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[BabieeMelly]

There are hundreds of trailers, food tables, cameras and lights set up around my College, and they're filming a major motion picture! I'm not sure what it's about or who's in it, but it's so exciting walking around campus and seeing everything take place [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I can't wait to get more info [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] They always tape TV shows and films in the city, and several movies have been shot in my neighborhood. Have the cameras ever come to your neighborhood, for a movie or TV show?

[HiddenMickey]

Patch Adams (with Robin Williams) was shot on the UNC campus (where I work). I went down to the shoot scenes a couple of times to see what was going on.

[GoofysTink]

Too cool!!! We saw them taping a Queen Latifa (sp?) and LL Cool J Christmas movie last December in New Orleans... was pretty cool... it's suppose to come out sometime this holiday season and should be interesting since half the area they were taping in is pretty much torn up due to the hurricane [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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[Joanne929]

That's really cool!
I went into the Commons when they were filming A Civil Action, but I didn't see John Travolta or anyone 'big' (my sister saw him though!)

[Colexis Mom]

How exciting Melissa [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] We've never had anything like that around here, although they did film scenes from War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise) about 40 minutes down the highway!

[simbarel]

Too [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] Melissa! I was renting cars at the Bangor International Airport the summer they filmed Stephen King's The Langoliers. The airport was decked out the entire summer, and I rented a car to Balki! (Bronson Pinchot) Photocopied his drivers license and everything. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

They filmed an ice-skating scene from The Preacher's Wife in Portland.

[Luv4My4]

I was working downtown when they filmed Philadelphia with Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington, I didn't get to see either of them but a lawyer I worked with literally bumped into Tom Hanks at City Hall.

I also got to watch them film a scene from Twelve Monkeys with Bruce Willis, Madeline Stowe and Brad Pitt, I was coming back from lunch and they had the street blocked off so I couldn't cross and had to wait until they finished filming the scene. I saw Bruce Willis & Madeline Stowe in the scene and Brad Pitt from a distance coming out of his trailer.

When they were filming Mannequin here my father's firehouse provided the fire trucks to create the rain for one scene so my father took me down to watch the filming. I got to meet Andrew McCarthy, he was really nice.

[poohbear.u.k.]

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[2princessmom]

They film alot around here but I have never seen anyone famous doing the scene. We did watch the stunt doubles film a scene on one of our bridges.

I saw Keiko at the aquarium here before he was moved but it was after they had filmed the movies.

[lauren-roxy]

Very cool Melissa!! I've never seen a movie filmed around here.

[SharonK0527]

Growing up in Chicago, there were always movies being filmed. I participated in Flatliners and Home Alone. They filmed the movie Lucas at a closed-down high school in my town. Several people I knew worked on that one. I also worked on an episode of the TV show Early Edition. It's very fun to be on a movie or TV set. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[DawnDenise]

Part of "A League of Their Own" was filmed in Evansville, IN (my hometown) at our old baseball park.

[Happymommy]

I remember when they were filming Rocky 2 in South Philadelphia, they filmed on my best friend's grandmother's street, and I remember seeing alot of trailers and things-- I didn't see Sylvester Stallone, but she did. My dad was around when they filmed the movie Blow Out with John Travolta, and he saw some of that filmed downtown. Also (again, my dad-- not me) when Harrison Ford was filming witness, he came into the building my dad worked in, and he rode around for a few days with detectives in my dad's unit. I've really never seen much being filmed myself though.

[Grammy Grumpy]

With Honors was filmed on the UIUC campus (although the movie was supposedly set on the Harvard campus) when my DSinlaw was working on his MS degree. I don't think we ever found him in any of the crowd scenes!

[DopeyGirl]

Well . . . I don't know anything other than Weather Channel Hurricane updates that have been filmed in Pensacola! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]

"National Lampoon's Animal House" and "Stand By Me" were both filmed in the (very small) town where my parents were born and raised (and where I went to high school) . . .

And I was born in San Diego and lived there until middle school . . . saw LOTS of movies being filmed around there! During the part of "Top Gun" where they're all singing "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" to Kelly McGillis at the bar, my dad always points at the screen to all the "extras" in uniform around Tom Cruise and says "I know that guy, and that guy, and that guy . . . " (Dad was in the Navy and actually went to Top Gun as a air intercept controller!)

I lived in Jacksonville, FL when they filmed parts of "The Devil's Advocate" there . . . Keanu Reeves [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] he was so cute back then (now he's just grungy!) and Charlize Theron is so pretty in real life!!!