11, 2012
Discovery Greenlights First Scripted Mini-Series, 'Klondike'
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October 30, 2012
BBC America's 'Copper' to Change Up Producers
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August 8, 2012
CALGARY HERALD: To Hell and back: AMC’s Alberta shot Hell on Wheels returns
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August 8, 2012
STUFFWELIKE.COM Hell on Wheels – Season Two Premiere Review
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August 6, 2012
The second season of Hell on Wheels returns this Sunday, but audience members have a chance to play catch up before Cullen Bohannan (Anson Mount) continues his adventures in the West.
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August 3, 2012
Big picture: No, Total Recall did not start a disturbing trend. This is not another remake and Jeremy Renner is not the new Jason Bourne. Renner (The Hurt Locker) plays Aaron Cross, a new, semi-brainwashed, semi-confused, deadly-agent-turned-unlikely hero in The Bourne Legacy.
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August 2, 2012
The Western is alive and well on Sunday nights.
That's where A&E's Longmire and AMC's Hell on Wheels, now entering its second season, have proved that this genre can flourish, if a series is built around a quiet but forceful hero, black-hearted villains, and attractive yet ruthless womenfolk.
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August 1, 2012
‘Hell on Wheels’ Producers Discuss Violence on Their Show in Wake of ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Tragedy
It’s a tough time to be a Hollywood production that prides itself on violent programming.
Filmmakers like Harvey Weinstein — a longtime proprietor of violent movies — called last week for an open conversation among leading directors, including Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, to limit unnecessary violence in Hollywood movies and TV, following July 20′s brutal killings at a Aurora, Colo. midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
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July 20, 2012
AMC Garners 34 Emmy Award Nominations - Most for a Basic Cable Network 5 Years in a Row
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced this morning the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy® Award nominations, recognizing AMC with 34 nominations, the most for any basic cable network for the fifth year in a row, breaking the previous 29 nomination record for the network from 2011.
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July 19, 2012
Diverse Crowd Nominated for Music Emmys
A diverse and surprisingly international crowd received Emmy nominations in the music categories on Thursday when the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for the 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards covering the 2011-2012 season.
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January 3, 2012
The stars who work behind the scenes
Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev have been to Hollywood plenty of times.
But there was a full-circle sense to their return in October for a red-carpet premiere of Hell on Wheels, the AMC western series shot on the Tsuu T'ina reserve beside Calgary.
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November 7, 2011
Calgary shot Hell on Wheels gets big ratings
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November 4, 2011
Area actors hitch a ride on AMC gravy train
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November 3, 2011
It's Mud and Blood, All the Livelong Day
The Transcontinental Railroad tamed the Wild West, but the building of it was one of the more savage adventures in American history. That’s the crux of a new western on AMC, “Hell on Wheels,” which is, if nothing else, ambitious. Even at a highfalutin channel it’s pretty unusual for television producers to list their literary and cinematic influences. It’s a little like a councilman thanking Winston Churchill in a sanitation bill — or a TV critic assessing “The X Factor” with a nod to Roland Barthes.
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October 28, 2011
Hell on Wheels bucks the western genre
Los Angeles — The chatter began months ago. Long before Hell on Wheels, AMC’s harrowing period piece about the building of America’s transcontinental railroad in 1865, finished filming on the Tsuu T’ina Nation outside of Calgary, the series was being heralded as a return to the network’s salad days as the go-to place for western fans.
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October 28, 2011
"Hell on Wheels" cast members at the premiere
Cast members (L-R) Colm Meaney, Common, Dominique McElligott and Anson Mount pose at the premiere screening of AMC cable channel's new series "Hell on Wheels" in Los Angeles October 27, 2011.
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October 27, 2011
Alberta-produced Hell on Wheels premieres in Los Angeles
Los Angeles — New York may be the city that never sleeps. But Los Angeles seems to be the city that never relaxes. Or turns off.Granted, sitting poolside after a hearty breakfast on the rooftop of Le Montrose Suite Hotel in West Hollywood — complete with impressive views both around the pool and beyond — may not seem all that taxing. But in the hours before the flashy L.A. premiere of the new AMC Hell on Wheels, the two Calgarian co-producers behind the grimy western were busy putting together shiny new deals.
