{"id":16798,"date":"2025-12-11T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/trio-of-hollywood-stars-including-jon-hamm-take-in-flick-at-small-manitoba-towns-theatre\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:21:00","slug":"trio-of-hollywood-stars-including-jon-hamm-take-in-flick-at-small-manitoba-towns-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/trio-of-hollywood-stars-including-jon-hamm-take-in-flick-at-small-manitoba-towns-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of Hollywood stars including Jon Hamm take in flick at small Manitoba town\u2019s theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ManitobaA small family-owned theatre north of Winnipeg hosted a trio of film stars over the weekend, when Jon Hamm, Johnny Pemberton and Paul Walter Hauser \u2014 all currently working on projects in Winnipeg \u2014 visited The Flicks Cinema in Stonewall.Mad Men star among Hollywood celebs currently working on projects in WinnipegNathan Liewicki  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Dec 10, 2025 8:05 PM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.From left: actor Paul Walter Hauser, The Flicks Cinema co-owner Griffin Levenec, and actors Jon Hamm and Johnny Pemberton pose for a picture at a theatre in Stonewall, Man., on Sunday. (Submitted by Griffin Levenec)A small family-owned theatre north of Winnipeg played host to a trio of Hollywood stars over the weekend.Mad Men star Jon Hamm, Johnny Pemberton (Amazon Prime\u2019s Fallout) and Paul Walter Hauser (Netflix\u2019s Cobra Kai) were among the attendees of Sunday\u2019s screening of The Running Man at The Flicks Cinema in Stonewall on Sunday evening.Griffin Levenec, one of the co-owners of the theatre in the town of roughly 5,000, was scooping popcorn and filling the ice machine when he looked up and spotted one of the celebrities.\u201dWe were standing back here and doing our normal Sunday night stuff. We look around the corner and we\u2019re, like, \u2018That guy kinda looks like Jon Hamm. That\u2019s interesting,\u201d Levenec told CBC on Tuesday.Hamm, an Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner, was with Pemberton.They were accompanied by Hauser, a pro wrestler and actor who won an Emmy for his work in the true crime miniseries Black Bird. All three actors are in the province filming different projects, with Hamm shooting the TV seriesAmerican Hostage, which he is also co-producing.  \u201cI\u2019m sitting back here fangirling for the two hours that the movie\u2019s going on,\u201d Levenec said.He says his stepmom is a huge fan of Hamm and Mad Men, the acclaimed series in which Hamm played advertising executive Don Draper from 2007-15.The Levenec family owns The Flicks Cinema in Stonewall, Man. (Submitted by Griffin Levenec)Levenec called both of his parents after the actors left the theatre \u2014 but not before they snapped several photos with movie-goers, as well as Levenec \u2014 to tell them about the unexpected encounter.His dad considered coming out to the theatre that night, but instead opted to stay home and watch Landman \u2014 which, coincidentally, stars Hamm.\u201dHe\u2019s like, \u2018Are you kidding me? I stayed home so I could see him on my little screen when I could have seen him in person?&#8217;\u201d Levenec said of his dad\u2019s response.His mom was glad that she wasn\u2019t at the theatre, saying she thinks she likely would have passed out if she saw Hamm, said Levenec.An Instagram post from Pemberton\u2019s account shows Pemberton, Hamm and Hauser at The Flicks Cinema on Sunday. (johnny_pemberton\/Instagram)All three actors are in the province filming different projects, with Hamm shooting the TV series American Hostage, which is he also co-producing.Levenec said Hamm wanted to support Running Man director Edgar Wright, with whom Hamm worked on the 2017 film Baby Driver.Hamm said he found through an online search that the Stonewall theatre was showing Wright\u2019s latest film, and so the three actors decided to make the short drive from Winnipeg, according to Levenec.\u201dThey actually personally thanked us for doing this, because it keeps the industry alive, with streaming and pirating being as big as it\u2019s been lately,\u201d Levenec said.\u2019Special experience\u2019 to shoot in ManitobaLynne Skromeda, the chief executive officer and film commissioner with Manitoba Film and Music, says there\u2019s a reason celebrities feel comfortable in this province.\u201dI think it\u2019s a special experience to come shoot in Manitoba, because they\u2019re not being followed by the paparazzi or chased down by fans all the time,\u201d Skromeda said Wednesday.\u201dThey get to live kind of a normal life.\u201dLynne Skromeda, chief executive officer and film commissioner of Manitoba Film and Music, thinks there could be more Hollywood sightings in the province as the film industry continues to grow. (Rudi Pawlychyn\/CBC)Manitoba\u2019s film industry continues to grow, and Skromeda predicts celebrity run-ins could become more common in the future.\u201cI think that\u2019s starting to happen more and more now. Some people just like to stay in their hotel rooms or their trailers \u2026 but there are people who like to explore the community and want to know the people that live here and that work here,\u201d she said.Hamm was also spotted at Canada Life Centre last month when the Winnipeg Jets hosted the Pittsburgh Penguins.Levenec said there was a small uptick in movie-goers on Monday. He hopes the whirlwind of publicity from the celebrity visitors will help attract more movie fans to the intimate Stonewall theatre, which was recently renovated and reopened this fall with what he calls an \u201cold-school theatre vibe.\u201d\u201dI\u2019ve always loved it,\u201d Levenec said. \u201cAnd to keep people coming to it, that\u2019s something that I want, because we all grew up with that.\u201dWATCH | Stonewall theatre co-owner surprised by trio of celebrity visitors:Mad Men, Fallout stars make big scene at Manitoba town\u2019s theatreThe co-owner of The Flicks Cinema in Stonewall, Man., couldn\u2019t believe his eyes when Mad Men star Jon Hamm came in to enjoy a film at the one-room theatre. Hamm, who is shooting a TV series in Winnipeg, was accompanied by fellow Hollywood actors Johnny Pemberton (Fallout) and Paul Walter Hauser (Cobra Kai).ABOUT THE AUTHORNathan Liewicki is an online reporter at CBC Manitoba. He was previously nominated for a national RTDNA Award in digital sports reporting. He worked at several newspapers in sports, including the Brandon Sun, the Regina Leader-Post and the Edmonton Journal.With files from Chloe Friesen<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ManitobaA small family-owned theatre north of Winnipeg hosted a trio of film stars over the weekend, when Jon Hamm, Johnny Pemberton and Paul Walter Hauser \u2014 all currently working on projects in Winnipeg \u2014 visited The Flicks Cinema in Stonewall.Mad Men star among Hollywood celebs currently working on projects in WinnipegNathan Liewicki \u00b7 CBC News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,127,1],"tags":[116,126],"class_list":["post-16798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-manitoba","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-manitoba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}