Imagine ... a romantic church wedding set in the middle of an idyllic tree-lined suburb. Imagine ... a heart-stopping car chasing sequence on the winding roads of snow-capped mountains. Imagine ... a school of beautiful wild horses running through a vast open field.
Looking for the perfect location for your next production? Now there’s an app for that!
Michigan, Baton Rouge, North Carolina, Montana, and Nevada are among the first film offices to launch their own mobile apps. Developed by Reel-Scout, these apps include information on locations available for filming, local crew, vendors, and other film-related businesses. “Because the industry is so mobile, you need to be able to meet its needs in a mobile way,” said Reel-Scout’s founder Ed Henegar.
For 12 years now, MovieMaker magazine has been compiling its famous annual lists of “Top 10 U.S. Cities” for independent filmmakers. Of the Top 10 Cities in 2012, we’re proud to share that nine are in states whose state film office uses Reel-Scout™. Congratulations to everyone on their hard work and dedication in bringing more filming productions to their states.
On the tail of his mega-successful movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (the fourth in the MI series), Tom Cruise shared in an interview with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz his plan to revive Maverick, a character he played in Top Gun, an iconic, much-loved film he made with director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer in 1986.
It didn’t surprise anyone that The Descendants has five Oscar nominations this year - Best Picture, Best Director (Alexander Payne), Best Actor (George Clooney), Best Adapted Screenplay (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash), and Best Film Editing. Somehow, if the Academy Award has a category for Best Film Location, we have no doubt The Descendantswould be up for it also. For now, it comes in at No. 1 on Budget Travel‘s The Year’s Most Inspiring Travel Films.
Even though it has been snubbed by the Oscars this year, Drive - the “fairytale" stylishly directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn-is still one of my top 5 favorite 2011 films. The movie (screenplay by Hossein Amini) is based on the 2005 James Sallis pulp-novel of the same name.
In the midst of excitement of the Holiday Season, we almost forgot about Hollywood’s award season. That was until the Golden Globes announced their 69th Golden Globe Award Nominees last week at the Beverly Hill Hilton Hotel. Now all spotlights are back on in Tinsel Town.
In 1988, a little movie called Mystic Pizza made its premiere in the U.S. and thoroughly charmed its audiences. The movie centers around the lives of three young women coming of age in a picturesque New England coastal town. The film was shot on location in Mystic, Stonington and Groton, Connecticut, with a few scenes filmed in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
Since the movie’s opening 23 years ago, tourists from all over the world have visited Mystic and the real life Mystic Pizza restaurant made famous by the movie. Everyone wants to relive a bit of movie magic and to try their very own “slice of heaven.”
Since its opening weekend on August 10, 2011, The Help, a Dreamworks Pictures film, continues to sweep the box office, staying in the No. 2 spot as recent as this past weekend (it was at No. 1 before then). Based on the novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett, The Help is about the relationship between white families and their black maids in 1960s Jackson.
Remember The Abyss, a 1989 science fiction film that takes place in the deep dark ocean? The movie was directed by James Cameron (Avatar), starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn.
Once in a while, a few movies vividly stand out in our mind. We remember it long after the film is over, not just because the plot is interesting or the acting is top-notch, but because visually ... we just can’t get it out of our head.
Before Super 8, most of us had never heard of Weirton, West Virginia. Since the movie’s opening a few weeks ago amidst “critical buzz that’s getting louder by the hour,” Weirton has been on the forefront of the film location radar. The small West Virginia town was made famous when it starred as the fictitious town of Lillian, Ohio, in J. J. Abrams’ latest sci-fi thriller. How famous? Weirton was recently named one of the top five summer movie location-destinations movie-lovers would most likely want to visit.
“It is the passions of Jane Eyre that are the passion of her legions of fans, or at least many of them.”
Having read Jane Eyre as a teen and again as an adult, whenever a movie version of the book comes out - on television or on the big screen - I always try to catch it. From 1934 to present day, there have been at least 13 film adaptations of the novel. The latest Jane Eyre film directed by Cary Fukunaga is - for me - the best Jane Eyre yet because of two reasons. Mia Wasikowska is my favorite Jane, and Fukunaga’s authentic, film locations for Jane Eyre truly make me believe in Jane’s world.
Last month, we published Part 1 of A Haunting in Montana, a story about The Gibson House, a historic Victorian mansion in Great Falls, Montana, once belonged to Paris Gibson, Great Falls’ founder and first mayor. With rumors that it’s one of the most haunted locations in town, The Gibson House will be featured this Fall on The Travel Channel’s new series “Dead Files.”
The current owner of The Gibson House is Great Falls realtor, Kelly Parks. Ms. Parks bought the house, located at 400 4th Avenue North, in early 2009. Last year, she received a Historic Preservation Award from the city for her work in restoring the historic mansion.
This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the filming locations of Water For Elephants.
Filmed in Tennessee (Chattanooga), Georgia (Chickamauga), and California (Los Angeles, Fillmore and Piru), Water For Elephants is a magical treat for the eyes. Everything about the film is beautiful, from the breathtaking cinematography to the film’s “biggest” and most memorable star Tai, who played Rosie, the elephant.
This is Part 1 of our story on the mysterious Gibson House.
If you’re a fan of ghost tales and movies, you may find this next filming location fascinating. The location is the Gibson House in Great Falls, Montana. For their new television show “Dead Files,” The Travel Channel conducts a series of investigations to find out whether the Gibson House (and several other locations in town) is indeed haunted.
I’m a huge fan of Emily Blunt. Love her in Devil Wears Prada,The Young Victoria, Sunshine Cleaning, and most recently ... The Adjustment Bureau (which is so far my most favorite film in 2011).
Having just seen Adjustment Bureau a few weeks ago, I was surprised and excited to hear that Emily Blunt has already inked to make another movie. This time it’s a romantic comedy with Jason Segel as her co-star. The movie is Universal Pictures’ The Five-Year Engagement, slated to film in Ann Arbor, Michigan, possibly starting as early as next month.
Have you ever thought about submitting your house to be in the next movie, TV show, or commercial? It’s a lot easier than you think!
With today’s advanced technology such as high def cameras and televisions, filming in a studio or on a soundstage is no longer as authentic or convincing to the sophisticated audience as it was a few years ago. More productions opt to film on location using real life homes, restaurants, shops, etc., as the settings for their movies.
This year’s verdict is out! Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his warm home this morning and could not find his shadow. And yes, that means spring is just around the corner for the rest of us. Hard to imagine when we’ve been bombarded with so many snow and ice storms lately.
In honor of Punxsutawney Phil and Groundhog Day, we’ve gathered for you a few interesting details on the filming locations of our belovedGroundhog Day movie (1992-93), starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.
