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The Covenant (2006)

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• Shipped to cinemas under the code name "Full Power".
  
  
• The spider that Chase stepped on is CG, as were all the spiders.
  
  
• The outdoor shots of Spenser Academy were made at Bishop's University, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, filmed in the fall of 2005. The director had to compromise on many of the shots as it rained for much of the duration of filming.
  
  

• In the movie there are 5 Brothers of Ipswich. The time when Caleb ascends on his birthday is 11:12 PM. 1+1+1+2 equals 5, maybe connecting to the fact that there are 5 Brothers.
  
  
• Tyler is a year younger than the rest of the boys.
  
  
• Caleb's parents are Evelyn and William Danvers III, Pogue's parents are Beatrice and Wayne Parry, Reid's parents are Meredith and Joseph Garwin, and Tyler's parents are Rosalind and Glenn Sims.
  
  
• Renny Harlin is known for putting tidbits of Finnish culture in his movies. In the Convenant he has hung a famous Finnish painting on Sarah's wall. It is painted by Hugo Simberg and it's called "Haavoittunut enkeli" ("Wounded Angel"). It has an angel in it and there are two boys carrying her away.
  
  
• The party in the beginning of the film is supposed to happen at the end of summer in New England. Filming, however, took place at the end of October in Montreal. The cast and crew had to endure the cold during the shoot.
  
  
• Despite the popular misconception, 'The Covenant' is not based on a novel, graphic novel or any comic-book title. The confusion comes from the fact that Sony had a comic-book of the same name created for the purposes of promoting the movie. Just prior to the release of this movie, Top Cow Comics printed a four part comic-book miniseries by Aron Coleite and Tone Rodriguez entitled The Covenant. Neither the authors of the comic-book miniseries nor Top Cow Comics is mentioned in the movies' credit sequences, so the comic-book miniseries is not regarded as source material by the makers of this movie.
  
  
• During the shooting of the police chase early in the film, the camera crane got caught on the roof lights of the police car as the vehicle was swerving under it. Nobody was injured, but the car and crane were damaged and the camera was destroyed, along with a light rig on top of the camera.
  
  
• According to the DVD commentary, the filming of the beach party took place in December. The original location was flooded shortly before the scene was shot, and the scene had to be rescheduled at a new location at the last minute. The location that ended up in the film was a sand quarry.
  
  
• About 200 extras appear in the party scene that opens the film. They were recruited about two days before shooting, partially through the help of local club and radio DJs in Montreal. They worked for two nights in freezing weather.
  
  
• The outside Danvers mansion, which is always seen from far away, is really a derelict water purification facility, with some window lighting and greenery added by the production team.
  
  
• During a discussion on Stephen King, Reid is quoted as saying "Dreamcatcher was the shit!" The book Dreamcatcher is about four boyhood friends with supernatural powers, much like the film.
  
  
• Pogue's name as written on his student I.D. is actually Nicholas Parry.
  
  
• Caleb's last name is Danvers. Danvers is the name of a city in northeastern Massachusetts, only ten miles from Ipswich, where this movie is set.
  
  
• Sarah's last name is Wenham; also a northeastern Massachuetts town not far from Ipswich.
  
  

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