Following the success of the TNT movie trilogy The Librarian, the network now gets ready to launch a new drama series The Librarians as a follow-up to its popular trilogy. The new series will be produced by Electric Entertainment, the same folks that previously made The Librarian trilogy. TNT will film the new series on location in Oregon, where other television shows such as Grimm, Portlandia and Leverage have been filming during the past few years.
The Librarians will star Rebecca Romijn and will no doubt remind us of the beloved Indiana Jones films as it follows an ancient organization of librarians on their endless adventures to recover historical artifacts.
Imagine you own a little motel in the country. Business is steady, and you make a decent living. Not bad at all for a small business owner.
Then almost overnight, your motel becomes the talk of the town. More guests appear on the reservation list. People find excuses to drop by for impromptu visits, snapping photographs of your lobby, rooms, hotel sign, and parking lot. Dotting the internet are articles (such as this one) written about you - and your motel. What could possibly bring on such changes?
This past weekend, I discovered another one of my favorite movies so far this summer ... The Spectacular Now, filmed in the charming locations of Athens, Georgia.
Based on Tim Tharp’s novel and directed by Athens native James Ponsoldt, The Spectacular Nowfeatures two young, talented stars Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley.
Another fun summer movie comes to the big screen today nationwide. The much-anticipated comedy We’re The Millers, starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis,Emma Roberts and Will Poulter, was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, last summer.
The plot centers around a stripper (Aniston) and a pot dealer (Sudeikis) who together portray a fake family to fool his supplier. Along the way, they recruited two teenage neighbors to join in on the adventure posing as their kids.
What do The Big Wedding, Everybody’s Fine, Revolutionary Road, The Town, All Good Things, Hope Springs, Righteous Kill, andWe Need to Talk About Kevin all have in common? They’re among many of the movies filmed in Connecticut in recent years.
Adding to the list this year is Diane Keaton‘s and Michael Douglas‘s first collaboration together, the Rob Reiner romantic comedy And So It Goes.
It looks like Missouri’s own Cape Girardeau has a good chance of standing in for the fictional town of North Carthage, Missouri, as the setting of Gone Girl. Last week, a location scout for 20th Century Fox reached out to homeowners in Cape Girardeau about using their homes in the movie.
A best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl will soon be adapted into a feature film directed by David Fincher(Fight Club, The Social Network, Se7en, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and produced by Reese Witherspoon(who obtained the screen rights to Gone Girl for a reported US$1.5 million).
Dig Two Graves, a Gothic mystery thriller, is back in Southern Illinois to film its final scenes.
Directed by Hunter Adams and based on the script he co-wrote with Jeremy Phillips, Dig Two Graves’ cast includes Ted Levine (The Bridge, Shutter Island), Kara Zediker (Contagion), Danny Goldring (The Dark Knight), and newcomer Samantha Isler.
You never know who may be knocking at your door asking if they could rent your home for a bit of filming.
In this case, it could be the young, talented director James Wan, fresh from the mega-success of his No. 1 box office film The Conjuring.
In an article published earlier this week, we wrote aboutThe Lone Ranger‘s Utah film locations. We also mentioned in the same article that Utah wasn’t the only state featured in the Disney blockbuster. The production also filmed for three months last year in New Mexico, in and around the Rio Puerco Valley.
After making the mega-successful summer blockbuster hit The Heat, Melissa McCarthy (the beloved Sookie St. James from Gilmore Girls and the hilarious Megan from Bridesmaids) came to Niagara Falls last month to film her next movie, a road comedy called Tammy.
With the august Niagara Falls gracing the background, Ms. McCarthy, Sandra Oh, and Academy Award winners Susan Sarandon and Kathy Bates, filmed a scene from the observation deck at Niagara Falls State Park. Neither Ms. McCarthy nor Ms. Sarandon had seen the Falls before. Filming the movie there was a special treat for both.
