  Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 226 Registered: 08-2006 |
You heard it here first. how 'bout them rebates? "Gran Torino", yes named after Starsky & Hutch's preferred wheels, it looks like they'll be shooting gangbangers in in Mexicantown(yes, I know there's beautiful scenery up north). Keep it up, spacemonkey | ||
Sknutson Member Username: Sknutson Post Number: 1177 Registered: 03-2004 |
"Keep it up" Spacemonkey? Exactly what are you referring to???? | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 1007 Registered: 11-2006 |
Spacemonkey, a forumer here, is getting involved with the new incentives and film industry by setting up some type of production business (Message edited by spiritofdetroit on June 20, 2008) | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 2255 Registered: 08-2007 |
I love Clint Eastwood. Here is a plot summary I found. Who knows what will really happen? It’s a “coming of age buddy comedy” between an old fart (Eastwood, no offense) who cherishes his titular muscle car and a young, troubled [Hmong] kid who tries to steal said car to impress a gang. http://tinyurl.com/52qwsf | ||
Dan Member Username: Dan Post Number: 1564 Registered: 10-2003 |
Who? I know of several people working on production businesses. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 2162 Registered: 05-2005 |
where is it being filmed? | ||
Ro_resident Member Username: Ro_resident Post Number: 319 Registered: 11-2003 |
A lot of filming is happening around here these days. I used to run into crews filming car commercials in downtown or at various parks over the years. And I can't forget almost becoming an inadvertant extra in 'The Island'. In the past couple of weeks, I have seen a) a crew filming a car scene on M-59 through Milford*, and b) the parade on Washington in Royal Oak. *If you see a guy driving a late model dark gray BMW 3-Series talking on a cell phone in a movie in the next year or so--that's the scene I saw being filmed. ;) I'm sure there'll be more of these sightings in the near future. | ||
Sean_of_detroit Member Username: Sean_of_detroit Post Number: 847 Registered: 03-2008 |
I'll never forget when the Island was being filmed. I looked out my eleventh story window of Park Apartments to see a helicopter crashed in the middle of Bagley. No set, no cameras, no people, no nothing. Just the helicopter on a closed street. They put the rest of the set a few days later. Needles to say, I was very confused. I was asking everyone in the CBD what happened. God I felt like an idiot once I saw the cameras and actors a few days later... LOL! It looked so real... movie filming never even crossed my mind. | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 228 Registered: 08-2006 |
The thing that's interesting is they pulled out of L.A.(a buddy worked on "The Changeling"-Eastwood's last movie which was set & shot here-but because it's 1920's L.A. it was incredibly tough, 40's, 50's, great-20's they went about 140-mile range to find spots that could pass) & were set up in Minneapolis & they bailed & came to the D simply because of the rebate, I imagine it'll play "Detroit" as well | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 229 Registered: 08-2006 |
I should add in all likelihood there'll be another film production strike in the next month & a half. Will it hurt this show? I dunno, Detroit's a union town; http://www.variety.com/article /VR1117987873.html?categoryId= 2526&cs=1 | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 634 Registered: 02-2005 |
the production crew, checked out the barber shop i go to,a couple weeks ago. Mack and Cadieux area. My barber said it is an Eastwood movie | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 4496 Registered: 06-2004 |
There was recently a blurb in the Ann Arbor paper that Drew Barrymore's production company is looking around Saline. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 18 Registered: 06-2008 |
In other movie news, a new Robocop movie is set to be released in 2010. I heard that this one might not take place in Detroit, but how ironic would it be if it were filmed here. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 19 Registered: 06-2008 |
In other movie news, a new Robocop movie is set to be released in 2010. I heard that this one might not take place in Detroit, but how ironic would it be if it were filmed here? | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 232 Registered: 08-2006 |
Lilpup, you mean here?; http://www.mlive.com/news/anna rbornews/index.ssf?/base/news- 28/1213425643210290.xml&coll=2 It's wild how lightning-quick results have sprung from an idea that many posters still think is bad | ||
Sumas Member Username: Sumas Post Number: 160 Registered: 01-2008 |
Your barber is the same guy my husband goes to on Mack. A production crew showed up at his shop to consider it for scenes in the movie. I hope it happens. I think the barber could care less about rental fees for his place. He really just wants to met Clint Eastwood. I hope it happens for him. | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 387 Registered: 08-2007 |
I,d be an extra if they needed one, got stories from 61* at Tiger Stadium. | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 640 Registered: 02-2005 |
Sumas- Steve cuts your hair? | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 641 Registered: 02-2005 |
if only those dogs could cut hair! | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 7606 Registered: 10-2003 |
