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Movie filmed down the street

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Statest16

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Those missing there favorite watering hole during Covid shutdown will catch a glimpse of it in an upcoming horror film "Cryptid"

A New York based film crew was on site at the "State st. Tavern" which I can see from my apartment TV room window.If you have not guessed I live on State st.

The horror movie takes place in a small fictional Maine town with bear attack on people,although not actually filmed in Maine.They shooting throughout rural western Massachusetts to create a Maine like environment on film.

The Tavern has been closed since march due to Covid and it's to small in size for social distance,unlike most bars has been closed still.

I don't drink so I have never been to the bar but it's about 200 yards up the road.
 
Statest16 said:
The horror movie takes place in a small fictional Maine town with bear attack on people,although not actually filmed in Maine.They shooting throughout rural western Massachusetts to create a Maine like environment on film.
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Sounds a bit like a Stephen King plot, if it's supposed to look like Maine. A lot of his short stories have that feel to them.
 
I like when they at least try to make it look like the area in which the stories take place. I watch King of Queens, which is supposed to be in New York, and when they are out driving, all you see is California - do they even know what New York state looks like? It irritates me.
 
Pats said:
I like when they at least try to make it look like the area in which the stories take place. I watch King of Queens, which is supposed to be in New York, and when they are out driving, all you see is California - do they even know what New York state looks like? It irritates me.
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I kinda get it though. If I was making a movie about climbing Mount Everest, I'd want to pick the Bahamas as my on location site. ;)
 
When I lived in San Francisco in 1994-95 I realized how much time the residents spend dodging film crews. The Net (the famous film that was Sandra Bullock's big break) and The Fan were both filmed during my time living there. Also I was on a cable car at one point where the front half of the car was occupied by a film crew from CBS, just letting the camera roll while the car lurched and grinded towards Powell and Market. Apparently the CBS morning show was gonna spend a week in the city and the cable car footage was intended as stock time fill footage.

As for location misfires, yeah happens all the time. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (the new version) was filmed in Vancouver BC but was supposed to be set in San Francisco, but SF was too expensive. The result was sort of a not-really-SF feel to the movie. Vancouver is constantly getting passed off as every other city in the world. For example, the martial arts movie Rumble In The Bronx was filmed in Vancouver, which meant that the Bronx suddenly turned very mountainous and green. :p:confused:
 
I still recall in 1981 going on break and leaving the office building I worked at in the financial district of San Francisco. The minute I left the building I found the entire street occupied with a film production crew and my supervisor was standing to the left chatting with actress Valerie Bertinelli. That was weird to say the least.

But yeah, the whole operation brought vehicle and pedestrian traffic to a near standstill. Our building was supposed to be the location of the dentist of Valerie's character. All for just a single scene of a tv movie.

A cute tv drama-comedy I saw sometime later called "The Princess and the Cabbie".
 
A film was once filmed near my husband's house when he was a teen and he got to watch and was given some free food by the crew. He also got to see the sugar glass.

I guess movie crew will give residents on that street free meals as a thank you for their cooperation and them staying in their homes and not returning to their homes during filming.
 
Have also dodged film crews living in Sydney, the street closures were annoying. Tends to be state or national subsidies and/or tax breaks, if you get a lot of them.
 
Pappy Boyington said:
Not true.

The movie Sideways was filmed on location in the Central Coast of California.

They did mix up some scenes as far as exact location goes but they were never off by more than 20 miles or so.
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I didn't mean absolutely never,and yea if it's Cali of coarse it's on location,everything is filmed in Cali
 
Often movies that take place in New England or the Pacific Northwest are filmed in Canada.

I get a kick out of some movies that take place in Las Vegas where I used to live, because the geography is usually all wrong during car scenes. They make it look like hotels and casinos that are miles apart are right next to each other.
 
I participated in the filming of Cocoon.
Not as a part of it, but, in the position of picking the extras for it from the modeling agency
I was working for at the time.
I could have been an extra, but, the pay was pitiful. Sixty dollars a day to stand around and wait
for the scenes where they cleared the areas of the real people and sent in the extras.

I did get to have dinner in the restaurant at the beach with Ron Howard. It looked like a space ship on a stem.
The reastaurant was like a round circular disc that slowly revolved for a full 360 view of the city
and the sea. Similar to the Space Needle. Not as tall.
And the house used for the cocoons in the swimming pool was not that far away.
Wilford Brimley looks just like one of my uncles.
It was a nice experience.

Didn't get to go to the Bahama location though.
 
They filmed Caitlin's Way in Canada but it took place in Montana. They filmed 50 Shades of gray in Vancouver BC when it was supposed to take place in Portland and Vancouver, WA. They also always film movies in Vancouver BC when the films take place in Seattle.

They even filmed Free Willy here in Portland and on the Oregon Coast but yet the film took place in Washington and they also filmed it at Oak's Park but the whale tank scenes were all filmed in Mexico City as a Six Flags Amusement part where Keiko was. I always got a kick out of how Jesse could ride to Portland from Astoria on a bike. Maybe the film was meant to take place in Seattle as well since that is the only town I can think of that is big and also all those channels Seattle has near them.

I know the main reason they do this is to save money.
 
I used to dodge film crews when I lived in New Orleans. A lot of movies are filmed or partially filmed there. And one time when I was on a business trip in Chicago, I was blocked from my hotel while a crew shot car race scenes under the El train.

One of the most obvious not-the-real-location tv shows was MASH. It was filmed in California but supposed to be in Korea.
 
When they filmed Body of Evidence with Madonna in it, my mom had to beg the movie crew to let her through so she can drop off some appraisals for my father and she had two young kids with her (my brothers) and had another child at school (me) and my mom saw the back of Madonna. They let her through and she dropped them off and left the crowded area.
 
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