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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

8.27.08 Filming Locations

by Christine on August 26, 2008 · 20 comments

in Daily Filming Locations

Taking Woodstock is still filming on Route 20, New Lebanon, today they are filming the helicopter scene.

Entourage is filming at 3 locations today: 56th St between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, Greenwich and Hubert Sts in the Financial District, and at/near the Ravel Hotel in Queens (this is an afternoon shoot, after 3 PM, sorry, we don’t have times for the Manhattan locations). (Thanks to Dana, Amy, and Tom!)

Ugly Betty is filming at Bryant High School (Thanks Sara!).

Last of the Ninth is filming at 1400 Williamsbridge Rd in the Bronx (same as yesterday).

Life on Mars is filming in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, around South 5th St and Keap (same as yesterday).

Lipstick Jungle is filming in Brooklyn, in the vicinity of Greenpoint Ave and Manhattan Ave.

(Gossip Girl is filming in studio, Silvercup)

UPDATES: Hey everybody! Be sure to keep an eye on the comments on these daily location posts, we have been getting some great tips! Like we just found out from Sasha that 30 Rock is filming at 30 Rock!!

We also hear Transformers 2 is filming in Long Beach, CA today, and Twilight is filming reshoots this week!

Finally, Damages is filming at 50th/51st and Park. (Thanks P & L and Cate)

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Here is the first set of pictures from Taking Woodstock which is filming at a deserted motel on Route 20 in the town of New Lebanon, NY. The motel looks pretty dilapidated and I have a feeling they didn’t have to do much work to it to capture that run down look! The motel is set back off of the road and is surrounded mostly by corn fields. We did some exploring and it looks like they plowed part of the field adjacent to the motel to use as parking for trailers and trucks.

For part of the afternoon they were shooting the motel from the road meaning Ang Lee was standing on the side of a busy truck route for the better part of the afternoon. We are not sure what actors were there at the time since they were in front of the motel quite a distance from where we were on the road.

Though it is harder to get close to the set there is something exciting about running into a huge production in the middle of nowhere as opposed to seeing a production in NYC where it is pretty commonplace. The only well known celeb we saw was Zoe Kazan and we actually spotted her going into a small diner down the street from the set as we were leaving! We will have more tomorrow about New Lebanon and about the set but in the mean time here your first look at Taking Woodstock!

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