With the announcement of the film’s name change from Chilled in Miami to New in Town comes the first trailer for the film.

The Oscar-winning actor, who has just returned from three months in Canada (Manitoba standing in for Minnesota) filming the romantic comedy Chilled In Miami with Harry Connick Jr., said: “I didn’t know frostbite could be so funny. We came up with a whole new language for those interesting things that happen to your body when you’re freezing to death.”There are lashticles, where your eyes get closed together because your face is numb and you can’t tell that you’re crying and you have those big icicles on your face. Then there were beardsicles on the men, and those were interesting, but my personal favourites were definitely the nostricles, where you didn’t know you needed a tissue.

“It was fun, but I’m happy to have finished that one.”

Chilled in Miami, in which she plays a Miami businesswoman transferred to rural Minnesota, will not be released until next year.

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The idea of a romantic comedy with Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. sounds pretty nauseating. Not that I don’t like either actor, but Connick has always been more enjoyable in creepy or slick roles to me. Zellweger… well, she’s hit or miss. Regardless, the two have a picture currently filming in Canada titled Chilled in Miami.

Thankfully, there seems to be some salvation for the picture, in the form of Captain Mal Reynolds – Nathan Fillion. Fillion has been doing more mainstream projects lately (like Desperate Housewives), which seem to be paying off for the actor more than his unfortunate genre stints (Firefly, Drive, etc). Now he’s joined the romantic comedy, according to Moviehole.

There’s no word on what role Fillion is playing, but here’s hoping it’s a major part. I’d much rather see Zellweger paired up with Fillion than Connick Jr.

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Forget everything we’ve said previously about the Renee Zellweger/Harry Connick Jr comedy - filming in Canada - called “Chilled in Miami” - it won’t be as bad as we thought it’d be (though it still stinks of “It’s the only script that’s ready to go because of this writer’s strike”), if only because Nathan Fillion’s now onboard. Heck, that man might just well be able to polish a turd.

The most underrated actor of his generation, Fillion (“Serenity”) returns to the world of rom-com (He had a role on the now defunct Alicia Silverstone starring series “Miss Match” a few years ago) with a part in a sweet and fluffy pleasantry about a Miami businesswoman who’s transferred to the sticks of Minnesota.

The project reunites Fillion with Gold Circle, who he worked with on both “Slither” and “White Noise 2”. They seem to love Captain Tightpants over there - and reps to them!

Old friend “Marbles” sent in the following :

“Clint, there’s a rumor floating about that Nathan Fillion – who I know you’re a big fan of – has joined the cast of the new Renee Zellweger comedy, Chilled in Miami. I confirmed it with the production this evening – he has indeed got a role in the film. Thought you’d be interested”.

“Chilled in Miami” also stars Siobhan Fallon Hogan, J.K. Simmons, Frances Conroy and Rashida Jones.

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Since just about everybody loves Nathan Fillion — I was a fan back during the Three Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Kitchen days — some excitement has formed around the idea of having him take a role in the Renee Zellweger/Harry Connick Jr. comedy Chilled in Miami.

Fillion Goes to Miami: The good people over at Moviehole report that Nathan Fillion will reunite with Gold Circle, who he worked with on both Slither and White Noise 2, to return to comedy.

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Renée Zellweger was still finding ways to stay warm filming her new movie Chilled in Miami in Winnipeg, Canada on Friday. I’m sure the movie star didn’t have to spend too much time waiting around outside in the freezing weather, but those bare fingers of hers make me cold just looking at them. While this movie sounds like it should be a cute little romantic comedy about a Miami businesswoman who moves to Minnesota for work and ends up falling in love with the town and trying to save the factory she’s been sent to restructure…

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JULIE Harris’s star-studded resum? includes the Renee Zellweger movie Chilled in Miami, currently shooting in Winnipeg; You Killed Me, starring Ben Kingsley; the sci-fi thriller Maneater with Gary Busey; and Vinegar Hill, featuring Mary-Louise Parker.

Funny thing is, Harris has never set foot on a film set. Her brush with the rich and famous has quite literally come through her brush — a paint brush, that is.

Harris is a Manitoba visual artist who has spent the last 30 years painting landscapes. But her artwork doesn’t just hang in galleries. It has also been featured in four Hollywood movies that were shot in Winnipeg.