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October 3, 2011
Stars filming near Calgary
Weeks after the AMC western series Hell on Wheels wrapped production on the Tsuu T'ina Nation, a second duster is shooting near Calgary.
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October 3, 2011
'Vampire Diaries' Actress to Star in Hallmark Movie Channel Western (Exclusive)
Sara Canning has joined "Hannah's Law" alongside Greystone Holt, Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise and Billy Zane.
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June 14, 2011
AMC adds western railroad drama to fall lineup
Hell on Wheels, the latest offering from red-hot AMC, is a natural fit for a TV network that was initially known for showing wall-to-wall John Wayne westerns.
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June 13, 2011
Western shot in Alberta full of true grit
“Nobody ever said making a western was a clean affair,” says Anson Mount, the bearded hero of the shot-in-Alberta Hell on Wheels, an epic adventure set to air on AMC in November.
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June 6, 2011
Rain, snow and cold add to grittiness of AMC western series 'Hell on Wheels'
BANFF, Alta. - "Hell on Wheels", the latest offering from red-hot AMC, is a natural fit for a network that was initially known for showing wall-to-wall John Wayne westerns.
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May 19, 2011
MTV Presents Orignal Movie 'The Truth Below'; Premieres 6/16
MTV treats viewers to extreme suspense in its upcoming original TV movie "The Truth Below," premiering Thursday, June 16th at 10pm ET/PT. The two-hour psychological thriller, starring Gilian Zinser (90210), Reid Ewing (Modern Family), Nick Thurston (Surviving Ophelia), and Ricky Mabe (Zack and Miri Make a Porno) is the sixth original movie from MTV since the network launched its new movie initiative in 2009.
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May 3, 2011
Amc Announces Production on
New Original Series “Hell on Wheels”
AMC announced today that their newest original series, “Hell on Wheels” begins production on Monday, May 16 in Calgary. “Hell on Wheels” is a contemporary western that centers on former confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, portrayed by Anson Mount, whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad’s westward construction of the first Transcontinental Railroad. Developed by Endemol USA and produced by Entertainment One (eOne) and Nomadic Pictures, “Hell on Wheels” is created, written and executive produced by Joe and Tony Gayton (Faster, Uncommon Valor, Salton Sea, Bulletproof). The series is slated to premiere in fourth quarter of 2011.
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December 18, 2010
AMC series 'huge' for local film industry
After two devastating years of recession-fuelled crisis, the Alberta film industry is poised to make a serious comeback, says Chad Oakes of Calgarybased Nomadic Pictures, and the province has Hell On Wheels to thank for it.
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December 15, 2010
Cable network AMC in training
AMC is riding the rails with a series order for "Hell on Wheels," a period Western about the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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December 15, 2010
Local show picked up by AMC
Chad Oakes of Nomadic Pictures, the series' local producer, says Hell On Wheels will contribute almost $30 million to the local economy.
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October 2, 2010
Director Tiller Russell revamps Western with Calgary-shot film
When first-time director Tiller Russell nervously met with Kris Kristofferson in a Los Angeles restaurant about starring in his Calgary-shot revisionist Western, he was nothing if not prepared.
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October 1, 2010
Pride in edgy new western
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride isn’t what one would call a ‘traditional’ western.
In fact, the locally shot feature has more in common with the stylized violent films of Quentin Tarantino and Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) than any John Wayne duster.
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September 23, 2010
Alberta cinema's new wild, Wild West
From Marilyn Monroe's River of No Return to Robin Williams's Runaway Vacation, and much else, movies filmed in Alberta have run the gamut in both subject matter and quality. But no genre has become more closely identified with the province than westerns, films in which the prairie landscape isn’t just a backdrop, but an integral part of the story as well.
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August 16, 2010
Saints & Saviours
It might seem like deja vu for the people of the Tsuu T'ina Nation.
Three years after Paul Gross shot his epic Passchendaele on the muddy fields of the reserve outside of Calgary, filmmakers will return to the site to once again turn back the clock to the First World War.
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August 6, 2010
Star Trek's Colm Meaney, rapper Common, to star in Alberta-shot AMC pilot Hell on Wheels
Star Trek's Colm Meaney, hip-hop artist Common, American actor Anson Mount and Irish actress Dominique McElligott have been cast in the AMC western pilot Hell on Wheels, which will begin shooting in and around Calgary on Aug. 16.
