Fantasy werewolves are set to haunt Shiver — the much-anticipated film based on the first novel in the Wolves of Mercy Falls romantasy series which wrapped filming in Vancouver late last year.
But the financial wolves at the doors of the movie’s producers have put Shiver on ice — forcing the production company formed to make the film into insolvency and leaving hundreds of Canadian creditors out millions of dollars.
A B.C. Supreme Court judge placed Mercy Falls B.C. Inc into creditor protection this week after proceedings lay bare a battle between the film’s producers and the U.S.-based studio that allegedly pledged $20 million to make the movie.
“Shiver was a big production in British Columbia,” says James Joyce, who is owed more…
