Lipstick Jungle Filming Today

Lipstick Jungle is filming at Broadway Stages in Brooklyn.

ZACK AND MIRI FILMING INFO!

We have confirmed they will be filming a big mall scene for Zack and Miri Make A Porno, directed by Kevin Smith, near Pittsburgh, PA tomorrow. We know they have been filming in Monroeville, PA so the Monroeville Mall seems like a safe bet for tomorrow’s scene!

Filming News 1.30.08

Here is an article about the Milk shoot in San Francisco.

Here is this week’s filming location in Melbourne Australia for The Pacific.

Lipstick Jungle, filming today at the Broadway Stages in Brooklyn, will finally premiere next week, 2/7/08 on NBC.

Filming News 1.29.08

Filming is now officially underway in Bristol, RI for the new Richard Gere film, Hachiko: A Dog’s Story.

There will be a casting call in Reno, NV this Thursday for the new film Love Ranch starring Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren. They are looking for real cowboys and experienced craps dealer.

They are also looking for extras for the new Martin Scorsese movie which will begin filming in Boston in March. More information can be found here.

 

Finally, Lipstick Jungle is filming at 161 West 86th St today in Manhattan.

ON LOCATION NEWS 1.28.08

Wisconsin is one step closer to becoming the location for Public Enemies which begins shooting March 9th.

Here is a list of winners from the Sundance Film Festival.

Lipstick Jungle is filming in Manhattan near E 85th (between Madison and Park). LJ finally premieres on Feb. 7th on NBC.

Zack and Miri is filming in at the old Prospect School in Mount Washington (PA).

Milk is filming on Castro Street in San Francisco.

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Even More Pictures from the Sundance Film Festival

Jack Black on Main Street in Park City on 1/19/08

Matthew Perry 1/20/08

Fred Segal Store in Park City during Sundance 2008

Fur Protestors on Main Street in Park City during Sundance ‘08

Armand Assante at the Cadillac Lounge

NEWS 1.25.08

If you are in the Madison, Wisconsin area and have a vintage car head down to the Overture Center on Sunday. Scouts for the new Johnny Depp movie, Public Enemies, will be in town and want to see how many vehicles they will have available from the vicinity.

Lipstick Jungle is filming today at Justin’s on 21st St between 5th and 6th in Manhattan.  

OLV Editorial: Final Thoughts on Sundance

There is a dichotomy at Sundance between the first time director slinging his project to people in the street and the starlets who are just there for free press (and free swag). At first glance it is easy to think the festival is now focused only on the latter but there are still elements true to the festival’s foundation. 

Sundance began in 1978 as the U.S. Film Festival. The fest’s mission was twofold, to bring the attention of filmmakers to Utah and showcase the potential of independent film. Some our most groundbreaking artists received their first big break at Sundance including Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith. What the internet does for bloggers today, Sundance did for filmmakers in its infancy, it allowed the consumer to become the producer. It is important to remember when this festival began independent movies didn’t exist in the mainstream at all. The success of independent film has changed the cinematic landscape and now films labeled as “independent” are often made by the major studios. The studios have had to broaden their horizons to include films that expand our minds and change our national conversation. This may be the most important role of film in our time, the ability to start or change the conversation in the media and in our living rooms.

In his famous essay, Hegemony, James Lull suggests, “Owners and managers of media industries can produce and reproduce the content, inflections, and tones of ideas favorable to them far more easily than other social groups because they manage key socializing institutions, thereby guaranteeing that their points of view are constantly and attractively cast into the public arena”.

If Lull is right and ultimately the media industries are thrusting what is in their best interest upon us, isn’t it imperative that institutions like Sundance, which allow a wide array of artists into the cinematic arena, continue even if it means these artists have to stand along side Paris Hilton on Main Street? The groundbreaking artists are still there ready to inspire us; we just have to look beyond the swarms of paparazzi to find them.

Though I am sure there are scores of independent filmmakers who will agree with my original criticism of Sundance which was that it is only about celebrity, in the spectrum of film history it is clear Sundance has done more to introduce new voices into film than any other institution in the U.S.

Film Can Change The World

-Christine, editor, OLV

Sundance 2008 Wrap-up

Here are a few final thoughts on our trip to Sundance.

If Jack Black was the coolest celeb at Sundance, Woody Harrelson was the meanest.

The best place for lunch on Main St. is Bandit’s Grill and Bar. If you don’t want to wait for a table ask to sit at the bar downstairs, same menu, no wait.

The Daily Insider is available free all over town, pick one up in the morning, it might change the course of your day.

Parking may get costly considering the free parking fills up quickly. Get to Park City early, take advantage of the free shuttle, or do what we did and just consider the cost of parking ($20) into your daily expenses. It is only once a year, right?

Finally, take a drive! The surrounding area is so beautiful you don’t want to miss it. Drive down to the Sundance Resort to see a film, go skiing, or just enjoy the scenery. On your way back to Park City, check out Spin Cafe in Herber City, UT. The restaurant’s design is modern but the menu is classic comfort food, don’t forget the onion rings!

Or head north on Route 80 to Evanston, Wyoming. See our pictures below. Evanston is only about 45 minutes from Park City but it seems worlds away.  

Finally, two more links for all of you celebrity hunters.  Here is an article from Cinemablend about seeing stars at Sundance and another from the Salt Lake Tribune.

Evanston, WY

Rock climbers near the Sundance Resort

Scenes from Route 80 north of Park City

Savage Grace at Sundance 2008

On Sunday night we attended the world premiere of Savage Grace in the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. The film, starring Julianne Moore, is the disturbing true story of the murder of Barbara Baekeland. Barbara, married to the heir of the Bakelite plastic fortune, was a troubled woman who desperately wanted to shed her middle class upbringing and become fully immersed into the jet set world of the rich.

The performances by Moore and Eddie Redmayne, as Barbara’s son Tony, are flawless especially given the complex nature of the material. Many walked out during Sunday’s performance. During the Q & A the film’s director, Tom Kalin, explained this was not the first time the audience shrank during a screening. Many can not handle the treatment of the troubling relationship between Barbara and Tony.

 The movie has not been picked up as of yet and has received mixed reviews. Jay Weissberg wrote the following in Variety,

 ”Scripter Howard A. Rodman’s treatment of an enthralling book is more a series of vignettes rather than a fully connected work, and helmer Tom Kalin seems unable to decide how much Sirkian melodrama to introduce into the heady mix. Gone are the reasons to be fascinated with these people, merely replaced with maddeningly over-arch dialogue and struggles with characterization. Biz may be modest but unsustainable.”

 Monday night we ran into the film’s screenwriter, Howard A. Rodman, who was gracious and grateful that we attended the premiere. He told us the material was difficult for everyone involved but they all agreed it was a story worth telling.

Does this mean it is a story worth watching? We are undecided. It was uncomfortable and troubling but beautifully shot emotionally charged. It will be interesting to see if the film in distributed in the U.S. and how critics will receive it if it is.

Doubt Filming Location for Tomorrow 1.25.08

Doubt (Julie and Julia) starring Meryl Streep is filming tomorrow in the Bronx at Mansion and St. Lawerence.

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