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KRO News Archive
January 19, 2008
Last September, KRO first brought you the news of Kelly's possible involvement in the upcoming movie, The Good Times Are Killing Me, which was said to start filming last November. Playback now confirms Kelly is officially on board. Filming is scheduled for this year.
December 31, 2007
The New Year has in store, I hear, a new Thomson beneficiary.
Actress Kelly Rowan, engaged to the richest man in Canada, is said to be with child. The new baby bringing her and David’s brood to four.
And those nuptials — once slated for this past autumn? Apparently, they’re just around the proverbial corner.
Source: National Post
September 28, 2007
Kelly may be filming another Shaftesbury movie in November titled, Good Times Are Killing Me.
Source: Playback
September 8, 2007
TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 07: (L-R) Thinkfilm's executive head of US distribution Mark Urman and actor Kelly Rowan attend Thinkfilm's TIFF Breakfast at Windsor Arms Hotel on September 7, 2007 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Malcolm Taylor/Getty Images)
September 3, 2007
The 22nd Annual Gemini Award nominations were announced last week. Eight Days to Live and In God's Country received multiple noms:
Eight Days to Live
- Best TV movie
- Best direction in a dramatic program or miniseries
- Best performance by an actor in a dramatic program or miniseries (Shawn Doyle)
- Best performance by an actress in a dramatic program or miniseries (Tegan Moss)
In God's Country
- Best TV movie
- Best photography in a dramatic program or series
- Best production design or art direction in a fiction program or series
- Best sound in a dramatic program
- Best achievement in casting
Awards for minor drama categories will be handed out October 15-17 in Toronto. The main ceremony will air October 28 on CBC.
Good luck to all those involved with Eight Days to Live and In God's Country!
Source: Hollywood Reporter
August 18, 2007
Robin Dunne, who co-starred with Kelly and helped produce Jack & Jill vs. the World, did an interview this past June. According to Robin, the film will be released next year.
Source: The Scifi World
June 27, 2007
DOING HER OWN THING
Former "The O.C." actress-cum-producer Kelly Rowan says she'll stay behind the scenes on her next project. "I'm producing a film for Lifetime with my partner Graham Ludlow called 'Blithe in Virginia,'" says Rowan. "It's a two-hander between these two women who have a sisterly relationship. One is suffering and finds out she's quite ill, and when she comes home they come to terms with their estrangement."
"Blithe in Virginia" will be the third project she's done for Lifetime. "They're very supportive of female stories," says Rowan, who produced and starred in the recent Lifetime telepic "In God's Country." "That's not the only thing my partner and I are working on, but what I was finding as an actress was there were always these women complaining about how there were no roles. I said, 'Well, it's not that I necessarily have to be in everything I'm doing, but I wanted to be a part of solving the problem instead of complaining about it.' Men are going to tell the stories they want to tell, and women are going to tell the stories they want to tell, so maybe we need a few more females out there kind of pushing things."
Source: National Ledger
June 26, 2007
Mark your calendars! Blithe & Virginia (which is soon to be re-named) is set to premiere on Lifetime in the U.S. on September 24. Also, in case any of you were hoping to see Kelly in the film, I'm sorry to disappoint you - she only serves as an executive producer. However, her O.C. co-star Melinda Clarke plays Blithe, one of the main characters. Below is an article with more details about the movie.
PATIENCE PAYS OFF FOR MAITLAND SCREENWRITER; LIFETIME TO PRESENT STORY HE WROTE
Maitland's Art D'Alessandro wrote the script for "Blithe & Virginia" 14 years ago. He will savor a special moment Wednesday: Production on the TV movie of that script will end Wednesday in Canada. Lifetime will premiere the film Sept. 24 -- with a different title.
D'Alessandro and Lifetime don't know what the title will be. But D'Alessandro is a happy man.
"It feels good because it's a project I wrote back in 1993," he says. "It's something I thought was a nice movie about people and how they can change. My tagline was: 'One day you wake up and everything changes. That's the day you change, too.' "
D'Alessandro wrote the script initially for older actresses, but a producer suggested that the characters should be younger. (D'Alessandro, who is married to Lisa Maile, describes himself as in his 50s.)
Melinda Clarke from "The O.C." plays Blithe. Krista Bridges from "Narc" portrays Virginia. Kelly Rowan, who also acted in "The O.C.," is an executive producer on the film. It is being shot an hour north of Toronto.
"It's about two sisters who haven't gotten along in many, many years," D'Alessandro says. "They go on a road trip. The more vivacious sister takes the other sister, and they end up in their hometown."
