A majority of the video rental store set was obtained from an abandoned Blockbuster that had been sitting vacant for around a decade in Owen Sound, Ontario. Asbestos in the store forced the movie crew to find a different building to be the set location. They found an empty thrift shop in Ajax, Ontario and built it into the "Sequels Video" store.
The movie takes place in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. This is the hometown of the movie's Director: Chandler Levack.
Casting director Jesse Griffiths received roughly 300 Lawrence Kweller audition tapes, including one from Gabriel LaBelle who stars in The Fabelmans (2022).
The scene in which Lawrence watches Full Metal Jacket features a loose reenactment of dialogue from that film. The voices and dialogue we hear are not really from the movie, presumably since the filmmakers did not obtain the rights to play an excerpt or recite its actual dialogue.
Among the many films briefly shown on screen in this movie is Love That Boy, a Canadian indie movie featuring a pre-fame Elliot Page.