Over the years, Utah’s Moab and Monument Valley area has hosted its impressive share of movies, from John Ford’s classics such asStagecoach (1939), to more current films within the last few decades including Thelma and Louise (1990),City Slickers II (1992), Mission Impossible II and Vertical Limit (both in 1999), and 127 Hours (2010).
Adding to the list this year is one of Walt Disney’s latest summer blockbusters The Lone Ranger. Directed by Gore Verbinski, The Lone Ranger filmed on location in Utah for 25 days last summer.
Ever wonder how a location scout would approach you if he or she was interested in renting your house to be used as a film location?
Last year, HBO location scout Laura Foley was in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in search of film locations for a production then known as the Untitled Larry David Project.
Ms. Foley scouted the idyllic New England town and dropped off the following letter at all the homes she was interested in using as film locations:
One of my favorite films from this past year is The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written (novel and screenplay) and directed by the ultra-talented Stephen Chbosky. The movie was filmed in Pittsburgh, with a few scenes shot in Upper St. Clair, a prestigious neighborhood where Mr. Chbosky used to live with his parents.
I love everything about this film, from its story, its perfect cast, to its memorable Pittsburgh settings. The Steel City stands firmly on its own as one of the unforgettable characters of the movie. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is set in Pittsburgh during the early 1990’s, a nostalgic time period in which mixtapes and VCRs had a huge impact in a teenager’s life (the equivalence of our current days’ iPods, DVRs, Twitter and Facebook).
Grant Wainscott, director of the Clayton County Film, Sports & Entertainment Office said that even though 2012 was the busiest year yet for film production in Clayton County with four major movies filmed here, “you haven’t seen anything yet.”
“We are looking at an even busier year in 2013,” Wainscott said. “Although I am not authorized yet to reveal the names of the films, we already have three now in production in Clayton and four to start shooting this summer.”
2012 was a busy year for Alabama’s film industry. 31 productions were filmed in the state. The impressive list includes feature films, documentaries, reality TV shows and commercials. Together, they created over 3,000 jobs for Alabama and spent a total of $33.5 million, an increase of $11.5 million since 2011.
This influx of filming activities has been spurred by the $10 million incentives approved by Alabama Legislature in 2009 when the state adopted the Entertainment Industry Incentive Act.
If you’re a fan of Top Chef: Seattle, then you probably are familiar with the beautiful modern condo where the talented “cheftestants” are staying in Season 10 of this popular reality TV show.
The chefs’ home-away-from-home is the penthouse suite of Olive 8, a condo tower in downtown Seattle. Its size (it could house up to 18 people), location (downtown Seattle), and tight security made the Olive 8 penthouse the perfect choice for Top Chef.
In February 2009, ten remote organic dairy farms in Maine lost their main dairy processor when H.P. Hood decided not to renew their contracts. Located in the rural areas of northern and eastern Maine, these farmers didn’t have much luck finding any other dairy companies willing to drive the extra miles to work with them.
The farmers had two choices: shut down their businesses and do something else with their time, or invent a new way to continue doing what they know and love best.
I can’t think of a better movie for us to ring in the New Year with than Nancy Meyers’ The Holiday (2006), one of my personal favorite romantic comedies.
Filmed on location in both California and the English countryside of the U.K., The Holiday is a charming, intelligent romantic comedy about two women who are living very different lives but yet have the same relationship problems. To temporarily escape from their troubles-of-the-heart, they house swap over the internet and end up living each other’s life for a few days ... or so to speak. In doing that, each woman finds something that was missing in her life before.
It has been a busy year for Memphis. For the fiscal year 2011-2012, over twenty productions have used Memphis as a film location or base while shooting in nearby regions. Among these are TLC’s What Not to Wear, the Food Network’sRestaurant: Impossible, Fox’s America’s Most Wanted and Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report.
This fall, probably for the first time ever, an independent featured film was shot entirely in Ocean City, Maryland.
Ping Pong Summer, starring (among many others) Susan Sarandon, Lea Thompson, John Hannah, is the brainchild of Director Michael Tully (Septien, Cocaine Angel).