“It is very exciting,” says Harris, who currently has four of her paintings on the set of Chilled in Miami, which stars Zellweger as a Miami businesswoman banished to a frigid Minnesota town with the assignment of turning around a failing factory.

“It’s a different way of having my work exposed. It’s advertising for me.”

In building sets for movies, art departments want the rooms they create to look as real as possible. So in addition to knick-knacks on tables and desktop photos, they put art on the wall. And very often these paintings are rented from local artists.

Harris, who lives just north of Winnipeg in Grosse Isle, creates photo-realistic oil paintings depicting local landscapes. Her work has been shown in galleries in Toronto, Calgary, Minneapolis and Saskatoon, and has been purchased by big companies like The Royal Bank of Canada.

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“Chilled in Miami is set in small-town Minnesota, so we are looking for older style pieces, more traditional and not modern,” she explains. “One of the characters works in a factory and her house has a real colonial look. She is also a scrapbooker, so we put homemade crafty art purchased from thrift stores, such as cross-stitching, in her house.”

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Renée Zellweger officially started work on the Gold Circle Films production Chilled in Miami in Winnipeg on Monday.

Zellweger, 38, was dressed for Miami weather in a blue blouse and short dark skirt, heating things up among the travellers who lucked into a glimpse of the Texas-born Oscar-winner on the second-floor departure level of the Richardson International Airport around noon.

The airport was pressed into service as Miami International Airport for the scene, explaining why a small army of extras was dressed in summer attire for the shot, with two male extras dressed as members of the Miami Police Department.

Earlier in the day, Zellweger shot scenes in the airport’s observation deck.

These scenes represented the end of a long day’s shoot for Zellweger, who started work at 1 a.m., filming scenes on an airplane near the airport.

The airport was a surprisingly controlled environment for the shoot, with the crew erecting makeshift curtains around a section of the second-floor departure level to give Zellweger and the film crew a measure of privacy. But Zellweger had already made her presence felt in the city. She was seen wandering through the Winnipeg Art Gallery Sunday afternoon to take in the last day of the Andy Warhol exhibit.

“There’s no impact on operations really,” said Christine Alongi, Richardson International Airport director of communications.

“People have to go around a bit in the areas that are blocked off,” she said, adding that the Robin Williams film The Big White and the Ben Kingsley movie You Kill Me both shot scenes at the airport with a minimum of inconvenience to travellers.

Chilled in Miami co-stars Harry Connick Jr., J.K. Simmons, Nathan Fillion (Firefly) and Frances Conroy, and is expected to shoot in Winnipeg for the next six weeks.

In the film, Zellweger plays Miami businesswoman Monica Scott, an ambitious executive banished to a small, frigid Minnesota town with the assignment of turning around a failing factory.

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J.K. Simmons is one of the great contemporary American character actors, as you’ll know if you’ve seen him in TV shows such as Oz, Law & Order or The Closer, or movies such as The Ladykillers.

But Simmons is probably best known for his bombastic, crew-cutted J. Jonah Jameson in all three Spider-Man movies.

Bearing that in mind, try to resist the impulse to yell J. Jonah’s trademarked “Parker!” if you see him in town next month.

Simmons, 52, has been signed to co-star in the movie Chilled in Miami, starring Ren?e Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr., which is scheduled to begin shooting in Winnipeg on Jan. 7. (The cast is currently rehearsing in the comparatively balmy climes of New York City.)

Chilled will also feature Siobhan Fallon, a Saturday Night Live alum who may be best remembered as mom to Shia LaBeouf’s hero Stanley Yelnats in the movie Holes.

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YOUR presence may be required in the Renee Zellweger-Harry Connick movie Chilled in Miami, which will be shooting in Winnipeg in January.The local casting company Kari Casting will be recruiting some 1,500 extras ages six and up at a casting call on Sunday, Dec. 2 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. They’ll be looking for background people to appear in settings that include a winter carnival, a mall, a factory plant and a Minnesota street.

The romantic comedy stars Zellweger as a powerful Miami businesswoman who finds herself transferred to a frozen hinterland in small-town Minnesota.

The casting session will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the convention centre’s main-floor meeting rooms 5 and 6.

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