Has your city ever been used by Hollywood?

[clint g]

Yeah, my city is constantly being used for movies and TV shows. They're filming some of The Dark Knight Returns here right now. They even filmed I Am Legend, MIB3 and Sherlock Holmes in my old place of work.

 

[Candlelight]

My town appears in X-Men: Wolverine.

Plus most of NZ appears in LOTR, so...

 

[SmoothieX]

Not sure about my town, but Shutter Island was filmed at an abandoned state mental hospital we are working on demolishing.

A few of us inspected the place a while back, and it is creepy.

The lobotomy room in particular freaked me out.

 

[TheBrew]

They film a few things in DC.

 

[Australis]

When I was working in Sydney, they were filming the Matrix.

 

[Finn]

That reminds me. When they were making the new Transformers movie last year in DC, some of the students I was working with would get excited whenever they hear something out on the street outside the class, and yell "TRANSFORMERS!" :LOL:

 

[DimesDan]

Bath has been used for at least one film, Vanity Fair about ten years ago, other than that, I'm sure with it being a lovely Georgian City and its Roman heritage it's been used for other period pieces as well but I'm not sure.

A few local places have appeared on screen, both the big and small.

Lacock and the Abbey there have been used by the Harry Potter films (the Abbey in Stone and Chamber and the Abbey and village itself in Half-Blood Prince) and a few BBC productions including Pride and Prejudice back in the early 90's.

Castle Combe, another picturesque Wiltshire village has been used for a few productions including the original Doctor Doolittle, Stardust and Spielberg's up and coming film, War Horse.

Bristol has also been used for numerous productions as of late, Teachers, Skins, Being Human and Doctor Who to name a few programmes. Also the BBC's Wildlife department is still based out of the city so a fair few wildlife documentaries are filmed around the city.

Hot Fuzz was filmed down in Wells, Somerset where it stood in for Sandford, Gloucestershire.

And finally, a few miles further away from me than the above (they're all with in ten to fifteen miles) is Stonehenge which is featured in "lots of stuff" and about thirty miles.

 

[Draculasaurus]

Yes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, Hope Floats, Gilbert Grape, Friday the 13th (2009), Death Proof, Tree of Life, The Alamo (2004).

 

[doubleohfive]

Yes, all the time.

I love how so many movie nitpickers criticize the presence of skyscrapers in shots of the DC area, not realizing it's Arlington right across the river

I also love how in every action movie, it's always the same stock shot, helicoptering around the White House whenever they have to cut to the Oval Office....

 

[cultcross]

Bristol has also been used for numerous productions as of late, Teachers, Skins, Being Human and Doctor Who to name a few programmes. Also the BBC's Wildlife department is still based out of the city so a fair few wildlife documentaries are filmed around the city.

Indeed, plus Bristol is used fairly frequently for period peices - we have a few residential roads that are essentially unchanged Georgian streets once the cars are removed, and these feature regularly in the sort of middle-budget period dramas BBC and ITV fill up their schedules with.

Until relatively recently of course, Casualty was filmed here (for the foreign readers, think the British ER) - the University used to double as the hospital grounds. And you'd often see Ambulances screaming up and down Whiteladies Road marked 'Holby Ambulance Trust'.

Starter for Ten used the Bristol Chemistry Dept. as its Student Union because the design, before they redid it. was the quintessential 70s university building.

 

[nevermore]

I live in Baltimore. I know a fair number of people who are part of the local film crew community - they've usually got plenty to keep them busy. One of them was the location scout for The Wire - he's got some good stories.

I think the only major thing filming now is Veep, which resulted in Buster Bluth attending the opening event for a new art space my friends started because the cast is being housed around the corner. Nice guy.

^There he is, with two of the folks behind the art space.

 

[doubleohfive]

^
"That photo is OFF. THE. HOOK."

 

[Captain Ice]

Quite a lot actually. Used to live in Flagstaff, AZ. Oak Creek Canyon was used very frequently for Westerns. For Flagstaff proper, it was used quite a bit in the 30s and 40s. I have not seen a major production film there since Forrest Gump did. The "Shit Happens" scene elicited a standing ovation because it was recognizably Flagstaff.

 

[XwarlokX]

I remember way back when I was a kid my little spot in the road down was used for one of the Smokey & The Bandit movies. AFAIK the footage was never used as I think it was set to appear in the movie that never got released.

Outside of that, I'm not sure.

 

[OmahaStar]

Very rarely.

I do remember that lots of About Schmidt was shot here. Warren Schmidt's house is about a mile away from me. As was the "I thought you might want THESE back!" scene. And the grocery store he shops at is supposed to be mine, although the crews used another store (across town) as a stand-in for filming purposes.

There are WAY more films shot here than are listed on imdb. About Schmidt is one of the more famous, and that's sad because that movie is terrible.

Omaha is frequently used. From speaking with filmmakers who come here, it's actually cheaper to film here than it is in Vancouver (and we all know how cheap that is!), but they don't have the filming infrastructure here that Vancouver - aka "Little Hollywood" - has.

 

[Servo]

Many, many times. Most recently it was used in Captain America.

 

[TheSeeker]

They filmed a few scenes from Batman & Robin in Ottawa and Tori Spelling filmed a TV movie here.

 

[doubleohfive]

Being from the DC metro area, yes, Hollywood has used DC several times, as well as locations throughout Arlington County, where I am specifically from.

Living in Los Angeles, it should be no surprise that Hollywood utilizes multiple locations around the city and the surrounding areas as well. Just last week I was re-watching an episode of ALIAS and realized that they 'faked' a bank in Belfast using the lobby of the ABC Studios building in Burbank. I was like, "Wait a minute... I was there this morning!"

 

[Davros]

Quite a few films and TV shows have been filmed in or around Denver.

 

[Captain Ice]

Just last week I was re-watching an episode of ALIAS and realized that they 'faked' a bank in Belfast using the lobby of the ABC Studios building in Burbank. I was like, "Wait a minute... I was there this morning!"

I get that feeling anytime I watch Lethal Weapon IV. The chase scene where Mel Gibson is fighting with a guy in a mobile home traveling down the freeway was filmed on I-15 in Vegas, I think this was while I was living there.