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| Published: August 16, 2007, 1:00 am |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| Filming at 5th & Spring: Early Wednesday evening, Jerry Seinfeld was seen buying a bootleg DVD from a Downtowner with an entreprenuerial spirit to service an area with limited access to first run releases. My gag guess is Seinfeld is stopped to be pitched a copy of his own "Bee Movie" from a less than mobile bootlegger, |
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| Yet more Film Crew Blues |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 8:36 pm |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| Green posts Filming in Downtown LA (part 1) that's asking for "input from the public regarding the issuance of a contract for film permitting services" i.e. the FilmLA contract is up for grabs. Green, of course, is the propoent that led to the Ad Hoc groups. At the newdowntown newsgroup, a petition to end all filming has |
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| More Manhattan and Filming |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 2:51 pm |
| Tags: Downtown Public Space, Downtown As Film Location, Historic Core |
| a firestorm as anonymous pro filmers are calling for torches and the dogs as he explains his AdHoc group doesn't want to stop filming, just play by the rules. [CurbedLA] Must See TV: Also in the comments is a great 2005 film that evolved from Metropolitan Research and Design's post-graduate work at SCI-Arc. The Future of |
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| Have Mercy |
| Published: September 8, 2007, 8:30 am |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| completely enamoured with filming as she offers that filming Downtown "has been going on for ages." a long favorite phrase of logic of those who film Downtown. Like the first reports in newspapers, the concerns of those living in the Historic Core are called rants. Crews continuing to bypass the rules isn't addressed in the Napoli |
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| More Main Street |
| Published: November 8, 2007, 4:54 pm |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| reaches back to a post war Downtown. Speaking of 1947 Project: Esotouric's Hotel Horrors and Main Street Vice Bus Tour is this Saturday, November 10. Both tours begin in the Arts District, at Cafe Metropol. Exposed: Harnish adds a still from Jack Webb's -30- and debunks the myth that it was filmed at the Herald-Examiner building, a story we |
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| Cue the Strikers |
| Published: November 13, 2007, 6:02 pm |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| signs and bullhorns in Downtown Los Angeles as "CSI: NY" was filming on location outside the Hayward Hotel. Actor Gary Sinise walked across 6th Street to talk to the striking writers, in what must be a scene repeated all over town as production continues with a few scripts left to shoot. "Pretty soon, we will all be |
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| It was 20 years ago . . . |
| Published: November 26, 2007, 8:44 am |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| Have No Name" was filmed on March 27, 1987 on the 7th and Main rooftop building that holds Craby Joe's, and is often cited as on the top of the Republic liquor store. As we noted a year ago, in the video you can hear the never show fear rock DJs from FM stations KLOS and KMET warn listeners going to this part of Downtownto |
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| D nde est Jesus? |
| Published: December 23, 2007, 9:57 am |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location, East La, Olvera Street |
| the tidy ending, and some location shots of the Red Car passing through El Pueblo. |
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| City Hall: 'Now showing at a theater near you' |
| Published: January 5, 2008, 5:33 am |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| acting gig was in the silent film "While the City Sleeps". Ever since the John Parkinson, A.C. Martin, John C. Austin designed civic building has been a fave location for filmmakers. It can portray Los Angeles in a period piece or present day; and has it's chops as a character actor standing in for any stately building you |
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| The All-New Ethos for 2008 |
| Published: January 16, 2008, 3:08 am |
| Tags: Arts Walk, Downtown As Film Location, Media |
| For one creative director, Downtown L.A. as generic slick is so two hours ago. It's an asphalt party with a touch of bad boy on a Bluetooth. Pictured: Nissan Rouge in Gotham Gray. Also available in Wicked Black. Downtown myth may appear larger in the mirror. |
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| Actor Charlton Heston, 84 |
| Published: April 6, 2008, 2:20 am |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| "I Am Legend". The film was "Omega Man" and was shot in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturdays when the city was empty the perfect setting for the story of the last man on earth. Heston passed away in his Beverly Hills home Saturday evening. He was 84. AP LAT Variety |
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| Downtown Commercial |
| Published: April 25, 2008, 7:51 am |
| Tags: Downtown As Film Location |
| By now you have may have seen the Kobe Byrant's jump over a moving Aston Martin for Nike's viral Hyperdunk shoe ad campaign. Of course, for Downtowners the most interesting part of the commercial is spotting the Biltmore in the background. [Commercial] [AD + TNT Spoof] |
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