He kept revising the script. "They got a script they were happy with six weeks ago," D'Alessandro says. "They started production about two weeks ago. I was making changes even as they were producing. We had a table read on a Friday. I made changes based on the table read, and they started shooting on [the next] Monday."
D'Alessandro's endurance should be an inspiration to struggling screenwriters.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
June 20, 2007
CANADA MEDIA MOGUL SET TO MARRY ACTRESS KELLY ROWAN
TORONTO, June 20 (Reuters) - Canadian actress Kelly Rowan, who played a wealthy wife in television teen drama "The O.C.," is engaged to Canada's richest man, media mogul David Thomson, her representative said on Wednesday.
Rowan, 41, best known for her role as Kirsten Cohen in "The O.C.", met Thomson, 50, last year when she was working on a project in Toronto.
Rowan, who was born in Ottawa, started her acting career in 1980 in a made-for-television movie and has since appeared in numerous television shows and films.
Thomson is the chairman of Canadian publisher Thomson Corp..
Forbes magazine in March this year ranked Thomson as the world's 10th richest person and the richest Canadian with his wealth estimated to be $22 billion.
This is Rowan's first marriage and the third for Thomson, who has three children. Little has been written about Thomson as he prefers privacy and stays out of the limelight.
Thomson recently agreed to buy the London-based Reuters Group Plc for about $17 billion, with the deal awaiting regulatory clearance and shareholder approval.
Source: Reuters
June 7, 2007
SHEDDING LIGHT
Polygamists trafficking in modern-day slavery -- that isn't your average water cooler discussion. But Kelly Rowan is hoping her June 11 Lifetime movie, "In God's Country," will get people talking about the practice. "The truth is there are young teenage girls that are being taken across the border between the U.S. and Canada," says the former "The O.C." regular, who co-produced and stars in the film. "They're born into it (polygamous communities), and some of these girls are quite young, and they're being married to men in their 50s and 60s."
Rowan says she was pretty much clueless herself to such events 'til she "met a woman who'd been involved in polygamy at one point. A lot of women who leave the community end up going back because they don't have skills. It's hard for them to get a job. They don't have any money. And often they have a lot of children, and they have family within the community."
She says the film took five years to develop, but she wasn't going to give up. "We thought it would be not only an interesting story but an important story to tell."
Source: National Ledger
March 27, 2007
As of November 2006, Kelly's project, Tracing Iris, has received funding through Astral Media The Harold Greenberg Fund's Script Development Program. AMTHGF is a national funding organization established to contribute to the development and production of high-calibre film and television productions.
The following is a brief summary of the film:
TRACING IRIS, Tracing Iris Productions Inc., Screenwriters: Graham Ludlow/Kelly Rowan. Novel by Genni Gunn. A young woman uncovers family secrets and lies when she reluctantly returns to her small hometown after her father’s second wife is found dead under mysterious circumstances.
Source: Astral Media
February 6, 2007
Mount Pleasant didn't do too well at the box office during it's opening weekend:
The weekend was not as kind to Mount Pleasant, also from Christal, which opened on three screens to "very weak" numbers says Senécal. The movie by Ross Weber peaked in Vancouver with a gross of roughly $4,200, dipping to about $1,000 and lower in Toronto and Montreal.
"The very weird thing about it is we had rave reviews, and it's [our] lowest box office," she says, conceding that the remainder of its run will be "a rough ride."
Source: Playback
January 25, 2007
The Kelly Rowan movie In God's Country was a big hit, garnering 1.6 million viewers Tuesday night against President Bush's State of the Union address. It narrowly missed the best ever figure for a CTV Canadian movie: last year's Eight Days To Live, which also starred Rowan. (Souce)
Congrats to Kelly on another great hit!
An article about Mount Pleasant was published today. Here's a snippet on Kelly:
[Shawn] Doyle and Rowan were in Vancouver for the film’s debut screenings in October, and they were unequivocal in their praise for Weber’s direction and the challenge of finding just the right tone for such screwed-up characters.
For Rowan, the tightly wound character, less interested in love than in material security, came across naturally on the page.
“We didn’t get a lot of time for rehearsal,” she told the Straight the day the film showed. “But Ross showed a tremendous amount of trust in our ability to find what he was looking for quickly. Basically, we talked it through, and then there was just enough latitude to try slightly different approaches.”
To read the full article, click here.
January 24, 2007
Kelly was nominated Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film for Mount Pleasant in the 2006 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards. Unfortunately, the award went to fellow nominee Nadia Litz for Monkey Warfare.
Other notable nominations include:
- Mount Pleasant for Best British Columbian Film
- Kelly's Mount Pleasant co-star, Ben Ratner for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film
Congratulations to Kelly, Ben, and everyone involved with Mount Pleasant on their nominations!