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July 24, 2010
Travel Channel Episode Guide
Jason Priestley and Terry Mulligan present more celebrity packed adventures in viticulture. Concentrating on the vines, the wine loving duo visit some of the world's premiere grape growing regions by following their noses to Canada, Spain, Italy and the USA.
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July 6, 2010
New TV series to be filmed in Calgary
The pilot for a new AMC series is set to shoot in Alberta this summer.
Hell On Wheels will be co-produced by E1 Entertainment, Endemol USA and Calgary-based company, Nomadic Pictures.
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June 19, 2010
Celebrities paired with wines
Hollywood came to the South Okanagan desert for the second running of the Osoyoos Celebrity Wine Festival.
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June 15, 2010
Stars shine at Osoyoos festival
Terry David Mulligan, Jason Priestley and film producer Chad Oakes were just three of the stars at the Osoyoos Celebrity Wine Festival in Osoyoos last weekend, helping raise thousands for B.C. charities.
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November 12, 2009
Film development program aims to keep pace with evolving industry
To further support Alberta’s evolving film, television and digital media industry, the Alberta government has modified the Alberta Film Development Program (AFDP). The changes will help encourage digital media productions, support professional and project development, facilitate export opportunities for industry members, and tell Alberta’s stories around the world.
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November 11, 2009
Priestley's Death wish
Jason Priestley is aiming for the bigscreen, developing drug-smuggling tale "Death of a Freerider" with producers Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev of Nomadic Pictures ("Broken Trail").
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September 30, 2009
Season 2 Premiere: September 27th, 2009 at 7:30 pm on SUPERCHANNEL.
13 episodes, 13 weeks of Wine loving!
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September 14, 2009
Currie Barracks has hosted oscar winners from Unforgiven to Brokeback, but redevelopment plans are bringing about the end of an era.
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August 6, 2009
Alberta's beleaguered film industry got a significant boost on Wednesday when the provincial government announced it would increase the maximum value of grants available to film and television productions by six per cent.
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July 11, 2009
Warning to identity thieves everywhere: in the long run, the lies will catch up with you. Just watch Lies
My Mother Told Me, a Canadian made-for-TV movie based on the true story of a professional con
artist.
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June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson dead after cardiac arrest
Michael Jackson, the pop superstar who dazzled the world with his dancing but also led a strange private life that included a child-molestation charge, died suddenly Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 50.
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September 18, 2008
August Schellenberg, Kim Coates, David Schultz headline celebrities attending world premiere red carpet screening of Nomadic Pictures’ 45 RPM
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May 12, 2008
Principal Photography Begins on Nomadic Pictures’
“Confessions of a Go-Go Girl”
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January 14, 2008
Principal Photography Begins on Nomadic Pictures&Rsquo;
“Daughter of the Bride”
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October 31, 2007
Principal Photography Begins on Nomadic Pictures’
“the Other Woman”
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September 11, 2007
Nomadic Pictures of Calgary - after a decade of growth Calgary's now largest feature and television film production company looking to win an Outstanding Miniseries Primetime Emmy for "Broken Trail"
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July 19, 2007
Calgary’s Nomadic Pictures Nab Record
16 Emmy Nominations for Their
Alberta Shot Mini-Series “Broken Trail”
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December 14, 2006
“Broken Trail” Nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards
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December 6, 2006
Principal Photography Begins on Nomadic Pictures’ “Don’t Cry Now”
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November 17, 2006
Nomadic Pictures and Cd Films Announce
Principal Photography on “Straight Edge”
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May 20, 2004
Nomadic Pictures’ Canadian/Uk Production
“the Incredible Mrs. Ritchie” Wins 2 Emmys. Gena Rowlands and James Caan Nominated for Acting; Winners Announced May 21
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May 5, 2004
Flex Alexander Stars in Untitled Michael Jackson Biopic
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September 16, 2002
Gena Rowlands, James Caan, Kevin Zegers,
David Schofield, Leslie Hope,
Cameron Daddo and Brenda James
to Star in Nomadic Pictures Corp.’s
“the Incredible Mrs. Ritchie”
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