Eastwood sightings confirmed! http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20080715/NEW S04/807150312/0/NEWS01 | ||
Alan55 Member Username: Alan55 Post Number: 1976 Registered: 09-2005 |
Great article. That family has a story to tell at family picnics and Thanksgiving dinners for the next 50 years. It will be nice for them to see their house in scenes from a major motion picture. | ||
Gencinjay Member Username: Gencinjay Post Number: 17 Registered: 03-2008 |
As far as the Drew Barrymore movie: it's called Whip It and stars Ellen Page. Their production offices are set up in Saline. They are looking at Detroit areas for filming including outside Lafayette Coney Island. | ||
Cosine Member Username: Cosine Post Number: 14 Registered: 06-2006 |
Does anyone know where and when they will be filming in Grosse Pointe Park this week? | ||
Pgn421 Member Username: Pgn421 Post Number: 706 Registered: 02-2005 |
they are on Ballantyne in GPS fIlming at the Lund residence | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 5140 Registered: 02-2005 |
*Lundy residence, according to the GP News. I saw Clint around 2pm today, in the alley behind Mack-Marseilles (practically our backyard!). | ||
Tkshreve Member Username: Tkshreve Post Number: 438 Registered: 07-2006 |
They filmed today down in Kercheval in the park during the west framers market. They have been all over the Grosse Pointe area the last few days or so. Maybe more. Ironically, Clint has been filming in spots very closely tied to my girlfriend for a number of reasons. Keep waiting to look up and see him. | ||
Tunnelman Member Username: Tunnelman Post Number: 9 Registered: 06-2008 |
Drew Barrymore was in front of the Lafayette Coney Island last Friday. She even borrowed an umbrella from Walter's Pipe Shop next door. She hasn't returned it yet. She said that she will return it in a couple of days, and, will autograph it for Scotty. | ||
Dtales Member Username: Dtales Post Number: 19 Registered: 02-2008 |
Drew Barrymore will also be in Eastern Market on August 14th for more filming. Oh, and there's that TV show starring Aidan Quinn that's been shooting all over town lately (including the Compuware building and the UDM Chem building). In time, celebrity sightings will no longer be of interest because there will just be so damned many of them. | ||
Alley Member Username: Alley Post Number: 434 Registered: 02-2008 |
Cosine: It's already done, but they were filming on Kerchavel/Maryland. I guess for a scene at Pointe Hardware | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 7137 Registered: 08-2004 |
Mackinaw... Marseilles was the street I grew up on, I hope he wasn't relieving himself in that alley...  | ||
Gplimpton Member Username: Gplimpton Post Number: 223 Registered: 05-2007 |
What's the next place/time? | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 616 Registered: 08-2006 |
In Ann Arbor, Barrymore has fake storefronts on 4th street and Eastwood was blowing up cars on Liberty Street. | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 617 Registered: 08-2006 |
Also I'm involved in another production currently filming in Ann Arbor. Barrymore and Eastwood's films aren't the only ones... I'd say about 10-12 others are shooting in the metro region right now. Just got off one set two weeks ago, and working on another now. The tax incentives have worked beautifully... of all the talk of a brain drain and Michigan's faltering economy, this is one recent college grad who is sticking around in Michigan thanks to all the work on films. A year ago, I was considering a move to California ASAP. I'm not alone, either. A dozen of my friends are helping out on Whip It, Gran Torino, and many of the other productions in the state. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 5192 Registered: 02-2005 |
Fake storefronts on 4th? On the YMCA site by any chance? That's too funny. Why would you need fake storefronts in Ann Arbor. That's great to hear, though, Gsgeorge. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 7839 Registered: 10-2003 |
Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi and Michael Cera were shooting in a house on Leroy in Ferndale. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2664 Registered: 04-2005 |
Well, that ought to be fun. Is it going to ba another mob type movie? | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 7844 Registered: 10-2003 |
I wish! Doesn't look like it though. The movie is called "Youth In Revolt". Here's the scoop on it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04 03702/ | ||
Mpabot Member Username: Mpabot Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2008 |
This is just the first wave of features. Watch for the services companies popping up to provide assistance to the companies, watch for new equipment to move in town. The William White equipment idea does not sound great to me as we have been fighting 'run away' production to canada for years and now we're gonna give them money for films shot here? We can get any piece of equipment needed overnight. Youth in Revolt is looking for PAs for an Ann Arbor shoot tomorrow. Michigan Production Alliance will be offering bootcamps in Sept, Oct and Nov. www.mpami.org for details | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 631 Registered: 06-2005 |
Quite a few of the Detroit Derby Girls will be in Drew Barrymore's Whip It! movie. Some from the Grand Raggidy Girls are as well. |
