Rete

Have been quite blase about filming in New York City. I walk pass outdoor film sites almost daily during the warmer months and except for a brief glance don't pay it nevermind. That goes for the Music Awards when they are held at the Waldorf or filming of a movie, Sex And The City or Law and Order. However, this morning they were filming a commercial for Pillsbury on the steps of St. Bart's Church between 50 and 51st and Park. I stopped and laughed at the filming of "A Sweeter America". Chanters holding placards saying "Vote for Brownies" and other sweets were being filmed with the Pillsbury Doughboy. A laughable moment to start the day.

Jerseygirl

US companies filming in Toronto is an extremely common site. A few weeks ago we had to look twice...we had turned into a street full of NYPD cars and cops, yellow cabs, US mail boxes, hydrants etc.

Ridski

There's a couple of scenes from the new Adam Sandler movie that were filmed on those steps last summer. They were there for about a week, and for some reason, despite working about 2 blocks away and walking past the trailers twice a day, I never bothered even checking out the set until the last day, when they just wrapped the shooting, and all the stars had gone home. Bugger!

Tarkak9

its works out cheaper for the studios... less taxes (more to write off) and easier permits, usually no unions & guilds etc. Like many places, CO make it near damn difficult for major motion pictures to filmed here so the studios tend to say forget it.

Zoe Bell

Was watching the trailer for the new incredible hulk movie. Blatently toronto , they've even left the "sam the record man" sign in shot !!

Jerseygirl

Noticed that several times. One of the give aways is the tall building with the big yellow 'Bay Company' sign on the top.

Bill_S

Or TTC streetcars rumbling by in the background...

I saw film crews on the Univerisity of Toronto campus all the time. Fox shot a short-lived tv show called Class of '96 there. If anyone saw that show, and remembers a scene with the actors sitting in a parking lot amongst dumpsters and garbage bags, I was a few meters away suffering through my Ph.D. thesis defence.

Bill_S

Lore has it that a city crew once unknowingly cleaned up a streetful of prop garbage while the film crew was on a meal break.

Jerseygirl

The U of T campus as been used in many US films. Some of the scenes from Good Will Hunting were shot in the dorm rooms of Whitney Hall.

Lord Lionheart

They do just a little bit of filming in Hollywood and the Los Angeles area. Only in NYC indeed

Manc

Trainspotting was filmed in Scotland don't ya know.


and 28 weeks later looks like London to me.

Lord Lionheart

Stop bullshitting this only happens in New York City.

Last Tango in Paris was actually Queens
An American werewolf in London............... was it bollocks, Brooklyn

Manc

Brassed Off was filmed in the hills just north of Yonkers.

Lord Lionheart

Out of Africa...................Harlem

Caius

Last King of Scotland, I'm reliably informed, was shot in Clinton.

(sorry that was a bizaare first post!)