According to Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, Spielberg is filming his new movie Lincoln at the capitol. He further adds, “I just know that as part of the agreement between the Commonwealth and DreamWorks productions that we had to keep several venues in and around Richmond reserved for them up through, I believe, December 10.”
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Even though filming on Steven Spielberg’s latest project, Lincoln, just started in Richmond, VA, the director already has his eye on future projects, and possibly on filming in Michigan.
According to State Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, the state is currently in talks with Spielberg’s production company to bring an upcoming film to Michigan.
Richardville said they do not want an encore of what happened with Ironman 3, which chose to shoot in North Carolina next year, instead of Michigan because of the state’s film incentives.
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After months of speculation, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell confirmed today that Steven Spielberg will shoot the movie Lincoln in Virginia.
The film, which is based on the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, will be shot in the Richmond and Petersburg areas. Filming will begin in the fall and the movie is slated for release in 2012.
Daniel Day-Lewis has signed on tho star as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field will play as Mary Todd Lincoln.
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- After wrapping Wanderlust just a week ago in NYC, Jennifer Aniston is already back to her usual downtime routine of hanging out in Los Cabos with girlfriends. This time Chelsea Handler is along for the ride too. Check out the great photo above of Jen on the set of Wanderlust taken by one of our readers, Erica, last week. [JustJared]
- Now that Lindsay Lohan is officially out of the Linda Lovelace biopic, Inferno, we’ve learned her replacement will be Malin Akerman. [JustJared]
- On the heels of shooting the Untitled Terrence Malick Project in Oklahoma, Rachel Weisz is back in London working on her next film, The Deep Blue Sea. [Accidental Sexiness]
- According to Emma Stone, the next Spider-Man movie begins filming in two weeks (in L.A.). [MTV]
- The Chicago Code will wrap up filming season one in the next couple of weeks, but once the show airs, it will showcase the real Chicago. [Chicago Tribune]
- Here’s the trailer for the made-in-New-Mexico (and Texas) movie, True Grit. [Sindication]
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Previously we reported that Steven Spielberg had met with Virginia film officials, now he has officially announced that he will start working on his long awaited biopic on Abraham Lincoln within the next year. According to rumors, the movie is to be based on “best-selling 2005 book ‘Team of Rivals’ by Doris Kearns Goodwin,” those who are familiar with the book will know that the story addresses the start of Lincoln’s political career as well as the power struggles with his cabinet.
The announcement comes nine years after Spielberg first expressed interest in development of the biopic and five years after asking Liam Neeson to play the president. Neeson however has denied being involved in the project, earlier this year he said “I’m not playing Lincoln now. I was attached to it for a while, but now I’m past my sell-by date.”
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- Here’s the first trailer for Jake Gyllenhaal’s next movie, Source Code, which was primarily shot in Montreal, though they did spend a few days filming in Chicago earlier this year too.
- And check out Jake performing “Gonna Eat That Talkin’ Sandwich: The Sarah Palin Song” with Jimmy Fallon last night too:
- Officials in Virginia are hoping that it’s no accident that just one day after Steven Spielberg met with the state’s film office, he officially announced his long-anticipated Abraham Lincoln biopic starring Daniel Day-Lewis. [Washington Post, Perez Hilton]
- Dawson Leery and Zack Morris are finally going to work together! [Perez Hilton]
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The highly anticipated Michal Bay/ Steven Spielberg produced film, I Am Number Four, has been shooting in the Pittsburgh area for the past couple of weeks and now we have a look at where they’ll be headed next.
This week, DreamWorks was given permission to film in two Alegheny County Parks, Deer Lakes and North Park, beginning this week (presumably, they started filming at one of the parks today as they spent Wednesday and Thursday filming in Vandergrift).
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